1,673 search results for “history and anthropology of from” in the Student website
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Building a sustainable future: 'Combine the forces of natural and social sciences'
The United Nations has declared May 22 the International Day for Biological Diversity. A moment of global reflection on everything on Earth and its indispensability. Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg stresses the importance of the interaction between natural and social sciences in addressing sustainability…
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Two Cultural Anthropology students awarded Pieter de la Court Medal 2021
Claire van den Helder (fourth-year Cultural Anthropology student) and Orestes Kyrgiakis (second-year Cultural Anthropology student) won the Pieter de la Court Medal 2021. The Pieter de la Court Medal is an initiative for students by students and is awarded annually to students who voluntarily contribute…
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Dilara ErzeybekSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Diego SalamaFaculty of Humanities
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Maud RijksFaculty of Humanities
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Nadia BourasFaculty of Humanities
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Fan LinFaculty of Humanities
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From ancient sites to heritage rescue, from digital sciences to the evolution of human origins: at Archaeology & Society, you will learn about the many multidisciplinary aspects of archaeological research.
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Matthew FrearFaculty 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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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Mandy de WildeSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Meet the members of the Cultural Anthropology OLC 2021-2022
Benjamín Maldonado, Orestes Kyrgiakis, Roos Capel and Iskra Cvitković are the new student members of the Programme Committee (OLC). The board advises the Executive Board and the Faculty Board about educational matters, such as the determination of the Course and Examination Regulations and the evaluation…
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Judith NaeffFaculty of Humanities
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Maria VoltsichinaFaculty of Humanities
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Richard GriffithsFaculty of Humanities
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Andreas HofmannFaculty of Humanities
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Manar EllethyFaculty of Humanities
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Yusra AbdullahiFaculty of Humanities
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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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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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Philip PostFaculty of Humanities
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Fransiskus WidiyarsoFaculty of Humanities
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From canned fried rice to colonialism: Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood shows world history in miniature
Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will present their findings on Thursday 20 October, at a specially organised mini-festival in the neighbourhood.
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Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social groups.
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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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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
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Boardgames and graphic animations: creative ways to present academic information
For an assignment for the course Medical Anthropology, students were asked to choose a theme related to the Covid-19 pandemic, find information and present their work in a creative way. The results are impressive.
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Tullio AbruzzeseFaculty of Archaeology
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty 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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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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‘In Leiden you feel history is very close’
Leiden alumnus Makoto Yoshida from Japan studied Dutch history and politics from 1996 to 1997. Now he is back in Leiden with his wife who is currently a student at the Faculty of Humanities. Some things still surprise him. 'Everyone at university uses first names, which was - and still is - unacceptable…
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrican Studies Centre
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Jiyan QiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Zulfadhli NasutionSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Nurul Huda Binte Abdul RashidSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Shenghao YueFaculty of Humanities
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Jacobine MelisFaculty of Archaeology
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Leonor Alvarez FrancésFaculty of Humanities
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Kai HebelFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Michel DoortmontAfrican Studies Centre
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Willem ZwalveFaculty of Law