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Honorable Mention for PhD Candidate Sam de SchutterSam de Schutter (Phd Candidate at the Institute for History) received an Honorable Mention by the Disability History Association.
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The life of nomads in turbulent timesIn recent years, the Walad Djifir from Chad found themselves in a turbulent environment due to the unrest in Nigeria, Libya and the Central African Re...
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Working from home during corona: Mike SchmidliWe continue to work from home as much as possible. How are the staff members of the Institute for History doing? Mike Schmidli shares his experience b...
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Call for Papers: Imperial Artefacts. History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural PropertyOn 28 and 29 January 2021 the conference 'Imperial Artefacts: History, Law and the Looting of Cultural Property' takes place at Leiden University. Key...
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Maxine David: ‘Have realistic expectations of what you can do in these difficult times’Maxine David is a lecturer in European Politics in the Institute for History and is a busy bee when it comes to teaching. When countries started locki...
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André Gerrits: ‘Coronavirus is speeding up social developments'All 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’The 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 GawthorpeWe 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 KNAWKNAW 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’Karen 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 projectA 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 crisisNo 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 historyHow 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'Coronavirus 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"Salvador Santino Regilme's paper “One Great Nation Under Trump? Global Human Rights in Distress Amidst American Decline” has received the "Best Confer...