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Karwan Fatah-Black joins The Young Academy10 December 2019Historian 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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Carolien Stolte awarded Veni grant17 July 2018Carolien 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...
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A reminder of our slavery past11 July 2018Karwan 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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Damian Pargas on his inaugural lecture "Promised Lands"17 April 2018On May 25th, Prof. Damian Pargas will hold his inaugural lecture "Promised Lands".
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African Diaspora in Ottoman Izmir17 August 2017
An interesting Ottoman History podcast that deals with the slave trade and the African Diaspora in Ottoman Izmir.
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An Introduction to the Indian Ocean Slave Trade29 June 2017
When many people think of slavery, they think of the translatlantic trade that took place between Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean.
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NEW!! Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies02 May 2017
The University of Bonn, Germany, is happy to announce the opening of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS).
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Global Abolitionisms Network established25 September 2015Dr. Maartje Janse (History) and Prof.dr. Gert Oostindie (History, KITLV) have been awarded a seed grant for: "Global Abolitionisms Network", which wil...
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Zeeland Archives to Present Historical Slave Voyage to the UN17 March 2015
MIDDELBURG/GENEVA – The president of the United Nations Human Rights Council has invited the Zeeland Archives from the Netherlands, to Geneva on March...