336 search results for “global slavery” in the Staff website
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Ruben Gonzalez Vicente
Faculty of Humanities
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Kate Brackney
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim Enwerem
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Weilin Huang
Science
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Densua Mumford
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Anne Uilhoorn
Science
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Michiel Veldhuis
Science
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
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Dennis Broeders
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Egbert Koops
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Esther Captain, Gert Oostindie and Valika Smeulders win Die Haghe Prize 2024
Researchers Esther Captain, Gert Oostindie and Valika Smeulders have won the Die Haghe Prize 2024. They were awarded the prize for their book The colonial and slavery past of Hofstad The Hague.
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‘We have to stay alert and keep on feeling the past’
Space for open dialogue on historical slavery was created at the Keti Koti Table at Museum De Lakenhal, organised by Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden. There, just metres away from 17th-century paintings, Leideners shared a ritual meal and spoke about the effects of slavery and our colonial…
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Leiden conference seeks out emerging trends in global governance
Global challenges require global governance answers. That’s why on 5 - 7 June, the interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) has chosen the theme 'Emerging Trends in Global Governance' for its annual conference. Researchers, students and practitioners…
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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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New professor calls for more research with a ‘global lens’
Jan Aart Scholte is the first professor on the new Leiden interdisciplinary programme, Global Transformations and Governance Challenges. He researches how to tackle global challenges such as climate change and inequality. Inaugural lecture on 4 February.
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What global cities are made of
Understanding what our buildings and cities are made of is an important step in making them more sustainable. Industrial ecologist Tomer Fishman (CML) has received an ERC Starting Grant to map the construction materials used in buildings in the Global South. 'Without the data, you can't formulate po…
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Simcha Jong Kon Chin
Science
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Crystal Ennis
Faculty of Humanities
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Call for Papers and Panels: Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2022
Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) will hold its first international conference on 8-10 June 2022 in The Hague. Deadline submissions: 22 April 2022.
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Call for Papers and Panels: Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023
From 7-9 June 2023 Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) organises its second international conference in The Hague. Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2023.
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Johan Christensen for the Global Blog about experts in global governance
Recently, Johan Christensen, Assistant Professor at the FGGA, contributed to the commentary series on technocracy and democracy in global governance that is organised by the Global Governance Centre and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy.
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Research Team Globalizing Palliative Care complete
The project officially started in September 2020, but with the enrolment of PhD students Hanum Atikasari and Shajeela Shawkat the research team of the ERC project 'Globalizing Palliative Care? A Multi-sited Ethnographic Study of Practices, Policies and Discourses of Care at the End of Life' is compl…
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Leiden Law School joins Global Law Consortium
Leiden Law School has joined the Global Law Consortium (GLC), a global group of leading law faculties including many partners of our faculty.
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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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Trying to fight global warming with philosophy
In her inaugural lecture Susanna Linberg will ask how philosophy should respond to global warming.
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Embedding Global Diversity in Antiquity: a retrospect
Research
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Jasmijn Rana granted Marie Curie Global Fellowship
Jasmijn Rana has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship for her research project “The Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Women and the Sense of Non-Belonging”.
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Leiden University seventh in global sustainability ranking
Leiden University has taken seventh place in the UI Green Metric, a global sustainability ranking for universities. Almost 1,000 universities from all over the world participate in the ranking.
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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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Leiden University 14th in global sustainability ranking
Leiden University has taken 14th place in the UI Green Metric, a global sustainability ranking for universities.
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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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applications: In Situ Graduate School: Textile and Dyes as Transnational, Global Knowledge (deadline: 15 April)
Research
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Applications are now open for the Summer School ‘The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance’ (12 - 23 June 2023) for Master-level and PhD students. The activity is supported by the European Union’s Jean Monnet programme (Erasmus+).
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Remus Dame
Science
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Paul van Trigt
Faculty of Humanities
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Karen Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Jue Wang
Faculty of Humanities
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Stephen Harris
Faculty of Humanities
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Oliver Taherzadeh
Science
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Jelena Belic
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Michael Sampson
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Yali Si
Science
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Riccardo Mancinelli
Science
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Madeleine Hosli
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Jonathan London
Faculty of Humanities
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Raoel Nanhekhan
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Xiaoyang Zhong
Science
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities