258 search results for “colonialism” in the Student website
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM - CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
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Masterclass: The Lores of Flatbush: Dutch Storytelling in Colonial North America
Lecture, Histories Connected: Masterclass
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Alexander van der MeerFaculty of Humanities
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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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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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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
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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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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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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New publication reviews Dutch colonial sources on the Indigenous Brazilian Tapuia people
New publication reviews Dutch colonial sources on the Indigenous Brazilian Tapuia people: ‘For them the Dutch were another piece on the political chess board’
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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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Jessica RoitmanFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen JacobsonFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van den DoelCollege van Bestuur
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Esther ZwinkelsFaculty of Humanities
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Cultural Anthropologist Peter Pels part of research team into colonial collections
Peter Pels, affiliated with the Institute of Cultural Anthropology of Leiden University, is one of the researchers. Together with Birgit Meyer (UU), he will lead the work package 'Heritage and the Question of Conversion'.
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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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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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The Colonial Era & Contemporary Indonesia
Lecture, Online
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Lennart BesFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Dutch East Indies tax system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics
In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…
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Márcia GonçalvesFaculty of Humanities
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Environmental Colonialism in Palestine
Panel
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Tristan MostertFaculty of Humanities
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
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Marlieke ErnstFaculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-JonkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Andi Richards-CumminsFaculteit Archeologie
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Philip PostFaculty of Humanities
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Luc BultenFaculty of Humanities
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Palestine: On Apartheid & Settler Colonialism
Conference, Panel Discussion
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Aya EzawaBestuursbureau
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Roberto Valcarcel RojasFaculteit Archeologie
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John KegelAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Radhika GuptaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Erik OdegardFaculty of Humanities