829 search results for “history of indonesie” in the Staff website
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Fanny Wonu Veys: ‘I want to introduce students to the art history of Oceania’
Fanny Wonu Veys was appointed Professor of Art and Material Culture of Oceania on 1 August. Time for an introduction.
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew Gawthorpe on The Conversation: 'Trump's Greenland plan ignores a history of segregation'
University Lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe discusses on The Conversation how Trump's Greenland proposal overlooks the historical discrimination faced by Indigenous Alaskans.
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Homo erectus discovery in Indonesia features in news stories world wide
The Leiden archaeologist Harold Berghuis was closely involved in archaeological discoveries off the coast of Java. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide new insights into the world of Homo erectus. The discovery was the subject of numerous news reports.
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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Anahita ArianFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Elizabeth Rodriguez EstradaFaculty of Archaeology
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Kees Verduin
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maria van der SchaarFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van den DoelAdministration and Central Services
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Robert SteinFaculty of Humanities
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…
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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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Hans MolFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew ShieldFaculty of Humanities
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Rebekka GrossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der BoomFaculty of Humanities
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Maud RijksFaculty of Humanities
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Khizar JawadFaculty of Humanities
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Daniele Paolini
Faculty of Humanities
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Elisabeth DietermanFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Marcel KeurentjesFaculty of Humanities
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
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Rodrigo OchigameFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Leonor Faber-JonkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Kenan van de Mieroop
Faculty of Humanities
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Ronald Petrarca
Faculty of Humanities
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Johan VisserFaculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den HeijerFaculty of Humanities
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Doreen MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander GeurdsFaculty of Archaeology
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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Jay HuangFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Klaas WorpFaculty of Humanities
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities