258 search results for “colonialism” in the Student website
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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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Alumni in Indonesia: ‘My experience in Leiden inspired me to try to change the situation here’
Alumni and researchers met at two well-attended alumni dinners in Yogyakarta and Jakarta. The alumni reminisced about their time in Leiden and got to see their lecturers once again.
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Meet our new colleague Letty ten Harkel: ‘I am interested in what happens when different cultures come together’
In August 2022 we welcome our new colleague Dr Letty ten Harkel as Assistant Professor in Roman and Post-Roman Archaeology. For the past ten years she has built up an impressive track record in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Read the interview about her background and research…
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Burkina Faso: Artisanal Gold Mining in the Context of Violent Insecurity
Over the last 5-6 years Burkina Faso has become seriously implicated in the rapid and dramatic changes in the geopolitical situation in the Sahel. The country, once reputed for its stability and safety, has come under the spotlight for the number of violent attacks and of internally displaced people.…
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Geographies of Repression and Resistance
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel
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Panel discussion: Silencing Palestine
Panelbijeenkomst
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Zionism: An Emotional State
Lecture, Public Lecture
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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EU’s engagement in the Arctic
Lecture, Seminar
- Q&A applications Honours track Humanities Lab
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Undisciplined Collections
Workshop
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Caribbean Ties. Connected people, then and now
Exhibition
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Can we overcome Orientalism with Multiculturalism? A Methodological Reflection on Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Lecture
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History Research Master Symposium
Conference
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
- Q&A applications Honours track Humanities Lab
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LGBTIQ rights in Europe: the role of the European Parliament
Lecture, Seminar
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Interview Anneke Koning: PhD research on transnational sexual exploitation of children
Sexual exploitation of children abroad: the Dutch government calls on its citizens to not look away from 'suspicious situations’ while turning a blind eye to the root causes of the problem themselves. Koning, who recently obtained her PhD on transnational sexual exploitation of children from Leiden…
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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Eight projects receive funding from JEDI Fund
From a queer art exhibition to a podcast about people with disabilities, the JEDI Fund this year again honored several projects that contribute to diversity and inclusion.
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On not seeing like a state: How archaeology can inform critiques of the inevitability of hierarchy, dispossession, and disconnection of the human
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Collecting Latin America: Actors, Networks, and Approaches in the 20th century
Conference, Symposium
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The EU and Africa – joint visions for the future or falling back on the past?
Lecture, Seminar
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Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms (JoLEA)
Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: Ancestral livelihoods and moral universalism - Evidence from transhumant pastoralist societies
Lecture
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Reflections on a year of Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine
Debate, Roundtable discussion
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Between Diversity and Decolonisation: Museums as Media, and the Representation of Ainu in Museums in Japan
Lecture
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When Hospice Isn’t a ‘Choice’: Disregard, Care and End of Life on the American Periphery
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
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[Cancelled until further notice] Connected Histories of Migration Control: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the ‘West.’
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Road to Decolonising Research
FULL | Panel discussion and brainstorm session
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From Slavery to Freedom
Conference, Webinar
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The Need for Teaching a More Accurate and Inclusive History of Science: The Case of Islamic Contributions to Math and Sciences
Debate
- Q&A applications Honours track Humanities Lab
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Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium
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"From Epistemicide to ‘Epistemic Disobedience'" by Anne-Maria Makhulu
Lecture
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Following the Pagla Jahaj ['the crazy ship']: The inevitable journey towards the un/familiar
Lecture
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Experimental Ethnographies
Lecture
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Arabic Echoes and Persian Refrains: Devotional Poetry and Intersonicality in Eighteenth- And Nineteenth-Century North India
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Film Screening: Foragers
Lecture, Teach-In Series on Palestine and Israel