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Leo Lucassen admitted as KNAW member25 April 2019Leo Lucassen was selected by KNAW on the basis of his academic achievements. Lucassen studied socio-economic history in Leiden, where he earned a PhD ...
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Five Leiden researchers elected as members of KNAW23 April 2019Five Leiden researchers have been nominated as members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).They will be inaugurated on 16 Sep...
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Call for abstracts - Virtuous suffering: New perspectives on the Ethics of Suffering for Critical Global Health and Justice15 April 2019Can suffering be positive? Currently dominant discourses, primarily voiced through human rights activism and humanitarianism, maintain the opposite: s...
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Rubicon grants for three researchers from Leiden09 April 2019Of the 17 Rubicon grants that NWO recently awarded, three have gone to researchers at Leiden University. They can spend a longer period of time doing ...
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Angus Mol: ‘It all began when I saw Super Mario Bros at a friend’s house.’21 March 2019He was so disappointed that he couldn't go on that archaeological field trip to the Caribbean, he spent most of his time at his computer working on hi...
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Monitoring Migrations: The Habsburg-Ottoman Border in the Eighteenth Century20 March 2019How old is the phenomenon of states attempting to control migrations on external borders? What were the motives and outcomes of these policies? In his...
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Lecture Oliver Rathkolb - The End of Social Democracy?12 March 2019On 11 March, Oliver Rathkolb (University of Vienna) held a lecture about Social Democracy.
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Giles Scott-Smith appointed Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History04 March 2019The Roosevelt Chair in New Diplomatic History is sponsored by the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg, and the new position ...
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Andrew Shield and Ann Marie Wilson receive seed grant for their project 'Transnational Gay/Lesbian Activism since the 1960s'28 February 2019Andrew DJ Shield (History) and Ann Marie Wilson (Leiden University College) have been awarded a seed grant for their project, “Transnational Gay/Lesbi...
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Early-modern vices: why are they still around? Vici grant for Herman Paul26 February 2019Over the past few hundreds of years, the world has changed radically. However, cultural stereotypes from the 17th century are still alive and well tod...
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A New Network for Queer History at Leiden25 February 2019Ann Marie Wilson and Andrew DJ Shield have been recently awarded a Leiden Global Interactions SEED grant to support the launch of a new platform for s...
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’20 February 2019Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rive...
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Call for papers European Social Science History Conference07 February 2019The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is...
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A world without American domination?07 February 2019America’s dominance of the world stage is coming to an end. These were the words of Professor Amitav Acharya in his guest lecture in The Hague on 5 Fe...
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How Leiden University celebrated its first day in 157504 February 2019Lifelike gods, provisional professors and the city militia with weapons a clanking. Leiden put on a colourful procession and drummed up hundreds of ci...