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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...
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Call for papers for conference 'The Persona of the Historian: Repertoires and Performances, 1800-2000' 11 February 2016
What does it take to be a good historian? What are the capacities or dispositions needed to thrive as an historian? Put differently, what are the tale...
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DANS KDP grant to publish five centuries of coin production figures 09 February 2016
In the project ‘Coin production in the Low Countries: 1334-1789’, Leiden University, the International Institute of Social History, and Het Nederlands...
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Explore Brazil with Studium Generale 09 February 2016
The Olympic Games will start in Brazil on 5 August. You can find out more about this fascinating but complex country in a series of lectures organised...
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Referendum in Bolivia: test for democracy 09 February 2016
The Bolivian people will make their opinion known on a change to the constitution in a referendum on 21 February. Leiden University organised a sympos...
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Ann Stoler - GLASS Scholar (Spring 2016) 25 January 2016
Professor Ann Laura Stoler from The New School for Social Research in New York will be the Spring 2016 Global Asia Scholar. She will visit Leiden Univ...
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Can a country be too democratic? 12 January 2016
How do democracies develop? The Institute for History is devoting a three-day conference to this question.
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H2020grant awarded to Leiden team as part of a European network to research the EU’s Eastern neighbourhood strategy 11 January 2016
What should the EU do to support Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova? How can the European Union adapt its policies towards these countries in a very difficu...
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10-12 December International Conference 'The General Labour History of Africa' 10 December 2015
The second authors' conference of the General Labour History of Africa (GLHA) project will be held from 10 to 12 December 2015 in Dar es Salaam, Tanza...
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Thorbecke Fund Grant for Herman Paul 01 December 2015
Herman Paul has received a €140,000 grant from the Thorbecke Fund (KNAW) for a project entitled “The Demands of Our Time: Epochal Thinking from 1800 t...
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Leiden Students help Create The Hague Manifesto to celebrate UN @ 70 19 November 2015
The Hague Project Peace & Justice, in cooperation with Dr. Alanna O’Malley of the Leiden University Institute for History, organized a one-day confere...
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Official Launch of the Global Abolitionisms Network in Baltimore 12 November 2015
To mark the official launch of the network, Maartje Janse and Peter Stamatov have organized a roundtable on Global Abolitionisms at the Annual Meeting...
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Four short films about four centuries of freedom at Leiden University 04 November 2015
Four videos tell the story of the history of Leiden University. The films were premiered on 2 November during the Leiden Film Festival.
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Michiel van Groesen new Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University 08 October 2015
As of 1 September 2015, Michiel van Groesen is Professor of Maritime History at Leiden University. He succeeds Professor Henk den Heijer, who retired ...