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Enduring Christianity in a Muslim world
A project aimed at understanding the complicated process of religious transformation in one of the centres of the early Muslim world.
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Geometry in ornament: On the history, theory and science about the presumed universality of geometrical patterns and its cognitive foundation
Knowledge and culture subproject 3:
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Institutional memory in the making of colonial culture: history, experience and ideas in Dutch colonialism in Asia, 1700 – 1870.
What did colonial officials and missionaries think they were doing?
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WIC-opvarenden (Seafarers of the Dutch West India Company)
Due to the almost complete disappearance of the archive of the Old Dutch West India Company (WIC, 1621-1674) not much is known about the ships and crews of this company. In this project we start the reconstruction of this basic information making use of new digital humanities techniques to extract this…
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Ariadne Schmidt appointed professor of the Cultural History of Leiden
Ariadne Schmidt will be appointed professor by special appointment of the Magdalena Moons chair at Leiden University. From 1 September 2018 she will carry out academic research and teach on the cultural history of the city, in particular of Leiden.
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Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’
Through each individual decision, however small, people make history. This is what historian Katja Happe said in the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November. She illustrated this with individual reactions to the persecution of Jews during the Second World War.
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Ayşegül Keskin Çolak’a Armağan Tarih ve Edebiyat Yazıları [Essays of History and Literature in Memory of Ayşegül Keskin Çolak]
Despite not focusing on a particular theme, the academic contributions in this book include essays of history and literature ranging from the Middle Ages to 1970s, from Europe and America to the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.
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Read about Middle Ages on new Leiden research blog
The Middle Ages are becoming increasingly more popular: just look at the popularity of such ‘medievalist’ TV series as Game of Thrones and Vikings, and let’s not forget popular re-enactments of medieval battles. Leiden University is home to many specialists of this fascinating period and this new blog…
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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum is an annual publication collecting newly published Greek inscriptions and studies on previously known documents.
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The Historical Sources of the Mali Empire Reconsidered
When did the Mali Empire disintegrate? What does the Sunjata heritage demonstrate about the political situation after 1600?
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The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900
The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900 presents a new perspective on the uses of justice between 1600 and 1900 and confronts prevailing Eurocentric historiography in its examination of how people of this period made use of the law.
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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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Crime and gender: a comparative perspective. England and the Netherlands, 1600-1800
The central aim is to systematically study differences in gendered crime patterns in the records of different types of courts in various English and Dutch cities in the early modern period.
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Jeff Fynn-Paul wins European History Quarterly Prize
Jeff Fynn-Paul, lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute for History, was recently awarded the European History Quarterly’s 2016 Prize for his article “Occupation, Family, and Inheritance in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona: A Socio-Economic Profile of One of Europe’s Earliest Investing Publics.”
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Challenging monopolies, building global empires in the early modern period
How did free agents in the Dutch Republic react to the creation of colonial monopolies (VOC and WIC) by the States-General? This project answers this question by looking at the role individuals played in the construction of an informal global empire parallel to the institutional empire devised by the…
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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André Gerrits
Faculty of Humanities
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Pablo Isla Monsalve
Faculty of Humanities
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Fenneke Sysling
Faculty of Humanities
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Caroline Waerzeggers
Faculty of Humanities
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Roos Stolker
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Kim Beerden
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
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Bernhard Rieger
Faculty of Humanities
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Interreligious Encounter in a West African City: A Study of Multiple Religious Belonging and Identity Among the Yorùbá of Ogbómòsó, Nigeria
How has interreligious encounter in Ogbómòsó created multiple religious belongings and identities among individuals and groups?
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Udhruh Archaeological Project
The hinterland of important centres like Petra (Southern Jordan) can provide essential information that contribute to the understanding of their rise, expansion and decline.
- Medieval Middle East Meeting (1ECTS)
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Crime and gender before the courts of the Netherlands, 1600-1800
The central aim is to systematically study differences in gendered crime patterns in the records of different types of courts in various Dutch cities in the early modern period.
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The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa
The studies outlined in this volume explore how connectedness continues to change Africa and how Africa continues to shape the social life of connections.
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Book Launch: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
Lecture
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‘City dwellers in Middle Ages no worse off than village dwellers’
City dwellers in the Middle Ages were probably no worse off than people living in villages. Both groups had very different health risks, is Rachel Schats' conclusion from her research on bone material. PhD defence 3 November.
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Urbanism and municipal administration in Roman North Africa
This project uses archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence to investigate urban development in Roman-period North Africa, compiling this in a GIS-linked database in order to analyse the development of urban settlement spatially over time.
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Diego Salama
Faculty of Humanities
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Shenghao Yue
Faculty of Humanities
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Chie Arita
Faculty of Humanities
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Qinggang Hao
Faculty of Humanities
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Berry Dongelmans
Faculty of Humanities
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Carola Hein
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den Heijer
Faculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia Rivera
Faculty of Humanities
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Zhengshan Jiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
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Suzan ten Heuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadia Bouras
Faculty of Humanities