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• MA Specialisation Heritage and Postcolonial Studies Colonial and Global History (MA)

  Objects and framings of heritage, archives, and academic knowledge production generate worldwide, fierce societal debates on the legacies of colonial violence, past injustice and present-day institutional racism. Whether bronzes from Benin, daggers from Bali, fossils from Java, photo-albums from…

• Marieke Bloembergen appointed Professor of Archival and Postcolonial Studies News - 11 January 2019

  On 1 November 2018, Marieke Bloembergen was appointed Professor of Archival and Postcolonial Studies at the Institute for History.

• Platform for Postcolonial Readings

  The Platform for Postcolonial Readings brings together researchers, especially junior researchers, in Belgium and the Netherlands interested in issues of globalization, inter/transculturality, diversity and inclusivity, intersectionality, and postcoloniality. We are an open group (do join us!) and meet…

• Ghosts Here and There: Spectral Resistance and Dialogue in Postcolonial Literature Research project

  The ethics of ghosts, spectres, and mediums in postcolonial literature

• Postcolonial Displacements: Migration, Narratives and Place-making Research project

  Postcolonial Displacements explores the multiple ways in which migration in South Asia contributes to the imagining, questioning, subverting and reframing of territories, nations and communities. The project focuses on the contested fringes of the politically divided South Asian subcontinent, across…

• Migrants, welfare and social citizenship in postcolonial Europe Research output

  This paper explores how citizenship is enacted and experienced in welfare encounters for Egyptian migrant parents in Paris, Amsterdam, and Milan, highlighting the importance of social citizenship and personal interactions in shaping belonging.

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  Ingrid Samset Assistant Professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

• Shifting the compass Research output

  Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

• De postkoloniale spiegel. De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen Research output

  The Dutch colonial past in Indonesia has had a major influence on literature.

• About Platform for Postcolonial Readings

  The Platform for Postcolonial Readings organizes seminars for MA- and PhD-students and researchers in the field of postcolonial and globalisation studies in Belgium and the Netherlands. As an open network, discussion platform, and reading group, our meetings are open to all.

• Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies: Private Memories from the Congo Freestate and German East Africa (1884–1914) Research output

  Pursuing Whiteness in the Colonies offers a new comprehension of colonial history from below by taking remnants of individual agencies from a whiteness studies perspective. It highlights the experiences and perceptions of colonisers and how they portrayed and re-interpreted their identities in Afric…

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  Isabel Hoving Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Olf Praamstra Professor emeritus by special appointment of Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature

  Faculty of Humanities

• Finding one’s own voice as an indigenous filmmaker Research output

  In this dissertation Itandehui Jansen examines the ‘Voice’ of the filmmaker from a political and aesthetic perspective.

• Colonial and Global History (MA)

  The master’s programme in Colonial and Global History at Leiden University offers the most in-depth and comprehensive programme on the history of colonialism and globalisation currently available in Europe.

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  Christopher Green Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Dutch Centre for Travel Writing Studies Research project

  The Dutch Center for Travel Writing Studies s a scientific center that develops and coordinates initiatives to promote research into travel writing. It actively seeks contact with external (scientific and social) partners to collaborate on issues surrounding cultural / national identity, cultural contact…

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  Radhika Gupta Assistant professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• Merenungkan Gema, Pemjumpaan Musikal Indonesia-Belanda Research output

  Indonesian translation of the book Recollecting Resonances from authors Bart Barendregt and Els Bogaerts.

• Events Platform for Postcolonial Readings

  You can find an overview of events organized by the Platform for Post-Colonial Readings below.

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  Channa Li Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• In-Forest: A multi-method study of inequality and its epistemic effects in forest research Research project

  The project seeks to explore the interplay of valuation and inequalities in science, using the interdisciplinary and planet-critical field of forest research as empirical case. It examines which/whose knowledge is recognised on what grounds, and how social dimensions like gender and geographical location…

• Memory Contested, Locality Transformed Research output

  Representing Japanese Colonial 'Heritage' in Taiwan

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  Liesbeth Minnaard University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Xiao Luo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Philomeen Dol Team Leader / Foreign Language Teacher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Crewe Williams PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Shirley Alexander PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Amirardalan Emami

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maaike Beemsterboer Study adviser

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Yujing Tan Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nico Kaptein Professor Emeritus Islam in South East Asia

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Steven Hagers PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Haneen Omari University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Xiong Xiong PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Boudewijn Walraven Professor emeritus of Korean language and literature

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Geoffrey Cain PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jurre Knoest PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Aihua Li PhD Student

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Peter Verhagen University Lecturer Tibetan Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

• Calypso Music, Identity and Social Influence: The Trinidadian Experience Research output

  This study, Calypso, The Trinidadian Experience, has sought to establish links between calypso music and the construction and maintenance of identities, and to locate the genre as a mechanism (or as part of a broader mechanism) that has exerted on-going social influence within Trinidadian society…

• Education Dossier: Leiden - Indonesia

  Close cooperation in education between Leiden University and Indonesian partners occurs in many fields and range from student exchanges to science research projects.

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  Maghiel van Crevel Professor of Chinese Language and Literature

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ab de Jong Professor Comparative Religion and Religions of Antiquity / Scientific director

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hyo Jin Pak Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Beyond Dissemination: Hindustani Identifications at the Nexus of Tradition and Modernity Research project

  An interdisciplinary cultural analysis of how the Hindustani double migration informs contemporary processes of identification and problematises the juxtaposition of tradition and modernity.

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  Henk Schulte Nordholt Professor emeritus Indonesian History

  Faculty of Humanities

• Writing the Earth, Darkly: Globalization, Ecocriticism, and Desire Research output

  References to nature and the environment in the Caribbean literary and the contemporary age of globalization.

• Back to the Present Research project

  A post-colonial approach to the concept of time in the past and present Maya culture

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  Pao-Yi Yang Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities