2,729 search results for “twentieth century political comparative history” in the Public website
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Only in America: chemist becomes America correspondent
Chemistry, which is what Hans Klis studied in Leiden, is not what one might expect of a general journalist. ‘I’m a late bloomer,’ he says, despite having spent four years as America correspondent and written a book on notorious school shootings by the tender age of 34.
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Interview with Professor Ken Meier: 'Protests, a representative government and the role of leadership'
Professor Ken Meier is one of the most prominent researchers of the world in the field of Public Administration. Meier holds appointments as a professor of Public Administration at Cardiff School of Business (Wales), a professor of bureaucracy and democracy at Leiden University (The Netherlands), research…
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Beyond plastic: why humanities scholars study waste
In a new series of articles, we explore how the humanities study topics related to sustainability. First up: waste. How and why study waste as a humanities scholar? We asked Elena Burgos Martinez, University Lecturer South and Southeast Asian Studies, and Katarzyna Cwiertka, Professor of Modern Japan…
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The Processes of Conversion to Islam in Contemporary Spain: From the Betrayal of Spain to Community Insertion
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
- Volume 14 (2019)
- Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture
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Conflict Escalation: Explaining the Rise of Violence
Lecture
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
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Maxim Osipov - Public Interview By Michel Krielaars
Lecture
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Manuscript and Early Book Destruction
Conference
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A New industry in an Ancient Land: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads
Conference, Public event
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Chair of UN Studies in Peace and Justice
From 1 August 2018, Alanna O'Malley was appointed as Chair of United Nations Studies in Peace and Justice, focusing on the ‘lesser-known actors’ of the UN: women, the youth, the agents of informal diplomatic networks within the UN and actors from the Global South. This Special Chair has been created…
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Online tools
This section provides an overview of online tools for the study of the medieval Low Countries. The websites linked down below are often times both available in Dutch and English.
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Second 'Retired and Kicking' symposium
Lecture, Retired and Kicking
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2023
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
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Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age - International Conference
On the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625, an international conference will be organized by the Grotiana Foundation, the Paul Scholten Centre for Jurisprudence at the University of Amsterdam, the Grotius Centre for International…
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YAL members
Read all about YAL membership and the members of the Young Academy Leiden.
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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SAILS event: Showcasing AI Research @ Humanities
Conference, Mini symposium
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Small Grants Past Research Projects
The LUCDH foster the development of new digital research by awarding a number of Small Grants each year. These are our past awardees.
- Program 2024