172 search results for “part colonialism” in the Library website
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Wim van den DoelAdministration and Central Services
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Esther ZwinkelsFaculty of Humanities
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Coen van 't VeerFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art?
Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the debate on art and collectors’ items from a loaded past. Inaugural speech on 2 December.
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(re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search
Describing almost 1400 maps of Africa in three months. It’s no small task that student assistants Artemis Mantheakis and Beatriz Veiga have been working on within the joint ASCL-UBL Africa Maps Project. The project’s aim is to describe and catalogue a 20th-century map collection of the library of the…
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research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism
Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two explorative studies presented on 3 April.
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
The IFLA-Section Rare Books and Special Collections committee and the Indigenous Matters Section, in collaboration with Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organize a satellite conference in Leiden – Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th – prior to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress…
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Bart VerheijenFaculty of Humanities
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John KegelAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty of Humanities
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Gert OostindieFaculty of Humanities
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
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Walter Nkwi GamFaculty of Humanities
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Aritri DuttaFaculty of Humanities
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Aya EzawaFaculty of Humanities
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Marcos Neto de CordovaFaculty of Humanities
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Ariette DekkerFaculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Maps and Atlases
The collection of maps and atlases consists of approximately 100,000 map sheets (including c. 3,000 manuscript maps), 3,500 atlases and 25,000 topographical prints and drawings.
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Cartographic Collections
In addition to the Bodel Nijenhuis Collection, the map collections of the former library of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), and the map collection of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the collection of Maps and Atlases includes several smaller sub…
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Sjoerd RamackersFaculty of Humanities
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Emma SowFaculty of Humanities
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Damian PargasFaculty of Humanities
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
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Southeast Asian Special Collections
The Southeast Asian Special Collections contain text and audiovisual materials pertaining to the languages, histories, philosophies, religions, literatures, and (material) art of the region. The focus lies on the Malay world, in particular on the Nederlands-Indies/Indonesia. Apart from books and periodicals…
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Radhika GuptaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Walaeus Library part of UBL
Starting 1 November, the Walaeus Library, located in the Leiden University Medical Centre, is part of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).
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Femme GaastraFaculty of Humanities
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Asian Special Collections
The Asian special collections comprise tens of thousands of rare books, thousands of manuscripts, maps, prints, drawings and photographs, and hundreds of archives.
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Julius van der Poel
Faculty of Humanities
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Matthias LukkesFaculty of Humanities