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• From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery News - 28 May 2024

  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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  Athanasios Stathopoulos Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Seraina Renz University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Anthony Coxeter PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Orson McMahon PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Koen van der Lijn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jiaxuan Huang PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Saskia Cohen-Willner Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Michel Wyss PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Robertus Benning PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tony van der Togt Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

• Cancelled: National strike against the higher education cuts Event - 10 June 2025

  Demonstratie

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  Chibuike Uche Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’ News - 9 June 2021

  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.…

• Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons News - 28 November 2023

  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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  Julia Cramer Assistant professor

• Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague News - 4 November 2024

  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…

• A special procession – just like 450 years ago News - 3 February 2025

  An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February.

• Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming' News - 18 May 2021

  On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…

• How the Republic contributed to the French colonial empire: ‘People like you and me invested’ News - 24 April 2025

  In the 18th century, the French colonial empire teemed with protectionist laws. Nevertheless, businessmen from the Republic played an important role in the French economy, and thus in the colonial system. PhD student Tessa de Boer explored how this came about.

• Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia News - 9 November 2021

  The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.

• National language and feminist activism in Republican China: the 1924 Congress for the Advancement of Education Event - 15 April 2026

  Lecture, China Seminar

• PhD of the Future-guide Launch Event - 16 June 2026

  The PhD Programme of the Future

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  Itai Siegel PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Semonti Bhattacharyya Assistant Professor

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  Floris Keehnen Researcher/Guest Steaff Member

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  Janneke Wesseling Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jack Tillman PhD candidate

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  Nina Baranowska Postdoc

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Nick Huls Professor emeritus

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Max Willem Lenssen PhD candidate

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  Azra Say Otun PhD candidate

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  Valentina Azzarà Honorary Research Fellow

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  Silke Henkes Associate Professor

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  Adam Ramadhan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nicky van de Beek NINO Visiting Research Fellow

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alexander de Wit Researcher/lecturer

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  Femke Heijmans PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Lydia van de Fliert PhD candidate

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  Mona Fadaei Heidari PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Peter Kaemingk Researcher/lecturer

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Youssef Cherif PhD candidate / Self Funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gabriel Paiuk Policy Advisor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Aliéksey Barreto Malheiros Vianna PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Adrien Martinet PhD candidate

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  Carel Kauffmann PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  John Balouziyeh PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Paulus Maritz External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Arton van Harten PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Liselotte Vink Researcher/lecturer

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid