1,263 search results for “intellectuele history” in the Public website
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Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA)
Hifadhi ya Dijiti ya Ustadh Mau
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Pilgrims came to Leiden for ‘brain training’
The Pilgrims to America exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal inspires reflection. How far do you go in the quest for freedom? It focuses on the Pilgrims’ relationship with the University and which knowledge they took with them from Leiden.
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ERC Grant for Cátia Antunes
Cátia Antunes received the prestigious ERC Grant for her Research Project
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How Nelson Mandela became a Leiden Honorary Doctor
Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, who died on 5 december 2013, received an honorary doctorate from Leiden University in 1999. Mandela’s response was modest: ‘It is not a personal achievement. It is a tribute to all those who emerged from underground, from prison, from exile...’
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Classics (800 BCE−600 CE)
This research cluster aims to analyse and interpret the formation and transmission of Graeco-Roman culture by exploring the relationships between cultural products (texts, objects, practices) and their societal and historical contexts.
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Introducing Sophia Hendrikx
Sophia Hendrikx started her PhD project at LUCAS in March 2015...
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Leiden based research confirms systematic and excessive violence in Indonesia
New research has confirmed that the Dutch military used systematic, extreme violence against Indonesians. In his book Soldaat in Indonesië (Soldier in Indonesia), to be released at the end of October, historian Gert Oostindie draws the same conclusions using different sources. He presents new findings…
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Lotte van HasseltFaculty of Humanities
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Maartje van Dijk
Faculty of Humanities
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Karen van AstenFaculty of Humanities
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Libraries as Links in Learning: Making the Meaning of Manuscripts
This project investigates the professionalisation of university libraries in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, through the lens of the medieval manuscript holdings. Taking Leiden University Library as a starting point, it sheds light on the changing practices surrounding the conservation,…
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Lindley Murray (1745–1826), Quaker and Grammarian
In this dissertation, a comprehensive portrait of the American-born Quaker Lindley Murray (1745–1826) is painted and the influence of Murray’s Quakerism on his language use is investigated by analyzing a corpus of 262 of his unpublished private letters.
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Fadly RahmanFaculty of Humanities
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Pablo Merayo MontesFaculty of Humanities
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Hannelore BraekenFaculty of Humanities
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Jocelyn López Caihuán
Faculty of Humanities
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Dennis Bos
Faculty of Humanities
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Edurne de WildeFaculty of Humanities
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Rosa Kösters
Faculty of Humanities
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Hannah Busch
Faculty of Humanities
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Anna-Luna PostFaculty of Humanities
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Petr Koluch
Faculty of Humanities
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Caspar Dullemond
Faculty of Humanities
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Jelmer RotteveelFaculty of Humanities
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Victor Barros Correia
Faculty of Humanities
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Natalie EvertsFaculty of Humanities
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Geert StrooFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Verwey
Faculty of Humanities
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Rozemarijn VlijmFaculty of Humanities
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Sander Tetteroo
Faculty of Humanities
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Neilabh SinhaFaculty of Humanities
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Mamadou Togola
Faculty of Humanities
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Mark van Koppen
Faculty of Humanities
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Gerda Huisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Modibo Cisse
Faculty of Humanities
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Lina Lerch
Faculty of Humanities
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Anton van Velzen
Faculty of Humanities
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Mark Loderichs
Faculty of Humanities
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Shifting the compass
Shifting the Compass: Pluricontinental Connections in Dutch Colonial and Postcolonial Literature
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Gert Oostindie receives NWO grant for Caribbean research
Dutch-Caribbean research will get a boost. Gert Oostindie, working at the Institute of History and KITLV, has received a grant from NWO, consisting of 750,000 euros, for his research project 'Confronting Caribbean challenges: hybrid identities and governance in small-scale island jurisdictions'.
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American presidents and their special relationship with Leiden
President John Quincy Adams studied in Leiden. His father, John, who was also president, also stayed here and received a lot of support from professor and publisher Johan Luzac. And how are presidents Bush and Obama linked to Leiden?
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De verovering van het bolwerk van vrijheid gebeurde in kleine stapjes
Universiteit Leiden stond niet altijd bekend als een bolwerk van vrijheid, betoogt Egbert Koops in zijn diesoratie. Leidsch Dagblad sprak met de hoogleraar rechtsgeschiedenis over academische vrijheid: ‘Het bolwerk van vrijheid moest veroverd worden.’
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Pussy Riot and other stories about the Academy Building
In her book Rap 73, Dorrit van Dalen shares intimate anecdotes and what for many are previously unknown stories about the Academy Building and its users. Stories such as who held heated debates in the beautiful vaulted Gewelfkamer, and why the singer of the Russian punk band Pussy Riot was given pride…
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Two Vacancies for PhD at LUCAS
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) is looking for two PhD's, for a research programme funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO): 'A New History of Fishes. A long-term approach to fishes in science and culture, 1550-1880', supervised by Professor Paul…
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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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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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Latin America and the UN
Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.
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Jan Oster wins the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 2014
At the Institute’s Council meeting of last December the first Institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded. The award is named after Carla Musterd, a former, highly valued, member of staff, who was famous for her unflinching dedication to teaching standards and excellence.