489 search results for “history of slavery” in the Student website
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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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Damian Pargas
Faculty of Humanities
d.a.pargas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2736
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Roundtable on Slavery: From Scholarly Debates to Public Reckoning
Conference, Histories Connected: Faculty Roundtable
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Karwan Fatah-Black
Faculty of Humanities
k.j.fatah@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2666
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘
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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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in'
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic slavery expert Karwan Fatah-Black. 'Too bad they didn’t wait for the results of the study.'
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.
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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation
How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when studying preserved archives and collections? A new book series aims to address these questions. The initiators Karwan Fatah-Black and Ilse Josepha Lazaroms…
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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
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Rens Tacoma
Faculty of Humanities
l.e.tacoma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2632
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
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Marlou Schrover
Faculty of Humanities
m.l.j.c.schrover@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2786
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
c.m.m.mertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Special Guest Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Special Guest Lecture
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Bianca Angelien Claveria
Faculty of Humanities
b.a.claveria@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4165
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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
j.fynn-paul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9191
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
m.c.r.schute@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Marlisa den Hartog
Faculty of Humanities
m.i.den.hartog@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2733
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Ann Marie Wilson
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.m.wilson@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9355
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
e.p.m.zwinkels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
t.v.c.bousard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
w.otterspeer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7242
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Lauren Lauret
Faculty of Humanities
l.b.lauret@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2772
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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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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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
c.a.p.antunes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2735
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Manon van der Heijden
Faculty of Humanities
m.p.c.van.der.heijden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2670
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Maria Pereira Bastiao
Faculty of Humanities
m.p.pereira.bastiao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
t.atabaki@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Bart van der Steen
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
b.s.van.der.steen@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6338
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Evelien Walhout
Faculty of Humanities
e.c.walhout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6412
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Herman Paul
Faculty of Humanities
h.j.paul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2757
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Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
a.e.van.ertvelde@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Leiden’s slavery past laid bare
The Mapping Slavery project will place markers that tell the story of Leiden’s slavery past. Why is this important and what does it mean for today’s society? Before the markers are placed, a panel came together on 24 March to discuss the slavery past of not only the city but the University too.
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Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
l.h.j.sicking@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2717
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.oostindie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
r.j.ross@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Nicolette Mout
Faculty of Humanities
m.e.h.n.mout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities
j.f.j.duindam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2759
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John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
j.b.kegel@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
e.mark@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2310
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Shenghao Yue
Faculty of Humanities
s.yue@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Chie Arita
Faculty of Humanities
c.arita@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Qinggang Hao
Faculty of Humanities
q.hao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2336
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
a.tsujita@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
s.t.magano@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Zhengshan Jiao
Faculty of Humanities
z.jiao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727