416 search results for “afrika history” in the Student website
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Keeping the Nukes out, from Hawaii to Malta: 1980s antinuclear feminisms, in and through art
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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A Just War versus a Dignified Peace? Discourses about War and Peace in the Peace Negotiations between the Chinese Communist Party and Nationalist
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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“Aman" (1967) an Indian anti-war movie directed by Mohan Kumar
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series | Movie Screening
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Imagining Hierarchies in Vegetarianism between Europe, the United States, and India (19th -20th Century)
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Self-Determination in Very Small Places
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Discovering Europe through Coins: The Contact Zone of Nagasaki around 1800
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière and the French Nonviolence Movement, ca. 1960s-1980s
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Writing a bottom-up, practice-oriented and connected history of Christianities in the medieval Middle East (12th-17th centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.
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The Ptolemaic Ruler Cult in Egypt: The Greek Temple of Hermopolis Magna in its Religious and Socio-Historical Context
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Hora Hester Bijl! Farewell to a rector who steered the university through turbulent times
The university bid farewell to its Rector Magnificus, Hester Bijl, on 13 January during the ‘Hester’s Highlights’ symposium.
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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Punishment or refuge? ‘Women sometimes aimed to be convicted’
Over a thousand women ended up in a State workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were these women who were sent there? PhD candidate Marian Weevers found out.
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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power'
Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…
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Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
Conference, Book presentation
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Building Epistemic Justice After Nuclear Weapons Testing: The Case of Kiritimati
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Maxine DavidFaculty of Humanities
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Ilios WillemarsFaculty of Humanities
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Helen WestgeestFaculty of Humanities
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Catherine WoodFaculty of Humanities
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Pouwel van SchootenFaculty of Humanities
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Daniel SchadeFaculty of Humanities
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
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Andrea WarneckeFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah NelsonFaculty of Humanities
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Morena SkalameraFaculty of Humanities
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Michael NewtonFaculty of Humanities
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Robbert StriekwoldFaculty of Humanities
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Yunnan YeFaculty of Humanities
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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The Helsinki Final Act at 50: Timeless Masterpiece or Relic of the Cold War?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Materiality, Religion and the Senses
Conference, L*CeSAR Masterclass
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Sacrifice and Social Imaginary in Hellenistic Kos
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War?
Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleveringa are some of the best known. But these accounts largely focus on the Dutch domestic perspective. On the other side of the world, a complex colonial…
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Materiality, Religion and the Environment
Conference, L*CeSAR Research Workshop
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Sensing Scripts: Popular Religion, the Senses and Textuality
Lecture, Keynote
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Occupation makes for eventful Cleveringa Lecture: ‘Protect free spaces for debate’
Despite an eventful afternoon – with Students for Palestine occupying the Academy Building – political scientist Hélène Landemore gave her Cleveringa Lecture as planned on 26 November. She reflected on the protest and the importance of open debate, within the university and within a democracy.
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Susanna de BeerFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline VelFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Paul SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities
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Corrie Bakels -
Eelco van der MaatFaculty of Humanities
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Masoud KianiFaculty of Humanities
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Aris Politopoulos