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456 search results for “dutch colonial and postkoloniale literature” in the Library website

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  Martijn Defilet PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Frans Willem Korsten Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Céline Zaepffel Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Dutch studies

  Overview of databases, reference works and websites for research in Dutch language and culture.

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  Marcel IJsselstijn PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Marlieke Ernst Strategic knowledge broker

  Faculty of Humanities

• ‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’ News - 11 January 2024

  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…

• Japanese Literature Reading List News - 4 March 2026

  From experimental essays to comfort reads, and from manga to court literature in verse: Japanese literature has it all.

• Who is the rightful owner of colonial art? News - 26 November 2019

  Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the debate on art and collectors’ items from a loaded past. Inaugural speech on 2 December.

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  Victor Meijers Guest Staff Member

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Tingting Hui Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

• (re)Mapping Africa: Colonial cartography collection soon ready for search News - 18 March 2026

  Describing almost 1400 maps of Africa in three months. It’s no small task that student assistants Artemis Mantheakis and Beatriz Veiga have been working on within the joint ASCL-UBL Africa Maps Project. The project’s aim is to describe and catalogue a 20th-century map collection of the library of the…

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  Ariadne Schmidt Associate Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jeroen Oosterbaan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Emma Grootveld University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gert Oostindie Senior researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• Searching Dutch articles

  Tips on how to search for Dutch articles or articles published in the Netherlands.

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  Ethan Mark Senior University Lecturer Modern Japanese History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Oriol Febrer i Vilaseca PhD

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Oussama Macnack PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Esther Edelmann Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sandra Manickam Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

• Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List News - 2 September 2024

  The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.

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  Anneke Wurth Teaching Methodologist for Dutch

  ICLON

• Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah - a reading list News - 8 October 2021

  The 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to Tanzanian author Abdulrazak Gurnah. The Swedish Academy praises Gurnah's "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents". The works in the reading…

• research shows how Leiden University and city council benefitted from colonialism News - 3 April 2025

  Leiden University contributed to colonialism and slavery through its research and teaching. And governors and residents of Leiden had an active role in colonial networks. These are the findings of two explorative studies presented on 3 April.

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  Henk te Velde Interim Dean / Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Willemien den Ouden Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Leonor Jonker PhD candidate / self funded

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Johannes Müller University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jacobine Melis PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Roderick Geerts PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

• Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures News - 3 July 2023

  The IFLA-Section Rare Books and Special Collections committee and the Indigenous Matters Section, in collaboration with Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organize a satellite conference in Leiden – Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th – prior to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress…

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  Carolina Lenarduzzi Visiting Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Femme Gaastra Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alex Reuneker Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Julius van der Poel PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Matthias Lukkes PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Renske Janssen Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Yinzhi Zhang Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Carolien Stolte Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  John Kegel Guest Researcher

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Mariana Françozo Associate Professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Gabrielle van den Berg Academic director LIAS / professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jos Bazelmans Professor by Special Appointment

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Victor Posthuma External PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Catia Antunes Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Diederik Smit Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sara Polak University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities