1,891 search results for “histories” in the Student website
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Daphne EngelFaculty of Humanities
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Carla Cisternas GuaschFaculty of Humanities
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Felix BoschFaculty of Humanities
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Harold van der KraanFaculty of Humanities
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Nadia Rojas
Faculty of Humanities
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Ysbrand LamersFaculty of Humanities
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Mahdis Mirzadeh
Faculty of Humanities
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Eline Rademakers
Faculty of Humanities
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Mariana Gaba
Faculty of Humanities
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Macarena Alegria Garcia
Faculty of Humanities
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Joaquin Fernandez Abara
Faculty of Humanities
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Saskia van Anen
Faculty of Humanities
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Pichayapat Naisupap -
Alliance Mango Kubota
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Bálint HonosFaculty of Humanities
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Carlos Rilling Tenorio
Faculty of Humanities
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Marinus van Hekken
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Christiaan van Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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David Home Valenzuela
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicole Pereira Ríos
Faculty of Humanities
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Felipe Cousiño
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim LubbersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Remembering and Forgetting in Two Worlds. Writing Histories of Forced Displacement and Submerged Genealogy
Lecture
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Sarah CramseyFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Spaces of Conflicts: The Lebanese War Novel as Urban and Architectural History
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Geo-Poetics and the Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabian History
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to Guadalajara
In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done well in the South. He was not the only Guadalajara resident with Leiden roots: at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a stream of Dutch textile workers…
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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(In)equalizers - Social and Economic Histories of Inequality(ies) and Difference(s), 1500-2000
Conference, Workshop
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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Liselore TissenFaculty of Humanities
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Martijn van EtteFaculty of Humanities
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Vincent ChangFaculty of Humanities
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Abdourahamane Idrissa AbdoulayeAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Lucinda Truijers-JansenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Merel Vesseur-van LeeuwenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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Melania Brito Clavijo
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Rob Cullum
Faculty of Humanities
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming'
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…
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Traitors, profiteers or collaborators: ‘The Jewish Council has long been judged too harshly’
For too long the Dutch collective memory has judged the Jewish Council too harshly. This perspective needs to be adjusted, Bart van der Boom argues in his new book ‘De politiek van het kleinste kwaad’ (lit. ‘The Politics of the Lesser Evil’).
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How the Republic contributed to the French colonial empire: ‘People like you and me invested’
In the 18th century, the French colonial empire teemed with protectionist laws. Nevertheless, businessmen from the Republic played an important role in the French economy, and thus in the colonial system. PhD student Tessa de Boer explored how this came about.
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?'
When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried out in colonised areas without the explicit consent of the test subject. University lecturer Fenneke Sysling has received a European grant to research…
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A sample of perspectives: Rick Honings sought and found new perspectives on Indonesia
Anyone who wanted to get an impression of the Dutch East Indies between 1800 and 1945 quickly turned to travel literature. Large groups of readers devoured non-fiction accounts of the island empire on the other side of the world – and were given a one-sided picture. Most of the sources that reached…