33 search results for “colonialism and slavery” in the Student website
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Johan VisserFaculty of Humanities
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Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
Conference
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Household Slavery: 'An Overlooked Method of Enslaving People'
When discussing enslavement, attention often focuses on Africans forcibly shipped to South America. Researcher Timo McGregor's new Veni research sheds light on a lesser-known method, whereby indigenous populations were enslaved through the households of colonisers.
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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Coen van 't VeerFaculty of Humanities
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Walter Nkwi GamFaculty of Humanities
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Damian PargasFaculty of Humanities
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
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Bart VerheijenFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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‘Louisiana wanted to restart the transatlantic slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century’
In 1808, the United States banned the transatlantic slave trade. Not everyone was happy about this, as Marcella Schute discovered. In her thesis, she shows how politicians from Louisiana made serious attempts to restart the slave trade in the mid-nineteenth century.
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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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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Now also in Indonesia: The butterflies of Boven-Digoel
Three years ago, associate professor Alicia Schrikker published De vlinders van Boven-Digoel, in which she chronicled several stories about colonial life in present-day Indonesia. Now there is a translation, by Rianti Manullang, who is also an assistant professor at Universitas Indonesia and doing her…
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Gert OostindieFaculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Maartje JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Healthcare and the Dutch East India Company: Two centuries of arrogance and challenges
The Dutch East India Company (VOC) took healthcare seriously, albeit mainly for business reasons. Former GP Ton Zwaard’s PhD research reveals that although healthcare in Asia was well organised, the VOC faced persistent problems for two centuries.
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Traces of Slavery in Leiden
Guided city walk
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Traces of Slavery in Leiden
Guided city walk
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Traces of Slavery in Leiden
Guided city walk
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'All A-H Bombs should be buried’ - Indonesian activists, decolonization, and global nuclear disarmament, 1950-1965
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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From Scribe to Screen: Sources and Approaches to Global History in the Digital Age [COGLOSS x GLOBALISE]
Lecture, COGLOSS x GLOBALISE Webinar
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Decolonisation for whom?: Museum Practices in Europe, Asia, and Japan
Lecture
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Diasporic Koreans' Decolonization Project in Postwar Japan
Lecture
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