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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history 24 November 2022
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural le...
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Matthew Broad wins the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 18 November 2022
At the latest Institute Council meeting in November, the institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded. The award is named after Carla Musterd, ...
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How is the economic and political turmoil affecting Britons? 10 November 2022
These are turbulent times in the UK. The cost of living is high, leaving many people struggling to make ends meet, and these past few months have been...
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Call for Papers: Negotiating Europeanness: Race, Class, and Culture in the Colonial World 04 November 2022
The expansion of European powers overseas brought Europeans into contact and conflict with the inhabitants of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Historia...
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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672 31 October 2022
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350...
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Rens Tacoma wins Research Prize Italian Studies Working Group 24 October 2022
Associate professor Rens Tacoma has won the 2021 Research Prize for Historical Sciences. The prize is awarded annually by the Italy Studies Working Gr...
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Thea Hilhorst on her second appointment as a LDE professor 20 October 2022
The Humanities Faculty welcomes Thea Hilhorst as a professor. Due to the cooperation between the universities in Leiden, The Hague and Rotterdam, she ...
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From canned fried rice to colonialism: Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood shows world history in miniature 17 October 2022
Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will p...
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Marlou Schrover on her second appointment as LDE professor 13 October 2022
Professor Marlou Schrover will receive a second appointment as Leiden-Delft-Erasmus professor. In addition to her current position as professor of Mig...
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Four migration professors doubly appointed in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus network 11 October 2022
Four professors specialising in migration will soon be appointed as Leiden-Delft-Erasmus professors: Professor Thea Hilhorst and Professor Peter Schol...
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Mirjam de Bruijn receives NWO grant to research digital warfare in the Sahel 26 September 2022
Professor Mirjam de Bruijn will research digital warfare in the North African Sahel with an NWO Open Competition grant. The focus of the research will...
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A quick call on the war in Ukraine: 'Putin has made a diplomatic end almost impossible' 23 September 2022
The war in Ukraine is entering a new phase with the announcement of a partial Russian military mobilisation and the intention to annex four Ukrainian ...
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Critical of the risks: research into the experiences of military observers 20 September 2022
For his PhD, historian and army major Dion Landstra researched the effectiveness of observers in peace operations in the Balkans between 1991 and 1995...
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Why is it now that the Left has momentum in Latin America (and how long it will last) 05 September 2022
The left is gaining more and more ground on the political map of Latin America, with the elections in Colombia as the most recent example. But what’s ...
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Isabelle Duyvesteyn, new programme chair of International Studies: ‘I want to do things that will benefit students’ 29 August 2022
Professor Isabelle Duyvesteyn will be the new programme chair of International Studies. As of 1 September, she will be at the helm of the largest prog...