448 search results for “colonial history” in the Student website
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Esther ZwinkelsFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van den DoelCollege van Bestuur
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Jessica RoitmanFaculty of Humanities
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Tristan MostertFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen JacobsonFaculty of Humanities
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Luc BultenFaculty of Humanities
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Lennart BesFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-JonkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Márcia GonçalvesFaculty of Humanities
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John KegelAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Erik OdegardFaculty of Humanities
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander van der MeerFaculty of Humanities
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Gert OostindieFaculty of Humanities
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Philip PostFaculty of Humanities
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude NijhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien BoenderFaculty of Humanities
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Juliette RodingFaculty of Humanities
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Jeannette KampFaculty of Humanities
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities
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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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Marlisa den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Rens TacomaFaculty of Humanities
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Leo LucassenFaculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
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Luuk de LigtFaculty of Humanities
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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Marlou SchroverFaculty of Humanities
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.