778 search results for “history of indonesie” in the Student website
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12,000 year old dice and what they tell us about the history of play
The Conversation published an article on the oldest dice authored by Aris Politoupolis, Angus Mol and Walter Crist. In this article they discuss how the oldest dice are d2's, or double sided dice comparable to a coin toss. These double sided dice are 12.000 years old and therefore much older then the…
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’
In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today ‘Slave Island’ is under serious threat from property developers. Senior lecturer Alicia Schrikker, together with her Sri Lankan colleagues Iromi Perera…
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty 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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Wim van den DoelAdministration and Central Services
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Anahita ArianFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Kees Verduin
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sara de WitFaculty of Humanities
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.
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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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Hans MolFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Debt Biographies: a Life History Approach to Problematic Debts
The aim of ‘debt biographies’ is to gain a detailed understanding of how people get into debt. What are the circumstances in which people accumulate debt and what kind of debts are these? How do debts impact people’s lives, feelings of self-worth and aspirations for the future?
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Rebekka GrossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Robert SteinFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew ShieldFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der BoomFaculty of Humanities
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Paul van TrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Aad van MastrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Khizar Jawad
Faculty of Humanities
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Daniele Paolini
Faculty of Humanities
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Elisabeth DietermanFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Marcel KeurentjesFaculty of Humanities
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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Leonor JonkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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Ronald Petrarca
Faculty of Humanities
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Kenan van de Mieroop
Faculty of Humanities
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Hendrik den HeijerFaculty of Humanities
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Doreen MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry
Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…
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Jay HuangFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Klaas WorpFaculty of Humanities
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Walter Nkwi GamFaculty of Humanities
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Ajeng Arainikasih
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarja SeireFaculty of Humanities
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appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’
Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to incorporate different scholarly approaches into my work and raise the profile of Central European Studies in Leiden.'