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1,746 search results for “culturele history” in the Public website

• The Cambridge History of Strategy. Volume 1: From Antiquity to the American War of Independence Research output

  Volume I of The Cambridge History of Strategy offers a history of the practice of strategy from the beginning of recorded history, to the late eighteenth century, from all parts of the world.

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  Johan Visser PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Hans Mol Professor emeritus by special appointment of Medieval Frisian History

  Faculty of Humanities

• Symposium: Through the Hands of Signers: History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change Event - 10 July 2026

  Conference

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  Alistair Kefford Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• A Literary History of Reconciliation. Power, Remorse and the Limits of Forgiveness Research output

  From William Shakespeare to Marilynne Robinson, A Literary History of Reconciliation is the first study to examine representations of interpersonal reconciliation in work of literature across a long-term period, from the early seventeenth century to the present day, focusing on how these representations…

• Being a Slave: Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean Research output

  Being a Slave brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean.

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  Maartje Janse Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Education Centre for Indigenous Americas Studies

  An overview of the courses

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  Erik Odegard Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

• Nature and History Towards a Hermeneutic Philosophy of Historiography of Science Research output

  Nature and History, Towards a Hermeneutic Philospohy of Historiography of Science

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  Damian Pargas Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• The Deep History of Human Landscape Manipulation Research project

  This project studies the roles of prehistoric foragers in past ecosystems to establish the character of past “natural” landscapes and enhance the management of current ones.

• English Usage Guides: History, Advice, Attitudes Research output

  The second major collection of papers from the Bridging the Unbridgeable project.

• A History of Chocholtec Alphabetic Writing Research output

  On the 11th of October, Micheal Swanton succesfully defended his PhD-thesis and graduated. LUCL congratulates Micheal on this great result.

• Large Language Models - an in-depth history Research output

  An in-depth history of Large Language Models—and what their ubiquity, disruption, and creativity mean from a wider sociopolitical perspective.

• The Future is Elsewhere: Towards a Comparative History of the Futurities of the Digital (R)evolution Research project

  How did digital intermediality symbolise and facilitate the transfer of content from popular culture into policy statements and vice versa in the period between 1945 and the new millenium?

• The Cambridge History of Strategy. Volume 2: From the Napoleonic Wars to the Present Research output

  Volume II of The Cambridge History of Strategy focuses on the practice of strategy from 1800 to the present day.

• Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History Research output

  Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational intersection between two complex Asian societies, placing this narrative in a larger wartime context of…

• Political legitimacy in Chinese history : the case of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-535) Research output

  Liu Puning defended his thesis on 25 April 2018.

• Signs on Paper: Unlocking the Histories of Sign Languages with AI HANDS!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies

  This PhD project investigates how automatic sign language recognition technology can be further developed to analyse static images and textual descriptions of signs.

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  Hendrik den Heijer Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marcel Keurentjes External PhD

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Doreen Müller Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Unravelling the genes responsible for life history traits in the giant woody cabbage (Brassica oleracea) Research project

  Which genes are involved in woodiness and associated traits such as drought tolerance, flowering time, stem elongation, life span, and plant herbivory, and how do these gene regulatory pathways overlap?

• Museum Temporalities: Time, History and the Future of the Ethnographic Museum Research output

  Museum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums’ often problematic and painful relationship to the colonial past?

• Return to the Interactive Past. The Interplay of Video Games and Histories Research output

  A defining fixture of our contemporary world, video games offer a rich spectrum of engagements with the past.

• Podcast History Roundup: Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion Research output

  In a podcast episode of 'New Books in History' Claire Weeda talks about her book 'Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion'.

• Vacancies: four PhD positions in History News - 25 September 2015

  The Institute for History announces vacancies for three PhD positions on Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective and one PhD position to conduct research on the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).

• A History of Dutch Corruption and Public Morality (1648-1940) Research output

  A History of Dutch Corruption and Morality showcases 300 years of change, continuity, and diversity in the history of Dutch political corruption and public morality. It analyses a series of corruption scandals and shows how the following debates were connected to the big changes of that time: from the…

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  Gert Oostindie

  Koninklijk Instituut Taal, Land- en Volkenkunde

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  Adam Fairclough Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

• Political Legitimacy under Debate: Democracy and Authority in the Netherlands in the 1880s, 1930s, and 1960s Research project

  Debates on political legitimacy in Dutch parliament in the 1880s, 1930s, and 1960s

• The Anti-Politics of UNESCO World Heritage News - 23 May 2016

  We deeply cherish our natural and cultural World Heritage, so it seems; when historical monuments and sites are destroyed by war or natural disaster, we are mourning collectively. But what if this World Heritage status is not just a preservation label, but a smokescreen for social and political conflicts…

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  Klaas Worp Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Kim Beerden University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• A Social History of Painting Inscriptions in the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644) Research output

  Wenxin Wang defended her thesis on 26 October 2016

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  Bernhard Rieger Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Marieke Bloembergen

  Koninklijk Instituut Taal, Land- en Volkenkunde

• Symposium: Through the Hands of Signers: History of sign language emergence, transmission, and change - submit your abstract! News - 26 January 2026

  The Vici project Through the Hands of Signers invites everyone to participate in its kick-off symposium on the History of Sign Language Emergence, Transmission, and Change on July 10 2026.

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  Maarja Seire PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Institutional memory in the making of colonial culture: history, experience and ideas in Dutch colonialism in Asia, 1700 – 1870. Research project

  What did colonial officials and missionaries think they were doing?

• Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800: Linking Empires, Bridging Borders Research output

  In 'Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800', Gert Oostindie and Jessica V. Roitman, both of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) and also affiliated with the History Institute of Leiden University, assemble an internationally acclaimed selection of authors,…

• Re-Scaling Security: Histories and Practices of Trans-Local Cooperation Research project

  This project is part of a broader research agenda aiming to better understand the relationships between the development of contemporary security concerns and the evolution of forms of security cooperation and crisis governance.

• South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon Research project

  This project, South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon (SAPPHIRE), investigates population dynamics in western South America on the basis of traces in the geographical, genetic, archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic record.

• A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968 Research output

  A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968

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  Paul van Trigt Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Pablo Isla Monsalve Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• Challenging monopolies, building global empires in the early modern period Research project

  How did free agents in the Dutch Republic react to the creation of colonial monopolies (VOC and WIC) by the States-General? This project answers this question by looking at the role individuals played in the construction of an informal global empire parallel to the institutional empire devised by the…