695 search results for “boot history” in the Student website
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Floris de RuiterFaculty of Humanities
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David André Anton CinaFaculty of Humanities
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Alliance Mango Kubota
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Daphne EngelFaculty of Humanities
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Karlijn LukFaculty of Humanities
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Daniele Paolini
Faculty of Humanities
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Aart Ruijter
Faculty of Humanities
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Willemijn TuinstraFaculty of Humanities
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Orson McMahon
Faculty of Humanities
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Melinda SusantoFaculty of Humanities
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Mamadjibeye Mamadjibeye
Faculty of Humanities
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Samantha Sint Nicolaas
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Zoomers
Faculty of Humanities
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Isabel CasteelsFaculty of Humanities
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Manar EllethyFaculty of Humanities
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes
Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet.
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a hundred years ago. PhD candidate Léjon Saarloos researched British scientists around the year 1900 and their idea of what makes a good - and therefore…
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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days'
It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to investigate how factors such as nationality, political systems, and religion influence the first thousand days after…
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’
GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in social communications isn’t new, says Associate Professor Marika Keblusek. She has been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition (Large)…
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Anthony Coxeter
Faculty of Humanities
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Masterclass in International History with Patrick O. Cohrs
Lecture, INVISIHIST Masterclass
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Concert and book launch "The Oud: An Illustrated History"
Arts and culture
- Palestine Poster Workshop: History, Graphic Design, Political Solidarity
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Eileen van der BurghFaculty of Humanities
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Rebekka GrossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Dennis Worst
Faculty of Humanities
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Quinten SomsenFaculty of Humanities
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Paul Brennan
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne Stackpole
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem de VriesFaculty of Humanities
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Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries
Conference
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Museum Talks: ‘Our access to the past starts with in-depth knowledge of objects’
Geert-Jan Janse has always been fascinated by the way objects can bring the past closer. On 16 November, he will present a Museum Talk about his work as the director of the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Association).
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Roosje PeetersFaculty of Humanities
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Back to the roots of Shia Islam: ‘We need to get the full picture.'
When discussing the history of Islam, the focus is almost always on the history of the Sunni majority. University Lecturer in the history of Islam, Edmund Hayes wants this to change. His new ERC-funded project , focuses on the development of the early Shia community.
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database
What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Faculty of Humanities joined forces with vocational college (MBO) students to build a database. ‘We’re so compatible with each other.’
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
- Museum Talks at the Leiden Department of Art History
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The history of the Perzian Book of Kings
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Judith NaeffFaculty of Humanities
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
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Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’
If it is up to university lecturer Evelien Walhout, in a year's time we will know exactly what people from Haarlem and Zwolle died of a century ago. Together with colleagues from other universities, she started the doodsoorzaken.nl platform, where causes of death are recorded. ‘Somewhere around the…
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities