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Black lives matter: ‘Why the American protests have resonated in the Netherlands’ 04 June 2020
The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands...
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#CoronaHulp: ‘There's a broad desire to help one another' 17 March 2020
Coronavirus is generating a great deal of uncertainty throughout the world. Fortunately, there are some bright spots, such as the residents of Italian...
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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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Colonisation and migration in New-America 16 January 2020
Migration is nothing new. A lot of people immigrated to the United States after it was ‘rediscovered’. The Netherlands also colonised a part of the Ne...
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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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Something else than writing an essay: Ruben made a documentary for an assignment 27 May 2019
Ruben van Gaalen used a very unique approach for a course of the research master Colonial and Global History: instead of writing an essay, he went to ...
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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...