1,099 search results for “history of science” in the Staff website
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Introducing: Fadly Rahman and Marleen Reichgelt
Fadly Rahman and Marleen Reichgelt recently joined the Institute for History within the NWO-funded project 'Epistemic actors. The role of Indonesians in the making of knowledge in the colonial era’ under the supervision of Fenneke Sysling. Below, they introduce themselves.
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti were unable to reap benefits from this. PhD candidate Anita van der Hulst researched why so few Roma and Sinti went on to higher education. PhD defence on…
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Miranda van Eckeck_m@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276238
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Sarah CramseyFaculty of Humanities
s.a.cramsey@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278825
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Batuhan Canb.s.can@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ruud Koole
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
koole@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History October 2025
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Laurens van GestelFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
l.c.van.gestel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Hüseyin BeyköylüFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
h.beykoylu@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Meet Dr. Kathyrn Brackney, LJSA Member
Dr. Brackney is a modern European intellectual and cultural historian with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Leiden, she held postdoctoral teaching posts in the History & Literature program at Harvard University and the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.
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Museum Talks: ‘Our access to the past starts with in-depth knowledge of objects’
Geert-Jan Janse has always been fascinated by the way objects can bring the past closer. On 16 November, he will present a Museum Talk about his work as the director of the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Association).
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Hollandsdenken Dekoloniseren
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database
What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Faculty of Humanities joined forces with vocational college (MBO) students to build a database. ‘We’re so compatible with each other.’
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Alberto CeriaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
a.ceria@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Sterre ter HaarFaculty of Science
s.f.ter.haar@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Introducing: Matthew Frear
In September 2013 I moved to Leiden from the UK to take up the position of Assistant Professor covering politics and international relations on the BA Russian Studies and International Studies programmes and the MA Russian and Eurasian Studies.
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Palestine Poster Workshop (2): History, Graphic Design, Political Solidarity
Arts and culture
- Museum Talks at the Leiden Department of Art History
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When History Repeats Itself: Knowledge in Times of Crisis
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Leiden Research Support Network: invisible forces in science
They are not always in the spotlight but are essential to our scientific research: Leiden research support professionals. And their network is growing and professionalising all the time. Over a hundred such professionals shared knowledge and gained inspiration at the Leiden Research Support Network…
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Truth and Post-Truth: Thinking with Chinese History
Inaugural lecture
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Where Are You Going? Composing Novel Oceanic Art Histories
Inaugural lecture
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Jan van Rijnj.n.van.rijn@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ksenia FedorovaFaculty of Humanities
k.fedorova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272952
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to Guadalajara
In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done well in the South. He was not the only Guadalajara resident with Leiden roots: at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a stream of Dutch textile workers…
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Introducing: Edmund Amann
Professor Edmund Amann will be the new Professor of Brazilian Studies. A short introduction.
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Open Science Festival: a day focused on collective benefit, equity, fairness, and sustainability
At the Netherlands National Open Science Festival in Rotterdam, 400 people with a heart for research and sharing knowledge came together — including many Leiden University employees. Four colleagues told us about their Festival experience, and their work to practice Open Science at Leiden University…
- Share your research with the public at our science events in Leiden and The Hague
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Open Science Survey launched to map awareness and needs across Leiden University
A new university-wide survey is now open to all involved in conducting, teaching, advising on, or supporting research related activities at Leiden University, aiming to better understand the current state of Open Science awareness and practice. Initiated by Archaeology’s then PhD candidate, now guest…
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Business History and Imperialism SI Workshop
Lecture, Workshop
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Nikki NibberingFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
n.nibbering@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Michael Meyer
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
m.meyer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Linda van Leijenhorst
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
lleijenhorst@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273750
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Yee Man Ngy.m.ng@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Centre for Digital Scholarship Summer Training Week 2026
Workshops, lectures
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Reporting from ESOF: ‘How can we use science to solve the next crisis?’
From global warming to the decolonisation of knowledge. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) in Leiden over 500 speakers from 60 countries have come together to discuss the big themes of our times. Why have the delegates come?
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Michael Meffert
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
meffertmf@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Art History, Art Historians, and the Search for Legitimacy
PhD defence
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Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’
If it is up to university lecturer Evelien Walhout, in a year's time we will know exactly what people from Haarlem and Zwolle died of a century ago. Together with colleagues from other universities, she started the doodsoorzaken.nl platform, where causes of death are recorded. ‘Somewhere around the…
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Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore appointed new Cleveringa Professor
The French political theorist Hélène Landemore has been appointed as the new Cleveringa Professor. She will deliver her inaugural lecture on 26 November.
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
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Michiel van ElkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
m.van.elk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Elise DusseldorpFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
elise.dusseldorp@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278046
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play
A team of Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage.
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Meet Dr. Lital Abazon LJSA Member
Prior to arriving to Leiden, Dr. Abazon completed her Ph.D. at Yale University's Department of Comparative Literature, where she also taught courses ranging from Introduction to Zionism to World Cinema.
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Sarah de RijckeExecutive Board
s.de.rijcke@cvb.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273057