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'Migration and integration policies for the future only work with knowledge from the past.' 06 July 2020
An inclusive society in which everyone has equal access to health and wealth is the focus of the new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre on the Governance of ...
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Honorable Mention for PhD Candidate Sam de Schutter 30 June 2020
Sam de Schutter (Phd Candidate at the Institute for History) received an Honorable Mention by the Disability History Association.
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The life of nomads in turbulent times 25 June 2020
In recent years, the Walad Djifir from Chad found themselves in a turbulent environment due to the unrest in Nigeria, Libya and the Central African Re...
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Working from home during corona: Mike Schmidli 24 June 2020
We continue to work from home as much as possible. How are the staff members of the Institute for History doing? Mike Schmidli shares his experience b...
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Call for Papers: Imperial Artefacts. History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property 10 June 2020
On 28 and 29 January 2021 the conference 'Imperial Artefacts: History, Law and the Looting of Cultural Property' takes place at Leiden University. Key...
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Maxine David: ‘Have realistic expectations of what you can do in these difficult times’ 08 June 2020
Maxine David is a lecturer in European Politics in the Institute for History and is a busy bee when it comes to teaching. When countries started locki...
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André Gerrits: ‘Coronavirus is speeding up social developments' 05 June 2020
All the world leaders have had to choose an approach during the global Covid-19 crisis. But which approach is the most effective? André Gerrits, Profe...
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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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Working from home during corona: Andrew Gawthorpe 20 May 2020
We have been working from home for over 9 weeks. How are the staff members of the Institute for History doing? Andrew Gawthorpe shares his experience ...
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Three new Leiden members of KNAW 30 April 2020
KNAW has elected eighteen new members, including two professors at Leiden University and one who studied and obtained his PhD in Leiden. The New Acade...
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‘At first I thought it was a scam when I got an email from the UN’ 28 April 2020
Karen Smith is a university lecturer in International Relations at the Institute for History and she occupies a unique position: she has one foot in t...
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Citizenship, Migration & Global Transformation: an interdisciplinary research project 28 April 2020
A research team of fifteen people – representing domains such as political economy, international relations, law, history and public administration - ...
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What historians can learn from the coronavirus crisis 24 April 2020
No two pandemics are ever the same. The current coronavirus crisis, for instance, is clearly very different from the deadly plague outbreaks in the 14...
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What crime reporting can teach us about women’s history 23 April 2020
How can you learn about women’s history if they are under-represented in historical sources? Look at news coverage of crime, says Clare Wilkinson, PhD...
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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...