1,192 search results for “board history” in the Student website
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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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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Leiden University celebrates Dies Natalis: ‘Ahead of the times for 450 years’
An extra-long cortège, three honorary doctorates, a quiz about 450 years of university history, a Dies Natalis rap and a call to defend academic freedom: these all featured in Leiden University’s 450th Dies Natalis celebration and the official start of its jubilee year.
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Koen CaminadaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Elianne BerkepiesFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bas NijboerFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Esther UiterweerdFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jet LieskerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mieneke van der Salm-PalladaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Minke Jonk-ThuongFaculty of Humanities
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Marit PostmaFaculty of Humanities
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Jurjen DonkersFaculty of Humanities
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Manon OsseweijerAdministration and Central Services
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Sheena BruceFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Patricia Garcia FernandezFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rebecca TaitFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Céline RichardFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mischa CramerFaculty of Humanities
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Natascha MeewisseFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Vera VinckFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew HoffmanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Orsolya Kalsbeek-BagdiFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Eli van DuijnenFaculty of Humanities
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Rosalinde SpittersFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Take care of each other’
After a turbulent Covid year, the well-being of our students and staff has the highest priority. How can we prevent physical and mental health problems? This was the key question at the Opening of the Academic Year in Pieterskerk in Leiden on 6 September.
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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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Passionate debate on university’s fossil fuel ties
Should Leiden University cut its ties with the fossil fuel industry forthwith? This was the main question in a debate between students and staff. The answer was clearer for some than for others.
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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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Vera ScepanovicFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew SungFaculty of Humanities
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund AmannFaculty of Humanities
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Ahab BdaiwiFaculty of Humanities
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José María Castro IbarraFaculty of Humanities
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Anthony Coxeter
Faculty of Humanities
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Gus Kraus
Faculty of Humanities
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Michel Wyss
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiaxuan Huang
Faculty of Humanities
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Rebecca NicastriFaculty of Humanities
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Koen van der LijnFaculty of Humanities
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Seraina RenzFaculty of Humanities
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Orson McMahon
Faculty of Humanities
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Saskia Cohen-WillnerFaculty of Humanities
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Athanasios StathopoulosFaculty of Humanities
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Ghulam Ali Murtaza
Faculty of Humanities