1,383 search results for “nature american history” in the Student website
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Nargess AsghariFaculty of Humanities
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Lotte: 'It was because of my colleagues that I chose history in Leiden'
Her part-time job as a city guide in Dordrecht opened Lotte Hamm's eyes: not business administration, but history was her dream study. This semester she starts her bachelor's degree.
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Carina van de Wetering
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jeroen OosterbaanFaculty of Archaeology
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Ying ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Sandra IrmischFaculty of Science
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Michiel HooykaasFaculty of Science
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
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Camilla MarracciniFaculty of Humanities
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Fan LinFaculty of Humanities
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Writing a bottom-up, practice-oriented and connected history of Christianities in the medieval Middle East (12th-17th centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Alain WijffelsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Archaeologist Martin Berger explores Latin American collections with an ERC grant
All over Europe you will find ethnographic museums with large collections of indigenous objects from Latin America. These collections shaped the image of native populations in the European mind. An ERC Starting Grant allows Dr Martin Berger to look at the bigger picture, contextualizing individual collections…
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Alex Geurds new Professor in Central American archaeology: 'A professorship as a unifying force'
The appointment of Alex Geurds as Professor in Central American Archaeology reinvigorates an existing focus within the faculty. 'The research chair offers opportunities to make cross-connections, across departments and disciplines.'
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Limin TehFaculty of Humanities
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Henk te VeldeFaculty of Humanities
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Nature conservation in the Dutch Caribbean
A sense of security plays an important role in the decision to contribute to nature conservation. Stacey Mac Donald conducted four years of research on the influence of social and political changes and the (post) colonial context on nature conservation in the Dutch Caribbean. On 17 May she will defend…
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Diego SalamaFaculty of Humanities
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Out now! LEAP # 2: (Mis)Reading Nature
LEAP is a peer-reviewed journal founded in 2021 by a team of junior and senior scholars of Leiden University as part of a Faculty-broad Master course. Each year the journal has a new editorial board and a new theme. Series editors Astrid van Weyenberg and Nanne Timmer guide this process and are assisted…
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Aad van MastrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Maja VodopivecFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Peter KopICLON
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So long, Gravensteen: ‘History dripped off the walls’
Historic and iconic yet expensive and cold. It’s with mixed feelings that the university is leaving the Gravensteen building, which dates back to the 12th century. How was it to work and study in this former Leiden prison?
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
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André GerritsFaculty of Humanities
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Roos StolkerFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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Ako TsujitaFaculty of Humanities
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Zhengshan JiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Yuye QueFaculty of Humanities
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Flor Miriam Plaza del ArcoFaculty of Science
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Mert YazanFaculty of Science
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Nicola ThomeFaculty of Science
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Tuomas AiveloFaculty of Science
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Martin KroonFaculty of Humanities
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Harry WelsAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Willem ZwalveFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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The Ptolemaic Ruler Cult in Egypt: The Greek Temple of Hermopolis Magna in its Religious and Socio-Historical Context
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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Nobel Prize laureate Paul Krugman in Wijnhaven: 'American men have real problems'
In a packed lecture hall at Wijnhaven, Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman succinctly summed up the essence of his argument on Wednesday 17 September: ‘Running a good society is hard’. His lecture held up a mirror to economists and policymakers.
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Jorge Duran SolorzanoFaculty of Humanities
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Why is it now that the Left has momentum in Latin America (and how long it will last)
The left is gaining more and more ground on the political map of Latin America, with the elections in Colombia as the most recent example. But what’s behind this pull to the left? Professor of Modern Latin American History Patricio Silva talks about the current political situation in the region.
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Mariana Gaba
Faculty of Humanities