897 search results for “histories” in the Student website
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In extremis: five extremes in 450 years of Leiden research
By looking at what is different, researchers often discover the special, the unusual. And that has already brought a wealth of highlights – also in Leiden.
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Masterclass: The Lores of Flatbush: Dutch Storytelling in Colonial North America
Dutch settlers in New Netherland and, later, New York regularly trafficked in tales, banal, fantastic, and occult. African and Native peoples were frequent presences in these stories—often establishing the American origins of such lore. This Masterclass will focus on how African slavery and Indigenous…
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Special Guest Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
After the American Revolution, a small town in what is now New York City opened a preparatory academy. Professor Craig Wilder’s talk examines how the residents of this Dutch farming village used the slave economy and the early national desire for schools to recover from several years of warfare and…
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Care, Children and the Other Holocaust
To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.
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From Hermann to Haramanis: Cinnamon and Botanical Knowledge
To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.
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Dilemmas of the Kalwars: Caught between Critique and Conformism of Caste
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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The Expansion of Sugar Plantations in Early Modern Java, c. 1740-1780
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Transdiasporas: Armenians, Kurds, and Palestinians, 1990-2020
To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.
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The Price of Freedom. Manumission in Eighteenth-Century Galle, Sri Lanka
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Techno-power in the Food Supply Chain
To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.
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“A rich material”: Medical Experiments under the Auspices of the Colonial Army in Indonesia
To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.
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Making ‘no-man’s lands’: infrastructural, connectivity and closure across China-Burma-India during global war
To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.
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Rethinking the Scramble for Africa: Dutch Entrepreneurs in West Central Africa (1850s-1910s)
To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.
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Learning Together, Living Separately: Sectarian Values and Segregation in University Hostels in Colonial India
To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.
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Worlds of War: violent legacies and memories in the Burma-India frontiers
To attend, email m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl in order to get the text under discussion.
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Soldiers of Fortune at Home: Remarks on the Social and Economic Footprint of Cretan Mercenary Wealth in the Hellenistic Period
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Disability and Healing in Greek and Roman Myth
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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'All A-H Bombs should be buried’ - Indonesian activists, decolonization, and global nuclear disarmament, 1950-1965
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Jews at Home. From Creation to Corona
16.00-18.00 Opening (Academy building, Faculty Club, Rapenburg 70) Reception and Keynote Panel: 'Home as Haven? Narratives of Crises and the Jewish Past' The panel will feature Professor Elisheva Baumgarten, Department of Jewish History and Contemporaneous Jewry, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Prof.…
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An Evening of Druze Voices
Lecture, Event
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80 Years of Peace in Europe?
Debate, Roundtable
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Mentor Network live: alumni speed dating
Career and apply for jobs
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Human Trafficking, Beautiful Women, the Land of the Cockaigne, and Burmese Bells
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Roundtable on Slavery: From Scholarly Debates to Public Reckoning
About the Roundtable In recent years, an emerging body of scholarship has sought to shed greater light on European involvement in slavery both in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean Worlds. This growing literature has contributed to the expansion of our scholarly understanding of the dynamics and consequences…
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Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
Conference
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Stop the cuts to education’
Scrap the radical cuts to research and teaching. This was researchers and students’ message to government at the opening of the new academic year. Various speakers in Leiden’s Pieterskerk highlighted the importance of science for society.
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D&I Symposium 2024: What have we achieved with a decade of diversity policy?
How has progress been made on diversity and inclusion at Leiden University over the past decade? Attendees reflected on this at the D&I Symposium 2024: Untold Stories. And in the workshops, students and staff discussed the next steps toward a more inclusive community.
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Reflections on the painting in the Leiden Academy Building
In this symposium, experts, staff and students from Leiden University will discuss what should happen with Rein Dool’s painting in the Academy Building and what the guidelines for the University’s exhibition policy should be. These issues will be explored from diverse perspectives. Moderator: Pieter…
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Research Seminar
With: Koen Klein (MA student): How Money Reaches People: Valorising the Classical Research Agenda Anchoring Innovation through Coinage. 'How do we present our research in Ancient History to a larger public? I present two research 'stories' that aim to be both academic but also relatable and interesting…
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Internship Market
Career and apply for jobs
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LUCAS Talks: Negotiating the Past
Lecture
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The Processes of Dying of the Greeks from the Hellenistic Period to the Early Empire
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Masterclass Prof. Greg Woolf
Students of the MA/RMA Ancient History who wish to attend please email k.beerden@hum.leidenuniv.nl for more information and to receive the required reading.
- Unification of the Mediterranean World Research Seminars 2022-2023
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Visiting the EU institutions in Brussels
Career and apply for jobs
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Pride is a celebration, but also a fight for visibility
‘Be yourself. Be as gay, queer, trans as you can and show the world you exist.’ These rousing words from Looi van Kessel marked the start of the third Pride Leiden for the university boat, with the theme: ‘450 years of being yourself’.
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Sampling the course and the campus on the Bachelor’s Open Day
It’s Saturday and electric minibuses ride back and forth bringing prospective students to Leiden University’s various faculties. They want to see for themselves whether that interesting-looking programme will suit them.
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Vidi grants for eight researchers from Leiden University
Eight scientists from Leiden University have been awarded a grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). With this Vidi funding, the researchers can set up an innovative line of research and further expand their own research group over the next five years.
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Hoe gaan we om met oplopende spanningen? ‘De keuze is: vechten of praten’
‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s Hooglandse Kerk. They discussed the rising tensions since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war. ‘Dare to ask each other questions.’
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Assessors: for 25 years an essential link between students and the university
For 25 years now, each faculty has had an assessor, a student representing the interests of all the faculty’s students. Yet few students are aware of this.
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Minor Violence Studies: interesting encounters and flying wooden blocks
The English taught interdisciplinary minor Violence Studies looks into various facets of interpersonal violence. Is this minor for all Leiden students? These two 'colleagues' are certain of it.
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Leiden Classics: The paradox of student association Minerva
Minerva, which calls itself the oldest student association of the Netherlands, has the reputation of being an impenetrable bastion. A lustrum exhibition shows the turbulent history and points to a diversity of contacts: from close bonds with Leiden ‘coffee ladies’ to the visit of Sir Winston Churchi…
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Join the protest against the higher education cuts
Students and staff from Leiden University are protesting in The Hague on 25 November against the billions in cuts to higher education. ‘The cuts are a terrible idea and we want to show why’, says Claire Weeda from WOinActie. ‘Research and teaching are essential to society.’
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‘Students have been treated like temporary residents for four centuries already’
The new Students for Leiden party pulled off a stunning victory in the municipal elections. From nowhere, the party won two seats on Leiden Municipal Council. How are brand-new student councillors Mitchell Wiegand Bruss and Elianne Wijnands doing? ‘We’ve already asked questions about the quality of…
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Nine US presidents and their Leiden roots
There are many links between Leiden and the US. The highest office there has been held an impressive nine times by presidents with Leiden roots. This has led to memorable visits to Leiden University.
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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’
How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
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Ship channels and their landscapes require radical reconsideration
Han Meyer, Carola Hein, Paul van de Laar and Sabine Luning, argue that in the current moment of major crises these ship channels necessitate radical reconsideration.
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Not in my name: former civil servants on resigning over Israel-Palestine policy
Western civil servants openly struggle with their government’s policies on the war in Gaza. During a meeting at Campus The Hague, three former civil servants told their stories.
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Feeling stuck with your thesis or writing assignment? You’re welcome to ask the Humanities Writing Center for help
Academic writing: it’s something that all students have to face. And it can be really quite difficult. The writing coaches at the Humanities Writing Center will therefore support you at every stage of your studies.
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Language both connects and divides
Author and political scientist Mounir Samuel has spent recent years delving into the many ways that language can exclude people and bring them together.