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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...
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How two metal detectorists discovered a complete Roman treasure17 January 2019In 2017, in an ordinary field, two brothers from Brabant discovered more than 100 ancient coins. The Leiden historian who examined the coins concluded...
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Marieke Bloembergen appointed Professor of Archival and Postcolonial Studies11 January 2019On 1 November 2018, Marieke Bloembergen was appointed Professor of Archival and Postcolonial Studies at the Institute for History.
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Andrew Gawthorpe wins the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 201809 January 2019At the Institute’s Council meeting of last December the Institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded.
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Rethinking Disability through visual storytelling11 December 2018The ERC project Rethinking Disability has been selected to participate in the ERCcOMICS scheme which exploits the power of visual storytelling to inno...
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Herman Paul appointed Professor of History of the Humanities11 December 2018
The Executive Board has appointed Herman Paul (Institute for History) as Professor of History of the Humanities. He will take up the role from 1 Janua...
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Latin American diplomats come together at Wijnhaven05 December 2018Every year diplomatic representatives of Latin American countries, researchers and students come together during a conference of the GRULAC region gro...