723 search results for “history landscape” in the Student website
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Hora Hester Bijl! Farewell to a rector who steered the university through turbulent times
The university bid farewell to its Rector Magnificus, Hester Bijl, on 13 January during the ‘Hester’s Highlights’ symposium.
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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Punishment or refuge? ‘Women sometimes aimed to be convicted’
Over a thousand women ended up in a State workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were these women who were sent there? PhD candidate Marian Weevers found out.
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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power'
Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…
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Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
Conference, Book presentation
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DNA study reveals remarkable stability in prehistoric Low Countries populations
For thousands of years, the prehistoric communities of the Low Countries followed their own path, compared with the rest of Europe. An international research team has now published these findings in Nature.
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PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’
From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Diego Salama examines how these operations were connected and their impact on the region.
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Building Epistemic Justice After Nuclear Weapons Testing: The Case of Kiritimati
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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New student accommodation in Oegstgeest a step closer
The construction of 285 student studios on land owned by Leiden University is a step closer. On Thursday, student housing organisation DUWO and the Real Estate department of the University signed the leasehold agreement for the parcel of land in the Oegstgeest part of the Leiden Bio Science Park.
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Looking at the past with VR glasses: 'It really helps to visualise the impact of policy'
A subject like history is all about the past. That often involves scrolling through old documents, but in the Research Master's in History, Professor Dario Fazzi takes a different approach. His students work with Virtual Reality.
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Jesse Doornenbal
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Danny JolFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Peter Klinkhamer -
Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
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Maxine DavidFaculty of Humanities
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Ilios WillemarsFaculty of Humanities
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Pouwel van SchootenFaculty of Humanities
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Daniel SchadeFaculty of Humanities
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Ugur DerinFaculty of Humanities
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Alies JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Yunnan Ye -
Saskia RademakerFaculty of Humanities
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Andrea WarneckeFaculty of Humanities
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Sarah NelsonFaculty of Humanities
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Frederic Lens -
Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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Sanjukta PoddarFaculty of Humanities
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Ruben van UdenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nargess AsghariFaculty of Humanities
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Enes SütütemizFaculty of Humanities
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Laura BertensFaculty of Humanities
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Arthur Crucq
Faculty of Humanities
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Ton van HaaftenFaculty of Humanities
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Helen WestgeestFaculty of Humanities
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Onur AdaFaculty of Humanities
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Felipe Colla De AmorimFaculty of Humanities
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Catherine WoodFaculty of Humanities
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Klaas Vrieling -
Michael NewtonFaculty of Humanities
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Cecilia-Louise von IlsemannFaculty of Humanities
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Robbert StriekwoldFaculty of Humanities
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Wouter WagemakersFaculty of Humanities
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The Helsinki Final Act at 50: Timeless Masterpiece or Relic of the Cold War?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Materiality, Religion and the Senses
Conference, L*CeSAR Masterclass
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Sacrifice and Social Imaginary in Hellenistic Kos
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War?
Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleveringa are some of the best known. But these accounts largely focus on the Dutch domestic perspective. On the other side of the world, a complex colonial…