News
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NEW!! Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies 02 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 Studies 18 April 2017
It'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 2017
The 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 Centre 10 April 2017
Professor 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...
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‘Belief in the end of time slowed down modernisation’ 10 April 2017
In the nineteenth century many Dutch people believed in the end of time and the coming of God's thousand-year reign. This belief effectively slowed do...
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‘International isolation is not an option’ 05 April 2017
Security in the broadest sense of the word was the key focus in the Interfaculty Conference on 4 April in Leiden. With almost 200 attendees and such w...
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Call for Papers 'Epistemic Vices: Continuities and Discontinuities, 1600-2000' 04 April 2017
Impartiality, objectivity, honesty, and accuracy are qualities that generations of scholars have regarded as necessary for the pursuit of scholarly in...
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A deeper understanding of Brazil 29 March 2017
This year, the Chair of Brazilian studies celebrates its 20 year anniversary. The chair invites professors from Brazilian universities to come to Leid...
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Introducing: Salvador Santino Regilme 23 March 2017
Salvador Regilme recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in International Relations. He introduces himself.
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History and Religious Studies #1 and #2 in The Netherlands in QS World University Rankings 2017 08 March 2017
History and Religious Studies in Leiden rank # 17 and #32 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, History in Leiden ranks as the be...
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ZonMw Grant for Project on Competitive Research Funding 07 March 2017
Herman Paul of the Leiden University Institute for History receives a € 150,000 grant from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Develo...
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4.1 million for study on Dutch East Indies war of decolonisation 02 March 2017
Three Dutch research institutes - including the Leiden University’s KITLV - will conduct a follow-up study on the use of violence during the Dutch Eas...
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Alanna O'Malley and Adriaan van Veldhuizen win the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 28 February 2017
At the Institute’s Council meeting of last December the Institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded. The award is named after Carla Musterd, a...
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Introducing: Marlisa den Hartog 28 February 2017
Marlisa den Hartog is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History since January 2017. She is working on a thesis about perceptions of sexual desire a...
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Successful Pilot Project targeted at career development for PhDs 07 February 2017
Six PhD candidates from the Institute for History took part in a pilot project targeted at career development. Between September and December 2016 gro...