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Wim van den Doel wins 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize
Professor of Contemporary History Wim van den Doel has won the 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize. Van den Doel receives the prize for his book 'Snouck: Het volkomen geleerdenleven van Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje'.
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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation
How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when studying preserved archives and collections? A new book series aims to address these questions. The initiators Karwan Fatah-Black and Ilse Josepha Lazaroms…
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Empire's Violent End. Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945-1962
In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands on the violent end of empire. Nevertheless, the broader comparative investigations into colonial counterinsurgency tend to leave atrocities such as torture, execution, and…
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Colonisation and migration in New-America
Migration is nothing new. A lot of people immigrated to the United States after it was ‘rediscovered’. The Netherlands also colonised a part of the New World and gave it the name New Netherland. Pepijn Doornenbal, a master’s student History, conducts research in the United States about how different…
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Vici grants for three Leiden researchers
Three Leiden researchers will each receive a Vici grant of 1.5m euros. They are historian Cátia Antunes, cell biologist Dennis Claessen and archaeologist Marie Soressi. This grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) will give them the opportunity to form their own research group over the next five…
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'The Butterflies of Upper Digul' now also published in Indonesia
Three years ago, Associate Professor Alicia Schrikker published 'De vlinders van Boven-Digoel', in which she chronicled several stories about colonial life in present-day Indonesia. Now there is a translation, by Rianti Manullang, who is also an assistant professor at Universitas Indonesia and doing…
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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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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Peter MeelFaculty of Humanities
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Roxane de Massol de RebetzFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Queen Máxima visits KITLV
During a visit, Queen Máxima spoke with researchers about projects exploring climate change, collections and culinary heritage.
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Leonie de Vreugd-van de MastASSC
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Knowledge of Caribbean Amerindians crucial for colonisation of Americas
The significance of indigenous Amerindian knowledge has been marginalised in the history of the colonisation of the Americas. Wrongly, according to research by Leiden archaeologists. Indigenous knowledge and infrastructure were essential for the 'success' of the Spanish colonisers. Publication in the…
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Vanessa De Malmazet De Saint-AndeolFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Geert De Breucker
Faculty of Humanities
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Michel De Wit
University Facility Services
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De stad en de dood
Het is een wijdverbreid idee dat (post-)middeleeuwse steden een sterfteoverschot hadden en zij slechts in leven konden blijven door de toestroom van migranten; een fenomeen dat bekend staat als het ‘urban graveyard’-effect. Over details valt te twisten, maar duidelijk is dat de stad en de dood dichter…
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Paul Uit de Weerd
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Marleen De MeyerAdministration and Central Services
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Koen De CuyperFaculty of Humanities
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Celeste de Vrij
Administration and Central Services
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Sophie de Valk
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Bart de Vries
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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John de Nobel
University Facility Services
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Nicole de Caluwe
Leiden University Libraries
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Thijs de Back
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mark de Gooijer
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Evelien de Ruiter
Administration and Central Services
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Saja de Gunst
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Eva de Roode
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Roan de Boer
ISSC
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Tjeerd de Groot
Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Fien de Koning
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ilse de Bruijn
Leiden Learning and Innovation Centre
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Erik de Geus
Service Unit Real Estate
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Pieter de Koning
Administration and Central Services
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Rins de Zwart
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Peter de Jong
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Katie de Jong
University Facility Services
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Mike de Vries
University Facility Services
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Thomas de Bruin
Leiden University Libraries
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Martine de Best
Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Verona de Ridder
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nadine de Jong
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mariska de Bruin
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Edwin de Lange
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