658 search results for “boer history” in the Student website
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty of Humanities
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Carel SmithFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jorrit SmitFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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Rodrigo OchigameFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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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.’
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‘Islam is a constant in Europe’: new Humanities podcast delves into the history of Islam
‘Islam and Muslims are not something that happened to Europe; they are part of Europe. In fact, Islam is one the biggest constants in European history,’ argues Professor Maurits Berger in the new eight-part History of Islam in Europe podcast series of the Leiden University Faculty of Humanities.
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Thomas MaguireFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Simon WillmettsFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Kai HebelFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery
What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building features eleven insightful portraits of students and staff, and their answer to this question. The aim of the exhibition’s initiators is to make the subject…
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Mirjam de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Quintijn MauerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Patricio SilvaFaculty of Humanities
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Isabelle DuijvesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Tobias van der WalFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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Egbert KoopsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Dick van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Dirk AlkemadeFaculty of Humanities
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en HenegouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Nina JaspersFaculty of Archaeology
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Havar SolheimFaculty of Humanities
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Anahita ArianFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Gina van LingFaculty of Humanities
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Elizabeth Rodriguez EstradaFaculty of Archaeology
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Kees Verduin
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maria van der SchaarFaculty of Humanities
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Robert PittFaculty of Humanities
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Laurie Kalb CosmoFaculty of Humanities
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Our perspective on history is changing and our museums are changing too
Museums have long focused on power, wealth and a few famous figures. But that is changing, says Valika Smeulders, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum. What this change comprises and how it has come about is the subject of her keynote speech at the D&I Symposium on 11 January.
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Berkhoff appointed professor by special appointment: ‘Focus on Ukrainian history a milestone’
As of 1 September , Karel Berkhoff has been appointed professor by special appointment in Ukrainian History. In this position, made possible in part by the KNAW, he will focus primarily on dark moments in recent Ukrainian history: the persecutions that have taken place in the first half of the twentieth…
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Philippe BucFaculty of Humanities
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Miel GrotenFaculty of Humanities
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Wouter van BeekAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Keuzegids Masters 2025: History and Classics and Ancient Civilizations score well above average
Two Humanities research masters and one master’s programme score well above average in the Keuzegids Masters: the research master History, the master and research master Classics and Ancient Civilizations.
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[s]TATTOO studio at Gorlaeus
Pop-up art studio
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New history of Leiden presented to the mayor: ‘Always been an incredibly diverse city’
Professor Ariadne Schmidt and Associate Professor Arie van Steensel (University of Groningen) have produced A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden, the first English-language history of Leiden. Mayor Peter Heijkoop received the first copy.
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Khizar Jawad
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolina Lenarduzzi
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim BlockmansFaculty of Humanities
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Tamsin PrideauxFaculty of Humanities
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Daniele Paolini
Faculty of Humanities
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Martijn Treur
Faculty of Humanities
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Brianne WesolowskiFaculty of Humanities
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André KnulstFaculty of Humanities
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Ariette Dekker
Faculty of Humanities
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Shiru LimFaculty of Humanities
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Hans-Dieter HiepFaculty of Science