686 search results for “africa history” in the Student website
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
Until September 2024 Marie-Leen Ryckaert was Senior Lecturer Design History & Theory and Research Fellow at ArtEZ University of the Arts (Department of Interior Architecture) for fifteen years. She is currently conducting research on Film and Architecture (Faculty of Humanities).
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.
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From chants to a voice: how young workers organised
‘All the groceries, but not a fig for young workers’, read a banner during the occupation of Ahold’s headquarters in 1981. ‘For a long time, young workers were not taken seriously, but they managed to put themselves on the map’, says historian Rosa Kösters.
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
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Henrike Vellinga
Henrike Vellinga is a PhD researcher for the
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Gijs DreijerFaculty of Humanities
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Hannelore Braeken
Hannelore Braeken is a PhD candidate at the Economic and Social History section of Leiden University. She is researching loneliness with individuals with mild intellectual disabilities. Hannelore studied history at KU Leuven and the Universidad de Cádiz, and obtained her master's degree in 2024 with…
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Cigdem Billur-AdaFaculty of Humanities
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Brian Shaev
Brian Shaev is a Lecturer at the institute for History.
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Ody Dwicahyo
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
- Tim Lubbers
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Pichayapat NaisupapFaculty of Humanities
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Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths is Professor Emeritus of International Studies.
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Christiaan van Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Felix BoschFaculty of Humanities
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Saskia van Anen
Saskia van Anen is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for History.
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Ysbrand Lamers
Ysbrand Lamers is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Sil Douma
S.J. (Sil) Douma MA LLM (2001) studied Classics and Law at Leiden University (both cum laude). Since September 2024, Sil has worked at the department of Legal History ad a PhD student and researches the reception of Augustine in the oath theory of medieval canon law.
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Mahdis Mirzadeh
Faculty of Humanities
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Harold van der Kraan
Faculty of Humanities
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Marinus van Hekken
Marinus van Hekken is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
- Ibrahim Harun Demirel
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka is professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University.
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Alisa van de Haar
Alisa van de Haar is Assistant Professor in historical French Literature. Her research focuses on historical multilingualism, the history of the language sector, and the intersection between language and migration. From 2022 to 2026, she conducted a Dutch Research Council Veni project titled ‘Languages…
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Ivan DunduroFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Emmanuel Ogwuche OkpeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Antjie Krog writer in residence at Leiden University this autumn
South African poet Antjie Krog will be the writer in residence at Leiden University in autumn 2021. Krog is famous for her poetry collections and books, which are often inspired by the history of South Africa. In her role as writer in residence, she will give the annual Albert Verwey Lecture and a series…
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Lucinda Truijers-JansenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
- Inge Ligtvoet
- Merel Vesseur-van Leeuwen
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Rob Cullum
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Melania Brito Clavijo
Faculty of Humanities
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Céline Zaepffel
Céline Zaepffel is a Lecturer in French literature and culture. Her research focuses on the transmission of ideologies through modern children's literature and culture, based on an intermedial and sociological analysis of children's media and the historical and cultural context of their publication.…
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Judith Naeff
Judith Naeff is Assistant Professor Cultures of the Middle East at Leiden University with a main interest in contemporary Arabic visual culture and literature. She has worked mainly on cities & urban imaginaries and memory & temporality.
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Sarah Cramsey
I am the Special Chair for Central European Studies, Assistant Professor of Judaism & Diaspora Studies and Director of the Austria Centre Leiden. From 2025-2030, I am the Principal Investigator of “A Century of Care: Invisible Work and Early Childcare in central and eastern Europe, 1905-2004” or CARECENTURY,…
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Isaac ScarboroughFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities
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Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
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Vera Scepanovic
Vera Scepanovic is a Lecturer in International Relations and European Studies at Leiden University. She was previously a post-doctoral Max Weber Fellow at European University Institute in Florence and a visiting lecturer at the Central European University in Budapest.
- Ahab Bdaiwi
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Jiaxuan Huang
Jiaxuan Huang is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History.
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Koen van der Lijn
Koen van der Lijn is an intern an education and research staff member at the Institute for Area Studies.
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Yusra Abdullahi
Yusra Abdullahi is a PhD Candidate researching the roles Ghanaian, Zimbabwean, and Rwenzururian activists played at the United Nations.
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Saskia Cohen-Willner
Saskia Cohen-Willner is an Assistant Professor at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
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Athanasios StathopoulosFaculty of Humanities
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Seraina RenzFaculty of Humanities