1,548 search results for “komen history” in the Public website
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Karwan Fatah-Black joins The Young Academy
Historian Karwan Fatah-Black researches the Dutch colonial past, and regularly joins in the public debate about this. He has been admitted to The Young Academy for his dedication to academia and society.
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Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference : Breaking the Rules: Textual Reflections on Transgression
The Journal of the LUCAS Graduate Conference was founded in 2013 to publish a selection of the best papers presented at the biennial LUCAS Graduate Conference, an international and interdisciplinary humanities conference organized by the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS). The…
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Facebook in Africa
Chad-born youngsters in Paris come into contact with youngsters actually in Chad via Facebook: it would be difficult to find a better way to demonstrate the possibilities social media offer for people scattered across the world by war. Mirjam de Bruijn has been awarded a Vici grant for a study of the…
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Portable Islam: Swahili literary networks in the Indian Ocean
The Swahili coast has a long-standing history of transoceanic Islamic connections dating back to the 25th century. Yet, print, has changed the world – not only ours. This project unravels unique forms and archives of intellectual history emerging from within South-South connections. In East Africa Indian…
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Salvador Santino RegilmeFaculty of Humanities
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Introducing Didi van Trijp
Didi van Trijp started her PhD project at LUCAS in October 2015. Her PhD project is part of A New History of Fishes. A long-term approach to fishes in science and culture, 1550-1880, a project directed by prof. dr. Paul Smith.
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from?
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.
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‘We have to stay alert and keep on feeling the past’
Space for open dialogue on historical slavery was created at the Keti Koti Table at Museum De Lakenhal, organised by Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden. There, just metres away from 17th-century paintings, Leideners shared a ritual meal and spoke about the effects of slavery and our colonial…
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Alice Twemlow named professor by special appointment of the History, Theory and Sociology of Graphic Design and Visual Culture at University
Alice Twemlow has been named professor by special appointment in the Wim Crouwel chair in the History, Theory and Sociology of Graphic Design and Visual Culture at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam.
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Elisa Goudriaan wins Ted Meijer Prize
The KNIR has awarded Elisa Goudriaan the Ted Meijer Prize for her dissertation The Cultural Importance of Florentine Patricians. Cultural Exchange, Brokerage Networks, and Social Representation in Early Modern Florence and Rome (1600-1660).
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‘Plastic politics’: how ideological debate was supplanted by abstract jargon
Over the course of the 20th century, politicians increasingly came to rely on experts. Their language was peppered with terms like ‘policy pathways’ and ‘evaluation frameworks’. This made debates more abstract and less ideological.
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Pioneers in Migration History
Conference, Symposium
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Nuranisa NuranisaFaculty of Humanities
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Frank van LunterenFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Anne PorFaculty of Humanities
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Professor Willem Otterspeer on his retirement: ‘My career is like the Danube.’
University historian Willem Otterspeer is about to retire, and he will give his farewell lecture on 4 November. Although... it is really a farewell? He still plans to write another five books, using oceans of archive material. 'An archive should be like the surf breaking on the seashore: wonderful…
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Habsburg family pulled strings to bring raiders of English North Cape expedition to justice
Richard Chancellor, the English Willem Barentsz, discovered the North Cape during the first English expedition to attempt to find a northeast passage. But the ship, the Edward Bonaventure, was ‘robbed by Flemings on its return in 1554.’ Historian Louis Sicking and legal expert Remco van Rhee found the…
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Femke Fakkeldij
Faculty of Humanities
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Rozemarijn VlijmFaculty of Humanities
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Manon PostFaculty of Humanities
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Muhammad Asyrafi
Faculty of Humanities
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Neilabh SinhaFaculty of Humanities
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Beryl PrenenFaculty of Humanities
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Savvas SkoufaridisFaculty of Humanities
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Jelmer RotteveelFaculty of Humanities
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Marjolein Jorna
Faculty of Humanities
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Willemijn TuinstraFaculty of Humanities
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Travis Bowman
Faculty of Humanities
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Daan StremmelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Lina Lerch
Faculty of Humanities
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Mamadjibeye Mamadjibeye
Faculty of Humanities
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Caspar Dullemond
Faculty of Humanities
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Hannah Busch
Faculty of Humanities
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Aart Ruijter
Faculty of Humanities
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Petr Koluch
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonard Ornstein
Faculty of Humanities
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David Knibbe
Faculty of Humanities
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Jorge Blake
Faculty of Humanities
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Jonathan Verwey
Faculty of Humanities
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Natalie EvertsFaculty of Humanities
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Gerda Huisman
Faculty of Humanities
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Celine OldenhageFaculty of Humanities
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Melinda SusantoFaculty of Humanities
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Ton Elias
Faculty of Humanities
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Mark Loderichs
Faculty of Humanities
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Geert StrooFaculty of Humanities
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Maretta Johnson
Faculty of Humanities
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Call for Papers - Monarchy in turmoil: princes, courts, and politics in revolution and restoration 1780-1830
For every period, it is a challenge to unearth the details of political trafficking; yet the effort needs to include all relevant persons, groups, and institutions – not only those wielding formal responsibilities. We hope to reinvigorate this effort by inviting specialists to present their research…
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Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA)
Hifadhi ya Dijiti ya Ustadh Mau
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Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities
What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the French television programme 27.