2,196 search results for “global maritime history” in the Public website
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Navigations of a globalizing Chad: Nomadic Walad Djifir grounded in connectivity
PhD defence
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Regímenes de cooperación internacional, paradigmas globales y redes de inteligencia en América Latina
PhD defence
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An International Rule-Based Order and China in the Global Arena
Lecture
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Power of Religion and Human Rights: An interreligious dialogue from a global perspective
Annual LeidenGlobal Lecture
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Claire Vergerio shortlisted for CEU Excellence in Teaching Award
Political scientist Claire Vergerio (Leiden University) has made it to the final stage of the selection process for Central European University’s annual European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities. As the 2019 Casimir Prize winner, Vergerio was nominated by the Faculty…
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'I cook, therefore I am'
For a new food-related exhibition in the Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, archaeologist Dr. Joanita Vroom has cooperated in creating the Taste Lab, where one can look, listen, taste and cook. Moreover, she designed a series of food workshops.
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Special Event on the global arms trade: Film Screening of 'Shadow World' and Q&A with Andrew Feinstein
Film screening
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of Abdominal Organ Procurement and Transplantation: The Forgotten History
Inaugural lecture
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Situating the Island of Bonaire in the Deep History of the Southeastern Caribbean
Lecture, What did you do last summer?
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Studying the History of Technocratic Reasoning in Digitized Parliamentary Debates
Lecture
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Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War A Transnational History
Lecture, LIAS Book event
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LUC The Hague receives 'Top rated Programme' seal for the ninth time in a row
Leiden University College The Hague received the 'Top rated Programme' seal from the Keuzegids Universiteiten 2022 (Dutch University Guide). It is the ninth consecutive time the Liberal Arts & Sciences programme focusing on Global Challenges is awarded the honorary seal.
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Climate change presents African grazers with tricky decision
Lions limit their prey, such as zebra and gnu, in their options for adapting to global warming. This is what Leiden researcher Michiel Veldhuis, from the Institute of Environmental Sciences, and a group of international colleagues have discovered. The research was published today in Nature Ecology &…
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[Cancelled until further notice] Connected Histories of Migration Control: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the ‘West.’
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Wolfgang Ernst: The Slave Killed Twice - a Legal Riddle and its European History
Lecture
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
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Trump’s America and the World - The Perils of a US Disengagement from Global Politics
Lecture
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The history of public health and epidemics in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 19th century
Lecture
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Imaging and Imagining Palestine -Photography and social history of Palestine during the British Mandate (1918 - 1948)
Conference
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There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the European refugee crisis
Who is welcome as a refugee, and who is not? And how is that decided? What role do humanitarian organisations play in the debate surrounding refugees? Doctoral candidate Teuntje Vosters is investigating the influence Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) exert on European policy on migration and ref…
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NWO Free Competition Grant for Al-Jallad and Akkermans
Dr. Ahmad Al-Jallad and Prof.dr. Peter Akkermans have been awarded with the NWO Free Competition Grant for their research project 'Landscapes of Survival: Pastoralist Societies, Rock Art and Literacy in Jordan's Black Desert, c. 1000 BC to 500 AD'. Together, they study settlements, burials and inscr…
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Joris Larik: New handbook cornerstone for emerging field of comparative foreign relations law
On 13-14 October, Dr. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor for Comparative, EU, and International Law at LUC, took part in the Duke-Pretoria Conference on Comparative Foreign Relations Law. During these two days in the South African capital, draft chapters for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook on Comparative…
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LUC The Hague: Celebrating Class of 2020 ½ and 2021
Last Friday, Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2020 ½ and 2021. The 186 students received their Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science degree’s in LUC’s interdisciplinary honours programme Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges. Under the silver-…
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Repatriating Stranded Dutch Citizens: Scattered across the Globe
Jan Melissen discusses the political side of the repatriation operation for Dutch citizens stranded abroad in Dutch newspaper 'de Volkskrant'.
- Kaiser Lente Lezingen: Launching into the night — a brief history of space exploration
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Kaiser Lente Lezingen: Launching into the night — a brief history of space exploration
Lecture
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Playful Time Machines: Research and Outreach at the Interface of Games, History, and Heritage
Lecture
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VVIK Lecture | Uncovering the Manuscript History of the Śrīkaṇṭhacarita: Tracing and Reconstruction
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Sustainable The Hague: Sustainable initiatives in your local area
How can you do your bit for sustainability? Students from Leiden University have launched an interactive website with 150 sustainable initiatives in and around The Hague. SustainableTheHague.nl makes it easy to find a sustainable shop, restaurant or community initiative in your local area.
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The story behind the war victims
Herta Mohr was a promising Egyptologist who died in Bergen-Belsen. Lawyer Amandus Wolfsbergen died in Auschwitz, without knowing that the his work would continue to be a respected authority for many years. Thanks to research by PhD candidate Adriënne Baars, some more personal information has been added…
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Enough is enough – the medal will be returned
Over a decade ago the then foreign minister Abdullah Gül awarded me the “Medal of High Distinction” of the Republic of Turkey. I received the award, consisting of a diploma and a gigantic gold medal, during a festive ceremony at the Turkish embassy in The Hague. The reason I was deemed worthy of the…
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VICI winner Cwiertka: ‘I am contrary by nature’
Katarzyna Cwiertka, Leiden Professor of Modern Japan Studies, was already the recipient of a VENI and a VIDI grant. Now she has also been granted a VICI, worth 1.5 million euro, for her research project Garbage Matters: A Comparative History of Waste in East Asia. ‘I want to do something that hasn’t…
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Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorship
Ten Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that symbolise retiring Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker and the research in Leiden. With direct references, playful associations and the odd nod and wink.
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1200 North Korean posters in one database
Korea specialist Koen De Ceuster has combined 1200 posters from North Korea in one database. He believes the posters are extremely valuable for researchers who want to make a more in-depth study of this closed country. The database will be launched on 15 June in Leiden.
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Work-in-Progress: ‘Connecting Histories of Abolition: ‘Ameliorating’ slavery in British crown colonies in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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CANCELLED | From Peripheral Whiteness to White Supremacy: Histories of Race in Eastern Europe 1945-present day
Lecture, Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS)
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Deprivation of Liberty of Children in The Justice System Towards a Global Research Agenda
Conference
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Slaves to the System: North Korean Forced Labour on a Global Scale
Conference
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Historical Blendings: An Entangled History of Social Democracy and Liberalism in Europe
Conference
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State-owned enterprises and the politics of innovation in a globalized value chain: The case of natural resource sector
Conference, Research Seminar
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Defense: Cosmic Collisions, Nuclear Explosions, and the Environmental History of Asteroids and Comets
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Master's Online Experience Day Europaeum programme European History and Civilisation: Q&A
Study information
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Staging Power: A Study of Narrative Patterns in Herodian’s History of the Roman Empire
PhD defence
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Cattle and colonialism: an animal-centred history of southern Africa, 1652-1980s
PhD defence
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Political Legitimacy in Chinese History: The Case of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-535)
PhD defence
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Museum Talks 2019: The Secret Life of Art: Data Science for Art History and Art Conservation
Lecture
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A Brief History of the Shifting Representations of Indigenous Taiwanese in Documentary Film
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Ibn Yūnus’s Use of Documentary Evidence in his History of Egypt
Lecture
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Models of linguistic diversity and Amazonian pre-history: a view from the Northwest Amazon
Lecture, Language & the Human Past Lecture Series
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Rethinking the Role of 'Regions' in the Global Political Economy: The Gulf Arab States and the Middle East
Lecture, The annual L-PEG Lecture in Global Political Economy