Last July saw the start of the new master programme Cosmopolis Advanced, an initiative of the Institute for History at Leiden University in partnershi...

The Institute for History is pleased to announce the second call for the research program Cosmopolis Advanced, an initiative of the Institute for Hist...

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...

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...

On 24 May 2018 the workshop 'Power, Silence and the Production of History in Africa' will take place at Leiden University.

An online course to teach our international students their first words in Dutch, American presidents in Leiden and how Neanderthals made the very firs...

Mirjam de Bruijn's VICI project Connecting in Times of Duress held its final conference in N'Djamena, Chad, from 23 to 29 October.

Leiden University celebrated the annual prize ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC) on 8 November with lectures by leading scientists in a fes...

Anne Marieke van der Wal-Rémy is a historian who recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in the International Studies programme. She i...

The Institute for History is pleased to announce the launch of a new research program: Cosmopolis Advanced, an initiative of the Institute for History...

From the 19th century, Dutch colonisers on Curaçao relied heavily on the Catholic church. Missionaries provided not only teaching and spiritual care f...

Fieldwork photographs of Meike de Goede, Catherina Wilson and Mirjam de Bruijn (with African Studies student Vera Bakker) have been selected for the L...

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...

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...

Mahmood Kooria shows in his dissertation that Islam often adapts to the regional context. PhD defense 14 December.