2,062 search results for “history and anthropology of from” in the Staff website
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Dilara ErzeybekSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Building a sustainable future: 'Combine the forces of natural and social sciences'
The United Nations has declared May 22 the International Day for Biological Diversity. A moment of global reflection on everything on Earth and its indispensability. Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg stresses the importance of the interaction between natural and social sciences in addressing sustainability…
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Diego SalamaFaculty of Humanities
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Maud RijksFaculty of Humanities
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Nadia BourasFaculty of Humanities
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Fan LinFaculty 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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Matthew FrearFaculty of Humanities
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Business History and Imperialism SI Workshop
Lecture, Workshop
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Meet the members of the Cultural Anthropology OLC 2021-2022
Benjamín Maldonado, Orestes Kyrgiakis, Roos Capel and Iskra Cvitković are the new student members of the Programme Committee (OLC). The board advises the Executive Board and the Faculty Board about educational matters, such as the determination of the Course and Examination Regulations and the evaluation…
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Mandy de WildeSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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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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Judith NaeffFaculty of Humanities
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Maria VoltsichinaFaculty of Humanities
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Richard GriffithsFaculty of Humanities
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Andreas HofmannFaculty of Humanities
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Manar EllethyFaculty of Humanities
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Yusra AbdullahiFaculty of Humanities
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Peter KopICLON
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
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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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From canned fried rice to colonialism: Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood shows world history in miniature
Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will present their findings on Thursday 20 October, at a specially organised mini-festival in the neighbourhood.
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Philip PostFaculty 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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Fransiskus WidiyarsoFaculty of Humanities
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Digital skills at History
In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an innovation project in order to research which digital skills history alumni need on the labour market and how these skills can be implemented in the cu…
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Boardgames and graphic animations: creative ways to present academic information
For an assignment for the course Medical Anthropology, students were asked to choose a theme related to the Covid-19 pandemic, find information and present their work in a creative way. The results are impressive.
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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty 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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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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Tullio AbruzzeseFaculty of Archaeology
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrican Studies Centre
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Jiyan QiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Exhibition Books that made history
From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had extraordinary historical impact, in some cases even to this day. Leiden University Libraries and the National Museum of Antiquities jointly present the…
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Sculptures provide more diverse view of University’s history
Three new initiatives will provide a more diverse view of Leiden’s academic history, literally and figuratively: a historical study on the background of students and scientists, a new book about the Academy Building, and two new sculptures of female scientists, Ewine van Dishoek, Professor of Molecular…
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Zulfadhli NasutionSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Nurul Huda Binte Abdul RashidSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Shenghao YueFaculty of Humanities
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Jacobine MelisFaculty of Archaeology
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One history, different memories. Does this always lead to conflict?
Different groups can have different memories of the same historical event. This can lead to conflict but does not have to. How is this, and how can countries and people reconcile with the past?
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Leonor Alvarez FrancésFaculty of Humanities
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Kai HebelFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Michel DoortmontAfrican Studies Centre