1,756 search results for “culture history” in the Student website
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Andrea RagragioFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Diego SalamaFaculty of Humanities
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Elmer VeldkampFaculty of Humanities
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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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History MOOC 'The Rooseveltian Century' returns
Prof. Giles Scott-Smith has made the first History MOOC (Massive Online Open-Access Course) produced by Leiden University. The MOOC 'The Rooseveltian Century', which covers the influence of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt through the 20th century, is now online at Coursera. The successful MOOC…
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Jessie SunFaculty of Humanities
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Ben ArpsFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty 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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Liesbeth ClaesFaculty of Humanities
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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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André GerritsFaculty of Humanities
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Roos StolkerFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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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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Willem ZwalveFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Karen SmithFaculty of Humanities
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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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Arash MohammadavvaliFaculty of Humanities
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Ellen RavenFaculty of Humanities
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David Home Valenzuela
Faculty of Humanities
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Carlos Rilling Tenorio
Faculty of Humanities
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Bálint HonosFaculty of Humanities
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Femke Fakkeldij
Faculty of Humanities
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Travis Bowman
Faculty of Humanities
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Patrick DegryseFaculty of Archaeology
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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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James McGrailFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Willem van WijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Jiyan IlbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd'
A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 2021, he will hold the chair of professor of Medieval History at the university. In an introductory interview, Buc introduces himself, his research and his…
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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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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Daan StremmelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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Jacobine MelisFaculty of Archaeology
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Michel DoortmontAfrican Studies Centre
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Patrick GouwLeiden University Libraries
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time
The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he combines his love for the University and poetry with autobiographical reflections. ‘With my magnifying glass I discovered yet more new details in the pr…