315 search results for “decolonization in south asia” in the Student website
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‘Divisions are there to be bridged’
Annetje Ottow is stepping down as President of Leiden University’s Executive Board on 1 September 2025 after almost five years in the role. She looks back at the highs and lows – and ahead to what’s next.
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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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What are we defending? Steven Pinker on the core values of NATO and the Enlightenment
NATO not only safeguards our security and stability, but also defends Enlightenment principles, promoting prosperity, health and freedom. This is what eminent psychologist and thinker Steven Pinker argued to a packed Great Auditorium.
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Peter AkkermansFaculty of Archaeology
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Book presentation: Shifting sovereignties — Manifestations of sovereignty from a global historical perspective
Lecture, Book presentation
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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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Book Talk: The Psychic Lives of Statues
Lecture, Book Talk
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Student Bram wanted to be mayor as a boy
Bram Geurds (20) is fascinated by politics. When he was 12, a political debate on TV caught his attention. And he decided he wanted to be mayor one day. Unsurprisingly, Bram is studying political science and is politically active. It might seem like he’s on course to become a professional politician.…
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Workshop Somatics: Moving earth – Moving body
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Imagining the future of UK-Europe relations: Narratives from Brexit Britain
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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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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Hosting Global Justice: The Netherlands and International Courts (ICJ & ICC)
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Update: Executive Board responds to coalition agreement
The three parties currently forming a government – D66, CDA and VVD – have presented a new coalition agreement, in which they announce their intention to reverse the substantial funding cuts to higher education. This is encouraging news, although many uncertainties remain. The Executive Board will closely…