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A reminder of our slavery past 11 July 2018
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...
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Call for papers: Power, Silence and the Production of History in Africa 15 January 2018
On 24 May 2018 the workshop 'Power, Silence and the Production of History in Africa' will take place at Leiden University.
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Highlights of 2017: our most read articles 18 December 2017
An online course to teach our international students their first words in Dutch, American presidents in Leiden and how Neanderthals made the very firs...
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Shower of prizes at the World Cultural Council ceremony in Leiden 09 November 2017
Leiden University celebrated the annual prize ceremony of the World Cultural Council (WCC) on 8 November with lectures by leading scientists in a fes...
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Introducing: Anne Marieke van der Wal-Rémy 27 September 2017
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...
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Cosmopolis Advanced: Call for International MA/PhD Applications 09 August 2017
The Institute for History is pleased to announce the launch of a new research program: Cosmopolis Advanced, an initiative of the Institute for History...
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‘Social deprivation on Curaçao deliberately maintained’ 13 June 2017
From the 19th century, Dutch colonisers on Curaçao relied heavily on the Catholic church. Missionaries provided not only teaching and spiritual care f...
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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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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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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...
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Regional context changes Islamic law 12 December 2016
Mahmood Kooria shows in his dissertation that Islam often adapts to the regional context. PhD defense 14 December.
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‘Indonesians want more focus on fine details in research on war of decolonisation’ 05 December 2016
After a lobby lasting many years, the Dutch government has decided to finance an independent study of the war of decolonisation (1945-1950) in the for...
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Leonard Blussé wins ‘Special Book Award of China’ 22 November 2016
Professor emeritus Leonard Blussé of the Leiden University Institute for History has won the ‘Special Book Award of China’. The Chinese government awa...
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Vote for a super-talented Leiden scientist 22 August 2016
The New Scientist magazine has selected two young Leiden scientists for its Top 25 Young Talents in the Netherlands and Flanders: historian Karwan Fat...
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Wim van den Doel member of Executive Board of NWO 08 July 2016
Professor Wim van den Doel, dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University, has been appointed member of the Executive Board of the Netherland...