News
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10-12 December International Conference 'The General Labour History of Africa' 10 December 2015
The second authors' conference of the General Labour History of Africa (GLHA) project will be held from 10 to 12 December 2015 in Dar es Salaam, Tanza...
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Thorbecke Fund Grant for Herman Paul 01 December 2015
Herman Paul has received a €140,000 grant from the Thorbecke Fund (KNAW) for a project entitled “The Demands of Our Time: Epochal Thinking from 1800 t...
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Leiden Students help Create The Hague Manifesto to celebrate UN @ 70 19 November 2015
The Hague Project Peace & Justice, in cooperation with Dr. Alanna O’Malley of the Leiden University Institute for History, organized a one-day confere...
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Official Launch of the Global Abolitionisms Network in Baltimore 12 November 2015
To mark the official launch of the network, Maartje Janse and Peter Stamatov have organized a roundtable on Global Abolitionisms at the Annual Meeting...
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Four short films about four centuries of freedom at Leiden University 04 November 2015
Four videos tell the story of the history of Leiden University. The films were premiered on 2 November during the Leiden Film Festival.
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Michiel van Groesen new Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University 08 October 2015
As of 1 September 2015, Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University. He succeeds Professor Henk den Heijer, who retired ...
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Global Abolitionisms Network established 25 September 2015
Dr. Maartje Janse (History) and Prof.dr. Gert Oostindie (History, KITLV) have been awarded a seed grant for: "Global Abolitionisms Network", which wil...
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Gerda Henkel grant to dr. Alanna O'Malley 16 September 2015
Dr. Alanna O’Malley, from the Institute for History, has been awarded a research grant of €12,000 from the Gerda Henkel Foundation, based in Dusseldor...
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Leiden based research confirms systematic and excessive violence in Indonesia 03 September 2015
New research has confirmed that the Dutch military used systematic, extreme violence against Indonesians. In his book Soldaat in Indonesië (Soldier in...
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Introducing: Girija Joshi 01 September 2015
Girija Joshi will be doing research for her doctoral dissertation at Leiden University. She will be examining the ways in which the different constrai...
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Unique mosaic floor discovered in Israel 03 August 2015
A marvelous mosaic synagogue floor has been discovered at the Israeli excavation site of Horvat Kur. The timeworn stones of the mosaic clearly form th...
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Angry tweeting and general laughter 01 July 2015
This year the PhDs of the institute had their traditional day out (uitje) to The Hague. The last two years they had stayed in Leiden, so The Hague alr...
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Historian cracks Queen Juliana’s unstable image in Hofmans affaire 24 June 2015
Queen Juliana was not, as is often claimed, a monarch with an unstable character who was completely under the influence of spiritual healer Greet Hofm...
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Introducing: Maria Pereira Bastião 26 May 2015
Maria started as a team-member in one of dr. Catia Antunes' research projects in December 2014 as Early Stage Researcher of the Marie Curie – ITN Proj...
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Introducing: Adriejan van Veen 26 May 2015
Since February 1, 2015, Adriejan van Veen is working as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for History. Here, he is preparing a NWO grant prop...