1,509 search results for “history of south africa” in the Student website
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Hans MolFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew ShieldFaculty of Humanities
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The Open Door to Hidden Paganism. Abraham Rogerius’s Account of South Indian Hinduism (1651)
Lecture, Booklaunch - CoGloSS | Oosters Genootschap | Leiden University Press
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Martijn van EtteFaculty of Humanities
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ASCL Seminar: Obscure Capital and Containers: History, Objects, and Power in Central Africa
Lecture
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Claire VergerioSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Anahita ArianSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Anglophone Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Patricio SilvaFaculty of Humanities
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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Mayke KaagAfrican Studies Centre
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Bloomreach Experience 16 _ Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History December 2025
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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Rodrigo OchigameSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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An archaeological perspective on South Holland and its Water Past and Present
Four students of the Faculty of Archaeology investigated how the current and past inhabitants of the Dutch province of South Holland deal with water. Their findings now feature in an exhibition that can now be visited in the Van Steenis building’s Reuvenshal.
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Kate BrackneyFaculty of Humanities
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Eefke de HaanFaculty of Humanities
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Klaas WorpFaculty of Humanities
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Junjie HuangSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Johan VisserFaculty of Humanities
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
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Jay HuangFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Remco Breuker makes documentary series about South Korea: 'The Netherlands and Korea are structurally related'
Professor Remco Breuker plays the leading role in the new documentary ‘Big in Korea’. Over three Sunday evenings, viewers can follow his journey through South Korea. How has the country developed over the past decades? And what is the impact of last December's failed coup?
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Rijk van DijkAfrican Studies Centre
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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Why North Korea and Southern Africa are dependent on each other
North Korea may seem like an isolated country but it has strong ties with African regimes. This alliance, which trades in arms despite international sanctions, is increasingly operating out of the liberal world order’s sight, PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog warns.
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Costanza FranceschiniSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Esther van de CampSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Giliam de ValkFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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Nira Wickramasinghe on New Books in South Asian Studies podcast
In the book 'Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' Nira Wickramasinghe, professor of Modern South Asian Studies, uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world. She was interviewed about the book in the New Books in South East Asian…
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‘Little’ Stories in ‘Big’ Histories. Families, Mobility, and Identity in the Indian Ocean
Lecture
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Remembering and Forgetting in Two Worlds. Writing Histories of Forced Displacement and Submerged Genealogy
Lecture
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Marcel KeurentjesFaculty of Humanities
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AI-enabled ultrasound: LUC alumna empowers women in rural Africa
AI ultrasounds: LUC alumna empowers women in rural Africa
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Paul KesslerFaculty of Science
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How can youth political participation in Africa be encouraged?
Do political knowledge and democratic values encourage young people to participate in politics or not? Political Scientist Leila Demarest had a closer look at adolescents’ participation intentions in Nigeria and shared her findings with The Conversation.
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appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’
Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to incorporate different scholarly approaches into my work and raise the profile of Central European Studies in Leiden.'
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.
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Jonathan StöklFaculty of Humanities
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Social & Behavioural Sciences