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Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
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Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Our university world knows no borders’
The theme of the opening of this year’s academic year was peace and justice. With the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, these are turbulent times. During the ceremony those present reflected on what the academic community and universities can mean in times of crisis and conflict.
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Fossil Empire: An Environmental History of Oil and Coal in Southern Sumatra, 1921-1942
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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‘Little’ Stories in ‘Big’ Histories. Families, Mobility, and Identity in the Indian Ocean
Lecture
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Huizinga Lecture 2024: 'We Are the Times: History in Times of Crisis'
Alumni event, Lezing
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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Manufactured drought? An environmental history of water scarcity in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1952
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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How the world made the West: a 4000-year history
Keynote lecture
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Remembering and Forgetting in Two Worlds. Writing Histories of Forced Displacement and Submerged Genealogy
Lecture
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Yemen’s history of slavery and its lasting impact on social and racial hierarchies
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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The whole world knows the way to the Leiden institute in Morocco
A delegation from Leiden University visited the Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat at the end of February.
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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in'
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic slavery expert Karwan Fatah-Black. 'Too bad they didn’t wait for the results of the study.'
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Online database with two hundred local chronicle texts launched: A few years ago that wouldn’t have been possible'
Too expensive groceries, diseases suddenly breaking out: from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, hundreds of people documented the world around them in chronicles. A significant number of these texts have been digitised in recent years. Professor of Early Modern Dutch History and project leader…
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Marijn van Putten: How many ways are there to read the Quran?
How should the Quran be read? The manuscript of this holy book makes different interpretations possible. Researcher Marijn van Putten has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant of two million euros to explore centuries-old recitations.
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‘Podcast gives its listeners a sense of identity and belonging’
In the Netherlands, when we talk about the United Nations, the conversation is almost always about the member states from the northern hemisphere. But the most interesting players come from the ‘Global South’, Professor Alanna O'Malley and her team argue in a podcast.
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague
Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague from 1600 to 1800. They are tracing crimes and offenders and shedding new light on The Hague’s Gevangenpoort (or Prison Gate). Among their many discoveries…
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A special procession – just like 450 years ago
An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February.
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A university in times of corona: one year on
It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we found ourselves at home, working and studying online – many of us from that cramped attic or student room. The momentous coronavirus year in pictures.
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Book ‘De Glazen Toren’: ‘The balance isn't quite right anymore’
Writing a book on the recent history of Leiden University in corona times. For educational and policy historian Pieter Slaman (34), this has meant working in the attic of his parents’ house while they looked after his daughter, along with numerous online conversations and very few, if any, visits to…
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming'
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…
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Traitors, profiteers or collaborators: ‘The Jewish Council has long been judged too harshly’
For too long the Dutch collective memory has judged the Jewish Council too harshly. This perspective needs to be adjusted, Bart van der Boom argues in his new book ‘De politiek van het kleinste kwaad’ (lit. ‘The Politics of the Lesser Evil’).
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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.
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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Jos SchaekenFaculty of Humanities
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
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Spaces of Conflicts: The Lebanese War Novel as Urban and Architectural History
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Claire Vergerio shortlisted for CEU Excellence in Teaching Award
Political scientist Claire Vergerio (Leiden University) has made it to the final stage of the selection process for Central European University’s annual European Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Social Sciences and Humanities. As the 2019 Casimir Prize winner, Vergerio was nominated by the Faculty…
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(IN)EQUALIZERS! Social and Economic Histories of Inequalit(ies) and Difference(s), 1500-2000
Conference, Student Workshop
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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Nation Building, Historiography, and School History in a Multi-Cultural Context: Ethiopia’s Enigma of Our Time
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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Jamie KorporaalFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Niels HeukelomFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Iris KoleFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Kerwin OlfersFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Noortje van SwietenFaculty of Humanities
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Angelique Heijstek-HofmanFaculty of Humanities
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Lotte KremersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Claudia BouteligierFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nicole van OsFaculty of Humanities
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Rosa van StratenFaculty of Humanities
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Mette LéonsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Work-in-Progress: ‘Connecting Histories of Abolition: ‘Ameliorating’ slavery in British crown colonies in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollman
Judith Pollmann, Professor of Early Modern Dutch History, has been awarded the Spinoza Prize. ‘An unbelievable honour.’
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Book Launch: Lifting the Fog: The Secret History of the Dutch Defense Intelligence and Security Service (1912-2022)
Book launch
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Hora est! Exhibition reveals the ritual world of earning a PhD
A dissertation covered in hot pink faux fur, antique prints of PhD ceremonies, a pot encrusted with sealing wax: the Hora est! anniversary exhibition at Oude UB takes you to the ritual yet idiosyncratic world of PhD ceremonies.
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Beatrice Gründler: ‘Literary text can help us understand Europe better’
'Consider languages in their shared context.' That is the message of Professor and Arabist Beatrice Gründler, who will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on 8 February. ‘I would like people to learn that Arabic history has a close connection with Europe.’
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(In)equalizers - Social and Economic Histories of Inequality(ies) and Difference(s), 1500-2000
Conference, Workshop
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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale