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470 search results for “afrika history” in the Student website

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  Sil Douma PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Tomás Díaz PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sarah Cramsey Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Potluck Spring Dinner & Leiden University History Tour Event - 21 May 2026

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  Katarzyna Cwiertka Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alisa van de Haar University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Lucinda Truijers-Jansen Management/Office assistant

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Melania Brito Clavijo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rob Cullum Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maria Gabriela Palacio Ludeña University Lecturer Development Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

• 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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  José María Castro Ibarra PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Edmund Amann Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Vera Scepanovic Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Matthew Sung Research staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marleen Reichgelt Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bruno Allahissem PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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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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  Li-Fan Lee PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Orson McMahon PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Saskia Cohen-Willner Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Robertus Benning PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ghulam Ali Murtaza PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Dimitris Kastritis Tutorial lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Anthony Coxeter PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gus Kraus PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Michel Wyss PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jiaxuan Huang PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rebecca Nicastri PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Koen van der Lijn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Liesbet Nyssen PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Chibuike Uche Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Petra Sijpesteijn Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• 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.’

• 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.

• A university in times of corona: one year on News - 15 March 2021

  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.

• Leideners and researchers learn from each other at the Science Market News - 4 October 2023

  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…

• The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War News - 28 April 2025

  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?

• Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorship News - 22 January 2021

  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.

• Hora est! Exhibition reveals the ritual world of earning a PhD News - 3 June 2025

  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.

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  Maarten Mous Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Morena Skalamera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• A Dutch Robespierre? Dissertation sheds new light on Leiden revolutionary Pieter Vreede News - 11 June 2025

  Leiden patriot Pieter Vreede fought for greater popular influence. Historian Dirk Alkemade reveals how this pioneer used radical means to shape Dutch democracy.

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  Jochem van den Boogert Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Lieske Huits University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mingran Cao PhD Candidate/ Self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rong Yuan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marion Elenbaas University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Maha Ali Teacher

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs