News
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Memorial stone points to turbulent history of Indonesian students 06 March 2018
A new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Lei...
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History and Classics rank high in QS Rankings by Subject 28 February 2018
Leidens's Classics and History rank 6th and 15th place in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. Every year, QS ranks universities all over the ...
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Four new Research Trainee Projects at the Institute for History 21 February 2018
This year four research trainee projects were approved by the faculty to be carried out at the Institute for History this semester.
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Beyond The Last Utopia? A Student Blog Series About the History of Human Rights 06 February 2018
As a result of the MA-course History of Human Rights, dr. Paul van Trigt and students who participated in the course wrote a series of blogs concernin...
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Introducing: Bernhard Rieger 01 February 2018
Bernhard Rieger recently joined the Institute for History as our new Professor of European History. He introduces himself.
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Introducing: Mike Schmidli 01 February 2018
Mike Schmidli recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in American History. He introduces himself.
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‘Expats get red-carpet treatment' 18 January 2018
Expats in the Netherlands receive a much warmer reception than other migrants, Leiden University's Aniek Smit has discovered. ‘But municipalities nee...
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Call for papers: Power, Silence and the Production of History in Africa 15 January 2018
On 24 May 2018 the workshop 'Power, Silence and the Production of History in Africa' will take place at Leiden University.
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Propaganda Art- From the 20th to the 21st Century 12 January 2018
On January 25th, artist Jonas Staal will defend his dissertation which explores the development of propaganda art from the 20th to the 21st century.
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Call for papers 'Nationalism and International Order' (21-23 November 2018) 02 January 2018
Nationalism is commonly regarded as posing a challenge to international stability and regional and global order more generally. Arguably, nationalism ...
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New journal based at the Institute for History: 'Diplomatica: A Journal of Diplomacy and Society' 19 December 2017
Diplomatica addresses the broad range of work being done across the social sciences and the humanities that takes diplomacy as its focus of investigat...
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Highlights of 2017: our most read articles 18 December 2017
An online course to teach our international students their first words in Dutch, American presidents in Leiden and how Neanderthals made the very firs...
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Slavery Reparations: The difficult flowering of an unconstructive demand 14 December 2017
On the 13th of December 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo came to Leiden to discuss the long history of the demand for reparations for slavery. In the basement of...
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Call for Papers: 'Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000' 30 November 2017
On 8 and 9 May 2018 the Workshop 'Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-20...
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Monika Baár part of the European Parliament's MEP-Scientist Pairing Scheme 29 November 2017
Monika Baár is among the 17 scientists who have been invited to participate in the 6th edition of the European Parliament's MEP-Scientist Pairing Sche...