1,050 search results for “de colonisation” in the Public website
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Carolina Pereira De Queiroz Monteiro -
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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Peter MeelFaculty of Humanities
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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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Roxane de Massol de RebetzFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Leonie de Vreugd-van de MastASSC
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Vanessa De Malmazet De Saint-AndeolFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Geert De BreuckerFaculty of Humanities
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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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Marleen De MeyerAdministration and Central Services
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Koen De CuyperFaculty of Humanities
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Bart de VriesFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mathieu de JongAdministration and Central Services
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Steinn de BoerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nicole de CaluweLeiden University Libraries
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Thijs de BackFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Roan de BoerISSC
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Tjeerd de GrootFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Ilse de BruijnLeiden Learning and Innovation Centre
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Erik de GeusService Unit Real Estate
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Pieter de KoningAdministration and Central Services
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Rins de ZwartFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Katie de JongUniversity Facility Services
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Thomas de BruinLeiden University Libraries
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Martine de BestFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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