727 search results for “dutch colonial and postcolonial literature” in the Student website
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A Colonial and Material History of Astrophotography at Leiden Observatory, 1918-1960
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine
Conference
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Aritri DuttaFaculty of Humanities
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Eduardo Herrera Malatesta -
Wim van den DoelAdministration and Central Services
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Marcos Neto de CordovaFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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Coen van 't VeerFaculty of Humanities
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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The colonial contacts of the firm De Heyder & Co: ‘Completely intertwined with the colonial market’
The Lakenhal depot houses three nineteenth-century sample books in which the cotton company De Heyder & Co kept precise records of who placed which orders. History student Marit Scheepsma used them to find out more about the company's colonial contacts.
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Rianti ManullangFaculty of Humanities
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Nadine AkkermanFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Ronald KonFaculty of Humanities
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Esther EdelmannFaculty of Humanities
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Marieke BloembergenFaculty of Humanities
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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power'
Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Claudia BouteligierFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Esther ZwinkelsFaculty of Humanities
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New publication reviews Dutch colonial sources on the Indigenous Brazilian Tapuia people
New publication reviews Dutch colonial sources on the Indigenous Brazilian Tapuia people: ‘For them the Dutch were another piece on the political chess board’
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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Dorine SchellensFaculty of Humanities
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Gepco de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Sjoerd RamackersFaculty of Humanities
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Emma SowFaculty of Humanities
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Bart VerheijenFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs Brocades ZaalbergFaculty 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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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Ingrid SamsetFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Historian Gert Oostindie the new Cleveringa Professor
Gert Oostindie, Emeritus Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, is this year’s Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. He was appointed by the University on 4 October. In his inaugural lecture on 24 November, entitled Courage and Disregard, he will talk about (academic) freedom in relation…
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‘Interaction between politics, science and colonial impact often overlooked’
How did science relate to politics and colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Assistant Professor Lauren Lauret has been awarded an NWO XS grant to map the colonial and political activities of nineteenth-century scientists.
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Radhika GuptaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Wilt IdemaFaculty of Humanities
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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NWO grant to research scent language in seventeenth-century literature: 'God is like a scent'
When it comes to literature, people mostly talk about what characters see or hear. Rarely is it about what they smell. That’s a shame, thinks university lecturer Jan van Dijkhuizen. He has been awarded an Open Competition grant from NWO to expand academic knowledge about scent in literature, and to…
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Dialogue Session on Leiden University’s Colonial and Slavery Past
Dialogue session
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How the Republic contributed to the French colonial empire: ‘People like you and me invested’
In the 18th century, the French colonial empire teemed with protectionist laws. Nevertheless, businessmen from the Republic played an important role in the French economy, and thus in the colonial system. PhD student Tessa de Boer explored how this came about.