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Lecture Adam Zamoyski - What were the Napoleonic Wars really about?28 September 2018On 27 september historian Adam Zamoyski held a captivating lecture on his new book Napoleon: the Man behind the Myth. During this lecture, which was a...
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Mexican drugs world pans out into hybrid war12 September 2018Drugs-related violence in Mexico is similar in terms of dynamics and strategy to the IS hybrid war in the West. This is the claim made by Teun Voeten....
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Call for Papers: Criptic Identities. Historicizing the identity formation of persons with disabilities across the globe12 September 2018On 21 and 22 March 2019 the workshop 'Criptic Identities. Historicizing the identity formation of persons with disabilities across the globe' takes pl...
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Cosmopolis Advanced: Call for International MA/PhD Applications12 September 2018The Institute for History is pleased to announce the second call for the research program Cosmopolis Advanced, an initiative of the Institute for Hist...
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VOC and WIC were not above the law11 September 2018The powerful Dutch East India Company and West India Company were summoned before the High Court more often than historians have assumed. The complain...
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Why did wealthy Romans dine with whole cities?04 September 2018In some parts of the Roman Empire public meals were the norm: the wealthy treated the whole city to a meal. This phenomenon that suddenly arose and di...
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The 2018 Teaching Prize for the Humanities30 August 2018Who will win this year’s Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Humanities? Who will the students honour with this coveted token of their appreciation? Read...
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Carolien Stolte awarded Veni grant17 July 2018Carolien Stolte lectures at the Institute for History within the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden. She intends to use her Veni grant to research the in...
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A reminder of our slavery past11 July 2018Karwan Fatah-Black of Leiden University, an expert in the area of Dutch colonial history, wrote the text for a slavery remembrance memorial that was u...
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Henk te Velde appointed as President of the Association for Political History06 July 2018Prof.dr. Henk te Velde is appointed as the new President of the Association for Political History.
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NWO awards grants to Leiden University Humanities scholars20 June 2018No fewer than three Leiden University Humanities scholars have been awarded funding from the NWO’s Free Competition in the Humanities programme: two g...
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Leiden Disability Studies Lunch19 June 2018On 13 June the first Leiden Disability Studies Lunch was organized upon the initiative of the ERC Rethinking Disability team, based in the Institute f...
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Hugo Weiland steps back as president of the Foundation for Austrian Studies12 June 2018On Friday 8 June 2018, Hugo Weiland’s long-standing service was celebrated with a festive lunch organized by board members Ida van Veldhuizen en Hans ...
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'If you weigh up the state of migration today, the outcome isn't bad'04 June 2018Professor Leo Lucassen often adds his voice to the public debate on his specialist field. If there is talk of a 'flood of migration', he feels compell...
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'Relations with Morocco go much further back than the first migrant workers'04 June 2018The Netherlands and Morocco: relations between the two countries go back a long way. Assistant professor Nadia Bouras is researching these relations. ...