801 search results for “africa history” in the Student website
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Pablo Merayo MontesFaculty of Humanities
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Kamila SmagulovaFaculty of Humanities
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Hannelore BraekenFaculty of Humanities
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Andreas HofmannFaculty of Humanities
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Student Johan collaborated on three books: ‘1572 was not a celebration of tolerance’
This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (lit. ‘Sea Beggars’) and therefore the birth of the Netherlands. Student Johan Visser is contributing to no fewer than three books about the extraordinary year of 1572.
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Ody DwicahyoFaculty of Humanities
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Sil DoumaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Richard GriffithsFaculty of Humanities
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Ibrahim Harun DemirelFaculty of Humanities
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Felix BoschFaculty of Humanities
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Harold van der KraanFaculty of Humanities
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Ysbrand LamersFaculty of Humanities
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Mahdis Mirzadeh
Faculty of Humanities
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Eline Rademakers
Faculty of Humanities
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Saskia van Anen
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim LubbersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marinus van Hekken
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Christiaan van Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Sarah CramseyFaculty of Humanities
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Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities
What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the French television programme 27.
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Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina
82 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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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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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
- Potluck Spring Dinner & Leiden University History Tour
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Antjie Krog writer in residence at Leiden University this autumn
South African poet Antjie Krog will be the writer in residence at Leiden University in autumn 2021. Krog is famous for her poetry collections and books, which are often inspired by the history of South Africa. In her role as writer in residence, she will give the annual Albert Verwey Lecture and a series…
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Emmanuel Ogwuche Okpe -
Southeast Asia as method, History as prevention Decentering the history of measles (to better control the disease?)
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Uncovering the role of Social Democracy in the History of European Competition Policy
Lecture, CHEI Seminar - Book launch
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Katarzyna CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a hundred years ago. PhD candidate Léjon Saarloos researched British scientists around the year 1900 and their idea of what makes a good - and therefore…
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Historical research helps improve biodiversity in the Leiden city centre
The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.
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Wreck in the Wadden Sea: ‘Objects tell the story’
More than 40 years ago, a wrecked merchant ship was found in the Wadden Sea. PhD student Geke Burger looked at this archaeological find from a historical perspective.
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‘Plastic politics’: how ideological debate was supplanted by abstract jargon
Over the course of the 20th century, politicians increasingly came to rely on experts. Their language was peppered with terms like ‘policy pathways’ and ‘evaluation frameworks’. This made debates more abstract and less ideological.
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Rob Cullum
Faculty of Humanities
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Lucinda Truijers-JansenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Melania Brito Clavijo
Faculty of Humanities
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Merel Vesseur-van LeeuwenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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From Scribe to Screen: Sources and Approaches to Global History in the Digital Age [COGLOSS x GLOBALISE]
Lecture, COGLOSS x GLOBALISE Webinar
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History October 2025
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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Judith NaeffFaculty of Humanities
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database
What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Faculty of Humanities joined forces with vocational college (MBO) students to build a database. ‘We’re so compatible with each other.’
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Joëlle Kraaijeveld wins Jan Brouwer Thesis Prize
Joëlle Kraaijeveld has won the Jan Brouwer Thesis Prize for history with her master's thesis.
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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to Guadalajara
In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done well in the South. He was not the only Guadalajara resident with Leiden roots: at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a stream of Dutch textile workers…