922 search results for “histories” in the Student website
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Merel Vesseur-van LeeuwenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Traitors, profiteers or collaborators: ‘The Jewish Council has long been judged too harshly’
For too long the Dutch collective memory has judged the Jewish Council too harshly. This perspective needs to be adjusted, Bart van der Boom argues in his new book ‘De politiek van het kleinste kwaad’ (lit. ‘The Politics of the Lesser Evil’).
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How the Republic contributed to the French colonial empire: ‘People like you and me invested’
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.
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Maria Gabriela Palacio LudeñaFaculty of Humanities
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?'
When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried out in colonised areas without the explicit consent of the test subject. University lecturer Fenneke Sysling has received a European grant to research…
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A Dutch Robespierre? Dissertation sheds new light on Leiden revolutionary Pieter Vreede
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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From Scribe to Screen: Sources and Approaches to Global History in the Digital Age [COGLOSS x GLOBALISE]
Lecture, COGLOSS x GLOBALISE Webinar
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The Art of Cold War Globalism: A Visual History of Post-Migration and Minority Alliances after 1945
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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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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Tycho van der HoogAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Jan AbbinkAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Mark RutgersFaculty of Humanities
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Ellen van ReulerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in'
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic slavery expert Karwan Fatah-Black. 'Too bad they didn’t wait for the results of the study.'
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
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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
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Yusra AbdullahiFaculty of Humanities
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Li-Fan LeeFaculty of Humanities
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Luuk van de Vondervoort
Faculty of Humanities
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Lun Jing
Faculty of Humanities
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Dimitris Kastritis
Faculty of Humanities
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Robertus Benning
Faculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
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Vein Men / Vein Women? Bloodletting Diagrams, Medical Practice and Gender in Later Medieval Europe
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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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.
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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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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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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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World Women's Committee Against War and Fascism (WWCAWF) 1934-1941
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities