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Call for Papers: Negotiating Europeanness: Race, Class, and Culture in the Colonial World 04 November 2022
The expansion of European powers overseas brought Europeans into contact and conflict with the inhabitants of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Historia...
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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672 31 October 2022
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350...
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Rens Tacoma wins Research Prize Italian Studies Working Group 24 October 2022
Associate professor Rens Tacoma has won the 2021 Research Prize for Historical Sciences. The prize is awarded annually by the Italy Studies Working Gr...
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Thea Hilhorst on her second appointment as a LDE professor 20 October 2022
The Humanities Faculty welcomes Thea Hilhorst as a professor. Due to the cooperation between the universities in Leiden, The Hague and Rotterdam, she ...
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Cleveringa professor Gert Oostindie: ‘We stood up for our own freedom but ignored that of others’ 19 October 2022
Now that war is once again raging in Europe, the question of when you need to stand up against injustice has become more relevant than ever. In his Cl...
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From canned fried rice to colonialism: Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood shows world history in miniature 17 October 2022
Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will p...
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Marlou Schrover on her second appointment as LDE professor 13 October 2022
Professor Marlou Schrover will receive a second appointment as Leiden-Delft-Erasmus professor. In addition to her current position as professor of Mig...
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Four migration professors doubly appointed in the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus network 11 October 2022
Four professors specialising in migration will soon be appointed as Leiden-Delft-Erasmus professors: Professor Thea Hilhorst and Professor Peter Schol...
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Mirjam de Bruijn receives NWO grant to research digital warfare in the Sahel 26 September 2022
Professor Mirjam de Bruijn will research digital warfare in the North African Sahel with an NWO Open Competition grant. The focus of the research will...
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A quick call on the war in Ukraine: 'Putin has made a diplomatic end almost impossible' 23 September 2022
The war in Ukraine is entering a new phase with the announcement of a partial Russian military mobilisation and the intention to annex four Ukrainian ...
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Critical of the risks: research into the experiences of military observers 20 September 2022
For his PhD, historian and army major Dion Landstra researched the effectiveness of observers in peace operations in the Balkans between 1991 and 1995...
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time 20 September 2022
The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he co...
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Why is it now that the Left has momentum in Latin America (and how long it will last) 05 September 2022
The left is gaining more and more ground on the political map of Latin America, with the elections in Colombia as the most recent example. But what’s ...
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Isabelle Duyvesteyn, new programme chair of International Studies: ‘I want to do things that will benefit students’ 29 August 2022
Professor Isabelle Duyvesteyn will be the new programme chair of International Studies. As of 1 September, she will be at the helm of the largest prog...
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Learn from the latest research on Roman amulets by Patricia Kret 26 July 2022
Research on the Greek and Roman times often focuses on important leaders, writers or politicians. However, Patricia Kret is more interested in the nor...