1,473 search results for “colonial and global history” in the Staff website
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Patrick Dassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Andrew Shield
Faculty of Humanities
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Joost Augusteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Pieter Slaman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
- Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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Towards a Virtual Slave Island/Kompannavidiya Heritage, history and spatial contestation in Colombo (Sri Lanka)
Lecture, Event
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Valerio Barbarossa
Science
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Arthur van Buitenen
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Daan Weggemans
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Sarah Wolff
Faculty of Humanities
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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Herman Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Kloeg
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Florian Herrendorf wins Fruinprijs 2023
Florian Herrendorf has won the Fruin Prize 2023. His thesis was chosen out of 11 nominees as the best master's thesis in history studies.
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Gerhard-Jan Nauta
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-Black
Faculty of Humanities
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Lionel Laborie
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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Michiel van Groesen
Faculty of Humanities
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
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Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
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Miko Flohr
Faculty of Humanities
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery
What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building features eleven insightful portraits of students and staff, and their answer to this question. The aim of the exhibition’s initiators is to make the subject…
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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie
Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honour by Leiden mayor Henri Lenferink after giving his valedictory lecture, ‘The future of the colonial past’, in the Academy Building of Leiden University…
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg: 'How does the discourse on war influence practice?'
As a student, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg was primarily interested in diplomacy surrounding conflicts. Through research on peace operations and subsequently the fight against guerrillas, he became increasingly involved with the most violent aspects of colonial warfare. On 1 October, he will be appointed…
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Rick Honings
Faculty of Humanities
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Huizinga Lecture 2024: 'We Are the Times: History in Times of Crisis'
Alumni event, Lezing
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Jean Yves Ndzana Ndzana
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Dovetailed Protest: Indonesian activists and the global communist peace movement, 1949-1965
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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EU Global Gateway Strategy: Transforming relations with African countries in light of the China challenge?
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: Urban Transitions in the Global South - Harnessing opportunities and expanding possibilities
Lecture
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Peter Kop
ICLON
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Klaas Worp
Faculty of Humanities
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Maja Vodopivec
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Julia Foudraine
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Yemen’s history of slavery and its lasting impact on social and racial hierarchies
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Manifesting Minutes and Mapping Cosmographies: Time and Place in Early Modern Deccan
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
- Diplomacy and Global Affairs Research Seminar Series
- Diplomacy and Global Affairs Research Seminar Series
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Japan and the Netherlands in a Global Context: Transnational Intellectual Currents of the 19th Century
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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Eefke de Haan
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giliam de Valk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Soulmates in Empire? Van Vollenhoven and the Colonial Contradictions of Grotius
On Thursday 14 October, Dr Martine van Ittersum gave the first lecture of the Van Vollenhoven Institute’s year-long workshop 'Reconsidering the Socio-Legal Gaze'. Attended by over 40 people, her lecture, entitled 'Van Vollenhoven and Grotius: Soulmates in Empire' examined Grotius’ influence on Cornelis…
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New publication reviews Dutch colonial sources on the Indigenous Brazilian Tapuia people
New publication reviews Dutch colonial sources on the Indigenous Brazilian Tapuia people: ‘For them the Dutch were another piece on the political chess board’
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Andrea Richards-Cummins
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty of Humanities