1,448 search results for “boer history” in the Public website
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Khizar JawadFaculty of Humanities
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Brianne WesolowskiFaculty of Humanities
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Tamsin PrideauxFaculty of Humanities
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André KnulstFaculty of Humanities
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Carolina LenarduzziFaculty of Humanities
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Daniele Paolini
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Wim BlockmansFaculty of Humanities
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Tim Visser
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Claudia Ernstsen
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Tirza CramwinckelFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Heiko LohuisFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Economic thinking in the Socratic authors and Aristotle
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking in late 5th- and 4th-century philosophical circles.
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Shiru LimFaculty of Humanities
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The advent of Abrī: the first wave of paper marbling in the long 16th century (ca. 1496-1616CE)
On Thursday 21 November 2024 Jake Benson successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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The Founder of Bon, the Birth of a Myth
In this dissertation, the life account is constructed of of the founder of Bon Religion, Shenrab Miwo.
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The Informed Performer- Towards a bio-culturally informed performers’ practice
Playing a musical instrument is generally considered to be a complex human behaviour involving the integration and coordination of a broad range of human functions such as perception, imagination, memory, information processing, emotion, communication, and dexterity.
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Victorian Fairy Tales
Victorian Fairy Tales
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Reconstructing the past through languages of the present: The Lesser Sunda Islands
What can languages spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands today tell us about the histories of its various population groups?
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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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The Resistance of the World
This project will construct an inventory of possible conceptions of the resistance of the world to scientists’ claims and theories.
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Symposium: Through the Hands of Signers: History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change - submit your abstract!
The Vici project Through the Hands of Signers invites everyone to participate in its kick-off symposium on the History of Sign Language Emergence, Transmission, and Change on July 10 2026.
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Bart VerheijenFaculty of Humanities
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Mariken TeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Terence RenaudFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander GeurdsFaculty of Archaeology
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Households and Enslavement in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Empire
How did colonial law work to turn people into property? This project argues that colonial ideas about households and domestic authority were critical to legal processes of enslavement in the early modern Dutch empire. Using colonial court records from Dutch Brazil, Suriname, and the Moluccas, the project…
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Managing Diversity: Supervising Functions in Managing Colonial Workplaces
Managing Diversity: Supervising Functions in Managing Colonial Workplaces
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Alumni meet in Brussels: ‘We’re at a crossroads in European history’
Alumni who live and work in Brussels met on 18 February at the annual Leiden Alumni in Brussels Event. As well as celebrating Leiden University’s 450th anniversary, they also looked at the challenges Europe faces.
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Interview with Joris van den Tol, History PhD and Fulbright and New Netherland Institute scholar
Joris van den Tol spent three months doing archival research in Albany in the USA. Read on how he experienced his stay.
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Ronald Petrarca
Faculty of Humanities
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Karel Berkhoff
Faculty of Humanities
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Kenan van de Mieroop
Faculty of Humanities
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Geert HamFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn van EtteFaculty of Humanities
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Analysing Roman cities with an ERC Advanced Grant
How many cities were there actually in the Roman Empire? And why did some regions only have a few cities, while others consisted of a tight urban network? Luuk de Ligt, Professor of Ancient History, wants to know the answer to all these questions. With the ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million awarded to…
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Jamel BuhariFaculty of Humanities
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Jeff Fynn-Paul named co-recipient of Spanish government research grant
In August it was announced that Jeff Fynn-Paul was named co-recipient of a 15,000 EUR grant given by the Spanish Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO).
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Author, Reader, Book: Medieval Authorship in Theory and Practice
This collection brings into conversation several kinds of scholarship on medieval authorship which have tended to remain separate over the last two to three decades, a period of steadily increasing scholarly interest in this topic.
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Bordering Up: Regulating Mobility Through Passes, Walls and Guards
Bordering Up: Regulating Mobility Through Passes, Walls and Guards
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Playing with light and shadow
Depictions of Rembrandt, Michelangelo and many other artists are given a new dimension in an exhibition in the hall of the Oude UB at Leiden University. The exhibition - 'Multiple Images' - opens officially on 15 February. Artist Rudi Struik has given the slides of Leiden art historian Henri van de…
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Tazuko van Berkel receives 260 year old prize
The 260 year old prize of the Legatum Stolpianum has been awarded in 2014 to two well written historical studies of high quality and with current significance. Leiden classicist Tazuko van Berkel is one of the two prizewinners.
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Joseph Priestley, Grammarian: Late Modern English normativism and usage in a sociohistorical context
This dissertation the role of the English dissenting minister Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) as a grammarian is studied.
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Ñuu Savi: Pasado, presente y futuro
Descolonización, continuidad cultural y re-apropiación de los códices mixtecos en el Pueblo de la Lluvia
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Who did all the work? The hidden labour of colonial science
Investigating the contribution of interpreters, informants, hunters and guides in the making of colonial scientific knowledge.
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…
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Sander van der HorstFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew FrearFaculty of Humanities