639 search results for “diplomatie history” in the Student website
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Min ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Rob Cullum
Faculty of Humanities
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Lucinda Truijers-JansenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Renée JoosseFaculty of Humanities
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Merel Vesseur-van LeeuwenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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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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Judith NaeffFaculty of Humanities
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah CramseyFaculty of Humanities
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Isaac ScarboroughFaculty of Humanities
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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…
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Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’
If it is up to university lecturer Evelien Walhout, in a year's time we will know exactly what people from Haarlem and Zwolle died of a century ago. Together with colleagues from other universities, she started the doodsoorzaken.nl platform, where causes of death are recorded. ‘Somewhere around the…
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Heino van RijnberkFaculty of Humanities
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
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Rong YuanFaculty of Humanities
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Catherine WoodFaculty of Humanities
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Amadou Adamou
Faculty of Humanities
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Vera ScepanovicFaculty of Humanities
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Ahab BdaiwiFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew SungFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities
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Leonardo Arias AlvisFaculty of Humanities
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Tony van der Togt
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Marcin RabizaFaculty of Humanities
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Xuan Dong
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Kurpershoek
Faculty of Humanities
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Seraina RenzFaculty of Humanities
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Dimitris Kastritis
Faculty of Humanities
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Koen van der LijnFaculty of Humanities
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Yusra AbdullahiFaculty of Humanities
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Anthony Coxeter
Faculty of Humanities
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Ghulam Ali Murtaza
Faculty of Humanities
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Li-Fan LeeFaculty of Humanities
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Peter Postma
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Judith Leferink
Faculty of Humanities
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Athanasios StathopoulosFaculty of Humanities
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Robertus Benning
Faculty of Humanities
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Saskia Cohen-Willner -
University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
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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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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in'
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic slavery expert Karwan Fatah-Black. 'Too bad they didn’t wait for the results of the study.'
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague
Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague from 1600 to 1800. They are tracing crimes and offenders and shedding new light on The Hague’s Gevangenpoort (or Prison Gate). Among their many discoveries…
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A special procession – just like 450 years ago
An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February.