704 search results for “modern history” in the Staff website
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The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
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EUniWell Open lectures series | European standards of Human Rights protection of displaced persons fleeing armed conflicts
Lecture, Part of a series
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2021
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Archaeologist Everest Gromoll wins LUF Thesis Prize with groundbreaking research on human responses to climatic shifts
On Saturday, February 11, 2023, at the Dies for Alumni event, archaeology alumni Everest Gromoll was awarded the LUF Thesis Prize. His thesis, titled ‘Neolithizers by Nurture’, explores parallels between the only two comparable climatic shifts in the history of modern humans: that of the one 12,000…
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Historical continuity helped form Dutch and Belgian identities
Dutch people are far more law-abiding than they might like to think. And they are very different from the Belgians in that regard. The different approaches of the two governments towards the coronavirus crisis, for example, can be explained from the history of both countries since the Middle Ages. Historians…
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In Memoriam: Prof. Henk Jan de Jonge (1943-2022)
With the passing of Henk Jan de Jonge on 16 April 2022, Leiden University has lost one of its most characteristic, learned and devoted professors.
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Nira Wickramasinghe on New Books in South Asian Studies podcast
In the book 'Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' Nira Wickramasinghe, professor of Modern South Asian Studies, uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world. She was interviewed about the book in the New Books in South East Asian…
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Nadine Akkerman wins Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021
Nadine Akkerman, associate professor of early modern English literature is receiving the Dr Hendrik Muller Prize 2021 for her work.
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Treating military matters as military science - a lecture on Russian military concepts from 1853 to the present day
Recently, Engin Yüksel gave a lecture on Russian military concepts from 1853 to the present day and his observations on the Russo-Ukrainian war at the Faculty of Humanities, premised on his recently completed doctoral research.
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From “The Sea Bastards” to “Solidarity Beyond Ocean”: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of Scale in the Bandung Moment
Lecture
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Petra Sijpesteijn elected to the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (AIBL), one of the five academies that make up the Institut de France, has elected professor Petra Sijpesteijn as foreign corresponding member (correspondant étranger), to fill the seat of the renowned Egyptologist Edda Bresciani.
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A ‘Little Armenia’ in the Caribbean
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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The Israel-Hamas War in Islamist Discourses
Discussion
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2021
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Mirjam de Baar reappointed as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
Mirjam de Baar has been Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and portfolio holder for education of master’s and research master’s programmes since 2016. As a result of her reappointment, she will continue to fulfil this role for an additional four years. ‘Being asked by the Vice-Rector and the Dean…
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Blood, Tears and Samurai Love: A Tragic Tale from Eighteenth-Century Japan
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
- LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Terms of Exchange. Brazilian Intellectuals and the French Social Sciences
Conference, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Ingrained Habits: The “Kitchen Cars,” American Wheat Promotion, and the Transformation of Japanese Diet and Identity, 1956-1960
Lecture
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Hybrid Symposium 'Pageantry, Ritual and Popular Media: Netherlandish Practices of Public Diplomacy in 16th- and 17th-Europe’
Conference
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What Do We Mean When We Say “Academic Freedom”?
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Meet Louise van der Vlugt, Co-winner of the 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies' Award
In December 2023, Louise van der Vlugt was announced as Co-Winner of the 'Best Thesis in Jewish Studies' Award. She sat down to answer some questions about her prize-winning BA Thesis.
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KNOT: Envisioning A Virtual Museum of Indigenous American Heritage in Italy
Lecture
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Masterclass ''Unconventional Textual Sources''
Lecture, COGLOSS Masterclass
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Lessons of Democracy: Mothers’ Education and Learning Activities in late-1950s Japan,
Lecture
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Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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In the Making #6: Anna Scott, Jed Wentz, Laila Neuman, Emma Williams, Art Without Soul?
Lecture, Conversation
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Ad Maas appointed professor by special appointment: 'Exhibiting scientific research is at the cutting edge of museology
On 1 September, Ad Maas, curator of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, was appointed professor by special appointment. In this role, he will primarily focus on the representation of natural sciences in museums.
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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…
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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On the Backlash: The Weimar Republic and the Contemporary World, UCDxLeiden
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Introducing: Noelle Richardson and Susana Münch Miranda
Since September 2021, Noelle Richardson and Susana Munch Miranda are working as a postdoctoral researcher within Cátia Antunes VICI project "Exploiting the Empire of Others: Dutch Investment in Foreign Colonial Resources, 1570-1800". Below, they introduce themselves.
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Online exhibition – Yemen through the Dutch lens
Northern Yemen; a highland region often in the news as the center of the Houthi regime, has a political, social, and intellectual history spanning more than a millennium. This exhibition showcases some of the findings of the Early Modern State Development in Yemen project, based at Leiden University,…
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Zionism: An Emotional State
Lecture, Public Lecture
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Leiden archaeologist works with Kazakhs on numismatic collections
In May of 2023, an agreement was signed between Leiden PhD candidate Jonathan Ouellet and General Director Onggar Akan of the A. Kh. Margulan Archaeological Institute in Almaty. The aim: a detailed study of the numismatic history of Southern Kazakhstan.
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Conference Museums, Collections and Society
Conference
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VVIK Lecture: Court politics in the Vijayanagara successor states
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Antje Wessels will investigate the world of fragments with NWO grant
Professor Antje Wessels has received an NWO Open Competition grant to research fragmentary texts.
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‘Prehistory holds up a challenging mirror to us’
Leiden alumnus Luc Amkreutz is a curator at the National Museum of Antiquities. His exhibition about the submerged landscape of Doggerland highlights what we can learn from prehistory. ‘Just like the people of Doggerland, we are confronted with climate change, but we are responsible for the speed of…
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Leiden University Nationalism Network
Lecture, Leiden University Nationalism Network
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LUCAS Conference Narratives 2024
Conference
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Birth of a Pelagic Empire: Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansions in the Pacific
Lecture
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Leiden Classics: Bibliotheca Thysiana, a 17th century time machine
From once controversial scientific works and historical bibles, to personal shopping lists and clothing bills. The 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana and the archive of the collector Johannes Thysius exhibit both the intellectual and everyday life as it was three hundred years ago. Now a brand-new digital…
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Introducing: Isaac Scarborough
Isaac McKean Scarborough has been working at the Institute for History as a lecturer since September 2021. Below he introduces himself!
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Japan and the World
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Leiden-Paris-Cambridge Seminar on the Interior as a Space of Display
Lecture
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Alumnus Asa Splinter: ‘LGBT+ identities are not a burden but a source of inspiration’
Even as a teenager Asa Splinter was determined to study Japanese in Leiden. A HAVO diploma and a change in legislation threatened to throw a spanner in the works, but Asa persevered. After ten years of studying, Asa obtained a master’s degree in Japanese and was nominated for the IHLIA thesis award…
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Six NWO grants for FGW researchers: this is what the scientists are going to do
Six projects from the Faculty of Humanities recently received grants of up to 750,000 euros from the NWO Open Competition. Researchers involved tell how they will spend this money.