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1,910 search results for “food history” in the Public website

• Geometry in ornament: On the history, theory and science about the presumed universality of geometrical patterns and its cognitive foundation Research project

  Knowledge and culture subproject 3:

• Institutional memory in the making of colonial culture: history, experience and ideas in Dutch colonialism in Asia, 1700 – 1870. Research project

  What did colonial officials and missionaries think they were doing?

• Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’ News - 25 November 2019

  Through each individual decision, however small, people make history. This is what historian Katja Happe said in the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November. She illustrated this with individual reactions to the persecution of Jews during the Second World War.

• Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Research project

  Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum is an annual publication collecting newly published Greek inscriptions and studies on previously known documents.

• The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900 Research output

  The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900 presents a new perspective on the uses of justice between 1600 and 1900 and confronts prevailing Eurocentric historiography in its examination of how people of this period made use of the law.

• Ayşegül Keskin Çolak’a Armağan Tarih ve Edebiyat Yazıları [Essays of History and Literature in Memory of Ayşegül Keskin Çolak] Research output

  Despite not focusing on a particular theme, the academic contributions in this book include essays of history and literature ranging from the Middle Ages to 1970s, from Europe and America to the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.

• Crime and gender: a comparative perspective. England and the Netherlands, 1600-1800 Research project

  The central aim is to systematically study differences in gendered crime patterns in the records of different types of courts in various English and Dutch cities in the early modern period.

• ‘Archaeology is rooting around between the artefact and the person’ News - 8 April 2019

  ‘Archeologists don’t dig up explanations, let alone certainties,’ says Joanita Vroom, Professor of Archaeology of Medieval and Early Modern Eurasia. ‘Their job is to bridge the gap between the sherds that they find and people’s everyday lives. What do ceramics from the past say about people’s eating…

• Starchy foodways Research output

  Surveying Indigenous Peoples’ culinary practices prior to the advent of European invasions in the Greater Caribbean

• Challenging monopolies, building global empires in the early modern period Research project

  How did free agents in the Dutch Republic react to the creation of colonial monopolies (VOC and WIC) by the States-General? This project answers this question by looking at the role individuals played in the construction of an informal global empire parallel to the institutional empire devised by the…

• What soy sauce can teach us about the history of South Korea News - 14 December 2012

  ‘Three books published within a year – that happens only once in a lifetime!’ This was the reaction of Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan Studies at Leiden University, on the publication of Cuisine, Colonialism and Cold War, one of her three new books. The book sketches the colonisation of…

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  Jan Abbink Professor emeritus Governance and politics in Africa

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  g.j.abbink@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Emblems and the Natural World Research output

  The multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying artistic, literary, political and religious ideologies.

• National Meat Free Week: the main reasons to switch to a plant-based diet News - 8 March 2022

  National Meat Free Week (Nationale Week Zonder Vlees, 7–13 March) is an initiative to reduce meat consumption. Assistant professor Paul Behrens is studying what impact a change in our food consumption would have on the world. What, according to him, are the main reasons to switch to a (mainly) plant-based…

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  Ethan Mark Senior University Lecturer Modern Japanese History

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.mark@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2310

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  André Gerrits Professor of International Studies and Global Politics

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.w.m.gerrits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2949

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  Irene O'Daly University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.odaly@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2155

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  Vineet Thakur Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.thakur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1256

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  Jan-Bart Gewald Professor History of Africa

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  j.b.gewald@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3372

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  Pablo Isla Monsalve University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.a.isla.monsalve@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2061

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  Fenneke Sysling Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.h.sysling@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2737

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  Caroline Waerzeggers Professor of Assyriology

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Roos Stolker Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

  r.stolker@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9589

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  Giles Scott-Smith Dean LUC/Professor Transnational Relations and New Diplomatic History

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

  g.p.scott-smith@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9503

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  Jiyan Qiao University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.qiao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2977

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  Indira Huliselan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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

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  Bernhard Rieger Professor of European History

  Faculty of Humanities

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

• Crime and gender before the courts of the Netherlands, 1600-1800 Research project

  The central aim is to systematically study differences in gendered crime patterns in the records of different types of courts in various Dutch cities in the early modern period.

• Power and Persuasion. Essays on the Art of State Building in Honour of W.P. Blockmans Research output

  The transformation of the myriad of medieval kingdoms, principalities, local lordships, city-‘states’ and peasant ‘republics’ into ‘modern’ states, claiming some measure of sovereignty, remains one of the core themes of European history, because it gets down to the very root of the (idea on the) Europe…

• The Social Life of Connectivity in Africa Research output

  The studies outlined in this volume explore how connectedness continues to change Africa and how Africa continues to shape the social life of connections.

• Urbanism and municipal administration in Roman North Africa Research project

  This project uses archaeological, literary and epigraphic evidence to investigate urban development in Roman-period North Africa, compiling this in a GIS-linked database in order to analyse the development of urban settlement spatially over time.

• Linking the past with the present through pickling, fermenting, and food preservation in Gdańsk, Poland. News - 22 June 2021

  PhD candidate Ola Gracjasz writes about fermentation practices in Gdańsk, Poland.

• 'Recycling the past' Tzu-chi waste recycling and the cultural politics of nostalgia in Taiwan Research output

  On the 8th of September Yun-An Olivia Dung successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.

• Moving Romans. Migration to Rome in the Principate. Research output

  Moving Romans offers an analysis of Roman migration by applying general insights, models and theories from the field of migration history.

• The Legacy of Dutch Brazil Research output

  This book argues that Dutch Brazil (1624–54) is an integral part of Atlantic history and that it made an impact well beyond colonial and national narratives in the Netherlands and Brazil.

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  Diego Salama PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.salama@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646

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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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  Shenghao Yue PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.yue@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Chie Arita PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.arita@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171

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  Qinggang Hao PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  q.hao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2336

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  Berry Dongelmans Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.p.m.dongelmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Carola Hein LDE professor Water, Ports & Historic Cities

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

  c.m.hein@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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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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  Ako Tsujita PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.tsujita@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171

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  Thato Magano External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.t.magano@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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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

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  Rachel Schats Associate professor

  Faculteit Archeologie

  r.schats@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1925

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  Soledad Valdivia Rivera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.valdivia.rivera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2947

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  Jeroen Oosterbaan PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculteit Archeologie

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

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  Zhengshan Jiao PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  z.jiao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727