1,783 search results for “histories” in the Student website
-
Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database
What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Faculty of Humanities joined forces with vocational college (MBO) students to build a database. ‘We’re so compatible with each other.’
-
Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
-
Paula HarveyFaculty of Humanities
-
Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
-
Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’
If it is up to university lecturer Evelien Walhout, in a year's time we will know exactly what people from Haarlem and Zwolle died of a century ago. Together with colleagues from other universities, she started the doodsoorzaken.nl platform, where causes of death are recorded. ‘Somewhere around the…
-
NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
-
Bareez MajidFaculty of Humanities
-
Jonathan StöklFaculty of Humanities
-
Paul Nieuwenburg
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
-
Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
-
‘Drawing for Dummies’, but in the Renaissance
The way the great masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries learned to draw is more similar to a present-day drawing class or book than you might think. Professor of ‘Art on Paper and Parchment’ Yvonne Bleyerveld tells us about the art of copying and model books.
-
PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish?
Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in bright colours, into categories. Yet, this division has been discussed for centuries. In her PhD dissertation, Didi van Trijp shows how natural scientists…
-
University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
-
Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery
Lecture
-
Gijs DreijerFaculty of Humanities
-
Pablo Merayo MontesFaculty of Humanities
-
Cigdem Billur-Ada -
Andreas HofmannFaculty of Humanities
-
Brian ShaevFaculty of Humanities
-
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.
-
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.
-
Fragments of a decentered 19th century history of Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan
Histories Connected: Seminar
-
Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
-
Carla Cisternas GuaschFaculty of Humanities
-
Pichayapat Naisupap -
Bálint HonosFaculty of Humanities
-
Nestor Marin Bravo
Faculty of Humanities
-
David Home Valenzuela
Faculty of Humanities
-
Tomás Díaz
Faculty of Humanities
-
Mariana Gaba
Faculty of Humanities
-
Christiaan van Beek
Faculty of Humanities
-
Felipe Cousiño
Faculty of Humanities
-
Felix BoschFaculty of Humanities
-
Joaquin Fernandez Abara
Faculty of Humanities
-
Cristian Saavedra Bastía
Faculty of Humanities
-
Juliët TinebraFaculty of Humanities
-
Alliance Mango Kubota
Afrika-Studiecentrum
-
Carlos Rilling Tenorio
Faculty of Humanities
-
Gabriel Veppo de Lima
Faculty of Humanities
-
Mahdis Mirzadeh
Faculty of Humanities
-
Harold van der Kraan
Faculty of Humanities
-
Macarena Alegria Garcia
Faculty of Humanities
-
Daphne EngelFaculty of Humanities
-
Nadia Rojas
Faculty of Humanities
-
Theresa St John
Faculty of Humanities
-
Sil DoumaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
-
Ody DwicahyoFaculty of Humanities
-
Nicole Pereira Ríos
Faculty of Humanities
-
Andrea Bravo Lee
-
Richard GriffithsFaculty of Humanities