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273 search results for “paul colonialism” in the Library website

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  Anita van Dissel Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Esther Zwinkels PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Coen van 't Veer Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Wim Willems Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rick Honings Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Who is the rightful owner of colonial art? News - 26 November 2019

  Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the debate on art and collectors’ items from a loaded past. Inaugural speech on 2 December.

• (re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search News - 18 March 2026

  Describing almost 1400 maps of Africa in three months. It’s no small task that student assistants Artemis Mantheakis and Beatriz Veiga have been working on within the joint ASCL-UBL Africa Maps Project. The project’s aim is to describe and catalogue a 20th-century map collection of the library of the…

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  Jos Gommans Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ethan Mark Senior University Lecturer Modern Japanese History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Timo McGregor Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Stefano Bellucci University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bente de Leede PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism News - 3 April 2025

  Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two explorative studies presented on 3 April.

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  Alicia Schrikker Professor History of the Netherlands in the World

  Faculty of Humanities

• ‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’ News - 11 January 2024

  Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…

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  Bart Verheijen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures News - 3 July 2023

  The IFLA-Section Rare Books and Special Collections committee and the Indigenous Matters Section, in collaboration with Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organize a satellite conference in Leiden – Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th – prior to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress…

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  John Kegel Guest Researcher

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Thijs Brocades Zaalberg Professor by Special Appointment

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gert Oostindie Senior researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marleen Reichgelt Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Walter Nkwi Gam Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Aritri Dutta External PhD

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Aya Ezawa University Lecturer Modern Japanese Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Michiel van Groesen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ariadne Schmidt Associate Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Karwan Fatah-Black Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nira Wickramasinghe Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Photographs

  The photographs collection of Leiden University Librarie (UBL) contains specimens of almost all photographic processes from the history of the medium, rare objects and artistic highlights. Together, they shed light on the history of photography as a technique, a means of scientific, historic and personal…

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  Marcos Neto de Cordova PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Lucas da Costa Maciel Postdoc

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  Ariette Dekker Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mirjam de Bruijn Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Palestine and Israel

  This subject guide is a work in progress, aimed to provide access to relevant academic works and online resources on Palestine and Israel, as well as, documentaries, films, and literature to familiarize yourself with the complexities of the conflict.

• Cartographic Collections

  In addition to the Bodel Nijenhuis Collection, the map collections of the former library of the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), and the map collection of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), the collection of Maps and Atlases includes several smaller sub…

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  Carolien Stolte Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sjoerd Ramackers Research staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Emma Sow Research staff member

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Damian Pargas Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Felicia Rosu Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nienke Beets PhD Candidate / Guest

• Maps and Atlases

  The collection of maps and atlases consists of approximately 100,000 map sheets (including c. 3,000 manuscript maps), 3,500 atlases and 25,000 topographical prints and drawings.

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  Elisabeth Dieterman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Radhika Gupta Assistant professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Catia Antunes Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Data Management

  In short, data management can be defined as the creation, storage, maintenance, disclosure, archiving and sustainable preservation of research data.

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  Femme Gaastra Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

• Asian Special Collections

  The Asian special collections comprise tens of thousands of rare books, thousands of manuscripts, maps, prints, drawings and photographs, and hundreds of archives.

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  Julius van der Poel PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities