1,251 search results for “history of south afrika” in the Student website
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Royal honour for emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer
Emeritus professor Willem Otterspeer received a royal honour from mayor Henri Lenferink on Tuesday 20 September. The university historian was appointed Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
- Histories Connected
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Jelle BruningFaculty of Humanities
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Toon KerkhoffFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Maia CasnaFaculty of Archaeology
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The Helsinki Final Act at 50: Timeless Masterpiece or Relic of the Cold War?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Tsolin NalbantianFaculty of Humanities
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Imagining the future of UK-Europe relations: Narratives from Brexit Britain
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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Brianne WesolowskiFaculty of Humanities
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Jasper KrijnsFaculty of Humanities
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Kevin Horbach
Faculty of Humanities
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Ymke Vreeburg
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Julian Grob
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Treur
Faculty of Humanities
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Ariette Dekker
Faculty of Humanities
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Dominant style stifled innovation in 19th century seascapes
Long into the 19th century, seascapes were considered an expression of patriotism. Artists who painted in a 17th century style were valued more. This tradition stifled innovation in the genre, Cécile Bosman has concluded. She will defend her PhD thesis on 13 October.
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Jessica den Oudsten wins the eighth Uitgeverij Verloren/ Johan de Witt thesis award
Jessica den Oudsten won this year’s Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis award for history with her master’s thesis, entitled "The descendants of Norwegian and Danish Immigrants". The prize was awarded for the eighth time in collaboration with Elsevier Weekblad. The incentive award went to Amber…
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
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A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
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Maria Voltsichina
Faculty of Humanities
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What the spider tales of Indians in the Caribbean reveal about our fragility and powers of endurance
Last week, Ajay Gandhi, Assistant Professor at the Leiden University College, wrote an article about how spider's webs can explain the dynamics of social beings.
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Rachel SchatsFaculty of Archaeology
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Writing Global History
Conference, Research Colloquium
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Yorum Beekman: ‘I didn’t want to write about people, I wanted to give them a voice’
As a woman, working in Japan and Korea can be pretty tough, Yorum Beekman discovered. It prompted her to pursue a PhD on the subject: ‘I thought: hey, that’s interesting!’
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Call for papers: Who is Asian? Definitions, Representations, and Marginalizations
Conference, Call for papers
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Sanne Dokter-MerschFaculty of Humanities
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Vera VinckFaculty of Humanities
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Liselore TissenFaculty of Humanities
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History Master Symposium
Conference, Symposium
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Sanayi MarcellineFaculty of Humanities
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Pouwel van SchootenFaculty of Humanities
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Sebastian Fajardo BernalFaculty of Science
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
- SSEALS - 2025
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Chibuike UcheAfrican Studies Centre
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Ellen van ReulerSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Vincent ChangFaculty of Humanities
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Book Launch | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Lecture, Book Launch
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Nora JulmiFaculty of Humanities
- Toogdag: The Concept of Justice in a War Era: The Cases of Gaza, South-Sudan, and Bosnia and Herzegovina
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'Language is part of your identity’
Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’
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Panel Discussion | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Debate, Panel Discussion
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Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Palestine Poster Workshop (2): History, Graphic Design, Political Solidarity
Arts and culture
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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Lauren Antonides wins Roggeveen thesis prize
Alumna Lauren Antonides has won the Roggeveen Prize for her thesis on the regional identity of Zeelandic Flanders. She will receive a sum of 1,000 euros.
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Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship
If a forged Vermeer or Rembrandt is discovered, it is world news. Yet tracing fakes has long been a low priority in art history. University lecturer Anna Tummers will receive an ERC grant of almost two million euros to change that.