745 search results for “history of slavery” in the Student website
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Jiayi Xin
Faculty of Humanities
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Maja Vodopivec
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Peter Kop
ICLON
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Klaas Worp
Faculty of Humanities
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Julia Foudraine
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Giliam de Valk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Eefke de Haan
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish?
Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in bright colours, into categories. Yet, this division has been discussed for centuries. In her PhD dissertation, Didi van Trijp shows how natural scientists…
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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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Bernhard Rieger
Faculty of Humanities
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Pablo Isla Monsalve
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
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André Gerrits
Faculty of Humanities
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk te Velde
Faculty of Humanities
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Alain Wijffels
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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William Michael Schmidli
Faculty of Humanities
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Marijn van Putten: How many ways are there to read the Quran?
How should the Quran be read? The manuscript of this holy book makes different interpretations possible. Researcher Marijn van Putten has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of two million euros to explore centuries-old recitations.
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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
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Diversity and inclusion in your studies
We provide more than 125 courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level that offer the chance to study diversity from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
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Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
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Jürgen Zangenberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
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Professor Bleda Düring interviewed for podcast Tides of History
The Tides of History is a history podcast that takes listeners into the past while trying to identify how it echoes today. The current season centers around the Iron Age and the new episode features an interview with our own Bleda Düring.
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.
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Ending of the Europaeum Programme: European History and Civilisation
Education
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Manufactured drought? An environmental history of water scarcity in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1952
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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History Master Symposium
Conference, Symposium
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‘Podcast gives its listeners a sense of identity and belonging’
In the Netherlands, when we talk about the United Nations, the conversation is almost always about the member states from the northern hemisphere. But the most interesting players come from the ‘Global South’, Professor Alanna O'Malley and her team argue in a podcast.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Studying the History of Technocratic Reasoning in Digitized Parliamentary Debates
Lecture
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jeroen Oosterbaan
Faculteit Archeologie
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Carola Hein
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Rachel Schats
Faculteit Archeologie
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadia Bouras
Faculty of Humanities
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Berry Dongelmans
Faculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den Heijer
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan Just Witkam
Faculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia Rivera
Faculty of Humanities
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Diego Salama
Faculty of Humanities
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Rubicon for research into Roman law: ‘We don’t know what wider society thought about law’
Expert in Classics Renske Janssen has been awarded a Rubicon grant. She will use the grant to conduct research at the University of Edinburgh into how Roman law was perceived by society at the time.
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Krista Murchison in History Today on medieval pen-twisters
Minims are letters that are made up of short, vertical pen strokes, such as 'm', 'i', 'n' and 'u'. In Gothic script, there is often little distinction between letters composed of minims. Assistant professor of medieval literature Krista Murchison has written an article in History Today on the hidden…
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‘In Leiden you feel history is very close’
Leiden alumnus Makoto Yoshida from Japan studied Dutch history and politics from 1996 to 1997. Now he is back in Leiden with his wife who is currently a student at the Faculty of Humanities. Some things still surprise him. 'Everyone at university uses first names, which was - and still is - unacceptable…