597 search results for “centre africa history” in the Student website
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Jonathan VerweyFaculty of Humanities
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Natalie EvertsFaculty of Humanities
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Gerda Huisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Celine OldenhageFaculty of Humanities
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Melinda SusantoFaculty of Humanities
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Ton Elias
Faculty of Humanities
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Mark Loderichs
Faculty of Humanities
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Geert StrooFaculty of Humanities
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Maretta Johnson
Faculty of Humanities
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Douglas BergerFaculty of Humanities
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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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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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‘Podcast gives its listeners a sense of identity and belonging’
In the Netherlands, when we talk about the United Nations, the conversation is almost always about the member states from the northern hemisphere. But the most interesting players come from the ‘Global South’, Professor Alanna O'Malley and her team argue in a podcast.
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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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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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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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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From chants to a voice: how young workers organised
‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young workers were not taken seriously, but they managed to put themselves on the map’, says historian Rosa Kösters.
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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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Queen Máxima visits KITLV
During a visit, Queen Máxima spoke with researchers about projects exploring climate change, collections and culinary heritage.
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Gijs DreijerFaculty of Humanities
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Pablo Merayo MontesFaculty of Humanities
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Cigdem Billur-Ada
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Pichayapat NaisupapFaculty of Humanities
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Christiaan van Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Felix BoschFaculty of Humanities
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Mahdis Mirzadeh
Faculty of Humanities
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Harold van der Kraan
Faculty of Humanities
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
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Sil DoumaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ody DwicahyoFaculty of Humanities
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Ibrahim Harun DemirelFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten Jansen - Potluck Spring Dinner & Leiden University History Tour
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CRG Seminar: The Economic Community of West African States at fifty: Edward Blyden and the road towards a people centered regional body
Lecture
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Emmanuel Ogwuche OkpeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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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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Sarah Cramsey: 'We know very little about which systems influence our first thousand days'
It is one of the most personal and simultaneously most universal experiences of human life: caring for a young child. Professor Sarah Cramsey has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to investigate how factors such as nationality, political systems, and religion influence the first thousand days after…
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Herman SiemensFaculty of Humanities
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Lucinda Truijers-JansenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rob Cullum
Faculty of Humanities
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Melania Brito Clavijo
Faculty of Humanities
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Sine BagaturFaculty of Humanities
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Isaac ScarboroughFaculty of Humanities
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Peter BisschopFaculty of Humanities
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Josette DaemenFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs