1,971 search results for “boer history” in the Public website
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Why have murals been used in social and political movements?
Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a backdrop for Instagram snapshots, art history professor Minna Valjakka says there are rich traditions and intricate histories that uncover more critical…
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Maarten JansenFaculty of Archaeology
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Marie-leen RyckaertFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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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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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Leiden researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery
In a speech on Keti Koti the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, apologised on behalf of the royal family for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery. What is the significance of this?
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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The history of Medicine and Asia
Conference, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Opening of the Academic Year: 'Relentlessly follow your curiosity and see where it takes you'
The opening of the new academic year highlighted students' and lecturers' personal motivators. Incoming students were encouraged to be bold, forge their own paths and grow by trial and error.
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations'
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society' project. Researchers will reconstruct how seventeenth-century scientists recorded and shared their groundbreaking microscopic discoveries. We…
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Ruchama Noorda Doctoral Degree
PhDArts candidate Ruchama Noorda will graduate on Wednesday 9 December 2015
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Pilgrim Year: a commemoration rather than a celebration
Myths abound about the Pilgrims, the group of religious refugees from England who set sail for America in 1620. Did they really live in peace with the indigenous peoples of America? In an international conference, historians from Leiden will seek to draw attention to the more negative effects of the…
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Maria Voltsichina
Faculty of Humanities
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Rival women at the Court of The Hague
Dr Nadine Akkerman, lecturer in Early Modern Literature and postdoctoral researcher in Leiden, has written a new book to accompany the exhibition on Elizabeth Stuart and Amalia von Solms at the Historical Museum of The Hague. ‘They were like goddesses, constantly trying to upstage one another,’ says…
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Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geology
Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theories are still relevant, as an exhibition at the Oude UB shows.
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‘My First Paw-Reviewed Article’
In 2013, Thijs Porck wrote a guest blog for 'medievalfragments'...
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Erik-Jan Zürcher in Nieuwsuur about the purges in Turkey
On 19 July Erik-Jan Zürcher, professor of Turkish languages and cultures, made a TV appearance in Nieuwsuur to talk about the actions Erdogan took after the failed coup.
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?'
When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried out in colonised areas without the explicit consent of the test subject. University lecturer Fenneke Sysling has received a European grant to research…
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
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Nuranisa NuranisaFaculty of Humanities
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Koundja Mayoubila
Faculty of Humanities
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Pichayapat NaisupapFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander van der Meer
Alexander van der Meer is a lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute for History.
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José María Castro Ibarra
Faculty of Humanities
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Henrike VellingaFaculty of Humanities
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Daphne EngelFaculty of Humanities
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Brian ShaevFaculty of Humanities
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Gijs DreijerFaculty of Humanities
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Cigdem Billur-Ada
Faculty of Humanities
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Shared Histories, Different Memories: Dutch East India Company (VOC) histories entwined with Australian aboriginal narratives
Conference
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Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery
Lecture
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University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
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'Rome after Rome': a unique student-scholar exploration of early medieval Rome
Debates about the ‘end’ of the Roman era, how, when, and even if it ended, are still very much alive and raging. However, what happened after the (long) late antique period is a lesser-known and lesser-studied subject. The post-Roman past needs, however, as much energetic investigation and discussion.…
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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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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Ancient History Research Seminar December 2024
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Michel Wyss
Faculty of Humanities
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Sulakshana de Mel
Koninklijk Instituut Taal, Land- en Volkenkunde
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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Eddie Meijer
Faculty of Humanities
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Sil DoumaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Orson McMahon
Faculty of Humanities
- David André Anton Cina
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
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Timur Khan
Faculty of Humanities
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Elsa Saez Jara
Faculty of Humanities