587 search results for “women s history” in the Student website
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of professors, students and alumni played a crucial role in Leiden’s women’s rights movement
PhD candidate Agnes van Steen researched the history of the Leiden women’s rights movement (1860-1990) and found that the university produced many feminists.
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While the men are away, the Scheveningen women do it their way
Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by history student Sjors Stuurman. He compiled the results in a book he wrote for Muzee Scheveningen.
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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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Manon van der HeijdenFaculty of Humanities
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Herstory and the female gaze: event on International Women's Day
Debate
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Leiden Classics: Leiden University’s first women students
It was not until 1878 that the first female students enrolled at Leiden University, but the discussion on whether women were suited to study was by no means over. 8 March is International Women's Day. BBC correspondente Kim Ghattas will deliver a lecture on 6 March on the struggle by Arabic women for…
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Keyring in your hand when walking down the street alone? 'Many women are always on guard'
A cover over your drink in the pub, deodorant as pepper spray or headphones to avoid hearing catcalling: many women use everyday objects to feel safer in public spaces. Student Anne van der Linden made an online exhibition about this.
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The right diagnosis and faster for women with heart problems
It often takes longer for women with heart problems to get the right diagnosis. In her Annie Romein-Verschoor Lecture, Professor Hester den Ruijter will talk about how hormones influence the heart and the importance of medical research that focuses specifically on women.
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Women collecting the Middle East: collaborators and collections
Who assembled the collections of museums? The answer to this question seems to point to men as collectors. Apart from for rare exceptions, female collectors hardly seem to exist. Yet there were indeed women collectors. For the project Museums, Collections and Society, researcher Holly O'Farrell will…
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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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Concubines vs. Khatuns: Sexual Slavery and Marriage Policy in the Turco-Mongol Middle East
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Juliette RodingFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien BoenderFaculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude NijhuisFaculty of Humanities
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Helen SteeleFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen TouwenFaculty of Humanities
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Leonard Blussé van Oud AlblasFaculty of Humanities
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Jeannette KampFaculty of Humanities
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Marion PluskotaFaculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Ann Marie WilsonFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Rens TacomaFaculty of Humanities
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Leo LucassenFaculty of Humanities
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Luuk de LigtFaculty of Humanities
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Marlou SchroverFaculty of Humanities
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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Anais van ErtveldeFaculty of Humanities
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
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Alumna first female rector of Venice: 'More women needed in academia'
Alumna Tiziana Lippiello became the first female rector magnificus of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice last year. In this way, she hopes to contribute to emancipation in the academic world: 'We need more women here.'
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Randal SheppardFaculty of Humanities
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Tiffany BousardFaculty of Humanities
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Henk KernFaculty of Humanities
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Willem OtterspeerFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der SteenUniversitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Tristan MostertFaculty of Humanities
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Evelien WalhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
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Maria Pereira BastiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Turaj AtabakiFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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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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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Belittling and threats are part of everyday life for outspoken women
In a fiery Annie Romein-Verschoor lecture, Sylvana Simons opened up about her experiences as a woman in politics. The leader of the BIJ1 party is regularly the subject of belittling comments and threats. Writer Aafke Romeijn, who reflected on the Simons’ lecture, has also been threatened frequently…
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Ben SchoenmakerFaculty of Humanities
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Wim BootFaculty of Humanities