229 search results for “second world war” in the Student website
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Bart van der BoomFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden University during the Second World War
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Historian Gert Oostindie the new Cleveringa Professor
Gert Oostindie, Emeritus Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, is this year’s Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. He was appointed by the University on 4 October. In his inaugural lecture on 24 November, entitled Courage and Disregard, he will talk about (academic) freedom in relation…
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Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture
On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust in Poland and were taken to court for defamation.
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’
The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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Abhishek Avtans-Faculty of Humanities
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Paul MeyboomFaculteit Archeologie
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Olga NozdrachevaFaculty of Humanities
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.
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Nivja de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
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Roderick GeertsFaculteit Archeologie
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Merlijn VeltmanFaculteit Archeologie
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Bouke van der MeerFaculteit Archeologie
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Anne van DamFaculty of Humanities
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Roos van der HaerFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Bart SchuurmanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Frans OsingaFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Alies JansenFaculty of Humanities
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War in Ukraine: Universities call for support and solidarity for those affected
The Dutch universities are shocked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine and empathise with all those affected by this act of aggression. Leiden University also calls for solidarity with and support for all those affected by the war.
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Mahmood YenkimalekiFaculty of Humanities
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Ae Ree NamFaculty of Humanities
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Jin Hee ParkFaculty of Humanities
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The war in Ukraine: ‘When the rule of power replaces the rule of law’
On Wednesday 9 March, a Faculty meeting about the war in Ukraine was held for staff and students in the Lorentz Lecture Hall. By the time the meeting started at 17.00 hrs, the 220 available seats in the lecture hall had been filled mainly by large numbers of students.
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Nicky SchreuderFaculteit Archeologie
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Suzan van de VeldeFaculteit Archeologie
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Alanna O'MalleyFaculty of Humanities
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Beatriz Santiago BelmonteFaculty of Humanities
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Silvia D'AmatoFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn LemmenFaculty of Humanities
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Keiko YoshiokaFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen KleinherenbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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Uhlenbeck scholarship programme for mandatory study abroad
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Ruurd HalbertsmaFaculty of Humanities
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Michael KerschnerFaculteit Archeologie
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Miguel John VersluysFaculteit Archeologie
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I-Hsien LinFaculty of Humanities
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Johanneke CaspersFaculty of Humanities
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Dick SmakmanFaculty of Humanities
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Ying-ting WangFaculty of Humanities
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Anneleen van der MeerFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Corinna Jentzsch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Eamon AloyoFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Claire VergerioFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty of Humanities