927 search results for “media history” in the Student website
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Holly RiachFaculty of Humanities
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Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library
With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted back into the spotlight. Leiden University is devoting attention to this topic as well. History students Sander van der Horst and Melle van Maanen joined…
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World Women's Committee Against War and Fascism (WWCAWF) 1934-1941
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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The War Game (1966)
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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A Just War versus a Dignified Peace? Discourses about War and Peace in the Peace Negotiations between the Chinese Communist Party and Nationalist
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Keeping the Nukes out, from Hawaii to Malta: 1980s antinuclear feminisms, in and through art
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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Laurie Cosmo: ‘Dutch museums have a very contemporary exhibition practice’
University lecturer Laurie Cosmo, having grown up in New York, came to the Hague from Rome, Italy, where she fell under the spell of the Kunstmuseum. ‘I loved the building even before I worked at Leiden University.’
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Jewish Magic from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century
Lecture
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The Denial of Racism on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Historian Ronald Kroeze: 'We must view political integrity from a historical perspective'
The democratic rule of law is under pressure due to a series of scandals and integrity issues, as seen in the recent parliamentary inquiries. Professor Ronald Kroeze explains: 'Public office holders are expected to show complete dedication, but that norm is quite absolute, and what we mean by it is…
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‘A reproduction can make the original important again’
For her research, PhD candidate Liselore Tissen put one famous painting after another through a 3D scanner. The resulting reproductions were indistinguishable from the originals. But what does this mean for our interpretation of art?
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Eelco van der MaatFaculty of Humanities
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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.
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Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Jelmer RotteveelFaculty of Humanities
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Abbas Siavash AbkenarFaculty of Humanities
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Erik KoopmanFaculty of Humanities
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Irene Urrutia Schroeder
Faculty of Humanities
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Petr Koluch
Faculty of Humanities
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Rozemarijn VlijmFaculty of Humanities
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Dettje BakkerFaculty of Humanities
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Eva DrommelFaculty of Law
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Roosmarijn HompeFaculty of Humanities
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Mily CrevelsFaculty of Humanities
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Ranwa Alamsi
Faculty of Humanities
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Timothy de ZeeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Gerda Huisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Sytske HofsteeFaculty of Humanities
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Marija Seric
Faculty of Humanities
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‘Democracy is not self-evident, it requires continuous engagement’
In a time of growing polarisation and declining trust, the rule of law is under pressure. The system as we know it today only took shape 177 years ago, with the constitutional reform of 1848. Carla Hoetink emphasises: ‘The democratic rule of law was originally designed to prevent violence and revolu…
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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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The Complicit Politics of EU Migration Diplomacy
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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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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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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Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism
In the coming years, Asghar Seyed Gohrab receives an advanced European Research Council grant of two and a half million euros to spend on his research into non-conformism in Islam. ‘Hopefully I can use this to contribute something to society, to pass something on to future generations.’
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The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
Conference, Book presentation
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Migration and International Socialism: Transnational Socialism, Free Movement, and Migration in the early European Parliament
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Building Epistemic Justice After Nuclear Weapons Testing: The Case of Kiritimati
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Study associations
A study association is a good way to combine study-related activities with pleasure. Every faculty has one or more study association.
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Turkey’s Centennial: Democracy, Diplomacy, Security
Lecture, Panel Discussion
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Ethnic Bias in Immigration Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Britain
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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POSTPONED - The Denial of Racism on Twitter: A Critical Discourse Analysis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".
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Luiz ZanotelloFaculty of Humanities
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Janna HouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Jaap de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Embedded Bureaucrats and Refugee Integration: How Do Local Bureaucrats’ Social Ties to Host Communities Facilitate Service Provision to Refugees
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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A Contemporary Past – Looking Back and Forward
Exhibition, Photo exibition
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Back to the Future: What vision of the future did people have during perestroika?
In many Central and Eastern European countries, a period of greater openness emerged in the late 1980s. How did this affect the future perspective of residents? And can we learn anything from this period for our current times? University lecturer Dorine Schellens delves into the literature to investigate…