640 search results for “african history” in the Student website
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Henk Kern
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
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Bart van der Steen
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
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Evelien Walhout
Faculty of Humanities
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Maria Pereira Bastiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
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Edmund Hayes
Faculty 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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Vacancy: Student ambassador (for Dutch speaking students) (African studies, LAS, RUS)
Organisation
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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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Ben Schoenmaker
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Boot
Faculty of Humanities
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Femme Gaastra
Faculty of Humanities
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
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New book by Lydie Cabane explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters
Lydie Cabane, Assistant Professor in Governance of Crises at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, recently published the book The Government of Disasters. In this book Lydie explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters.
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Caroline Gräfin von Courten
Faculty of Humanities
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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities
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Dario Fazzi
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicolette Mout
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Gommans
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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Lauren Lauret
Faculty of Humanities
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Alp Yenen
Faculty of Humanities
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Bianca Angelien Claveria
Faculty of Humanities
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Antheun Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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Rishuai Chen
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Harry Wels
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Misha Plagis
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Corinna Jentzsch
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Rijk van Dijk
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Manon van der Heijden
Faculty of Humanities
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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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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social groups.
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Mamadou Hébié represents Latvia and the African Union in landmark use of force and climate change cases
Dr Mamadou Hébié, Associate Professor of International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, served last week as legal counsel in the world’s first advisory proceedings concerning climate change before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), on the one hand, and…
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Victoria Nyst
Faculty of Humanities
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Geeske Langejans
Faculteit Archeologie
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Damian Pargas
Faculty of Humanities
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
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Paul Kloeg
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd'
A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 2021, he will hold the chair of professor of Medieval History at the university. In an introductory interview, Buc introduces himself, his research and his…
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Alistair Kefford
Faculty of Humanities
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Herman Paul
Faculty of Humanities