537 search results for “afrika history” in the Student website
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Lucinda Truijers-JansenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Inge Ligtvoet
- Merel Vesseur-van Leeuwen
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Melania Brito Clavijo
Faculty of Humanities
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Céline Zaepffel
Céline Zaepffel is a Lecturer in French literature and culture. Her research focuses on the transmission of ideologies through modern children's literature and culture, based on an intermedial and sociological analysis of children's media and the historical and cultural context of their publication.…
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Judith Naeff
Judith Naeff is Assistant Professor Cultures of the Middle East at Leiden University with a main interest in contemporary Arabic visual culture and literature. She has worked mainly on cities & urban imaginaries and memory & temporality.
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Sarah Cramsey
I am the Special Chair for Central European Studies, Assistant Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden. From 2025-2030, I am the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in central and eastern Europe, 1905-2004” or CARECENTURY,…
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Isaac ScarboroughFaculty of Humanities
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Chibuike UcheAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund Amann
Edmund Amann is Professor of Brazilian Studies at Leiden University and Visiting Professor at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University. Previously he was Reader in Development Economics at the University of Manchester and a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford.
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Vera Scepanovic
Vera Scepanovic is a Lecturer in International Relations and European Studies at Leiden University. She was previously a post-doctoral Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute in Florence and a visiting lecturer at the Central European University in Budapest.
- Ahab Bdaiwi
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José María Castro Ibarra
Faculty of Humanities
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Amadou Adamou
Amadou Adamou is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
- Matthew Sung
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Jiaxuan Huang
Jiaxuan Huang is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Koen van der Lijn
Koen van der Lijn is an intern an education and research staff member at the Institute for Area Studies.
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Yusra Abdullahi
Yusra Abdullahi is a PhD Candidate researching the roles Ghanaian, Zimbabwean, and Rwenzururian activists played at the United Nations.
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Saskia Cohen-Willner
Saskia Cohen-Willner is an Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
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Athanasios StathopoulosFaculty of Humanities
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Seraina RenzFaculty of Humanities
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Gus Kraus
Faculty of Humanities
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Michel Wyss
Michel Wyss is a PhD student at the Institute for History.
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Tony van der Togt
Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Ghulam Ali Murtaza
Ali Murtaza is an external PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Anthony Coxeter
Faculty of Humanities
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Li-Fan LeeFaculty of Humanities
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Ruben Eijkelenberg
Faculty of Humanities
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David André Anton Cina
Faculty of Humanities
- Luuk van de Vondervoort
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Robertus Benning
Robertus Benning is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Lun Jing
Faculty of Humanities
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Orson McMahon
Faculty of Humanities
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Dimitris Kastritis
Faculty 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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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
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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A special procession – just like 450 years ago
An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February.
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A university in times of corona: one year on
It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we found ourselves at home, working and studying online – many of us from that cramped attic or student room. The momentous coronavirus year in pictures.
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Leideners and researchers learn from each other at the Science Market
3 October University has become something of a tradition: a bit of science among the Leidens Ontzet celebrations. During the new and improved edition, the WetenschapsWarenMarkt (Science Market), visitors spoke to researchers about the nitrogen problem, making organs and the city’s connections with A…
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorship
Ten Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that symbolise retiring Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker and the research in Leiden. With direct references, playful associations and the odd nod and wink.
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Maria Gabriela Palacio LudeñaFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten MousFaculty of Humanities
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Hora est! Exhibition reveals the ritual world of earning a PhD
A dissertation covered in hot pink faux fur, antique prints of PhD ceremonies, a pot encrusted with sealing wax: the Hora est! anniversary exhibition at Oude UB takes you to the ritual yet idiosyncratic world of PhD ceremonies.