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Fulbright Scholarship for Alanna O'Malley 31 May 2017
Alanna O'Malley has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to the United States from August 2017 to February 2018.
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Exhibition of fieldwork photographs 30 May 2017
Fieldwork photographs of Meike de Goede, Catherina Wilson and Mirjam de Bruijn (with African Studies student Vera Bakker) have been selected for the L...
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Introducing: Karen Smith 30 May 2017
Karen Smith recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in International Relations. She introduces herself.
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Three Leiden professors appointed members of KNAW 10 May 2017
The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) has appointed 26 new members. Three of them are Leiden professors: Luuk de Ligt, Lisa Cheng ...
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International Workshop Maritime Conflicts and their Resolution in Atlantic Europe (13th-17th Centuries) 11 April 2017
The International Workshop 'Maritime Conflicts and their Resolution in Atlantic Europe (13th-17th Centuries)' takes place at the University of La Lagu...
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‘International isolation is not an option’ 05 April 2017
Security in the broadest sense of the word was the key focus in the Interfaculty Conference on 4 April in Leiden. With almost 200 attendees and such w...
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Call for Papers 'Epistemic Vices: Continuities and Discontinuities, 1600-2000' 04 April 2017
Impartiality, objectivity, honesty, and accuracy are qualities that generations of scholars have regarded as necessary for the pursuit of scholarly in...
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Introducing: Salvador Santino Regilme 23 March 2017
Salvador Regilme recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in International Relations. He introduces himself.
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ZonMw Grant for Project on Competitive Research Funding 07 March 2017
Herman Paul of the Leiden University Institute for History receives a € 150,000 grant from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Develo...
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4.1 million for study on Dutch East Indies war of decolonisation 02 March 2017
Three Dutch research institutes - including the Leiden University’s KITLV - will conduct a follow-up study on the use of violence during the Dutch Eas...
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Alanna O'Malley and Adriaan van Veldhuizen win the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 28 February 2017
At the Institute’s Council meeting of last December the Institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded. The award is named after Carla Musterd, a...
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Introducing: Marlisa den Hartog 28 February 2017
Marlisa den Hartog is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History since January 2017. She is working on a thesis about perceptions of sexual desire a...
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History MOOC 'The Rooseveltian Century' returns 10 January 2017
Prof. Giles Scott-Smith has made the first History MOOC (Massive Online Open-Access Course) produced by Leiden University. The MOOC 'The Rooseveltian ...
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A nation of headstrong nationalists 09 January 2017
For the Netherlands, like many other European countries, the nineteenth century was a period of strengthening national identity. Anne Petterson descr...
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How Dutch Brazil was lost 04 January 2017
The Amsterdam media played a major role in the rise and fall of Dutch Brazil, the colony held briefly by the Dutch West India Company in the 17th cen...