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How the Dutch Press brought foreign suffering close in the Seventeenth CenturyThe big European wars of religion ended with the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, but still religious minorities were persecuted in Europe....
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How do you tell the story of eighteenth century princesses?Historian Joost Welten has written a book entitled 'De vergeten prinsessen van Thorn' (The forgotten princesses of Thorn). For his book, he analysed t...
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Colonisation and migration in New-AmericaMigration is nothing new. A lot of people immigrated to the United States after it was ‘rediscovered’. The Netherlands also colonised a part of the Ne...
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Eighteenth Century Dutch slaves in Morocco already had orientalist viewsThe idea that prejudices about the (Middle)-East came to be during the colonisation of North-Africa in the 19th century is false. Mounir el-Badri wrot...
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Karwan Fatah-Black joins The Young AcademyHistorian Karwan Fatah-Black researches the Dutch colonial past, and regularly joins in the public debate about this. He has been admitted to The Youn...
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Bernhard Rieger receives senior fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg MunichBernhard Rieger has been awarded a fellowship at the Historisches Kolleg Munich. This will allow him to work on his current book, entitled "Making Soc...
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There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the European refugee crisisWho is welcome as a refugee, and who is not? And how is that decided? What role do humanitarian organisations play in the debate surrounding refugees?...
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Comic strip on rethinking disabilityApproximately 10-15% of the world’s population is estimated to be disabled. The researchers from the ERC Rethinking Disability project have shown how ...
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There is not one type of refugeeWhat is a refugee? This question might seem easy to answer, but it is not, concludes Catherina Wilson. For 7 years she did research in The Democratic ...
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KNAW Early Career Award for Carolien StolteCarolien Stolte has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She received this award for her res...
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Maria Gabriela Palacio Ludeña: ‘I see my true purpose in the classroom’Before Maria Gabriela Palacio Ludeña became a lecturer International Studies at Leiden University, she was a public administrator in Ecuador. Her whol...
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Being a part of the network of Leiden graduates across the worldThe students of European Union Studies visited Brussels this October, and it was another successful and worthwhile trip for those students in the MA I...
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Commissie-Van der Staaij presenteert revisie Reglement van OrdeOp 30 oktober presenteerde de Commissie tot Revisie van het Reglement van Orde, onder voorzitterschap van Kees van der Staaij (SGP), haar bevindingen ...
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Rethinking Disability Webcomics in the Fȇte de La Science at Sorbonne UniversityThe ERC-funded project Rethinking Disability was featured in the Fȇte de La Science which was held on 11 October 2019 at Sorbonne University in Paris.
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Jos Gommans guest curator exhibition 'India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt'Jos Gommans is guest curator of the exhibition "India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt", from October 17th to December 16th 2019 in the Chh...