1,350 search results for “empires and slavery” in the Public website
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Oran Kennedy
Faculty of Humanities
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About ELS
Leiden Law School has established the Empirical Legal Studies Lab to support legal research and education using empirical methods.
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Rubicon grant for Sara Polak
The NWO has awarded Sara Polak a Rubicon grant. In September, she will start a 12-month period of research at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture at Justus-Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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ERC Grant for Cátia Antunes
Cátia Antunes received the prestigious ERC Grant for her Research Project
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ELS Academy
ELS@Leiden is part of nation-wide network of law schools organizing events and pooling resources to be at the service of individual scholars and research groups at law schools in the Netherlands.
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First International ELS Conference
On 1 and 2 September, colleagues of Leiden Law School participated in the very first International ELS Conference, organised by the ELS Academy in Amsterdam.
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BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).
Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.
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Research projects
Empirical Legal Studies has a methodological and substantive component. Our research projects use qualitative and quantitative methods for the empirical study of the intersection between law and behavior. We are interested in the interaction between empirical and normative questions.
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Leiden Law Methods Portal
Leiden Law School has a methods portal that offers an overview of the various phases of empirical legal research.
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Education
ELS@Leiden aims to give empirical legal research skills and interdisciplinarity a prominent place within the law school curriculum.
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Melanie Gross
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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Bleda Düring
Faculteit Archeologie
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Neske Baerwaldt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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The ELS Atelier is launched!
On Valentine’s day, the ELS lab @Leiden launched the ELS Atelier, where a group of scholars met to see if they could find their match with a particular empirical method.
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Introducing: Kate Ekama
Kate Ekama is one of the three PhD-students on Cátia Antunes' 'Challenging Monopolies' project.
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ELS Lab meetings
Our lab meetings are organized almost every month for researchers interested in empirical legal research.
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The Unification of the Mediterranean World 400 BC - 400 AD
The Leiden Ancient History specialization concentrates on the study of the economies, societies and cultures of the large empires of the Graeco-Roman world, starting with the empires of Alexander the Great and his successors.
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Risk perception and interpersonal discussion on risk: A systematic literature review
This article aims to provide a coherent foundation for empirical studies of interpersonal discussion on risk.
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ELS Atelier
Craft your own empirical research in workshops of the ELS Atelier!
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further notice] Connected Histories of Migration Control: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the ‘West.’
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Eighteenth Century Dutch slaves in Morocco already had orientalist views
The idea that prejudices about the (Middle)-East came to be during the colonisation of North-Africa in the 19th century is false. Mounir el-Badri wrote a cum laude bachelor thesis about orientalist judgments with which 18th century slaves in Morocco much earlier characterised their captors with.
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About the programme
During the two-year Colonial and Global History programme you will learn from inspired academics and learn how to conduct quality research.
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A Finger in Every Pie: Transnational networks in the debates over British free trade, 1660-1730
The role of transnational, non-institutional networks in the opening up of British transatlantic trade at the end of the 17th/beginning of the 18th century
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Methods Café
Informal introduction for empirical-legal novices and knowledge seekers.
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Marieke Liem and Edwin Bakker in Dutch Magazine Criminologie
Marieke Liem en Edwin Bakker have published an article in the Dutch Magazine Criminology. The article tells us the following:
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World History For International Studies
Studying change in the course of human history, in different places, through the lens of a diverse set of core themes; World History for International Studies offers readers a set of windows into different debates historians have been conducting.
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Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers
This book argues that the combined literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence supports the theory that early-imperial Italy had about six million inhabitants.
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American Studies
The interdisciplinary minor American Studies offers a survey of U.S. history, literature and culture from the establishment of the first colonies on the North American continent in the 15th century to the present.
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Related master’s programmes
Did you know that after succesful completion of the minor American Studies, you can apply for the master’s programme North American Studies? Find out more below.
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Annual Lectures
Since 2019, the Foundation for Austrian Studies organises an annual lecture in cooperation with the Institute for History.
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Empirical Methods in Legal Research
COI@Leiden organises activities and events throughout the year. These include a monthly seminar series on topics relating to conflict resolution and PhD labs to assist COI students in developing their research skills.
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Activities
ELS@Leiden organizes lab meetings and other activities on a regular basis. Our events are open to all! Find out what our lab can do for you in helping you develop your empirical-legal research skills.
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Paul Kloeg
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Inspiring pre VSR conference PhD day organised by VSR, ELS Academy & KU Leuven
On 9 March, the first edition of the PhD preconference day, for and by PhDs, took place at KU Leuven. This day was organised by the VSR, ELS Academy and the KU Leuven.
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Editorial: Responsibilities in the pursuit of employee well-being
What are we referring to when we talk about ‘good work’? And what does it mean to be a good employer? Helen Pluut and Merel Cornax address these questions in a recently published editorial.
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Introducing: Edgar Pereira
Edgar Pereira is one of the four PhDs in Cátia Antunes’ ERC Research Project 'Fighting Monopolies'.
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African Diaspora in Ottoman Izmir
An interesting Ottoman History podcast that deals with the slave trade and the African Diaspora in Ottoman Izmir.
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New topic group ELS lab @Leiden on Goed Werkgeverschap (‘good employment practices’)
The ELS lab @Leiden is looking for colleagues to join the newly introduced topic group on Goed Werkgeverschap (‘good employment practices’).
- ELS lab meeting - Work in Progress Session: Working from Home: what empirical questions arise? by Merel Cornax
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Dynastic Juniors in Europe and Asia
Subproject of
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Rewriting Caribbean history with local archaeologists
More than fifty researchers are working together to describe the colonisation of the Americas from the Amerindian perspective. In November they will be meeting for the first time, in Leiden. How is Corinne Hofman, Leiden Professor of Archaeology managing the international megaproject Nexus 1492?
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At the Hinge of the Nomadic and Sedentary Worlds: A Multi-disciplinary approach
Episode 1: The Golden Horde in a Global Perspective: Imperial Strategies. This project intends to challenge the conventional way of considering the nomadic state organizations and the role of Nomads in world history.
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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' (Columbia University Press: New York 2020).
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Exploring the violent end of European empires
Conference, Workshop and book presentation
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National Law Sector Plan
The Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, in consultation with the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), provides funding for the Netherlands National Law Sector Plan, part of the domain ‘Social Sciences and Humanities’.
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Contact
Would you like to get in touch with ELS@Leiden? Or do you have questions about our lab? Please do not hesitate to contact us!