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The forgotten history of Dutch slavery in Guyana 28 February 2020
When we think of the history of Dutch slavery, the areas that spring to mind are primarily the Antilles and Suriname. However, until the end of the ei...
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Karwan Fatah-Black joins The Young Academy 10 December 2019
Historian Karwan Fatah-Black researches the Dutch colonial past, and regularly joins in the public debate about this. He has been admitted to The Youn...
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KNAW Early Career Award for Carolien Stolte 06 November 2019
Carolien Stolte has received an Early Career Award from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). She received this award for her res...
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Jos Gommans guest curator exhibition 'India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt' 18 October 2019
Jos Gommans is guest curator of the exhibition "India and the Netherlands in the Age of Rembrandt", from October 17th to December 16th 2019 in the Chh...
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Leonard Blussé receives prestigious Fukuoka Prize in Japan 11 September 2019
Leonard Blussé, Professor Emeritus of History of European-Asian Relations, was awarded the 13th Fukuoka Prize in Japan on 10 September.
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The impact of the slave trade on the Dutch economy 04 July 2019
To what extent did the Netherlands grow rich from the Transatlantic slave trade? In his dissertation 'Walcherse Ketens', Gerhard de Kok looks at Vliss...
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Prestigious Japanese Fukuoka Prize for Leonard Blussé 27 June 2019
Leonard Blussé, emeritus Professor in the History of European and Asian relations, will receive the prestigious Japanese Academic Fukuoka Prize. Bluss...
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Call for Papers: Relocating Governance in Asia: state and society in South- and Southeast Asia, c. 1800-2000 23 May 2019
Call for Papers for the conference Relocating Governance in Asia: state and society in South- and Southeast Asia, c. 1800-2000, Leiden University, 22-...
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Sri Margana holds the Van Leur chair for early modern history of Indonesia 26 February 2019
Dr Sri Margana succeeded Bambang Purwanto last September as professor in the Faculty of the Humanities. Margana is a specialist in the early modern hi...
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Marieke Bloembergen appointed Professor of Archival and Postcolonial Studies 11 January 2019
On 1 November 2018, Marieke Bloembergen was appointed Professor of Archival and Postcolonial Studies at the Institute for History.
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Introducing: Neilabh Sinha 12 December 2018
Neilabh Sinha was awarded a subsidy from NWO Promoties in de Geesteswetenschappen and started as a PhD candidate at the Institute for History in Septe...
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Stefano Bellucci receives grant by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme 14 November 2018
Stefano Bellucci, university lecturer at the Institute for History, has been awarded a grant by the EAP for a pilot project for the preservation and d...
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Introducing: the students of Cosmopolis Advanced 20 September 2018
Last July saw the start of the new master programme Cosmopolis Advanced, an initiative of the Institute for History at Leiden University in partnershi...
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Cosmopolis Advanced: Call for International MA/PhD Applications 12 September 2018
The Institute for History is pleased to announce the second call for the research program Cosmopolis Advanced, an initiative of the Institute for Hist...
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Carolien Stolte awarded Veni grant 17 July 2018
Carolien Stolte lectures at the Institute for History within the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden. She intends to use her Veni grant to research the in...