686 search results for “intellectual history” in the Student website
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Internships and research in the Netherlands
How can you find an internship or research project and what arrangements do you need to make?
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Havar SolheimFaculty 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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Spycraft in History Today’s and The Economist’s Books of the Year
Spycraft, by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman has been selected by History Today and The Economist as one of 2024’s best books
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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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Miel GrotenFaculty 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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Kees Verduin
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Laurie Kalb CosmoFaculty of Humanities
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Gina van LingFaculty of Humanities
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Wagenaar writes about Louise Six: ‘I wanted to give a voice to women in history’
When Jeanette Wagenaar read Simone van der Vlugt's De amulet (The Amulet) at the age of eleven, she decided that she too wanted to write a historical novel one day. Thirty years later, Gooilust, about Louise Blaauw-Six, has now been published.
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Applying for jobs during the coronavirus pandemic: Ancient History alumni share their experiences
Three alumni of our Master’s degree programme in Ancient History talk to us about how they found a job after graduation during the coronavirus pandemic. During the interview, Gabriël hung a huge board covered in post-it reminders behind his laptop, Molly was glad that the members of the selection committee…
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Ariette DekkerFaculty of Humanities
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Wim BlockmansFaculty of Humanities
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Tamsin PrideauxFaculty of Humanities
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Khizar Jawad
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolina LenarduzziFaculty of Humanities
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André KnulstFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn Treur
Faculty of Humanities
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Brianne WesolowskiFaculty of Humanities
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Daniele Paolini
Faculty of Humanities
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Beatrice de Graaf in Huizinga Lecture: ‘History is necessary in times of crisis’
Professor Beatrice de Graaf held the 53rd Huizinga Lecture on Thursday 12 December. In front of a a sold-out Stadsgehoorzaal, she spoke about how history can be used in times of crisis to give meaning to the situation.
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Wouter van BeekAfrika-Studiecentrum
- Interiors for Display: The art of the eighteenth-century interior in the Dutch Republic and Europe
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The Washington Post review of Eric Storm’s Nationalism: ‘Grand scale history’
The Washington Post reviews Nationalism by university lecturer Eric Storm. In this book, Storm explores how nation-states became the dominant political organizational form.
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Terence RenaudFaculty of Humanities
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Mariken TeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Bart VerheijenFaculty of Humanities
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Ronald Petrarca
Faculty of Humanities
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Kenan van de Mieroop
Faculty of Humanities
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Karel Berkhoff
Faculty of Humanities
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Geert HamFaculty of Humanities
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Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history'
A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…
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Professor of Dutch History Henk te Velde to be new interim Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
Professor of Dutch History prof.dr. H. (Henk) te Velde will become interim Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University for a two-year term with effect from 1 March 2025. He will succeed prof.dr. M.R. (Mark) Rutgers. Mark Rutgers’ second term of office expires on 1 March 2025; he will be professor…
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Farewell event for Mark Rutgers on a unique day in the university’s history
With the red flag flying proudly on the Academy Building (Leiden University was on strike for the first time in its history!), the farewell event for former dean Mark Rutgers was held in the Telders Auditorium. After eight years, he has passed the baton to the interim dean, Henk te Velde.
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Alumni meet in Brussels: ‘We’re at a crossroads in European history’
Alumni who live and work in Brussels met on 18 February at the annual Leiden Alumni in Brussels Event. As well as celebrating Leiden University’s 450th anniversary, they also looked at the challenges Europe faces.
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Shiru LimFaculty of Humanities
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Philippe BucFaculty of Humanities
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for research into Het Dorp: ‘We are going to tell the lesser-known history’
It is one of the most famous moments in Dutch TV history: the twenty-three hour long marathon broadcast of Open het Dorp. But what happened to the commune for people with disabilities after that? Monika Baár and Paul van Trigt received a NWO grant of 750,000 euros to map the development of Het Dorp.
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Matthew FrearFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Ancient History Research Seminar, Student Presentations
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Jos Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, to be new interim Vice-Dean
Prof. J. (Jos) Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, will be the interim Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1 March 2025. He will succeed the present Vice-Dean, Mirjam de Baar, who will complete her second term on that date.
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Alexandra Tutwiler