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André Gerrits: ‘Coronavirus is speeding up social developments'05 June 2020All the world leaders have had to choose an approach during the global Covid-19 crisis. But which approach is the most effective? André Gerrits, Profe...
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Black lives matter: ‘Why the American protests have resonated in the Netherlands’04 June 2020The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands...
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Working from home during corona: Andrew Gawthorpe20 May 2020We have been working from home for over 9 weeks. How are the staff members of the Institute for History doing? Andrew Gawthorpe shares his experience ...
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Three new Leiden members of KNAW30 April 2020KNAW has elected eighteen new members, including two professors at Leiden University and one who studied and obtained his PhD in Leiden. The New Acade...
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‘At first I thought it was a scam when I got an email from the UN’28 April 2020Karen Smith is a university lecturer in International Relations at the Institute for History and she occupies a unique position: she has one foot in t...
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Citizenship, Migration & Global Transformation: an interdisciplinary research project28 April 2020A research team of fifteen people – representing domains such as political economy, international relations, law, history and public administration - ...
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What historians can learn from the coronavirus crisis24 April 2020No two pandemics are ever the same. The current coronavirus crisis, for instance, is clearly very different from the deadly plague outbreaks in the 14...
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What crime reporting can teach us about women’s history23 April 2020How can you learn about women’s history if they are under-represented in historical sources? Look at news coverage of crime, says Clare Wilkinson, PhD...
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#CoronaHulp: ‘There's a broad desire to help one another'17 March 2020Coronavirus is generating a great deal of uncertainty throughout the world. Fortunately, there are some bright spots, such as the residents of Italian...
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Paper Salvador Santino Regilme receives "Best Conference Paper Award"09 March 2020
Salvador Santino Regilme's paper “One Great Nation Under Trump? Global Human Rights in Distress Amidst American Decline” has received the "Best Confer...
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Sam de Schutter wins the Brill/Diplomatica Mattingly Prize02 March 2020Sam de Schutter won the Brill/Diplomatica Mattingly Prize 2019 for his article “A Global Approach to Local Problems? How to Write a Longer, Deeper, an...
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Matthew Broad elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society28 February 2020Matthew Broad, based in History and International Studies, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS).
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The forgotten history of Dutch slavery in Guyana28 February 2020When we think of the history of Dutch slavery, the areas that spring to mind are primarily the Antilles and Suriname. However, until the end of the ei...
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Hunting for women in Leiden’s history24 February 2020They existed and were important, but for too long they have remained invisible in historiography: women. Ariadne Schmidt, the Magdalena Moons endowed ...
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Exploiting the Empires of Others: Vici grant for Cátia Antunes20 February 2020Having mostly ignored the gains Dutch traders, investors and firms attained from serving the French, English and Iberian empires, debate in the Nether...