2,042 search results for “modern history” in the Public website
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A Semiotactic Approach to Modern Japanese
The aim of this research was to establish if Ebeling's semiotactic theory and method of semiotactic analysis, as described in his works Syntax and Semantics (1978), Een Inleiding tot de Syntaxis (1994) and Semiotaxis, over Theoretische en Nederlandse Syntaxis (2006), could be applied to Modern Japanese…
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Globalization and Modernity in Asia: Performative Moments
Much has been said regarding the global flows of information that are characteristic of modernity; it has been frequently stressed that these conduits are so deeply embedded that local or national environments may be imagined as having a global span. Thus, while we are now well aware that the imagination…
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"Getting Organized"
In January 2014, the research project The Promise of Organization hosted a fruitful three-day conference:
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Politics, Culture and National Identities
The research group Politics, Culture and National Identities 1789-present investigates a wide range of national political cultures in Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries. Instead of only analyzing high politics (the acts of governments and political parties), the research group focuses…
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Roman Provinces, Middle Ages and Modern Period
The conquest by Rome brought profound changes to large parts of Europe. Unprecedented infrastructural works were created, towns sprang up, a ribbon of fortresses was laid out along the frontiers.
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Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe
In the Brill series Intersections a new volume has been published, entitled Ronsard and Du Bartas in Early Modern Europe.
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Scholarly Vices: A Longue Durée History
This project tries to explain the persistence of this cultural repertoire by zooming in on (1) interaction between idioms (cultural repertoires) available to scholars at certain points in time, (2) mechanisms that help transmit repertoires across time and place, and (3) rhetorical purposes for which…
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Art History (BA)
Troughout the ages, art has always had a large impact, from the first cave drawings until modern art forms. In the Bachelor's programme Art History at Leiden University you will not just get to know art from the Netherlands and Europe, but also from North-America, Asia and Africa. Study art from the…
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History
The Flentrop Organ is the third organ to have been built for the Great Auditorium in the Academy Building in Leiden.
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Hoe te leven, klassiek of modern?
PhD defence
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Modern and Contemporary Studies (1800−Present)
This research cluster centres on regional, national, and global intersections between a variety of artistic and cultural expressions and their role in society from 1800 onwards.
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Introducing: Lauren Lauret
In February 2015 Lauren Lauret started her PhD project titled 'Meeting practices of the Dutch States General and the continuity of the early modern world of the political (1780-1848)' at the Institute for History, supervised by prof. H. te Velde.
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History
The Old Observatory has a rich history. On this page you will find a short version of the history that took place in the observatory.
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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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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Diversifying Ancient History
The project ‘Diversifying Ancient History’, sponsored by the JEDI Fund from the Faculty of Humanities, aims to thoroughly revise the first-year curriculum of Ancient History. Through these innovations, the course will cater the needs of the present generation.
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History (MA)
The History Master at Leiden University has a strong international orientation.
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History (BA)
Are you fascinated by the past and do you like to challenge yourself? In the Dutch-taught Bachelor's programme History at Leiden University you will approach the past with a sharp and analytic view and you will learn to look at the past from a completely new perspective. study the history of the ancient…
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Maritime History
Maritime History encompasses humankind’s relationships to the seas and oceans of the world.
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Judith Pollmann
Faculty of Humanities
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A Brief History of Islam in Europe
Thirteen Centuries of Creed, Conflict and Coexistence
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Memory, Modernity, and Children’s Literature in Japan
On 1 September 2022 Afke van Ewijk successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Legal History
Historical evolution law
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Histories Connected
Histories Connected seeks to explore social, cultural, and political issues that connect people of Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the Americas, and Europe throughout different periods of time.
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Iranian orientalism: notions of the other in modern Iranian thought
This study addresses and explains the issue of negative descriptions of the Arab Other in modern Iranian thought.
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Photographic traditions in black popular modernities: towards a socio-historical analysis of the visual economy in and beyond South Africa
The aim of the project is to contribute to the process of archive formation ongoing in Post-Apartheid South Africa through the inclusion of photographs that have been either unacknowledged or excised from the national canon.
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Ulama and the State in Modern Aceh
On 21 September 2022 Arfiansyah successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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International Relations: Global Conflict in the Modern Era
Are you thinking about studying Global Conflict in the Modern Era? Learn more and watch the introduction video and the programme presentation.
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Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Boender
Faculty of Humanities
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Juliette Roding
Faculty of Humanities
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History Painting
Rembrandt experts have been puzzling over this painting from 1626 for years. The work may have been commissioned by someone from University circles and may depict a judgment. It can be seen at Gravensteen, a building that served as a prison between 1463 and 1955. This historical building later became…
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The Phantom of the Ego: Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious
The Phantom of the Ego is the first comparative study that shows how the modernist account of the unconscious anticipates contemporary discoveries about the importance of mimesis in the formation of subjectivity.
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Jeannette Kamp
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Photographic Traditions in South African Popular Modernities
In the South African context, certain iconic images have been a dominant source for public understandings of historical events. The emphasis given these images tends to overshadow the historical value of other more personal photographic sources – like studio or amateur photography. This project looks…
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Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities
Announcement of the publication of Vamping the Stage: Female Voices of Asian Modernities, the first book-length study of women, modernity, and popular music in Asia (University of Hawai'i Press, 2017).
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Modern Transimperial Histories: Forms, Questions, Prospects
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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On Composition in Herodian’s History of the Roman Emperors
In the History of the Roman Emperors, what does Herodian’s method of composition consist of and how does it relate to his writing intention, particularly in terms of political and moral idea(l)s?
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Rethinking Markets in Modern India: Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction
Published on 26 February 2021.
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Touwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Our history
As an educational and research institution Leiden University is seeking to understand its own relationship with the colonial and slavery past.
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the Doors of the Synagogue: Self-Perceptions of Jewish Identity in a Modern Canadian Society
Noah Millman defended his thesis on 26 May 2015
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The Cambridge History of Confucianism
Confucianism has been a major force in the cultural history of China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam for thousands of years, affecting the art, literature, science and politics of all these countries.
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Profiling Leiden Japan Sources in the Global History field: From Bipolar to Multipolar Research
Leiden University Library and related museum holdings in Leiden contain a body of materials showing the unique role of Dutch-Japanese trade relations as a node in the history of global flows of knowledge, materials and culture during the early modern period.
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The House of Orange-Nassau and Colonial History
At the initiative and expense of His Royal Highness King Willem-Alexander, Leiden University will be conducting a study of the role of the House of Orange-Nassau in Dutch colonial history. The project will run from 2023 to 2026.
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History of Cultures, Knowledge and Ideas
It is integral to many cluster members’ research to use Medieval and Early Modern Arts as a lens for studying the medieval and early modern periods at large:
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A History of Alorese (Austronesian): Combining linguistics and oral history
On the 16th of February, Yunus Sulistyono successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Yunus on this achievement!