1,054 search results for “boer history” in the Staff website
-
Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
-
Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
-
From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
-
Rubicon for research into Roman law: ‘We don’t know what wider society thought about law’
Expert in Classics Renske Janssen has been awarded a Rubicon grant. She will use the grant to conduct research at the University of Edinburgh into how Roman law was perceived by society at the time.
-
Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
-
Andrew Gawthorpe on ABC Radio about ‘Orbánism’ and the American right
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas last week. University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains in an interview with ABC Radio what the embrace of 'Orbánism' means for the American right, and democracy more broadly.
-
Meet Dr. Jonathan Stökl, LJSA Member
Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Stökl was Reader in Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at Kings College London.
-
Holding the Byvanck Chair in times of corona
Professor Caroline Vout, Cambridge University, was awarded the Leiden University Byvanck Chair in 2020. In a pre-Covid-19 world, the Byvanck Chair would stay in Leiden for seminars, lectures, and research activities. Instead, the pandemic disrupted this schedule. Last month, Vout taught her masterclass…
-
Ghanaian Sign Language(s): History, Linguistics, and Ideology
PhD defence
-
Fossil Urbanism: Global Forces, Local Contexts, and Urban Environmental History
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
-
Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
-
Towards a Virtual Slave Island/Kompannavidiya Heritage, history and spatial contestation in Colombo (Sri Lanka)
Lecture, Event
-
Heino van RijnberkFaculty of Humanities
-
Marleen ReichgeltFaculty of Humanities
-
Rong YuanFaculty of Humanities
-
Catherine WoodFaculty of Humanities
-
Matthew SungFaculty of Humanities
-
Amadou AdamouFaculty of Humanities
-
Vera ScepanovicFaculty of Humanities
-
Ahab BdaiwiFaculty of Humanities
-
Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities
-
Leonardo Arias AlvisFaculty of Humanities
-
Marcin RabizaFaculty of Humanities
-
Xuan Dong
Faculty of Humanities
-
Carmen Kurpershoek
Faculty of Humanities
-
Seraina RenzFaculty of Humanities
-
Tony van der Togt
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
-
Dimitris Kastritis
Faculty of Humanities
-
Koen van der LijnFaculty of Humanities
-
Ghulam Ali Murtaza
Faculty of Humanities
-
Yusra AbdullahiFaculty of Humanities
-
Li-Fan LeeFaculty of Humanities
-
Ruben Eijkelenberg
Ruben Eijkelenberg is a PhD student at the Insitute for History.
-
Judith Leferink
Faculty of Humanities
-
Anthony Coxeter
Faculty of Humanities
-
Peter Postma
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
-
Athanasios StathopoulosFaculty of Humanities
-
Robertus Benning
Faculty of Humanities
-
Saskia Cohen-Willner -
Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
-
Global dynamics: a very deep historical perspective on the history of Humanity
Keynote Lecture
-
Scholars and senators on the legitimacy of the Dutch Senate
The Leiden Research Profile Area Political Legitimacy organizes a public symposium on the 12th of May 2016 on the legitimacy and future of the Dutch Senate.
-
PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish?
Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in bright colours, into categories. Yet, this division has been discussed for centuries. In her PhD dissertation, Didi van Trijp shows how natural scientists…
-
University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
-
‘Drawing for Dummies’, but in the Renaissance
The way the great masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries learned to draw is more similar to a present-day drawing class or book than you might think. Professor of ‘Art on Paper and Parchment’ Yvonne Bleyerveld tells us about the art of copying and model books.
-
Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
-
Word from the LUCSoR Chair: July 2025
It is mid-July and as I sit in my office in the Herta Mohr building, I notice how quiet it is around campus. Yet, this is in direct contrast with a flurry of activity by LUCSoR colleagues and students in recent weeks. I highlight just a few examples here.
-
Sharing Digital Humanities Knowledge
If you missed the annual LUCDH Winter School Week of Digital Humanities workshops and Pilot Project Symposium (27 – 31 January 2025) this time around, you’ll have a chance to take part next year. Save the dates for the last week of January 2026!
-
Fossil Empire: An Environmental History of Oil and Coal in Southern Sumatra, 1921-1942
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
-
A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk