1,254 search results for “history of south afrika” in the Student website
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Jonathan StöklFaculty of Humanities
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history'
A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…
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Marieke BloembergenFaculty of Humanities
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Damian PargasFaculty of Humanities
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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
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Olli LittunenFaculty of Humanities
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Kexin ZhengFaculty of Humanities
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Xiaoqiang MengFaculty of Humanities
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Aritri DuttaFaculty of Humanities
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past'
Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with, among others, Leiden researchers Anne-Marieke van der Wal-Rémy and Alicia Schrikker, therefore created a 'canon of the Dutch underexposed past', which…
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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Alain WijffelsFaculty of Law
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Hans JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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Internships and research in the Netherlands
How can you find an internship or research project and what arrangements do you need to make?
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Three new Master's specialisations in History: ‘More in line with students’ wishes’
The Master's programme in History at Leiden University is set to change. From September 2026, three of the five specialisations will be replaced by new subjects that are more closely aligned with the field of research and students’ interests. One of these new specialisations will also be taught entirely…
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Diego SalamaFaculty of Humanities
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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Alp YenenFaculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den HeijerFaculty of Humanities
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Verena MeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Jeroen OosterbaanFaculty of Archaeology
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Ying ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka on the declining popularity of kimchi in South Korea
In the Western world, kimchi is on an unstoppable rise, but in South Korea the dish is actually losing popularity. Professor Katarzyna Cwiertka explains how this is possible in the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave'.
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Movie screening: Aman 1967
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Maud RijksFaculty of Humanities
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Natalia DonnerFaculty 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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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations'
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society' project. Researchers will reconstruct how seventeenth-century scientists recorded and shared their groundbreaking microscopic discoveries. We…
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Campus: Renovation of De Vrieshof starts and changed plans Lipsius South
There are some changes in the plans for the development of the Humanities Campus. The Faculty of Humanities along with the central organisation and the Real Estate department need to save costs due to the financial challenges at the faculty and the cuts in higher education. At the same time, we still…
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Uncovering the role of Social Democracy in the History of European Competition Policy
Lecture, CHEI Seminar - Book launch
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Limin TehFaculty of Humanities
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities