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An Introduction to the Indian Ocean Slave Trade29 June 2017
When many people think of slavery, they think of the translatlantic trade that took place between Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean.
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Succesful workshop 'Traditions of Authority'20 June 2017As part of the Leiden University ‘Profile Area’ Political Legitimacy, a number of colleagues from Political Science, History, Law, Business Administra...
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‘Social deprivation on Curaçao deliberately maintained’13 June 2017From the 19th century, Dutch colonisers on Curaçao relied heavily on the Catholic church. Missionaries provided not only teaching and spiritual care f...
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Early modern traders circumvented rules of states and companies06 June 2017Individual traders should be at the forefront of the study of early modern world trade rather than institutions such as states and companies, argues P...
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Large Vidi subsidies for 5 humanities scholars01 June 20175 talented Leiden humanities scholars have received a Vidi research subsidy of 800.000 euros to set up or expand their own line of research.
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3 Humanities scholars receive Special Recognition Award01 June 2017The international World Cultural Council (WCC) has awarded Nadine Akkerman, Victoria Nyst and Alicia Schrikker with Special Recognition Awards given t...
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Fulbright Scholarship for Alanna O'Malley31 May 2017Alanna O'Malley has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the United States from August 2017 to February 2018.
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Exhibition of fieldwork photographs30 May 2017Fieldwork photographs of Meike de Goede, Catherina Wilson and Mirjam de Bruijn (with African Studies student Vera Bakker) have been selected for the L...
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Travelling Caribbean heritage under the microscope24 May 2017What does it mean to be Aruban, Bonairian or Curaçaoan? In the Traveling Caribbean Heritage project historian Gert Oostindie studies this question tog...
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Three Leiden professors appointed members of KNAW10 May 2017The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has appointed 26 new members. Three of them are Leiden professors: Luuk de Ligt, Lisa Cheng ...
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€ 18.8 million grant for research into innovation processes in antiquity04 May 2017Successful innovation requires more than technological progress alone. Every new concept must first be firmly anchored into an existing context. At le...
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NEW!! Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies02 May 2017
The University of Bonn, Germany, is happy to announce the opening of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS).
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Partnership with Roosevelt Institute gives impetus to American Studies18 April 2017It's easier to understand Trump's America if you have a sound knowledge of the country's history. Research on the US has been given an impetus with t...
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International Workshop Maritime Conflicts and their Resolution in Atlantic Europe (13th-17th Centuries)11 April 2017The International Workshop 'Maritime Conflicts and their Resolution in Atlantic Europe (13th-17th Centuries)' takes place at the University of La Lagu...
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Jan-Bart Gewald new director of Leiden's African Studies Centre10 April 2017Professor Jan-Bart Gewald has been appointed as the new director of the African Studies Centre in Leiden with effect from 1 September 2017, for a peri...