645 search results for “colonial development” in the Staff website
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
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Alexander van der Meer
Faculty of Humanities
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Masterclass: The Lores of Flatbush: Dutch Storytelling in Colonial North America
Lecture, Histories Connected: Masterclass
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Eveline Crone
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Channeke Keuls
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Yiran Yang
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Camila Espinoza Chaparro
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Martijn Defilet
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mi-Lan Woudstra
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ymke de Bruijn
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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David Ehrhardt
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Marcella Pavias
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anneke Both-de Vries
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Linda van Leijenhorst
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Stefanie van Esveld
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Eduard Klapwijk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Harriet Vermeer
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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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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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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Maedeh Nasri
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Susanne Kamerling
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Caroline Archambault
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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The ethics of returning colonial photography
Is it ethical to freely redistribute photographs taken in colonial contexts, historically and today? Christoph Rippe, PhD-candidate Cultural Anthropology, suggests that people might not have been always fully aware of what happened to their photographs after they were taken. 'But nowadays, with the…
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From canned fried rice to colonialism: Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood shows world history in miniature
Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will present their findings on Thursday 20 October, at a specially organised mini-festival in the neighbourhood.
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Did Dutch investments contribute to Indonesia’s economic development?
Foreign investments in the Dutch East Indies during the colonial period could have been of more benefit to the Indonesian economy. Foreign investments in the Dutch East Indies during the colonial period could have been of more benefit to the Indonesian economy. But the complicated relationship between…
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Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural lecture on 24 November. ‘As a university community, we must dare to hold up a mirror to ourselves and, where possible and necessary, also take concrete…
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
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Kiki Zanolie
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anna van Duijvenvoorde
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Arnout Koornneef
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Teacher development
Leiden University considers good education to be of paramount importance. That is why we invest in our teachers’ professional development, to ensure that their teaching methods continue to match the needs of individual students.
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Colonial Bureaucrats, the Metropole and the making of the 1875 East Indies’ Land Alienation Prohibition
On Thursday 9 December, Dr Upik Djalins presented an online lecture, entitled 'The Colonial Bureaucratic Network versus the Metropole: The Origin Story of Land Alienation Prohibition in the 1870s East Indies'.
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Andrea Spruijt
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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David Zetland
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Zijian Li
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Inge van der Weijden
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Maria Gabriela Palacio Ludeña
Faculty of Humanities
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Marieke Bos
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Kiki Spaninks
Science