937 search results for “history of south afrika” in the Student website
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Mark LoderichsFaculty of Humanities
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Lina Lerch
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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'Language is part of your identity’
Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’
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Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Palestine Poster Workshop (2): History, Graphic Design, Political Solidarity
Arts and culture
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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.
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scripts that might be more difficult to understand for the average person living in Leiden. In a new series of videos, Tijmen Pronk talks more about this.
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Annemie Halsema appointed professor by special appointment: ‘I want to contribute to thinking about diversity
The Institute for Philosophy further expands its knowledge: As of 1 September, Annemie Halsema holds the chair of Wijsgerige antropologie en de grondslagen van het humanisme (Philosophical anthropology and the principles of humanism, ed.). In the coming five years, she will study current societal issues…
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International Mother Language Day 2024: 'It's time to celebrate our languages'
On Wednesday, 21 February, a diverse group of students, staff, and representatives from 21 embassies gathered in The Hague for International Mother Language Day. Under the banner of 'a bit of fun and many serious topics,' language took centre stage.
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The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
Conference, Book presentation
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‘In the second half of the eighteenth century, decisions were made in the stadtholder’s audience chamber.’
The stadtholder’s court in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands has long been underestimated. Real courts and the associated court culture were to be found elsewhere in Europe. PhD candidate Quinten Somsen is trying to reverse this image. ‘The stadtholder’s court was actually very lively.’
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Materiality, Religion and the Senses
Conference, L*CeSAR Masterclass
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
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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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Eight projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
From a queer art exhibition to a podcast about people with disabilities, the JEDI Fund this year again honored several projects that contribute to diversity and inclusion.
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from?
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.
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Not Rifles but Books: FEC’s Book Programs (1954–1991)
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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What and why?
Exchange: What and why?
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What and why?
Exchange: What and why?
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Study associations
A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.
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Lola Verhoeven
Faculty of Humanities
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John Sunday OjoFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Windu Yusuf
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke KlokkeFaculty of Humanities
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Nobuyuki SuzukiFaculty of Humanities
- Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’
A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University lecturer Alexander Dencher knows how to hold the attention of a growing audience. How does he do it? And what makes the history of interior design so fa…
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Sensing Scripts: Popular Religion, the Senses and Textuality
Lecture, Keynote
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Jan AbbinkAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Ellen van ReulerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Chibuike UcheAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Mark RutgersFaculty of Humanities
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European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2025
Conference
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Maarten JansenFaculty of Archaeology
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Maria Voltsichina
Faculty of Humanities
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Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery
Lecture
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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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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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Gijs DreijerFaculty of Humanities
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Cigdem Billur-Ada
Faculty of Humanities
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Sulakshana de Mel
Koninklijk Instituut Taal, Land- en Volkenkunde
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Sil DoumaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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Eddie Meijer
Faculty of Humanities