2,310 search results for “colonialism imperialism and heritage” in the Public website
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Gravensteen Lecture | Violence, Militarism and the Law: A Brief History of Dispossession
Lecture
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History Research Master Symposium
Conference
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LGBTIQ rights in Europe: the role of the European Parliament
Lecture, Seminar
- Decolonisation of knowledge in the digital age: Launch of new open access journal Bridging Humanities
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Displacement and Bodily Politics: Experience of Rural ‘Homeless’ in Peri-Urban Calcutta
Lecture, L-PEG Lunch Research Seminar
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Cross-border Claims to Cultural Objects
PhD defence
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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The making of a slave: ‘Modern’ slavery, drugs trafficking, and the cultural politics of victimhood in postcolonial Britain
Lecture, Research Seminar
- WHAT's NEW?! Spring Lecture Series
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The Archaeology of Roman Portugal in its Western Mediterranean context
Conference
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars 2019-2020
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Sovereignty in the Hills: The Naga Nation and Indian State-Making, 1944-1960
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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The Uprising
Film screening and discussion
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars 2020-2021
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Jewish Transnational Networks in the Interwar Period 1918-1939: Jewish Philanthropy and MENA-Europe relations
Lecture
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Re-centering of the scientific work of Johannes Karwafodi, a Lokono scholar
Lecture
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European cultural diplomacy and Arab Christians in Palestine. A connected history during the formative years of the Middle East
Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
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Contemporary Modernist Shi'i Reform in India: Notes from Mumbai and Kargil
Lecture
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You are what you eat
Conference, Student Conference
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The Journey from Monolingual to Multilingual Language Policy in Ethiopia: Politics, challenges and opportunities
Lecture, This Time for Africa! Series
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EU’s engagement in the Arctic
Lecture, Seminar
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Civil Society’s Democratic Potential: Organizational Trade-offs between Participation and Representation
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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The formation of Islam: The view from below
By examining the impact of Islam on the daily life of those living under its rule, the goal of this project is to understand the striking newness of Islamic society and its debt to the diverse cultures it superseded. Questions will be the extent, character, and ambition of Muslim state competency at…
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How do you tell the story of eighteenth century princesses?
Historian Joost Welten has written a book entitled 'De vergeten prinsessen van Thorn' (The forgotten princesses of Thorn). For his book, he analysed thousands of handwritten letters from the eighteenth century, mainly written in German and French. His personal mission is to visualize the daily lives…
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Museumnacht Leiden 2022
Festival
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Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Seminar: Fleeting Commitments or Can the Museum be Decolonised?
Lecture
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Launch DisPLACE: digital archive for disability history
Conference, Website launch
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SAILS Lunch Seminar
Lecture, seminar
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Destruction of Bamiyan Buddha: Taliban Iconoclasm and Hazara Response
Lecture
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Re-Scape: 'The Animal City'
Lecture
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UMADA Project Launch
Conference
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LUSSI Seminar Apocalypticism and Eschatology in Early Islam with David Cook
Lecture
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Opening LeidenGlobal Photo Exhibition: Crafting Cultures
Exhibition
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Book Launch | Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Book Launch
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Celebrating Naga Culture: Authenticity, Indigeneity and Modernity
Lecture
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Campus The Hague: more ‘Hague’ in its DNA
Campus The Hague has forged its own identity: alongside interdisciplinarity, interaction with the city is its defining feature. ‘The campus is now a young adult. It is well beyond puberty,’ says campus chair Erwin Muller. An ambitious new strategy reveals this.
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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
Lecture
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From “The Sea Bastards” to “Solidarity Beyond Ocean”: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of Scale in the Bandung Moment
Lecture
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Challenging poor behaviour in academia
Conference
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Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800 - Not a normal job: the Emperor in Eurasian History
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Re-Presented Pasts: Uses and Re-Uses of the Past in Pre-Modern Islam
Conference, LUCIS Research Programme | Re-Presented Pasts
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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Upcoming exhibitions, performances, concerts, publications and lectures by PhDArts, docARTES and ACPA researchers
Upcoming activities by docARTES PhD candidates Shaya Feldman, Anne Veinberg, Ned McGowan and Nizar Rohana, PhDArts candidates Brigitte Kovacs, Eleni Kamma, Danne Ojeda, Andrea Stultiens and K.G.Guttman and ACPA PhD candidate Henri Bok.
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How a Dutchman contributed to the rapid development of Singapore
In 1960, Albert Winsemius started to help the city state of Singapore achieve its rapid rise out of economic misery. He helped the Singaporean government understand how the Netherlands had managed to rebuild so quickly after the Second World War, with the help of the American Marshall Plan. PhD defence…
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NIMAR exhibition: Morocco through Dutch eyes
Leiden historian Herman Obdeijn has created an exhibition for NIMAR about the centuries-old bond between the two countries. The exhibition opens on 1 March at the Université Mohammed V in Rabat. ‘The Moroccans changed from distant allies to close neighbours.’
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Anoma van der Veere: ‘In Japan, the awkward little masks symbolise the government’s failure’
Leiden Asia Centre researcher Anoma van der Veere argues that the Japanese government has failed to respond properly to Covid-19. There were difficulties with implementing government measures aimed at limiting the spread of the virus – in some cases those measures were not even taken seriously. How…
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Book Africanist Stephen Ellis posthumously published
The African Studies Centre Leiden presented the last book by its renowned colleague Prof. Stephen Ellis (1953-2015), This Present Darkness: A history of Nigerian organised crime, on 9 June. The book was published posthumously. Former colleagues and friends paid tribute to Ellis, who was regarded as…
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Sara Brandellero: 'the news coming from Brazil is chilling'
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro called the COVID-19 disease “a minor illness”. With more than 200.000 confirmed corona cases today (May 18) however, Brazil is quickly becoming one of the world’s emerging coronavirus hot spots. How long can Bolsonaro continue to downplay the corona crisis? We asked…