1,356 search results for “colonial and global history” in the Staff website
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Marion Pluskota
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeannette Kamp
Faculty of Humanities
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Helen Steele
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden conference seeks out emerging trends in global governance
Global challenges require global governance answers. That’s why on 5 - 7 June, the interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) has chosen the theme 'Emerging Trends in Global Governance' for its annual conference. Researchers, students and practitioners…
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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power'
Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Fenneke Sysling
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den Hartog
Faculty of Humanities
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Leo Lucassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Rens Tacoma
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Stefano Bellucci
Faculty of Humanities
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Bernhard Rieger
Faculty of Humanities
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Luuk de Ligt
Faculty of Humanities
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Ariadne Schmidt
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlou Schrover
Faculty of Humanities
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Circulation as Relational History
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?'
When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried out in colonised areas without the explicit consent of the test subject. University lecturer Fenneke Sysling has received a European grant to research…
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Kate Brackney
Faculty of Humanities
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Applications are now open for the Summer School ‘The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance’ (12 - 23 June 2023) for Master-level and PhD students. The activity is supported by the European Union’s Jean Monnet programme (Erasmus+).
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Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
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Randal Sheppard
Faculty of Humanities
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Recap: Summer School ‘The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance’
From 13 to 24 June 2022, the Summer School on the European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance, supported by the Erasmus+ (Jean Monnet) Programme was held for the second time.
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Kern
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
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Femme Gaastra
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Boot
Faculty of Humanities
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Ben Schoenmaker
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Meel
Faculty of Humanities
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Introducing: Sander van der Horst
Sander van der Horst recently joined the Institute for History and the Royal Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV-KNAW). He is a PhD candidate in Cultural Histories & Decolonization in Southeast Asia. Below, he introduces himself.
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Simon Willmetts in the Leiden Security and Global Affairs podcast about the CIA
Simon Willmetts walks listeners through the founding of the CIA, its successes, controversies, portrayal in media and film.
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open for Summer School on the European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance
The Summer School will take place from 14-25 June 2021 and welcomes Master-level and PhD-level students who are interested in learning more about the interactions between the EU and the UN and the EU’s role within current patterns in global governance.
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Five questions about the research programme Citizenship, Migration and Global Transformations
De onderzoeksteams zijn opgezet, samenwerkingen zijn gestart, projecten afgetrapt, de eerste startsubsidies zijn binnen en de websites zijn in de lucht. Het stimuleringsprogramma Citizenship, Migration and Global Transformations, dat bestaat uit de twee pijlers Social Citizenship and Migration en Global…
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Jan Melissen
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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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…