233 search results for “slave trade” in the Student website
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Carolina Pereira De Queiroz MonteiroFaculteit Archeologie
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Gerhard de KokFaculty of Humanities
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Rishika DhumalFaculteit Archeologie
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Anna-Alexandra MarholdFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ranran WangScience
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Maria Pereira BastiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leiden' want to change this with guided tours and street markers. Representatives of the University and other Leiden institutions will be giving the first…
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The Chains of Holland’s Glory: research into South Holland's slavery past completed
Karwan Fatah-Black and Lauren Lauret are co-authors of Geketend voor Hollands Glorie (The Chains of Holland’s Glory) that studies the political and economic connections between South Holland and slavery. The findings of this research will be presented with Dr. Joris van den Tol (Radboud University)…
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Joris Larik on Al Jazeera on the new EU-UK trade agreement
Joris Larik, university lecturer at LUC, discusses in this interview with Al Jazeera the new trade and cooperation agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom.
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Illicit Trade in Tobacco Products . In search of optimal enforcement - 20/21 June 2022
Education, Research
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Oliver TaherzadehScience
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Michael SampsonFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Weishuo LiFaculteit Archeologie
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Irlan RumScience
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Jonathan OuelletFaculteit Archeologie
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André LeliveldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Lingxing XuScience
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Frans TheuwsFaculteit Archeologie
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Birds of God - The journey of the birds of paradise
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Life in a port city: Roderick Geerts writes a blog post about the ancient port of Berenike
Roderick Geerts, a PhD candidate of the Faculty of Archaeology in Leiden, takes us on a short journey through the rich history of the Red Sea port of Berenike in Egypt.
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Work-in-Progress: Leaving the master and into the desert. Slaves escapes in the Spanish Sahara in the 1940s and 1950s
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Mark DriessenFaculteit Archeologie
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Previous projects
You can find an overview of the projects and a list of all research trainees below.
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Archaeologist and numismatist Jonathan Ouellet interviewed on a podcast
PhD candidate Jonathan Ouellet is a guest on the latest episode of the Wetenschappelijke Wezens podcast. As a researcher specializing in the numismatics of the Middle East, Central Asia, and China, Jonathan discusses currency and trade networks during the Early Islamic Period of said area. Hence, listen…
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Special Guest Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Special Guest Lecture
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Why we need to look underwater to understand our past
Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain why underwater archaeology is important to understanding our history.
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History Master Symposium
Conference, Symposium
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Diversity and inclusion in your studies
We provide more than 125 courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level that offer the chance to study diversity from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Masterclass: The Lores of Flatbush: Dutch Storytelling in Colonial North America
Lecture, Histories Connected: Masterclass
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CSPPR Lecture: Representation and the Trade Roots of the Gender Pay Gap
Lecture
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Leiden workshop in Political Science: The Distributive Effects of Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries
Lecture
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PCNI Research Seminar on Political Meetings
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
- POPTalk: Mapping Slavery Walk & Potluck Spring Dinner
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Call for Papers: Oriental Numismatic Society Youth Conference
Education, Research
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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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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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' (Columbia University Press: New York 2020).
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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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Thesis and papers
When writing a thesis or paper you must make good use of the insights you have gained during your lectures and studies so far. You should also refer to relevant literature and carry out your own research on the topic.
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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Work-in-Progress: ‘Leaving the master and into the desert. Slaves escapes in the Spanish Sahara in the 1940s and 1950s’, Ali Al Tuma
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Hoe ontstonden handelsnetwerken in het derde millennium voor Christus?
Grondstoffen werden vroeger over duizenden kilometers afstand vervoerd. Waarvoor werden ze geruild en waarom sloten mensen in West-Azië zich aan bij deze handelsnetwerken?