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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power' 05 April 2023Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love r...
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In memoriam: dr. Karin Willemse (1962-2023) 29 March 2023
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of our former colleague dr. Karin Willemse, who passed away on Saturday 18 March 2023.
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While the men are away, the Scheveningen women do it their way 27 March 2023Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by ...
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‘Podcast gives its listeners a sense of identity and belonging’ 23 March 2023In the Netherlands, when we talk about the United Nations, the conversation is almost always about the member states from the northern hemisphere. But...
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Food destruction and depopulation. How the Dutch East India Company gained a clove monopoly on the Ambon islands 17 March 2023Nutmeg, mace and cloves: spices the Dutch East India Company (VOC) wanted to get its hands on. PhD candidate Tristan Mostert conducted research into t...
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Lauren Antonides wins Roggeveen thesis prize 07 March 2023Alumna Lauren Antonides has won the Roggeveen Prize for her thesis on the regional identity of Zeelandic Flanders. She will receive a sum of 1,000 euros.
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Seven projects receive funding from JEDI Fund 28 February 2023More focus on diversity in Antiquity, workshops for students with disabilities, and a card game to share stories about diversity: these and other proj...
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Edmund Flett wins J.C. Baak Thesis Prize 2023 28 February 2023Edmund Flett, alumnus of the International Relations master's programme, has won the 2023 J.C. Baak Prize for his thesis ‘Settlements now, settlement ...
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On exchange without leaving your student room: ECOLe teaching grant makes it possible 16 February 2023Working from your Leiden room with students from the United States: Univeristy Lecturer Dario Fazzi’ students will soon be able to take up this challe...
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Introducing: Sarah Nelson 16 February 2023Since 1 October 2022, Sarah Nelson is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute for History. Below she introduces herself.
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Analysis of 2,000 French newspapers reveals criticism of Third Republic 06 February 2023‘Politicians act only in their own interests. The common man does not interest them at all.’ And, ‘The debate in parliament was a sorry sight and demo...
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Russians continue to use age-old military concepts 17 January 2023Russian military concepts developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries still exist and have not lost their strategic relevance. The Russians us...
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Regilme wins a 2022 Human Rights Publication Accolade from American Sociological Association 16 January 2023Salvador Santino Regilme received Honorable Mention for the 2022 Best Scholarly Article Award from the Sociology of Human Rights Section of the Americ...
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?' 10 January 2023When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried ...
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Call for Papers: Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries' 21 December 2022On 26-28 June, 2023, Leiden University’s Institute for History will host a summer school on Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-1...