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• Post-everything: An intellectual history of post-concepts Research output

  What does it mean to live in an era of ‘posts’? At a time when ‘post-truth’ is on everyone’s lips, this volume seeks to uncover the logic of post-constructions – postmodernism, post-secularism, postfeminism, post-colonialism, post-capitalism, post-structuralism, post-humanism, post-tradition, post-Christian,…

• Arts and Culture: Art History and Museum Studies Arts and Culture (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Arts and Culture: Art History and Museum Studies? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• Visiting Researchers Institute for History

  Visiting Researchers at the Leiden University Institute for History

• A Deep History of Human Landscape Manipulation Liveable Planet

  This study aims to provide a long time perspective of human landscape manipulation. Studying the roles of prehistoric foragers in past ecosystems is of great importance to establish the character of past 'natural' landscapes and to enhance the management of current ones.

• Ancient History in the Leiden University Botanical Gardens Research project

  Which plants in the Mediterranean garden were already known to the ancient Greeks and Romans, and how were they utilized?

• Unravelling East Africa’s Early Linguistic History (LHEAf) Research project

  This project investigates the rich linguistic history of the crucial language groups in East Africa and includes a search for words that indicate earlier lost languages. These outcomes, combined with recent archaeological and genetic research, will contribute to a new understanding of East Africa’s…

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  Jeffrey Fynn-Paul University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Quiet Rebels? A Social History of Political Rhetoric Research project

  Speeches and speech acts have been crucial in settling the question at the centre of every political debate: who gets what, when and where?

• Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities and Access to Culture Research output

  Carsten Stahn has just published Confronting Colonial Objects: Histories, Legalities and Access to Culture. The book is part of the OUP Cultural Heritage Law and Policy Series.

• Surreal Geographies. A New History of Holocaust Consciousness Research output

  Surreal Geographies recovers a forgotten archive of Holocaust representation. Examining art, literature, and film produced from the immediate postwar period up to the present moment, Kathryn L. Brackney investigates changing portrayals of Jewish victims and survivors.

• A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942 Research output

  In A History of Plague in Java, 1911–1942, Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk demonstrates how the official response to the 1911 outbreak of plague in Malang led to one of the most invasive health interventions in Dutch colonial Indonesia.

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  Wim van den Doel Dean LDE / Professor

  Administration and Central Services

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  Robert Stein Senior University Lecturer in Medieval History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Lennart Bes Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jos Gommans Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Steven Lauritano University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Edmund Hayes University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• CIA and Crypto AG rewrite history – Clingentael Spectator Research output

  It recently emerged that a Swiss firm secretly owned by the CIA and the West German intelligence service BND had been selling manipulated coding equipment to numerous governments, including allies, to spy on them through a Swiss cover firm for years.

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  Andrew Shield University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Peter Meel University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Time, History and Ritual in a K’iche’ Community Research output

  This work analyzes ritual practices and knowledge related to the Mesoamerican calendar with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the use and conceptualization of this calendar system in the contemporary K’iche’ community of Momostenango, in the Highlands of Guatemala.

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  Pieter Slaman Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Joost Augusteijn Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bart van der Boom University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Lionel Laborie Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nira Wickramasinghe Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bente de Leede PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Miko Flohr University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• The assembly history of the milky way nuclear star cluster Research output

  Promotor: P. T. de Zeeuw, Co-promotor: N. Neumayer; G. van de Ven

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  Bart van der Steen Head Faculty Liaison & Services

  Leiden University Libraries

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  Jeroen Duindam Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Diversifying the Collections: Inclusive Citizenship and Public Histories of Exclusion Research project

  In educational settings such as museums, universities and schools, white, male, able-bodied and rational subjects still dominate. Although there has been a lot of theoretical work on processes of in- and exclusion through racialization, sexualization, and disabilization, we still know very little about…

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  Paul Kloeg Head Datamanagement

  Leiden University Libraries

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  Catia Antunes Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Geke Burger Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• Colonialism and Slavery: An Alternative History of the Port City of Rotterdam Research output

  Unlike most city histories, this book focuses exclusively on the city’s connections with colonialism and slavery.

• Youth, Media and Protest: Histories of Engaging in Central African politics and social life Research project

  How do old and new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) relate to new social and political movements in Central Africa? What does this tell us about Africa and the Information Age?

• Extended Piano Techniques in Theory, History & Performance Practice Research output

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• Extended piano techniques : in theory, history and performance practice Research output

  Playing the piano with your forearm, plucking the strings, sawing through the piano: pianist Luk Vaes's doctoral dissertation covers all the techniques of play for which a piano is NOT designed. His defence ceremony will consist of three concerts and a public defence. 'Musicians were using the interior…

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  Patrick Dassen Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Pepper to Sea Cucumbers: Chinese Gustatory Revolution in Global History, 900-1840 Research output

  On 10 November Guanmian Xu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

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  Elisabeth Dieterman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jacqueline Hylkema Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Media History: Managing the News in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800 Research output

  This special issue of Media History (22-3/4, 2016), co-edited with Helmer Helmers (University of Amsterdam), develops a new perspective on the early modern communication revolution. It discusses news as a specific kind of information – by its nature continuous, unreliable, and diffuse – which needed…

• General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries Research output

  The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.

• Apocalypse Now: Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th Centuries Research output

  Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against their religious activism.

• Culture, History and Society (BA Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)

  Today, globalization makes us all aware of how closely we are connected to, and often dependent upon, the actions of people who are distant from us. Human migration and economic liberalization have confronted local communities with changes happening on a global level. How can we devise ways to share…

• Vices of the Learned. Towards a Long-Term History of Scholarly Vices Research output

  Why are professors still warning their students against dogmatism, prejudice, pedantry, and other centuries-old vices? What explains the persistence of these scholarly vices across the ages?

• The World and The Netherlands: A Global History from a Dutch Perspective Research output

  This book examines the history of The Netherlands in a way that connects global processes to local developments.

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  Herman Paul Academic director/ Professor

  Faculty of Humanities