Global History of Knowledge
Our team is committed to the study of knowledge in its broadest sense, encompassing both ideas and practices in all its historical variety. We look at what people regarded as knowledge, how they created, collected, circulated and used it, also why it mattered to them, and how all this was embedded in political, socio-economic, cultural and religious contexts.
News
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CfP: Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
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CfP: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine -
Resistance against the Dutch and German Occupiers: Indonesian Students in Leiden -
Healthcare and the Dutch East India Company: Two centuries of arrogance and challenges -
Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
Events
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General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière and the French Nonviolence Movement, ca. 1960s-1980s
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Sympathy, Professionalism, and the Law: Medical Ethics in Britain and Germany during the Long Nineteenth Century
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From Secrets to Patents: Global Colonial Entanglements Shaping Medicine as Property
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Self-Determination in Very Small Places
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Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities
Major Publications
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Key Issues in Historical Theory - Second Edition -
Vices of the Learned. Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices -
Virtues and Vices in the Nineteenth-Century Humanities: Explorations of a Discourse -
Surreal Geographies. A New History of Holocaust Consciousness -
Local Voices, Global Debates: The Uses of Archaeological Heritage in the Caribbean