270 search results for “post-colonial” in the Public website
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Pui Chi Lai: ‘I like figuring out and solving problems’
Pui Chi Lai (35) has a lot on her plate, being a study adviser and coordinator of studies for two bachelor's programmes and two master's programmes. Alongside her job, however, she does not sit still and follows a PhD trajectory at the University of Macau.
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Developing out of a solid base: Sybille Lammes new academic director of LUCAS
As of November 1st 2019, Sybille Lammes, Professor of New Media and Digital Culture, will be the new academic director of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). She succeeds Anthonya Visser, who has been the institute's academic director since 2014. It is a three year-long appointment.…
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Call for Papers: Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries'
On 26-28 June, 2023, Leiden University’s Institute for History will host a summer school on Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries, in collaboration with the N.W. Posthumus Institute (the research school for economic and social history in the Netherlands and Flanders)…
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Moving images and stories about itinerant heritage in Leiden's Oude UB
How do Nepalese exiles in England celebrate their festivals? What are North Korean monuments doing in Zimbabwe? The ‘Heritage on the Move’ exhibition shows what happens to cultures under the influence of migration. From 3 December to 7 January in Leiden University's Oude UB.
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Ian Simpson’s Leiden Experience: ‘Engaging with heritage can be a matter of cultural survival’
Ian Simpson is a relatively new face at the Faculty of Archaeology. Starting as an assistant professor in the Heritage and Society department in 2018, he is one of the faculty’s members in critical heritage studies and looks both at the past as well as the future. ‘I study how heritage can be employed…
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Why southern Africa is full of North Korean monuments
North Korean workers designed and built numerous monuments, museums and other buildings in southern Africa. This is clear from research by history student Tycho van der Hoog for his master's thesis. These monuments can be an important source of income for a country that has become quite isolated on…
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Prof Ann Brysbaert participates in Getty Foundation’s initiative
A new and recently started Getty Foundation project, Material Entanglements in the Ancient Mediterranean and Beyond, aims to forge connections among Mediterranean and Eastern scholars who rarely come into contact with one another’s work. Ann Brysbaert is one of the 25 invited specialists investigating…
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‘Indonesians want more focus on fine details in research on war of decolonisation’
After a lobby lasting many years, the Dutch government has decided to finance an independent study of the war of decolonisation (1945-1950) in the former Dutch East Indies. This is partly due to the work of Professor of Colonial and Post-Colonial History, Gert Oostindie, Director of the KITLV. ‘The…
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CA-OS Research Seminar | Contesting aesthetics: images of development and urbanisation
Lecture, Seminar
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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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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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The Impediments to Uncovering the Human Rights Dimension of Sino-African Relations
Lecture
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Ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity: Looking back and moving forward
Conference, Symposium
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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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Replacing Curacao’s ‘mild slavery’ thesis: From critique to new findings
Conference, Workshop
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Dismantling National Colonialism: the role of Chilean political indigenous movements
Guest Lecture
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Nationalism in Latin America and Africa
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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Framing Margins: Mao and Visuality in Twentieth-century India
Lecture, China Seminar
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Jewish Transnational Networks in the Interwar Period 1918-1939: Jewish Philanthropy and MENA-Europe relations
Lecture
- CPP Colloquia 2018-2019
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Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Megan Vaughan: Africa in the time of Coronavirus. Biology, history and politics
Lecture
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Ottoman Masculinities at Stake: Popular Erotic Narratives in Early Twentieth-Century Ottoman Turkish Literature
Lecture
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Eurasian extinction: miscegenation and the question of the native in Macau literature
Lecture
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Global Interactions welcomes five new postdocs in 2016
In November of last year Global Interactions made offers to five out of nearly 90 applicants for our grant-writing postdocs. We are pleased to announce that all have accepted and will be joining various Leiden institutes this year. The five postdocs are Katia Hay, Johannes Müller, Maria-Paz Peirano,…
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their research ideas in the coming three years.
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Colonial without realising it
The nineteenth-century writer Nicolaas Beets and his son Dirk were thoroughly colonial, Nicholas without ever having been to the Dutch Indies, or any other colony for that matter. But they didn’t realise it. The new Scaliger Professor, Rick Honings, shows that writers’ archives are a treasure trove…
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Women in the Gulf: Economic Empowerment and Beyond
Debate
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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GLASS Public Lecture | Translation and Image – on the Schematism of Co-Figuration
Lecture
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The Eurasian Question
PhD defence
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IPSA RC31 Conference, Decolonizing Western Political Philosophy
Debate
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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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LIMS Talk - Colonial Memory and Constructions of Race in Dutch Legal Education
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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Evropi Chatzipanagiotidou
Lecture, Research Seminar
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The Grid: Making A Universal Migration Regime
Lecture, Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminar (LIMS)
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[Cancelled] Disabling the Middle East: How Can the Concept of Disability Provide Fresh Perspectives on the Region?
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Can migration theory be applied to the Irish migration experience since 1945?
Lecture, History Brown Bag Seminar
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POSTPONED - Writing a General Labour History of Africa from 1600 to 1900
Conference, Roundtable
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Making and Breaking Global Order in the Twentieth Century
Conference, INVISIHIST Conference
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The EU and Africa – joint visions for the future or falling back on the past?
Lecture, Seminar
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Opening tentoonstelling 'Crafting Cultures' in de oude UB
Exhibition
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Roundtable: Writing a General Labour History of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries
Lecture
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Agenda
Overview of all Asia events at Leiden University
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Modalities of Displacement in South Asia
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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Pieter's Corner: Climate change
Climate change is a hot topic and constantly in the news. Thousands of Dutch high school students protested at the Malieveld in The Hague. News website Nu.nl has barred climate change deniers from their comments section to prevent ‘fake news’. How does climate change impact the research community, and…
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GI grants awarded to Mariana Francozo, Sabine Luning and Wayne Modest
Global Interactions is pleased to announce that we have awarded a GI Advanced Seminar grant to Dr. Mariana Francozo (Archaeology) for 'Historia Naturalis Brasiliae' and a Breed Grant for 'Global Earth Matters' to Dr. Sabine Luning (CA-DS) and Dr. Wayne Modest (RCMC)
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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Masterclass | Ziauddin Sardar: Islam, Knowledge and Culture in Postnormal Times
Masterclass
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Global Modernism in the Middle East and North Africa: Afterlives and Aftermaths
Faculty Roundtable | MENA Cultures & Global Aesthetics