1,652 search results for “cultural history” in the Student website
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Andrea RagragioFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Simay CetinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Elsa CharletyFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sander HölsgensFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Limin TehFaculty of Humanities
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Elmer VeldkampFaculty of Humanities
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Jiaxin SunFaculty of Humanities
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Ben ArpsFaculty of Humanities
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Mitchell van VurenFaculty of Humanities
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Thomas KluitenburgFaculty 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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Liesbeth ClaesFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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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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Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
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Aad van MastrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
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Maja VodopivecFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Peter KopICLON
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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André GerritsFaculty of Humanities
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Roos StolkerFaculty of Humanities
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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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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Arash MohammadavvaliFaculty of Humanities
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Ellen RavenFaculty of Humanities
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Ako TsujitaFaculty of Humanities
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Willem ZwalveFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Willem van WijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Fitri MurfiantiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tazuko van BerkelFaculty of Humanities
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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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Rodrigo OchigameFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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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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Jiyan IlbrinkFaculty of Humanities
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Alicia Schrikker appointed Professor History of The Netherlands in the world
The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Dr Alicia Schrikker as Professor History of The Netherlands in the world, effective 1 January 2026. The chair is based at the Institute for History at the Faculty of Humanities.
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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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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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Ruth ClemensFaculty 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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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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Patrick GouwLeiden University Libraries