438 search results for “dutch colonialism” in the Student website
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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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Leonor Faber-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Luc Bulten
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
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Stefano Bellucci
Faculty of Humanities
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty of Humanities
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Andrea Richards-Cummins
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marlieke Ernst
Faculty of Humanities
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Geert Booij
Faculty of Humanities
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Victor Posthuma
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Jelle Plesman
Faculty of Humanities
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What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War?
Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleveringa are some of the best known. But these accounts largely focus on the Dutch domestic perspective. On the other side of the world, a complex colonial…
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in museums: ‘A lot of museums have a dormant collection of pre-colonial art’
What effect do trends in the art world have on the formation of museum collections? University lecturer Martin Berger wants to answer that question in his research within the Museums, Collections and Society project, which asks ethical questions about the origin of collections.
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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The Colonial Era & Contemporary Indonesia
Lecture, Online
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Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
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Archaeology students play important role in visit indigenous Ka’apor people
As part of Mariana Françozo’s BRASILAE project, a group of representatives of the Ka’apor people was invited to visit Leiden. The Ka’apor, an indigenous people from Brazil, are some of the present-day relatives of the Tupi-speaking peoples who used to live in the northeastern region of Brazil, claimed…
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I Wish, I Wish, a Western Mosque: Colonial Continuities in Dutch Perspectives on Islamic Architecture
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Gerhard de Kok
Faculty of Humanities
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Annemieke Verbaas
Faculteit Archeologie
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Leonor Alvarez Francés
Faculty of Humanities
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Gerrit van Uitert
Faculty of Humanities
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Tinde van Andel
Science
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Paul Hoftijzer
Faculty of Humanities
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Beatriz Santiago Belmonte
Faculty of Humanities
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Peggy Bracco Gartner
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Hans-Martien ten Napel
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ruud Koole
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Programme
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Judith Bosnak
Faculty of Humanities
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Fenneke Sysling
Faculty of Humanities
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John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Roberto Valcarcel Rojas
Faculteit Archeologie
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Aya Ezawa
Faculty of Humanities
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Femicide: a comparative approach from a Dutch, Italian and European point of view
Conference
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Nature conservation in the Dutch Caribbean
A sense of security plays an important role in the decision to contribute to nature conservation. Stacey Mac Donald conducted four years of research on the influence of social and political changes and the (post) colonial context on nature conservation in the Dutch Caribbean. On 17 May she will defend…
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Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
Panel
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PhD research: Was there already Dutch-Dutch and Belgian-Dutch in the past?
What developments preceded modern Standard Dutch? PhD candidate Iris Van de Voorde conducted research on ‘pluricentricity’, or the idea that language norms arise in different places and spread outwards from there. PhD defence on 19 April.
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Colonialism and the Age of Revolutions (1780-1830)
Conference
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Podcast tips for Pentecost
Are you looking for some listening material for the upcoming long weekend? Staff members and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities have been creating various podcasts over the last few months. A selection is shown here:
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Radhika Gupta
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Peter Meel
Faculty of Humanities
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Special Guest Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Special Guest Lecture