850 search results for “culturele history” in the Student website
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Jeroen OosterbaanFaculty of Archaeology
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Ying ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
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Camilla MarracciniFaculty of Humanities
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Fan LinFaculty of Humanities
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Writing a bottom-up, practice-oriented and connected history of Christianities in the medieval Middle East (12th-17th centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Alain WijffelsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Limin TehFaculty of Humanities
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Henk te VeldeFaculty of Humanities
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Diego SalamaFaculty of Humanities
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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History MOOC 'The Rooseveltian Century' returns
Prof. Giles Scott-Smith has made the first History MOOC (Massive Online Open-Access Course) produced by Leiden University. The MOOC 'The Rooseveltian Century', which covers the influence of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt through the 20th century, is now online at Coursera. The successful MOOC…
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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Aad van MastrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Maja VodopivecFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Peter KopICLON
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So long, Gravensteen: ‘History dripped off the walls’
Historic and iconic yet expensive and cold. It’s with mixed feelings that the university is leaving the Gravensteen building, which dates back to the 12th century. How was it to work and study in this former Leiden prison?
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
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André GerritsFaculty of Humanities
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Roos StolkerFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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Ako TsujitaFaculty of Humanities
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Zhengshan JiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Willem ZwalveFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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The Ptolemaic Ruler Cult in Egypt: The Greek Temple of Hermopolis Magna in its Religious and Socio-Historical Context
Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar
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Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social groups.
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Jiyan IlbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd'
A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 2021, he will hold the chair of professor of Medieval History at the university. In an introductory interview, Buc introduces himself, his research and his…
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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Jacobine MelisFaculty of Archaeology
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Michel DoortmontAfrican Studies Centre
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Patrick GouwLeiden University Libraries
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time
The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he combines his love for the University and poetry with autobiographical reflections. ‘With my magnifying glass I discovered yet more new details in the pr…
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Andrew GawthorpeFaculty of Humanities
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Leonor Alvarez FrancésFaculty of Humanities
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Koen Marijt is crazy about history: 'So much has happened within one kilometre of Rapenburg'
Anyone who has taken a walk through the centre of Leiden before might have come across him, an attentive group of tourists gathered around. After studying history, Koen van Toen, or Koen Marijt, started his own business. He now organises historical walks, among other things.
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Jürgen ZangenbergFaculty of Humanities