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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation 20 February 2024
How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when study...
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Call for Papers: "Voices of resistance in and against Dutch empire" 23 January 2024
For the upcoming conference "Voices of Resistance in and Against the Dutch Empire, 1600-2020s" on September 12 and 13, 2024, at Utrecht University, pr...
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where' 18 January 2024
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Assoc...
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Two new Leiden members of The Young Academy 16 January 2024
Leiden researchers Fenneke Sysling (Institute for History) and Joris van der Voet (Institute of Public Administration) will be admitted to the Royal N...
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past' 15 January 2024
Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with,...
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’ 20 November 2023
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have be...
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Influencers, X and WhatsApp: social media and the coup in Niger 02 August 2023
A number of European countries have started evacuating their citizens and there is a threat of military intervention by neighbouring countries: the si...
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Leiden researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery 04 July 2023
In a speech on Keti Koti (meaning ‘the chain is broken’ and the name given to 1 July, the day marking the abolition of slavery) the Dutch king, Willem...
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The Chains of Holland’s Glory: research into South Holland's slavery past completed 08 June 2023
Karwan Fatah-Black and Lauren Lauret are co-authors of Geketend voor Hollands Glorie (The Chains of Holland’s Glory) that studies the political and ec...
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India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000 17 May 2023
On 15-16 June, Jos Gommans, Marieke Bloembergen, and Carolien Stolte will organize an international conference entitled “India in the Making of the Gl...
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CFA: Summer school 'Global History in the 2020s', Leiden 27-29 June 2023 05 April 2023
The International Summer School ‘Global History in the 2020s’ (27-29 June 2023) for PhD candidates, is looking for applicants. The summer school is or...
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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power' 05 April 2023
Sex 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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Food destruction and depopulation. How the Dutch East India Company gained a clove monopoly on the Ambon islands 17 March 2023
Nutmeg, 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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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?' 10 January 2023
When 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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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in' 15 December 2022
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic s...