News
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The link between The Hague bonfires and different types of citizenship 27 December 2021
For the third year in a row, the bonfires in the Duindorp and Scheveningen neighbourhoods in The Hague during New Year's Eve have been cancelled. Acco...
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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie 20 December 2021
Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honou...
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‘Migration is more about hope than economy’ 18 December 2021
Afghans who came to the Netherlands in a hurry, refugees who were used as leverage by Belarus and boat refugees who tried to reach Europe in an increa...
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Innovative research on impact of violent conflicts on food security in Chad 13 December 2021
Violent conflicts and civil wars in Chad impede most rural households' access to food security, agricultural activities and access to essential servic...
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For LGBT+ migrants, dating apps are about much more than sex 10 December 2021
When you think of migration, you probably won’t immediately think of dating apps. Yet such apps are important to many migrants, such as those who iden...
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Decolonising the history of Africa was a difficult process 23 November 2021
With the aid of the General History of Africa (GHA) series of books, PhD candidate Larissa Schulte Nordholt researched what it meant to decolonise the...
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‘The historical pedigree of New Wars and New Terrorism’: meet LUCIR scholar Isabelle Duyvesteyn 17 November 2021
Isabelle Duyvesteyn, Professor of International Studies and Global History at the Institute of History and member of the advisory board of Leiden Univ...
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Reseach funding for 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict' 10 November 2021
Mirjam de Bruijn has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the research project 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Confl...
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia 09 November 2021
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly supp...
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Writing history together in the Transvaal 18 October 2021
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and...
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Call for Papers: Book Diplomacy conference 29 September 2021
On 28 and 29 April 2022 the conference ''Book Diplomacy’ in the Cultural Cold War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives' takes place at Leiden University. T...
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Podcast: Urban Life in Catalonia in the 14th Century with Jeff Fynn-Paul 06 September 2021
Most of us know that Venice, Genoa, and Florence were major Mediterranean powers during the Renaissance. But did you know that in terms of trade and s...
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New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd' 13 August 2021
A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 202...
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NWO grant for research into Het Dorp: ‘We are going to tell the lesser-known history’ 12 July 2021
It is one of the most famous moments in Dutch TV history: the twenty-three hour long marathon broadcast of Open het Dorp. But what happened to the com...
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’ 06 July 2021
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series, we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this seco...