147 search results for “decolonization” in the Public website
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Exploring the violent end of European empires
Conference, Workshop and book presentation
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Roundtable: International Relations and the Idea of Merit
Conference, Roundtable
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The policing of interracialized sex in France (1954-1979)
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Fighting Back with Taxes: Indigenous Peoples, Counter-Mapping, and the Promises of Decolonial Taxation
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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"From Epistemicide to ‘Epistemic Disobedience'" by Anne-Maria Makhulu
Lecture
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PhD workshop: Epistemologies in PhD Research
Workshop
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Four new Research Trainee Projects at the Institute for History
This year four research trainee projects were approved by the faculty to be carried out at the Institute for History this semester.
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News & events by ACPA PhD-candidates
Upcoming events, new publications and news about our PhD-candidates
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Call for papers 'Whose Welfare? Fresh Perspectives on the Post-war Welfare State and its Global Entanglements'
Recently, the so-called refugee crisis has been framed as a threat for well-developed welfare states in Europe by the president of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem. According to him, external borders have to be guarded, because otherwise ‘loads of people will come to demand support and they blow up…
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PhD research Marije Groos
Marije Groos was a PhD researcher at the LUCAS. She completed her thesis on socio-political engagement in Dutch literary periodicals of the fifties. Her promoters are Yra van Dijk, professor of Modern Dutch Literature, and Ton Anbeek, emeritus professor of Modern Dutch Literature.
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CfP ‘Calendar Propaganda’ of Human Rights?
What does the UN seek to achieve though global observance days, weeks and years and how have these initiatives impacted the role of the organization in forwarding the agenda of human rights?
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Censorship in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of mass murder – despite heavy censorship – found a place in Indonesian literature. PhD defence 31 March.
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Archaeologist Martin Berger explores Latin American collections with an ERC grant
All over Europe you will find ethnographic museums with large collections of indigenous objects from Latin America. These collections shaped the image of native populations in the European mind. An ERC Starting Grant allows Dr Martin Berger to look at the bigger picture, contextualizing individual collections…
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Jan Melissen on academic opportunities around diplomacy
Jan Melissen is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs of Leiden University, and Professor of Diplomacy at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). As of 1 March he transferred from the Clingendael Institute to Leiden University. We asked some questions about himself, his job and…
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Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology book launch
Online book launch
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LKV guest lecture: Yuki Kihara
Lecture
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Blog Post | Feminist Foreign Policy: A new and necessary approach to foreign policy and diplomacy
When former Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström announced in 2014 that Sweden would become the first state to implement a feminist approach to its foreign policy, her idea was met with giggles. [1] But the concept quickly spread around the world. In May 2022, the Netherlands became the 10th state…
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Eight projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
From a queer art exhibition to a podcast about people with disabilities, the JEDI Fund this year again honored several projects that contribute to diversity and inclusion.
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Indonesia and Leiden University have a shared history – and a shared future
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will head a delegation that is visiting Indonesia at the end of June. The visit is to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ‘Leiden’ institute KITLV-Jakarta. What does this institute do and why is Indonesia important to the University?
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Dismantling National Colonialism: the role of Chilean political indigenous movements
Guest Lecture
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Difference and empire, or on the importance of thinking otherwise
Lecture
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Legal socialization in law school: two types of professional identity formation and their impact on inclusion and diversity’
Lecture
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Between Diversity and Decolonisation: Museums as Media, and the Representation of Ainu in Museums in Japan
Lecture
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Social and Economic Human Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Law, Gender, Race and Intersectionality
Conference Day
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Decolonising International Law: Entrapments in Praxis and Critical Thought
Lecture
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Special Guest Lecture: Civilian Internment in India: Omissions and Exceptions, Incarceration camps of the Pacific War
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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Educational Innovation Hub
Since its founding, LUC has been a college of educational development and experimentation. Its mission statement identifies the college as “a site of innovation in pedagogy, curriculum design, and student well-being,” and it applies a student-centred approach to learning throughout its BA and BSc degree…
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Late Pre-colonial and Early Colonial Entanglements of Venezuela with the Caribbean
This research project is an integral part of its mother-programme NEXUS1492 ERC Synergy Project directed by Prof. Corinne Hofman. Overarchingly, it aims at understanding and bridging from the archaeological perspective the late pre-colonial and early colonial history of the Southeastern Caribbean macroregion…
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BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).
Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.
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Team
The team of WIIS-Netherlands exists out of the board members and the advisory council.
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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LUC Well Being Week: A Panel Discussion on Racism in Times of Corona
In light of the changes made to face to face teaching by Leiden University, LUC student association Fortuna rose to the challenge by coining a virtual Well-Being week and facilitating it online.
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CFA: Summer school Global History in the 2020s, Leiden 27-29 June 2023
On 27-29 June, 2023, Leiden University's Institute for History will host a summer school on Global History in the 2020s, in collaboration with the Huizinga Institute-Research School for Cultural History, the Research School Political History, and the Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH).…
- The Anthropology of the Anthropocene | Masterclass
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Books for Review
The Hague Journal of Diplomacy regularly publishes book reviews of approx. 800-1000 words, upon invitation by our Book Reviews Editor. We are currently accepting reviews of the selected books below, as well as any other contribution within the field of diplomacy and global affairs.
- LIAS China Seminar
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Actio! Actio! Actio! European Acting Techniques in Historical Perspective
Arts and culture, Symposium
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Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Chair of UN Studies in Peace and Justice
From 1 August 2018, Alanna O'Malley was appointed as Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice, focusing on the ‘lesser-known actors’ of the UN: women, the youth, the agents of informal diplomatic networks within the UN and actors from the Global South. This Special Chair has been created…
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will be organized by the Grotiana Foundation, the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, the Grotius Centre for International…
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D&I Symposium 2023
Conference, D&I Symposium
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Middle Eastern Culture Market 2022
Arts and culture, LUCIS Middle Eastern Culture Market
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Middle East Culture Market 2023
Arts and culture, LUCIS Middle East Culture Market