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Luuk de LigtFaculty of Humanities
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Support the Ukrainian and Russian students in Leiden and The Hague
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has also had dramatic consequences for Ukrainian students at Leiden University. Besides their intense concern about the fate of family and friends, they also face major financial problems. This also applies to Russian students who can no longer access their bank accounts.…
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Matthew BroadFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew Gawthorpe on The Conversation: 'Trump's Greenland plan ignores a history of segregation'
University Lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe discusses on The Conversation how Trump's Greenland proposal overlooks the historical discrimination faced by Indigenous Alaskans.
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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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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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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…
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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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Damian PargasFaculty of Humanities
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Wim BootFaculty of Humanities
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Kate BrackneyFaculty of Humanities
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Leo LucassenFaculty of Humanities
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Kees Verduin
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Elizabeth Rodriguez EstradaFaculty of Archaeology
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Maria van der SchaarFaculty of Humanities
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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Wim van den DoelExecutive Board
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Jessica RoitmanFaculty of Humanities
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Alanna O'Malley in The Irish Times about the risk of expelling the Russian ambassador in Ireland
Alanna O'Malley, Associate Professor at Leiden University Institute for History, talks about the possible expelling of the Russian ambassador Yuriy Filatov and the risks that come with the decision.
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund HayesFaculty of Humanities
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Belarus is the only Russian ally left in Europe: what is in it for them?
While all European nations have condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is one country Russia can still count on: Belarus. Russia even used its territory as a stepping stone for the invasion. We spoke with Matthew Frear, Assistant Professor and expert on contemporary Belarus, to shed light…
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Robert SteinFaculty of Humanities
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Hans MolFaculty of Humanities
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Bente de LeedeFaculty 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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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Maud RijksFaculty of Humanities
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Elisabeth DietermanFaculty of Humanities
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
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How Russia uses language as a weapon of war
According to Russian propaganda Ukrainians are Nazis and people from the West are Satanists. Egbert Fortuin thinks we should take this propaganda seriously.
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Claire VergerioSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Anahita ArianSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Göran SundholmFaculty of Humanities
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Isabelle DuijvesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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How gas conflicts between Ukraine and Russia were the precursor to war
The war between Ukraine and Russia is playing out not just on the battlefield but also on the geopolitical playing field of gas. Conflicts at the start of this century about this energy source were, says PhD candidate Ilia Barboutev, a precursor to today’s war.
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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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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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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Eefke de HaanFaculty of Humanities
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Rodrigo OchigameSocial & Behavioural Sciences