2,277 search results for “bart history” in the Public website
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Afro-Asian Visions – Blog launch
The new blog Afro-Asian Visions showcases new and ongoing research on Afro-Asian interactions through networks of artists, intellectuals, technical experts, and activists. It is designed as an online magazine.
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Analysing Roman cities with an ERC Advanced Grant
How many cities were there actually in the Roman Empire? And why did some regions only have a few cities, while others consisted of a tight urban network? Luuk de Ligt, Professor of Ancient History, wants to know the answer to all these questions. With the ERC Advanced Grant of 2.5 million awarded to…
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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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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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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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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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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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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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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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Pioneers in Migration History
Conference, Symposium
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Maartje van DijkFaculty of Humanities
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Karen van AstenFaculty of Humanities
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Lotte van Hasselt
Faculty of Humanities
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Caroline SchepFaculty of Humanities
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Edurne de WildeFaculty of Humanities
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Anne PorFaculty of Humanities
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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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Femke Fakkeldij
Faculty of Humanities
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Rozemarijn VlijmFaculty of Humanities
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Melinda SusantoFaculty of Humanities
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Manon PostFaculty of Humanities
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Anna-Luna PostFaculty of Humanities
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Karlijn LukFaculty of Humanities
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Neilabh SinhaFaculty of Humanities
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Samantha Sint Nicolaas
Faculty of Humanities
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Beryl Prenen
Faculty of Humanities
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Savvas SkoufaridisFaculty of Humanities
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Natalie EvertsFaculty of Humanities
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Jelmer RotteveelFaculty of Humanities
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Victor Barros Correia
Faculty of Humanities
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Marjolein Jorna
Faculty of Humanities
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Willemijn TuinstraFaculty of Humanities
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Eline Rademakers
Faculty 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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Mark van Koppen
Faculty of Humanities
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Sanâa May Swart
Faculty of Humanities
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Zoltán Quittner
Faculty of Humanities
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Anton van Velzen
Faculty of Humanities
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Koundja Mayoubila
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