555 search results for “colonial history” in the Student website
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van den DoelCollege van Bestuur
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Esther ZwinkelsFaculty of Humanities
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Lennart BesFaculty of Humanities
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen JacobsonFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Tristan MostertFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Luc BultenFaculty of Humanities
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Márcia GonçalvesFaculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-JonkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
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John KegelAfrika-Studiecentrum
- Histories Connected
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Erik OdegardFaculty of Humanities
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Gert OostindieFaculty of Humanities
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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From canned fried rice to colonialism: Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood shows world history in miniature
Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will present their findings on Thursday 20 October, at a specially organised mini-festival in the neighbourhood.
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Separately: Sectarian Values and Segregation in University Hostels in Colonial India
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?'
When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried out in colonised areas without the explicit consent of the test subject. University lecturer Fenneke Sysling has received a European grant to research…
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Philip PostFaculty 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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Vineet ThakurFaculty 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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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power'
Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty of Humanities
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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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Alexander van der MeerFaculty of Humanities
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Katarzyna J. CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
- Museum Talks at the Leiden Department of Art History
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Cosmos Malabaricus Pilot Scholarship
Bachelor, Master
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Fenneke Sysling - Institute for HistoryFaculty 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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Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library
With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted back into the spotlight. Leiden University is devoting attention to this topic as well. History students Sander van der Horst and Melle van Maanen joined…
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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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Juliette RodingFaculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude NijhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien BoenderFaculty of Humanities
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities