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In memoriam: Professor Cees Fasseur 14 March 2016It 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 2016Oran 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 2016Professor 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 2016Joris 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 2016Thomas 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 2016Esther Baakman is a PhD-candidate at the Leiden University Institute for History.
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Introducing: Tiffany Bousard 24 February 2016Tiffany 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 2016Leiden 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 2016In 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 2016The 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 2016The 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 2016Professor 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...