News
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Five Leiden researchers elected as members of KNAW 23 April 2019
Five Leiden researchers have been nominated as members of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW).They will be inaugurated on 16 Sep...
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Monitoring Migrations: The Habsburg-Ottoman Border in the Eighteenth Century 20 March 2019
How old is the phenomenon of states attempting to control migrations on external borders? What were the motives and outcomes of these policies? In his...
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Andrew Shield and Ann Marie Wilson receive seed grant for their project 'Transnational Gay/Lesbian Activism since the 1960s' 28 February 2019
Andrew DJ Shield (History) and Ann Marie Wilson (Leiden University College) have been awarded a seed grant for their project, “Transnational Gay/Lesbi...
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A New Network for Queer History at Leiden 25 February 2019
Ann Marie Wilson and Andrew DJ Shield have been recently awarded a Leiden Global Interactions SEED grant to support the launch of a new platform for s...
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Call for papers European Social Science History Conference 07 February 2019
The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is...
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A reminder of our slavery past 11 July 2018
Karwan Fatah-Black of Leiden University, an expert in the area of Dutch colonial history, wrote the text for a slavery remembrance memorial that was u...
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Damian Pargas on his inaugural lecture "Promised Lands" 17 April 2018
On May 25th, Prof. Damian Pargas will hold his inaugural lecture "Promised Lands".
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Slavery Reparations: The difficult flowering of an unconstructive demand 14 December 2017
On the 13th of December 2017 Ana Lucia Araujo came to Leiden to discuss the long history of the demand for reparations for slavery. In the basement of...
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Damian Pargas new Professor of American History 06 July 2017
As of 1 August 2017, Damian Pargas is the new Leiden University Chair of the History and Culture of North America.
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Vote for a super-talented Leiden scientist 22 August 2016
The New Scientist magazine has selected two young Leiden scientists for its Top 25 Young Talents in the Netherlands and Flanders: historian Karwan Fat...
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New Master: Governance of Migration and Diversity 17 June 2016
In September 2016, the Leiden University Institute for History starts with a new MA sub-track 'Governance of Migration and Diversity'. This so-called ...
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Book publication Wim Willems ‘Hagenezen die er mochten wezen’ 30 May 2016
What, and especially who has formed the city The Hague? Wim Willems, professor Social History and director of the Modern Urban Studies (MUS) Institute...
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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...