754 search results for “dutch colonial history” in the Student website
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Wim van den DoelCollege van Bestuur
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Erik OdegardFaculty 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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Tristan MostertFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Philip PostFaculty of Humanities
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Masterclass: The Lores of Flatbush: Dutch Storytelling in Colonial North America
Lecture, Histories Connected: Masterclass
- Histories Connected
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
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Anita van DisselFaculty 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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Jessica RoitmanFaculty of Humanities
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Esther ZwinkelsFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen JacobsonFaculty of Humanities
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
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Lennart BesFaculty of Humanities
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Márcia GonçalvesFaculty of Humanities
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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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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Luc BultenFaculty of Humanities
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John KegelAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien BoenderFaculty of Humanities
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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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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Alexander van der MeerFaculty of Humanities
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Leonor Faber-JonkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Gert OostindieFaculty of Humanities
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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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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…
- Ancient History Research Seminars 2024-2025
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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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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Ann Marie WilsonFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty of Humanities
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
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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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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
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Dutch Lessons
POPcorner FSW organizes Dutch Lessons, also in the Hague.
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Bart van der BoomFaculty 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…