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Care, Children and the Other Holocaust
Inaugural lecture
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’
The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…
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lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…
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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Poland for a book they co-edited. How has this affected them? ‘This is an attempt to wear us down.’
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Historian Frank van Vree is the new Cleveringa Professor
Frank van Vree, Emeritus Professor of War, Conflict and Memory Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UVA), is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University this year.
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Eelco van der MaatFaculty of Humanities
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Kate BrackneyFaculty of Humanities
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Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture
On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust in Poland and were taken to court for defamation.
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Lecture and roundtable discussion with Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski
On 21 April 2022, Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski visited Leiden. The theme of his visit was the role of law and historiography in shaping collective memories.
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Christopher GreenFaculty of Humanities
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Channa LiFaculty of Humanities
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Introducing: Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria
Caroline Schep and Bianca Angelien Claveria recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the ERC-funded project “Human Subject Research and Medical Ethics in Colonial Southeast Asia”, led by Fenneke Sysling. Below they introduce themselves.
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Xiao LuoFaculty of Humanities
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Philomeen DolFaculty of Humanities
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Crewe Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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Shirley Alexander
Faculty of Humanities
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Amirardalan EmamiFaculty of Humanities
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Maaike BeemsterboerFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Yujing TanFaculty of Humanities
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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Steven Hagers
Faculty of Humanities
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Haneen OmariFaculty of Humanities
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Xiong XiongFaculty of Humanities
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Boudewijn WalravenFaculty of Humanities
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Geoffrey Cain
Faculty of Humanities
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Jurre KnoestFaculty of Humanities
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Aihua Li
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter VerhagenFaculty of Humanities
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Maghiel van CrevelFaculty of Humanities
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Ab de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Hyo Jin PakFaculty of Humanities
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Henk Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
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Pao-Yi YangFaculty of Humanities
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Sufis in Afghanistan: Contemporary Navigations of Religious Authority across Political Changes
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Edegar Da Conceição SavioFaculty of Humanities
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Arfi ArfiansyahFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Caroline Fernandes CaromanoFaculteit Archeologie
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Mehdy Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
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Material Legacies: The Post-Genocide Family Trees in Armenia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Berthe JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Kiyan ForoutanFaculty of Humanities
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Judith FrishmanFaculty of Humanities
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Shahab Daneshvar
Faculty of Humanities
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Marat MarkertFaculty of Humanities
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Eftychia MylonaFaculty of Humanities
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Maria Riep
Faculteit Archeologie
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Shuqi JiaFaculty of Humanities
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Hossein PourbagheriFaculty of Humanities
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Gjovalin MacajFaculty Governance and Global Affairs