776 search results for “africa history” in the Student website
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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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The eternal student: exhibition travels through 450 years of studying
Over the centuries painters and photographers have depicted students at study in Leiden. An exhibition at the Hortus botanicus reveals the similarities and differences in 450 years of student life.
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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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Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library
With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted back into the spotlight. Leiden University is devoting attention to this topic as well. History students Sander van der Horst and Melle van Maanen joined…
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World Women's Committee Against War and Fascism (WWCAWF) 1934-1941
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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The War Game (1966)
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Keeping the Nukes out, from Hawaii to Malta: 1980s antinuclear feminisms, in and through art
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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A Just War versus a Dignified Peace? Discourses about War and Peace in the Peace Negotiations between the Chinese Communist Party and Nationalist
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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“Aman" (1967) an Indian anti-war movie directed by Mohan Kumar
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series | Movie Screening
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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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Join a study association: ‘It expands your worldview’
A discount on textbooks is always welcome. But for these students joining a study association has meant much more than that alone.
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50 jaar MRI: Hoe het LUMC dit betaalbaar maakt
50 years ago Lauterbur published the basic principle of MRI. Sine then MRI has become more expensive. Professor Andrew Webb describes what is needed to make MRI available for everybody.
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Corinna Jentzsch
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Imagining Hierarchies in Vegetarianism between Europe, the United States, and India (19th -20th Century)
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Self-Determination in Very Small Places
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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‘Poorer people often bear the brunt of sustainability initiatives’
The effects of sustainability projects on poorer, marginalised people should be considered at a much earlier stage. This is the opinion of Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainable Development and Livelihood, who will give her inaugural lecture on 25 February.
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Discovering Europe through Coins: The Contact Zone of Nagasaki around 1800
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière and the French Nonviolence Movement, ca. 1960s-1980s
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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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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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.
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Leiden University Student Platform (LUS)
The Leiden University Student Platform (LUS) is a student-led ‘think-tank’. It consists of eight members: one representative from each of the seven faculties plus one chair.
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The Ptolemaic Ruler Cult in Egypt: The Greek Temple of Hermopolis Magna in its Religious and Socio-Historical Context
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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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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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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Punishment or refuge? ‘Women sometimes aimed to be convicted’
Over a thousand women ended up in a State workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were these women who were sent there? PhD candidate Marian Weevers found out.
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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power'
Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…
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Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Building Epistemic Justice After Nuclear Weapons Testing: The Case of Kiritimati
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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The Chains of Holland’s Glory: research into South Holland's slavery past completed
Karwan Fatah-Black and Lauren Lauret are co-authors of Geketend voor Hollands Glorie (The Chains of Holland’s Glory) that studies the political and economic connections between South Holland and slavery. The findings of this research will be presented with Dr. Joris van den Tol (Radboud University)…
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Jesse Doornenbal
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Danny JolFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Peter Klinkhamer -
Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
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Anastasia Nikulina -
Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
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Maxine DavidFaculty of Humanities
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Ilios WillemarsFaculty of Humanities
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Pouwel van SchootenFaculty of Humanities
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Daniel SchadeFaculty of Humanities
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Ugur DerinFaculty of Humanities
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Alies JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Sanjukta PoddarFaculty of Humanities
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Ruben van UdenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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Yunnan Ye -
Saskia RademakerFaculty of Humanities
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Andrea WarneckeFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah NelsonFaculty of Humanities
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Frederic Lens