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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation20 February 2024How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when study...
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How do we deal with rising tensions? ‘The choice is talk or fight’12 February 2024‘A Muslim and a Jew in the house of God.’ This is how historian Nadia Bouras introduced her recent conversation with colleague Sara Polak in Leiden’s ...
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Mild Intellectual Disability and Loneliness: 'We Need to Handle the Discomfort Better'06 February 2024Individuals with a mild intellectual disability often experience loneliness more frequently than others. In a new NWA project, social history lecturer...
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections26 January 2024How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with rese...
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Sarah Wolff: 'Doing research and teaching are inseparable'24 January 2024Sarah Wolff has been professor of International Studies and Global Politics since 8 January. Time for a brief introduction about her field and academi...
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Call for Papers: "Voices of resistance in and against Dutch empire"23 January 2024For the upcoming conference "Voices of Resistance in and Against the Dutch Empire, 1600-2020s" on September 12 and 13, 2024, at Utrecht University, pr...
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Santino Regilme wins Cecil B. Currey Book Award for ‘Aid Imperium’22 January 2024Salvador Santino Regilme, Jr. Associate Professor of International Relations and Program Chair of MA in International Relations, has been honored with...
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Rector Bijl presented the 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies' Award at the Leiden Jewish Studies Association first annual conference19 January 2024On December 6, 2023, Rector Hester Bijl welcomed participants at the Leiden Jewish Studies Association’s First Annual Conference 'Jews at Home: From C...
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'18 January 2024A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Assoc...
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Two new Leiden members of The Young Academy16 January 2024Leiden researchers Fenneke Sysling (Institute for History) and Joris van der Voet (Institute of Public Administration) will be admitted to the Royal N...
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past'15 January 2024Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with,...
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’11 January 2024Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too li...
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Looking over the shoulders of medieval readers08 January 2024What did medieval scholars think of the books they read? In her inaugural lecture on 12 January, Professor Mariken Teeuwen talked about the texts they...
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Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes05 December 2023Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet. PhD candid...
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'Especially now, in-depth knowledge about Judaism and Jewish history is important'27 November 2023The newly established Leiden Jewish Studies Association aims to bring together Leiden scholars working on Judaism. The first annual conference will ta...