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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies 23 May 2023
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean ...
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UNESCO Recognizes Manuscripts First Voyage Around the Globe and Hikayat Aceh as World Heritage 18 May 2023
UNESCO has recognized an international set of fifteen manuscripts about Ferdinand Magellan's first circumnavigation of the globe and the three Hikayat...
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Online exhibition - Admired and Despised: life and work of Snouck Hurgronje 15 May 2023
Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) is known as an Islamologist, author of the book Mecca, administrator in the Dutch East Indies for the Dutch go...
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Online exhibition - The world’s last picture writing: Naxi Dongba manuscripts 11 May 2023
Manuscripts that look like a comic book, that's how you could describe the manuscripts of the Dongba people from China. The manuscripts are one of the...
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Launch of Marco Bronckers’ Liber Amicorum 10 May 2023
On 2 June 2023, the Liber Amicorum – 'The EU and the WTO: Ever the Twain Shall Meet' – in honour of Marco Bronckers will be officially launched at Lei...
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Await AND anticipate. How the municipality of Amsterdam manages developments in the digital public domain. 08 May 2023
The issue of how to deal with a development such as digitalisation in the public domain raises difficult questions for the municipality: who is respon...
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Helen Duffy about Abu Zubaydah who remains unlawfully detained in Guantánamo Bay 04 May 2023
In two moving articles, Dutch newspaper Trouw has reported on the lengthy detention of Abu Zubaydah in Guantánamo Bay. Zubaydah was tortured over a pe...
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry 04 May 2023
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem l...
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Annemarie Samuels in podcast 'Boldcast' about the evolution of libraries 02 May 2023
Episode 5 of BOLDcast, the podcast of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities, discusses the evolution of libraries from simple lending points...
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Richard de Mos acquitted – and now? 01 May 2023
The acquittal of Richard de Mos and his fellow party member has caused quite a stir in the Netherlands. Can De Mos simply return to local politics now...
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference 25 April 2023
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will ...
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New publication with editions of papyri and ostraca in the Leiden Papyrological Institute 18 April 2023
This volume contains the first edition of 66 papyri and ostraca in the collection of the Leiden Papyrological Institute.
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The future belongs to the youth, but perhaps not in Netherlands 13 April 2023
Three professors voice their concerns about a vulnerable group in our society: children who come into contact with youth care.
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Armin Cuyvers on nitrogen policy following Timmermans' visit to The Hague 12 April 2023
There is no time to lose when it comes to repairing damage to nature. For that reason and to show that the European Commission is neither a ‘bogeyman’...
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‘Comprehensive handbook victims’ – Interview with Janne van Doorn 11 April 2023
What do scholars, the Netherlands Public Prosecution Service, the police, the National Rapporteur Human Trafficking, Victim Support Netherlands, and t...