367 search results for “dutch history” in the Student website
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leiden' want to change this with guided tours and street markers. Representatives of the University and other Leiden institutions will be giving the first…
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Do you want to learn basic Dutch?
Education
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
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Dirk Alkemade
Faculty of Humanities
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Alexander Geurds
Faculteit Archeologie
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Hans-Jan van Kralingen
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mehdy Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
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Elsemieke Daalder
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Adriaan van der Weel
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonor Veiga de Oliveira Matos Guilherme Ponsar
Faculty of Humanities
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Maria van der Schaar
Faculty of Humanities
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Egbert Koops
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Ahab Bdaiwi
Faculty of Humanities
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Carel Smith
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mirjam de Baar
Faculty of Humanities
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Marike van Aerde
Faculteit Archeologie
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.
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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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Do you want to learn the basics of Dutch?
Social
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Frans Willem Korsten
Faculty of Humanities
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Lasse van den Dikkenberg
Faculteit Archeologie
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Growing diversity of Dutch population not immediately visible at universities
The intake of bachelor’s students from classic immigration countries whose prior education was in the Netherlands does not reflect the growing diversity in society. This is according to data from Statistics Netherlands.
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Robert Zwijnenberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Matthew Frear
Faculty of Humanities
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Quintijn Mauer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Melanie Gross
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicolas Rodriguez Idarraga
Faculty of Humanities
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Vincent Chang
Faculty of Humanities
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Which Leiden alumni are in the Dutch House of Representatives?
Of the 150 elected representatives, 24 studied or conducted their PhD research in Leiden. Who are they and which degrees are most popular among these MPs?
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Jonathan Stökl
Faculty of Humanities
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Tobias van der Wal
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Maarten Jansen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wouter van Beek
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Antje Wessels
Faculty of Humanities
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Frits van der Meer
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Paula Harvey
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Porck
Faculty of Humanities
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Dutch Research Council pilot programme funding for seven researchers
Seven researchers from Leiden University have made a successful application to the Open Competition SSH (Social Sciences and Humanities) XS, a Dutch Research Council pilot programme.
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’
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Dutch people are understanding the term ‘violence’ to mean more and more
When do we say violence was used in an incident? The answer may seem obvious at first. But interim results from a study by Jolien van Breen show that Dutch people are labelling events in increasingly broad contexts as violent.
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Liselore Tissen
Faculty of Humanities
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Dutch Higher Education Award 2022: second place for The Learning Mindset
The Leiden University College (LUC) education team behind The Learning Mindset (TLM) has received 800,000 euro’s during the Dutch Higher Education Award Ceremony 2022. The LUC team was second behind Universteit Twente. The prize was awarded during the annual Comenius Festival of the Comenius Network.…
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Tijmen Baarda
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Ellen van Reuler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities