1,556 search results for “natural american history” in the Staff website
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Maria VoltsichinaFaculty of Humanities
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Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery
Lecture
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Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geology
Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theories are still relevant, as an exhibition at the Oude UB shows.
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Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina
82 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
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Nuranisa NuranisaFaculty of Humanities
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Daphne EngelFaculty of Humanities
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Henrike VellingaFaculty of Humanities
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Koundja Mayoubila
Faculty of Humanities
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Pichayapat NaisupapFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander van der Meer
Alexander van der Meer is a lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute for History.
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Brian ShaevFaculty of Humanities
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Gijs DreijerFaculty of Humanities
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Cigdem Billur-Ada
Faculty of Humanities
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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'Rome after Rome': a unique student-scholar exploration of early medieval Rome
Debates about the ‘end’ of the Roman era, how, when, and even if it ended, are still very much alive and raging. However, what happened after the (long) late antique period is a lesser-known and lesser-studied subject. The post-Roman past needs, however, as much energetic investigation and discussion.…
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Scientific Integrity for PhD candidates in Archaeology and the Humanities
Research
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Sil DoumaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Michel Wyss
Faculty of Humanities
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Sulakshana de Mel
Koninklijk Instituut Taal, Land- en Volkenkunde
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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Eddie Meijer
Faculty of Humanities
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Orson McMahon
Faculty of Humanities
- David André Anton Cina
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Timur Khan
Faculty of Humanities
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
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Elsa Saez Jara
Faculty of Humanities
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Liliana Morawietz Yanez
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem de VriesFaculty of Humanities
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Joaquin Fernandez Abara
Faculty of Humanities
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Gabriel Veppo de Lima
Faculty of Humanities
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Marinus van Hekken
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim LubbersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Richard GriffithsFaculty of Humanities
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Difficult message for policymakers from two Leiden reports on circular economy
You should start working now, and the positive results will only be seen long after your term has expired. That is just about the worst thing you can say to politicians and policymakers. Yet that is exactly the message of two recent reports on sustainable resource use from the Centre for Environmental…
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Een middeleeuws historielied in de Vroegmoderne Tijd
Valedictory lecture
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Tracing the Early History of Yoga
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes
Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet.
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Captive Entanglements: Slavery, Medicine, and Natural Inquiry in Early Modern Italy
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Uncovering the role of Social Democracy in the History of European Competition Policy
Lecture, CHEI Seminar - Book launch
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Laurie Cosmo: ‘Dutch museums have a very contemporary exhibition practice’
University lecturer Laurie Cosmo, having grown up in New York, came to the Hague from Rome, Italy, where she fell under the spell of the Kunstmuseum. ‘I loved the building even before I worked at Leiden University.’
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Anthropologist Andrew Littlejohn on NU.nl: 'With Trump taking office, the tide is turning on disaster management'"
More than twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern United States with nearly 1,400 deaths. Due to climate change, the lessons from this disaster are more relevant than ever, but the Trump administration seems to be ignoring them by cutting funding for disaster management. Anthropologist…
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Leiden researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery
In a speech on Keti Koti the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, apologised on behalf of the royal family for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery. What is the significance of this?
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Henk Schulte Nordholt has been appointed extraordinary professor
Dr. Henk Schulte Nordholt, working at KITLV and LIAS, has been appointed extraordinary professor of Indonesian history for a five-year period.
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a hundred years ago. PhD candidate Léjon Saarloos researched British scientists around the year 1900 and their idea of what makes a good - and therefore…
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Wreck in the Wadden Sea: ‘Objects tell the story’
More than 40 years ago, a wrecked merchant ship was found in the Wadden Sea. PhD student Geke Burger looked at this archaeological find from a historical perspective.