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1,255 search results for “history of south afrika” in the Student website

• Writing history together in the Transvaal News - 18 October 2021

  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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  Marieke Bloembergen Professor Heritage and Postcolonial Studies in Indonesian History

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.bloembergen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2459

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  Damian Pargas Professor History and Culture of North America

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.a.pargas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2736

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  Jonathan Stökl University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.j.stokl@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2255

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  Paul Nieuwenburg Professor Political Philosophy

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  pnieuwenburg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1983

• Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history' News - 14 October 2025

  A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…

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  Indira Huliselan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.c.huliselan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1167

• History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study Event - 20 May 2024

  Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series

• Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past' News - 15 January 2024

  Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with, among others, Leiden researchers Anne-Marieke van der Wal-Rémy and Alicia Schrikker, therefore created a 'canon of the Dutch underexposed past', which…

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  Olli Littunen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.p.a.littunen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6362

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  Kexin Zheng PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.zheng@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Xiaoqiang Meng PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  x.meng@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Aritri Dutta External PhD

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.dutta.2@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Alain Wijffels Professor emeritus Legal History

  Faculty of Law

  a.a.wijffels@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Niels Schoubben Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.schoubben@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Martine Bruil University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.bruil@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3340

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  Stijn Bussels Scientific Director LUCAS/Professor Art history, expecially before 1800

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.p.m.bussels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2693

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  Bernhard Rieger Professor of European History

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.rieger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1290

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  Alisa van de Haar University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.d.m.van.de.haar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272179

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  Hans Janssen Professor emeritus History, in particular castles

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.l.janssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2682

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  Jan Just Witkam Professor emeritus of Codicology

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.j.witkam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171

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  Diego Salama Editor Global Governance (journal)

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.salama@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Internships and research in the Netherlands Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (MSc)

  How can you find an internship or research project and what arrangements do you need to make?

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  Adam Fairclough Professor emeritus of American History

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.fairclough@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646

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  Alp Yenen University Lecturer Modern Turkish History and Culture

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.a.yenen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2943

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  Anne Heyer Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.heyer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1121

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  Hendrik den Heijer Professor emeritus of Maritime History

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.den.heijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646

• Three new Master's specialisations in History: ‘More in line with students’ wishes’ News - 16 September 2025

  The Master's programme in History at Leiden University is set to change. From September 2026, three of the five specialisations will be replaced by new subjects that are more closely aligned with the field of research and students’ interests. One of these new specialisations will also be taught entirely…

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  Eric Storm Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.storm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2721

• History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’ News - 22 March 2021

  Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…

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  Katarzyna Cwiertka Professor of Modern Japan Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.j.cwiertka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2599

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  Verena Meyer University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.h.meyer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2281

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  Jeroen Oosterbaan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  j.oosterbaan@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Ying Zhang Professor Chinese History

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.z.zhang.2@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6006

• Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’ News - 9 August 2022

  What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.

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  Maud Rijks PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.rijks@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273516

• Katarzyna Cwiertka on the declining popularity of kimchi in South Korea News - 20 October 2022

  In the Western world, kimchi is on an unstoppable rise, but in South Korea the dish is actually losing popularity. Professor Katarzyna Cwiertka explains how this is possible in the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave'.

• Movie screening: Aman 1967 Event - 8 December 2025

  Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series

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  Caroline Waerzeggers Professor of Assyriology

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.waerzeggers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2033

• Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘ News - 30 June 2022

  Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leiden' want to change this with guided tours and street markers. Representatives of the University and other Leiden institutions will be giving the first…

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  Kate Bellamy Postdoctoral Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.r.bellamy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2125

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  Natalia Donner Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.r.donner@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 800 950

• Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations' News - 14 June 2021

  The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society' project. Researchers will reconstruct how seventeenth-century scientists recorded and shared their groundbreaking microscopic discoveries. We…

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  Pablo Isla Monsalve Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.a.isla.monsalve@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272061

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  Jonathan Powell Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.d.powell@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Limin Teh University Lecturer Modern Chinese History

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.m.teh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5915

• Uncovering the role of Social Democracy in the History of European Competition Policy Event - 16 April 2025

  Lecture, CHEI Seminar - Book launch

• Campus: Renovation of De Vrieshof starts and changed plans Lipsius South News - 22 January 2025

  There are some changes in the plans for the development of the Humanities Campus. The Faculty of Humanities along with the central organisation and the Real Estate department need to save costs due to the financial challenges at the faculty and the cuts in higher education. At the same time, we still…

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  Emma Grootveld University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.j.m.grootveld@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2069

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  Céline Zaepffel Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.v.zaepffel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2050