53 search results for “post-colonialism” in the Student website
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Leonor Faber-JonkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Ingrid SamsetFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Podcast tips for Pentecost
Are you looking for some listening material for the upcoming long weekend? Staff members and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities have been creating various podcasts over the last few months. A selection is shown here:
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
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Isabel HovingFaculty of Humanities
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Radhika GuptaFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Nick TombergeFaculty of Humanities
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Listening to the Un-speakable as Decolonial Praxis
Lecture
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
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Gerlov van EngelenhovenFaculty of Humanities
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Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Master
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Wesley PostScience
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Hieke PostFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Manon PostFaculty of Humanities
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Johan Post
ICT Shared Service Centre
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Philip PostFaculty of Humanities
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Lysanne PostICLON
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Historian Gert Oostindie the new Cleveringa Professor
Gert Oostindie, Emeritus Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, is this year’s Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. He was appointed by the University on 4 October. In his inaugural lecture on 24 November, entitled Courage and Disregard, he will talk about (academic) freedom in relation…
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What and why?
Exchange: What and why?
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Courage and Disregard
Cleveringa Lecture
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Political Science Master’s thesis prize 2021: the nominees
Tradition has it that at the end of each academic year, the best master’s thesis in Political Science is awarded a prize. For 2021-2022, the jury is considering six nominations. All of great quality, but on different topics. These range from political party bans to questions regarding commitment within…
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‘Homo sapiens is too arrogant: call us Homo faber, the toolmaker’
We need to dispel the arrogant and misguided idea that modern humans are superior to earlier human species. It is thanks in part to all our predecessors such as Neanderthals that we are who we are today. This is what Marie Soressi, Professor of Hominin Diversity Archaeology, will argue in her inaugural…
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Heritage expert Martin Berger honored as a member of the Young Academy Leiden
Our own Dr. Martin Berger has been accepted as a member of the Young Academy Leiden! He is thrilled with his appointment. ‘I am honored to be accepted as a member of the Young Academy Leiden and am looking forward to working together with other scholars from across the University.’
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Nancy van Egmond-Post
Universitair Facilitair Bedrijf
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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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Documentaries, zines and a video installation: multimedia projects by students Visual Ethnography
From documentaries, zines and exhibitions to a video installation. Students of the Visual Ethnography master's programme pulled out all the stops to finish their studies in a fantastic way. For one year, the 23 students worked on their own multimedia projects. The screening of the projects took place…
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Test expert Coen van 't Veer: 'The Dutch final exam is a good measuring tool'
Not passed your Dutch exam? Then there’s no HAVO (Higher General Secondary) or VWO (pre-university) diploma for you, says the Inspectorate of Education's Inspector General. This comment fuels a discussion on an exam that is already under fire. The final exam for Dutch is said to be uninspiring, too…
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Casper de Jonge: 'By broadening the canon we keep antiquity modern'
On 1 May, Casper de Jonge will be appointed Professor of Greek Language and Literature. ‘Greek literature did not come from Athens alone: authors from Egypt, Syria and Asia Minor also wrote in Greek.’
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LUCIR Annual Lecture: Three Modes of Anarchy
Lecture
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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…
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Special Guest Lecture: Civilian Internment in India: Omissions and Exceptions, Incarceration camps of the Pacific War
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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Call for Papers: Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries'
On 26-28 June, 2023, Leiden University’s Institute for History will host a summer school on Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries, in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute (the research school for economic and social history in the Netherlands and Flanders)…
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Archaeological Heritage Value Mapping in Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago, a twin-island nation, has over 300 identified archaeological sites that testify to its diverse history, covering pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial periods. Many of these sites were discovered by archaeologists in the 20th century and have not been regularly visited and assessed.…
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Colloquium "Democratising Academia"
Conference
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Striving for Affect: Amateur Readers and Aswany's Bestsellers on Social Media
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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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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Israeli Politics Now
Debate
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Dismantling National Colonialism: the role of Chilean political indigenous movements
Guest Lecture
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Legitimation as political practice: everyday authority in Tanzania and beyond
Lecture
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Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Megan Vaughan: Africa in the time of Coronavirus. Biology, history and politics
Lecture
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Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
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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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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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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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Opening tentoonstelling 'Crafting Cultures' in de oude UB
Exhibition
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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Circulation as Relational History
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture