1,237 search results for “history of south afrika” in the Student website
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Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship
If a forged Vermeer or Rembrandt is discovered, it is world news. Yet tracing fakes has long been a low priority in art history. University lecturer Anna Tummers will receive an ERC grant of almost two million euros to change that.
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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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What does it actually say? Linguist launches video series on wall poems
The city centre of Leiden is covered in them: wall poems. When roaming around, you come across poetry written in the Latin alphabet, but also in scripts that might be more difficult to understand for the average person living in Leiden. In a new series of videos, Tijmen Pronk talks more about this.
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Annemie Halsema appointed professor by special appointment: ‘I want to contribute to thinking about diversity
The Institute for Philosophy further expands its knowledge: As of 1 September, Annemie Halsema holds the chair of Wijsgerige antropologie en de grondslagen van het humanisme (Philosophical anthropology and the principles of humanism, ed.). In the coming five years, she will study current societal issues…
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International Mother Language Day 2024: 'It's time to celebrate our languages'
On Wednesday, 21 February, a diverse group of students, staff, and representatives from 21 embassies gathered in The Hague for International Mother Language Day. Under the banner of 'a bit of fun and many serious topics,' language took centre stage.
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
Conference, Book presentation
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‘In the second half of the eighteenth century, decisions were made in the stadtholder’s audience chamber.’
The stadtholder’s court in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands has long been underestimated. Real courts and the associated court culture were to be found elsewhere in Europe. PhD candidate Quinten Somsen is trying to reverse this image. ‘The stadtholder’s court was actually very lively.’
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Materiality, Religion and the Senses
Conference, L*CeSAR Masterclass
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Legacies: Why Museum Histories Matter
Conference
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Lydia Boer wins incentive prize for bachelor's thesis
History student Lydia Boer has won the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt incentive prize. She receives the prize for her bachelor’s thesis The marriage between Johan de Witt and Wendela Bicker: a political affair?
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Wim van den Doel wins 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize
Professor of Contemporary History Wim van den Doel has won the 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize. Van den Doel receives the prize for his book 'Snouck: Het volkomen geleerdenleven van Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje'.
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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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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
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Eight projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
From a queer art exhibition to a podcast about people with disabilities, the JEDI Fund this year again honored several projects that contribute to diversity and inclusion.
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from?
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.
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Manon Schouten: ‘I’m the kind of teacher who also works on her profession during the weekend.’
After a detour via the ANWB in Munich, alumna Manon Schouten works as a history teacher at two schools. ‘It's so rewarding to see the material resonate with students.’
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Not Rifles but Books: FEC’s Book Programs (1954–1991)
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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What and why?
Exchange: What and why?
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What and why?
Exchange: What and why?
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What and why?
Exchange: What and why?
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Who’s still afraid of CRT? Equity research in education as resistance
Keynote & Q&A
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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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Lola VerhoevenFaculty of Humanities
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John Sunday OjoFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Windu Yusuf
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke KlokkeFaculty of Humanities
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Nobuyuki SuzukiFaculty of Humanities
- Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
- Ancient History Research Seminars 2024-2025
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Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’
A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University lecturer Alexander Dencher knows how to hold the attention of a growing audience. How does he do it? And what makes the history of interior design so fa…
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Shared Histories, Different Memories: Dutch East India Company (VOC) histories entwined with Australian aboriginal narratives
Conference
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Sensing Scripts: Popular Religion, the Senses and Textuality
Lecture, Keynote
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European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2025
Conference
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Jan AbbinkAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Ellen van ReulerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Chibuike UcheAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Mark RutgersFaculty of Humanities
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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…
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The Roman empire and world history
Debate
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Student Johan collaborated on three books: ‘1572 was not a celebration of tolerance’
This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (lit. ‘Sea Beggars’) and therefore the birth of the Netherlands. Student Johan Visser is contributing to no fewer than three books about the extraordinary year of 1572.
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Maarten JansenFaculty of Archaeology
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Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities
What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the French television programme 27.
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Maria Voltsichina
Faculty of Humanities
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Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery
Lecture
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Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geology
Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theories are still relevant, as an exhibition at the Oude UB shows.
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History