1,002 search results for “from history” in the Student website
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Casper van DijkFaculty of Humanities
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Hannelore BraekenFaculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Surya SuryadiFaculty of Humanities
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Bart ZantvoortFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew BroadFaculty of Humanities
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Walter Nkwi GamFaculty of Humanities
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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Jelle BruningFaculty of Humanities
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appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’
Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to incorporate different scholarly approaches into my work and raise the profile of Central European Studies in Leiden.'
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty of Humanities
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Suzan ten HeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Our perspective on history is changing and our museums are changing too
Museums have long focused on power, wealth and a few famous figures. But that is changing, says Valika Smeulders, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum. What this change comprises and how it has come about is the subject of her keynote speech at the D&I Symposium on 11 January.
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Fransiskus WidiyarsoFaculty of Humanities
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Marijana VujosevicFaculty of Humanities
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Laurens van ApeldoornFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maria ZisimopoulouFaculty of Humanities
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Erika RiccobonFaculty of Humanities
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Carel SmithFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Dirk AlkemadeFaculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery
What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building features eleven insightful portraits of students and staff, and their answer to this question. The aim of the exhibition’s initiators is to make the subject…
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction'
Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together with her team, she organised the controversial exhibition ‘Revolusi! Indonesië onafhankelijk!’ What did studying History teach her?
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Arnold MolFaculty of Humanities
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Applying for jobs during the coronavirus pandemic: Ancient History alumni share their experiences
Three alumni of our Master’s degree programme in Ancient History talk to us about how they found a job after graduation during the coronavirus pandemic. During the interview, Gabriël hung a huge board covered in post-it reminders behind his laptop, Molly was glad that the members of the selection committee…
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Kai HebelFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Simon WillmettsFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Thomas MaguireFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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From chants to a voice: how young workers organised
‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young workers were not taken seriously, but they managed to put themselves on the map’, says historian Rosa Kösters.
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Quintijn MauerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Patricio SilvaFaculty of Humanities
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Tobias van der WalFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Egbert KoopsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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Dick van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en HenegouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund AmannFaculty of Humanities
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'Especially now, in-depth knowledge about Judaism and Jewish history is important'
The newly established Leiden Jewish Studies Association aims to bring together Leiden scholars working on Judaism. The first annual conference will take place in Leiden on 6 and 7 December. Leiden professors and co-organisers of the LJSA Sarah Cramsey and Jürgen Zangenberg talk about their plans.
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Havar SolheimFaculty of Humanities
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Berkhoff appointed professor by special appointment: ‘Focus on Ukrainian history a milestone’
As of 1 September , Karel Berkhoff has been appointed professor by special appointment in Ukrainian History. In this position, made possible in part by the KNAW, he will focus primarily on dark moments in recent Ukrainian history: the persecutions that have taken place in the first half of the twentieth…
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Katarzyna CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
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New history of Leiden presented to the mayor: ‘Always been an incredibly diverse city’
Professor Ariadne Schmidt and Associate Professor Arie van Steensel (University of Groningen) have produced A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden, the first English-language history of Leiden. Mayor Peter Heijkoop received the first copy.
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from?
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.