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Introducing Viola Müller 20 April 2016
Viola Müller is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Institute for History. Her research focuses on slave refugees in the US South, 1800-1860.
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What drives universities? 12 April 2016
Studium Generale is organising a series of discussions about what universities are and what they ought to be. The first debate was on 4 April in the A...
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History and Linguistics in Leiden #19 and #28 in QS ranking 2016 22 March 2016
In QS’s World University Rankings of 2016, Leiden University’s History and Linguistics programme rank #19 and #28, respectively. This makes the Histor...
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NWO grant for project 'Human Security and Conflict in Ukraine: Local Approaches and Transnational Dimensions' 14 March 2016
Prof. André Gerrits and dr. Max Bader have been awarded a grant by the WOTRO Science for Global Development of NWO for their project on human securit...
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Introducing: prof. Scott Nelson 14 March 2016
Introducing prof. Scott Nelson, Legum Professor of the Social Sciences at the College of William & Mary, and on a spring teaching exchange at the Leid...
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In memoriam: Professor Cees Fasseur 14 March 2016
It is with great sadness that Leiden University has learned of the death of Professor Cees Fasseur (11 December 1938–13 March 2016).
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Introducing: Oran Kennedy 09 March 2016
Oran Kennedy is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Institute for History. His research focuses on slave refugees in the northern United States a...
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Introducing: Wouter Linmans 09 March 2016
Wouter Linmans is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Institute for History. He is working on a thesis on visions and fears of future warfare in ...
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MUS writes biography of The Hague resistance heroine 01 March 2016
Professor Wim Willems of the Centre for Modern Urban Studies (MUS), together with Anne van Mourik, is researching the life of Ru Paré, the woman who s...
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Fulbright Archival Research Trip in New York (October 2015 – January 2016) 24 February 2016
Joris van den Tol spent three months doing archival research in Albany in the USA. Read on how he experienced his stay.
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Introducing: Thomas Mareite 24 February 2016
Thomas Mareite is PhD student at the Leiden University Institute for History. His PhD project focuses on slave refugees in Mexico, 1800-1860.
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Introducing: Esther Baakman 24 February 2016
Esther Baakman is a PhD-candidate at the Leiden University Institute for History.
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Introducing: Tiffany Bousard 24 February 2016
Tiffany Bousard is a PhD-candidate at Leiden University Institute for History and examines Atlantic news which circulated in the Habsburg or Southern ...
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Global Interactions welcomes five new postdocs in 2016 16 February 2016
In November of last year Global Interactions made offers to five out of nearly 90 applicants for our grant-writing postdocs. We are pleased to announc...
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How China Studies started in the Dutch East Indies 16 February 2016
Leiden has the most highly regarded China Studies programme in Europe. But how did this knowledge find its way specifically to Leiden? For his PhD res...