1,746 search results for “culturele history” in the Public website
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Xuan DongFaculty of Humanities
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Carmen Kurpershoek
Faculty of Humanities
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Seraina RenzFaculty of Humanities
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Tony van der Togt
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Marcin RabizaFaculty of Humanities
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Dimitris Kastritis
Faculty of Humanities
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Koen van der LijnFaculty of Humanities
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Anthony Coxeter
Faculty of Humanities
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Li-Fan LeeFaculty of Humanities
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Ruben Eijkelenberg
Faculty of Humanities
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Ghulam Ali Murtaza
Faculty of Humanities
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Yusra AbdullahiFaculty of Humanities
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Peter Postma
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Judith Leferink
Faculty of Humanities
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Athanasios StathopoulosFaculty of Humanities
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Robertus Benning
Faculty of Humanities
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Saskia Cohen-Willner -
Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
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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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How the care of children was used as a weapon in the Holocaust
To cover up their deportation plans which targeted Polish Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Nazis re-opened schools. In her inaugural lecture, historian Sarah Cramsey demonstrates with examples how care was used ‘as a weapon’ during the Holocaust. She also stresses that care is a unifying cement in society…
- Medieval and Early Modern Studies Spring School 2025: History of Emotions (5 ECTS)
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'Masterchefs from the Middle Ages'
Joanita Vroom, Associate Professor Archaeology, regularly tries out old recipes, together with a group of Archaeology students. 'You really need to love garlic.'
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Scholars and senators on the legitimacy of the Dutch Senate
The Leiden Research Profile Area Political Legitimacy organizes a public symposium on the 12th of May 2016 on the legitimacy and future of the Dutch Senate.
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‘Little’ Stories in ‘Big’ Histories. Families, Mobility, and Identity in the Indian Ocean
Lecture
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PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish?
Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in bright colours, into categories. Yet, this division has been discussed for centuries. In her PhD dissertation, Didi van Trijp shows how natural scientists…
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Celestial worlds and comet hysteria in Van Dishoeck exhibition
A moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission, antique globes and the cosmos according to Wassily Kandinsky. Ewine van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics, has put together an impressive exhibition at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.
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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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Fossil Empire: An Environmental History of Oil and Coal in Southern Sumatra, 1921-1942
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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(In)equalizers - Social and Economic Histories of Inequality(ies) and Difference(s), 1500-2000
Conference, Workshop
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– Challenges and Opportunities in Uncovering Hidden Institutional Histories
Masterclass
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Book Launch for Dr. Kate Brackney's 'Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness'
Lecture, Book Roundtable
- Symposium Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries
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Global dynamics: a very deep historical perspective on the history of Humanity
Keynote Lecture
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A matter of life and death: non-state actors and the Right to Wage War
Claire Vergerio, political scientist at Leiden University, has been awarded a VENI grant by Dutch research organisation NWO. This will allow her to conduct an in-depth analysis of the legal rights and duties of non-state actors involved in warfare. The aim is to tackle some persistent blindspots in…
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Junius Symposium: exciting new research on Old Germanic studies
While Old Germanic studies might seem dated and, regrettably, occupies a less than secure position in various academic institutions, exciting new research presented by young researchers shows that the field is still vibrant and may have a bright future. On Thursday, the 7th of April, the ‘Junius Symposium…
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Obtaining a PhD at Teylers Museum at age of 68
Most people would not even consider it, starting a PhD at the age of 62. However, for the former Teylers Museum curator Bert Sliggers it was like a dream that came true: ‘The opportunity I was given felt like a gift, it brought me and Teylers Museum a lot.’
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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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Promotie Jan de Vetten - In de ban van goed en fout
Jan de Vetten brengt zijn promotieonderzoek ook uit in boekvorm. ‘In de ban van goed en fout’ beschrijft voor het eerst - op basis van archiefonderzoek en interviews - op samenhangende wijze de bestrijding van de CP en CD, en ook de reactie daarop van die partijen. Waarom werden ze zo fel werden bestreden?…
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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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Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Hendrik Oort: world-famous yet unassuming astronomer
He discovered how to determine the rotation and centre of our Milky Way, predicted where comets come from and laid the groundwork for radio astronomy: Leiden Professor of Astronomy Jan Hendrik Oort (1900 – 1992). Piet van der Kruit, whose PhD supervisor was Oort himself, has written a biography about…
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How the world made the West: a 4000-year history
Keynote lecture
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A New History of Fishes: Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880)
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories
Lecture
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Huizinga Lecture 2024: 'We Are the Times: History in Times of Crisis'
Alumni event, Lezing
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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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VICI Award for Miguel John Versluys
Dr. Miguel John Versluys (Archaeology) has been awarded a prestigious Vici grant for his project:
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Arabic papyri shed new light on origins of Islam
Research on papyri has provided new insights into the history of the origins of Islam. Petra Sijpesteijns’s book,'Shaping a Muslim State', is based on these ancient Arabic letters and documents. Her new research on a Viennese collection of untranslated papyri is expected to produce more discoveries.
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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.’