1,882 search results for “administrative history” in the Public website
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Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000
Conference, Workshop
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The Use of the Occult Sciences in the Ottoman-Safavid Conflict
Lecture
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Interview with Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi about his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'
In the interview by Manu Sinjan, published in Eos Memo, Hafez Ismaili m'Hamdi addresses questions about the changing role of music in society through history, which is also the topic of his course 'From Plato to Pussy Riot'.
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Metrics, Mantra, and Madhyamaka: Aspects of the Buddhist Intellectual Culture of Vikramaśīla
Lecture, Lecture Numata Chair in Buddhist Studies
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war
Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…
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Rick Honings receives Vidi grant for Voicing the Colony
University lecturer of modern Dutch literature Rick Honings, associated with the Faculty of Humanities, has received a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros. This allows him to carry out research into a more nuanced image of our colonial past.
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History Brown Bag Seminar ‘Colonialism, Anarchism, and the Transnational Life of an Irish-Argentine Doctor in the late 19th century’
Lecture, Seminar
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Opening Lecture Academic Year - International Studies
Lecture
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How Dutch Brazil was lost
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 century. This is the conclusion reached by Professor of Maritime History Michiel van Groesen in his book ‘Amsterdam’s Atlantic’.
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From in-person lectures to a first-class degree: our year on social media
Covid year 2021 might have felt somewhat less strange than the year before, but the virus still left its mark on University life and our students and staff. Fortunately there was also room for research, visiting dignitaries and in-person classes. And our social media accounts weren’t only about covid…
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’
During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also looks at freedom and oppression today. Three questions for Sara Polak, chair of the Hour of Remembrance committee.
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The Paranormal: Experiences and Experiments (8th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity)
Conference
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Negotiating mobilities: Identities, borders, and empires in the Caribbean ca 1860-1940
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Marriage, Mecca and the Immigrant Quraysh
Lecture
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Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism
In the coming years, Asghar Seyed Gohrab receives an advanced European Research Council grant of two and a half million euros to spend on his research into non-conformism in Islam. ‘Hopefully I can use this to contribute something to society, to pass something on to future generations.’
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Celebrating Maimonides in Cairo: Jewish Historiography, Egyptian Nationalism, and Global Crisis
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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A window into the past: Turks and Greeks at the end of the Ottoman Empire
Lecture
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How Did East Asians Become Yellow?
Lecture
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Mathematische statistiek
Valedictory Lecture
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"If I deserve it, it should be paid to me": A social history of labour in the Iranian oil industry 1951-1973
PhD Defence
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Building a Human Rights Movement that Changed History: The Inside Story of the Campaign to Investigate the Murder of Sandro Girgvliani
Lecture
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mechanisms of political decision-making and economic interests in the history of Dutch Brazil, 1621-1656
PhD Defence
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Portraits of Resilience: Writing a Socio-Cultural History of a Black South African Location with the Ngilima Photographic Collection, Benoni
PhD Defence
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Book launch: Graffiti, street names and visiting cards: the fractured history of Arabic and Hebrew urban textuality in modern Jerusalem
Lecture, Public event
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US 2016: The Most Dangerous Elections since 1868
Lecture
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Declining trust in government: the low-trust society
The Netherlands in September 2021 could be characterised as a low-trust society. Trust in the government has declined significantly in the past one-and-a-half years: from almost 70 percent in April 2020 to less than 30 percent in September 2021. There has also been a slight decrease in trust between…
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Illegality and Immobility in the 19th-century Americas
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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ASCL Seminar: The Economics and Politics of Ghana’s Policy Experiments 1957-2011/2018
Lecture, Seminar
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Commercialisation as Social Transformation: Ottoman Greeks in Amsterdam
Lecture
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Do Numbers Matter? Public Policy and the Problem of Dirty Hands
Lecture
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‘International isolation is not an option’
Security in the broadest sense of the word was the key focus in the Interfaculty Conference on 4 April in Leiden. With almost 200 attendees and such well-known speakers as Dick Schoof, Pieter van Vollenhoven and Ad Verbrugge, the first conference was a success.
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Citizenship, Migration and Global Transformations
Globalization, migration, technological innovation and climate change pose challenges to citizens in European countries. These challenges test the limits of cross-national and cross-generational solidarities, touching upon the very foundations of governance and society. This research program aims at…
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FGGA Research Seminar: The Rise of Populism and The Role of Expert Knowledge: The Case for Epistemic Democracy
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Anar Ahmadov awarded fellowship at Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study
Anar Ahmadov, Assistant Professor of Political Economy at LUC, has been awarded NIAS Individual Fellowship by the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW).
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Style formation, patterns and the transfer of Antiquity
Conference, Byvanck Style Symposium
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars 2016-2017
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Leiden Leadership Lunch: 'Innovation Capacity in Times of Decline'
Leiden Leadership Lunch
- ASCL Seminar: Retrieving lost paths in the rainforest after population collapse in Congo rainforest from 400 CE
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Illegality and Immobility in the 19th-century Americas
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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The disputed issue of the origin of noodles
Lecture
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Expense Regimes: A New Paradigm for Understanding Economic History from Below?
Lecture
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Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: De perfecte geleerde
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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“Tales of Technocrats” Photo Exhibition
Exhibition, Photo Exhibition
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‘A doctor! You?’ Three women on their PhD and career
Rietje Knaap’s (83) PhD was a real feat of endurance, but she persisted. ‘You’re married so you don’t need a pension, do you?’ What are the experiences of Knaap and women who followed in her footsteps? In the run-up to International Women’s Day on 8 March, three generations of female doctors look back…
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Minds on Stage: Cognitive Approaches to Greek Tragedy
Conference
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FGGA Research Seminar: When all else Defaults: Government as the Ultimate Debtor?
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Urban refugees as musician entrepreneurs in Dar es Salaam and Kinshasa: Navigating policies in the search for a dignified life in contemporary
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Tracking migrations and migration effects in archaeology: New insights from isotope bioarchaeology
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Political Economies of Intimacy in Colony and Metropole and their European Afterlives
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Tracking migrations and migration effects in archaeology: New insights from isotope bioarchaeology
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)