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Monika Baár part of the European Parliament's MEP-Scientist Pairing Scheme 29 November 2017
Monika Baár is among the 17 scientists who have been invited to participate in the 6th edition of the European Parliament's MEP-Scientist Pairing Sche...
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Raymond Buve: famous in Mexico 31 October 2017
Professor of Latin American Studies Raymond Buve was a pioneer in forging relations between Leiden and Mexico. Although he has since retired, he is st...
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Call for papers workshop 'Historians Without Borders. Writing Histories of International Organizations' 17 October 2017
This workshop intends to bring together early-career researchers from different fields working on international organizations, to discuss methodologic...
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NWO KIEM Grant for the Digital Disability Archive 20 September 2017
Paul van Trigt (LUIH) in collaboration with Paul Bijl (KITLV) and Manon Parry (UvA) received a NWO Creative Industry – KIEM Grant for the research pro...
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Monika Baár receives Brocher Foundation fellowship 19 September 2017
Monika Baár received a two-month residential fellowship by the Brocher Foundation, an organisation located in Hermance (near Geneva) which supports re...
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Monika Baar new Professor of Central European Studies 24 August 2017
The Foundation for Austrian Studies and the Institute for History are very glad to announce that Monika Baár has been appointed as the holder of the S...
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Succesful workshop 'Traditions of Authority' 20 June 2017
As part of the Leiden University ‘Profile Area’ Political Legitimacy, a number of colleagues from Political Science, History, Law, Business Administra...
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Call for Papers 'Epistemic Vices: Continuities and Discontinuities, 1600-2000' 04 April 2017
Impartiality, objectivity, honesty, and accuracy are qualities that generations of scholars have regarded as necessary for the pursuit of scholarly in...
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ZonMw Grant for Project on Competitive Research Funding 07 March 2017
Herman Paul of the Leiden University Institute for History receives a € 150,000 grant from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Develo...
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Alanna O'Malley and Adriaan van Veldhuizen win the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 28 February 2017
At the Institute’s Council meeting of last December the Institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded. The award is named after Carla Musterd, a...
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A nation of headstrong nationalists 09 January 2017
For the Netherlands, like many other European countries, the nineteenth century was a period of strengthening national identity. Anne Petterson descr...
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CfP 'Calendar Propaganda' of Human Rights? Historical Perspectives on the United Nations’ Global Observances 04 January 2017
Conference to be held at Leiden University, The Hague Campus, 14-16 June, 2017. Keynote speakers: Professor Thomas G. Weiss (The Graduate Center, CUNY...
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Introducing: Monika Baar 07 December 2016
Monika Baar started working in Leiden in September 2015. She's currently the project leader of the ERC Research Project 'Rethinking Disability'.
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Introducing: Paul van Trigt 07 December 2016
Since 1 February 2016, Paul van Trigt is postdoctoral researcher in the project Rethinking Disability: the Impact of the International Year of Disable...
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Introducing: PhD candidates ERC project 'Rethinking Disability' 07 December 2016
Three PhD candidates have recently started working in the ERC project 'the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Histo...