2,010 search results for “histories” in the Student website
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Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’
If it is up to university lecturer Evelien Walhout, in a year's time we will know exactly what people from Haarlem and Zwolle died of a century ago. Together with colleagues from other universities, she started the doodsoorzaken.nl platform, where causes of death are recorded. ‘Somewhere around the…
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
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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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‘Drawing for Dummies’, but in the Renaissance
The way the great masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries learned to draw is more similar to a present-day drawing class or book than you might think. Professor of ‘Art on Paper and Parchment’ Yvonne Bleyerveld tells us about the art of copying and model books.
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PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish?
Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in bright colours, into categories. Yet, this division has been discussed for centuries. In her PhD dissertation, Didi van Trijp shows how natural scientists…
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University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
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Jonathan StöklFaculty of Humanities
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Bareez MajidFaculty of Humanities
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery
Lecture
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Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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A special procession – just like 450 years ago
An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February.
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A university in times of corona: one year on
It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we found ourselves at home, working and studying online – many of us from that cramped attic or student room. The momentous coronavirus year in pictures.
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Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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Global dynamics: a very deep historical perspective on the history of Humanity
Keynote Lecture
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Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
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Fossil Empire: An Environmental History of Oil and Coal in Southern Sumatra, 1921-1942
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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‘Little’ Stories in ‘Big’ Histories. Families, Mobility, and Identity in the Indian Ocean
Lecture
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Huizinga Lecture 2024: 'We Are the Times: History in Times of Crisis'
Alumni event, Lezing
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Manufactured drought? An environmental history of water scarcity in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1952
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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How the world made the West: a 4000-year history
Keynote lecture
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Remembering and Forgetting in Two Worlds. Writing Histories of Forced Displacement and Submerged Genealogy
Lecture
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Yemen’s history of slavery and its lasting impact on social and racial hierarchies
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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Maria VoltsichinaFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
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Spaces of Conflicts: The Lebanese War Novel as Urban and Architectural History
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
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Nuranisa NuranisaFaculty of Humanities
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Koundja Mayoubila
Faculty of Humanities
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Pichayapat NaisupapFaculty of Humanities
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José María Castro Ibarra
Faculty of Humanities
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Daphne EngelFaculty of Humanities
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Brian ShaevFaculty of Humanities
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Gijs DreijerFaculty of Humanities
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Cigdem Billur-Ada
Faculty of Humanities
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Henrike VellingaFaculty of Humanities
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Michel Wyss
Faculty of Humanities
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Sulakshana de Mel
Koninklijk Instituut Taal, Land- en Volkenkunde
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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Eddie Meijer
Faculty of Humanities
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Sil DoumaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Orson McMahon
Faculty of Humanities
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
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Timur Khan
Faculty of Humanities
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Elsa Saez Jara
Faculty of Humanities
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Liliana Morawietz Yanez
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem de VriesFaculty of Humanities