1285 search results for “american slavery” in the Public website
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Americans more likely to finance presidential candidate with broad support base
Americans more often donate funds to a presidential candidate if the campaign is backed by financiers from different, recognised social groups. This is the conclusion of Leiden researcher Vincent Traag in an article in Plos One published on 14 April.
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Latin American representatives visit Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Each year, Latin American diplomats meet the researchers and students from Leiden University who specialise in their region. This year, they visited the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. ‘The social and behavioural sciences have improved our understanding of social unrest.’
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The world wakes up with President Trump
Should we be deeply concerned about the America of Donald Trump? Or will he bring about positive change? This was the main topic of discussion between researchers and students at the Big Leiden Presidential Breakfast on 9 November.
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Book Presentations Latin American Studies
Lecture, Book Launch
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Barack Obama and the dilemmas of American Hegemony
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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New perspectives on the export of North Korean labour
Conference
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BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).
Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.
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‘The Rooseveltian Century’: one of the best MOOCs according to New York Magazine
According to New York Magazine, the massive open online course (MOOC) ‘The Rooseveltian Century’ by Professor by Special Appointment Giles Scott-Smith is one of the best online courses. We asked him why you should take the course and how it came about.
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Hanna Bosdriesz awarded doctorate cum laude
On 3 December 2019 Hanna Bosdriesz defended her dissertation on the fight against impunity for grave human rights violations in Latin America.
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Fulbright scholarship takes Sara Polak to Yale
Sara Polak, PhD researcher and lecturer at LUCAS, has won a Fulbright scholarship to work on her research on Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yale University from September 2014 till February 2015.
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Towards the 2016 presidential elections: the current crisis in American politics
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Gravensteen Lecture | A Living Laboratory: Japan in American Social Thought
Lecture
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Earth, Wind, Fire, and Politics: Archaeology in the American Southwest
Lecture
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Language prescriptivism: Attitudes to usage vs. actual language use in American English
PhD Defence
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'The spirit of insubordination rules': Slavery, Abolition and Free People of Colour in the Dutch Bovenwindse Islands of St. Eustatius, Saba and
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Screening the War on Terror: The Politics and Aesthetics of Torture in American and European Cinema
PhD Defence
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University featuring the Secretary General of the Organization of American States
Lecture
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Why Iran’s economy is not ‘collapsing’
President Trump believes that Iran’s economy is collapsing, and that this will leave Iranians no choice but to surrender to the demands of the United States. But these expectations might not come true, says Arash Pourebrahimi at the website of the Harvard Kennedy School.
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Western as Method: Questions of Indigeneity, Race and Violence in the American and Japanese Frontiers
Lecture
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The Big Leiden Presidential Breakfast
Festival
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What Trump's European visit didn't deliver
Professor Rob de Wijk (International Relations) monitored Donald Trump's recent visit to Europe. We discussed the outcomes of the different summits with the Leiden scholar. ‘This visit delivered exactly what I predicted: nothing!'
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Student Conference in Latin American Studies (SCOLAS)
Conference
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The Question of Amnesty: The Difficult Process of Agreeing on Peace in Colombia
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Negotiating an Arab-American Identity: Voices of Arab Immigrants in the Past & Present
Panel Discussion
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1800, Transatlantic Neoclassicism: The African Figure
Lecture
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18 Veni subsidies for Leiden, 8 for our faculty!
This year, NWO has awarded a Veni subsidy to 143 young researchers who have recently obtained their PhD. 17 of these researchers are at Leiden University and one works at the LUMC. The successful applicants will each receive 250,000 euro to develop their ideas and carry out research over a period of…
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Leidschrift Symposium: the United States Presidential Election - Campaigns in a contemporary and historic perspective
Conference, Symposium
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Natives of Borno: Islamic Knowledge and African American Literature
LUCIS Lecture | MENA Cultures & Global Aesthetics
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“One Great Nation Under Trump? Human Rights and Neoliberalism Amidst American Decline”
Lecture, Seminar
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The Savage as Living Ghost: Representations of Native Americans and Scholarly Failures to Dismantle the Notion of the Savage
PhD Defence
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Is it Possible to Build World Order Without American Hegemony?
Lecture
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Contributions to Chibchan Historical Linguistics
PhD Defence
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CEES.center Seminar: Pinochet in Prague—Latin American Neoliberalism and (Post-)Socialist Eastern Europe
Lecture
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US 2016: The Most Dangerous Elections since 1868
Lecture
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Love, Fear, and Guilt: American Jews and Israel in the 1948 War
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar
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Management Implications for Invertebrate Assemblages in the Midwest American Agricultural Landscape
PhD Defence
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration
Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the indigenous peoples of America? In an international conference, historians from Leiden will seek to draw attention to the more negative effects of the…
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against impunity in Latin America: the contributions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights to domestic accountability processes
PhD Defence
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Lunch Research Seminar: The Illusion of Inevitability: American Grand Strategy and Leadership in Europe
Lecture
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Populist Polarization in Italian Politics: An Assessment from a Latin American Analytical Perspective
PhD Defence
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Symposium “African Art with Words”
Conference
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The Revitalization of Mapuzungun, a South American language of Chile and Argentina
Lecture
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South American Cities and Frontiers: An Analysis of Regional Integration From the Mercocities Network
Lecture
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Corruption and the current Political Turmoil in Latin America: Is there a Way out?
Lecture
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Book launch: The Politics of Borders/Practising EU Policy/American Hegemony and the Rise of Emerging Powers
Debate
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The Presidential elections in Brazil and Mexico 2018: What have we learned
Lecture
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Panel Discussion and Book Launch: Strategic Human Rights Litigation Understanding and Maximising Impact
Book Launch
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Brazil, an emerging power, a BRICS / Brazil, major producer of primary goods
Lecture
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Roundtable: Authoritarianism in Mexico. Political and criminal violence against journalists and activists
Debate
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