1,633 search results for “histories” in the Student website
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Peace Movements: A Global History
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- Art History Book Launches
- Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Historians’ Days 2026 'Future of history'
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- Potluck Spring Dinner & Leiden University History Tour
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Study trip Greek and Roman History 2026: Explore the Roman past of the Netherlands
Festival, Study trip Greek and Roman History 2026
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Sancisi-Weerdenburg Lecture: The Achaemenid Persian Empire and World History
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Fragments of a decentered 19th century history of Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan
Histories Connected: Seminar
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Symposium: Through the Hands of Signers: History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change
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Nina WittemanFaculty of Humanities
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Femme GaastraFaculty of Humanities
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
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Evelien WalhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Nicolette MoutFaculty of Humanities
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John KegelAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Lauren LauretFaculty of Humanities
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Rafal MatuszewskiFaculty of Humanities
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Bianca Angelien ClaveriaFaculty of Humanities
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Ann Marie WilsonFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Dario FazziFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der SteenLeiden University Libraries
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Manon van der HeijdenFaculty 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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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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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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History MOOC 'The Rooseveltian Century' returns
Prof. Giles Scott-Smith has made the first History MOOC (Massive Online Open-Access Course) produced by Leiden University. The MOOC 'The Rooseveltian Century', which covers the influence of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt through the 20th century, is now online at Coursera. The successful MOOC…
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Rebekka GrossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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Peter MeelFaculty of Humanities
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Doreen MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Marcel KeurentjesFaculty of Humanities
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Herman PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Call for Papers: Peace Movements - A Global History
From the First World War until the height of the Cold War, actors from the decolonizing world sought to build connections with international peace movements. These efforts produced new networks and practices of solidarity while also exposing tensions over the centrality of decolonization in global struggles…
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So long, Gravensteen: ‘History dripped off the walls’
Historic and iconic yet expensive and cold. It’s with mixed feelings that the university is leaving the Gravensteen building, which dates back to the 12th century. How was it to work and study in this former Leiden prison?
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History of crime comes to life
For many people, five o’clock signals the end of their working day. But not for the motivated students of the Honours College Law. With some drinks and snacks, they keep going well into the evening. This time, they met for the festive conclusion of a course which brought the history of Dutch crime to…
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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Paul van TrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities