97 search results for “postcoloniality” in the Staff website
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Introducing: Fadly Rahman and Marleen Reichgelt
Fadly Rahman and Marleen Reichgelt recently joined the Institute for History within the NWO-funded project 'Epistemic actors. The role of Indonesians in the making of knowledge in the colonial era’ under the supervision of Fenneke Sysling. Below, they introduce themselves.
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Test expert Coen van 't Veer: 'The Dutch final exam is a good measuring tool'
Not passed your Dutch exam? Then there’s no HAVO (Higher General Secondary) or VWO (pre-university) diploma for you, says the Inspectorate of Education's Inspector General. This comment fuels a discussion on an exam that is already under fire. The final exam for Dutch is said to be uninspiring, too…
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Unknown, but not unloved
Do you know what the capital of St Eustatius is? Or which province Curaçao belongs to? No idea? You are not the only one: the majority of European Dutch people know little about the Caribbean islands within the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is according to a large-scale opinion survey led by political…
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Special Guest Lecture: Civilian Internment in India: Omissions and Exceptions, Incarceration camps of the Pacific War
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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Book Talk: The Psychic Lives of Statues
Lecture, Book Talk
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Veni grants for 18 Leiden researchers
Eighteen researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant gives promising young researchers the opportunity to develop their ideas for a period of three years.
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Israeli Politics Now
Debate
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Treasures Festival
Festival
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their research ideas in the coming three years.
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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CfP: Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
We are pleased to invite submissions for a conference exploring how heritage and memory practices, alongside the legacies of climate coloniality, shape contemporary understandings and mobilisations of reparations. This event will examine how historical and political dynamics influence reparative justice…
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Legitimation as political practice: everyday authority in Tanzania and beyond
Lecture
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The Visuals of Empire
Lecture, The Visuals of Empire
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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From Disappearance to the End Game: Reflecting on the Politics of Decolonization in Hong Kong
Lecture, China Seminar
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Striving for Affect: Amateur Readers and Aswany's Bestsellers on Social Media
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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CADS Research Seminar Listening to the Un-speakable as Decolonial Praxis
Lecture
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Seminar and book discussion
Lecture, Seminar and book discussion
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Stephen Ellis Debate on the role of African philosophy in peace and security
Debate
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Governance and Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Demystifying Alexandria: Insights from Alexandria about 21st century Orientalism and (post-)Colonialism
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Booklaunch 'Security Studies: An Applied Introduction'
Lecture, Paneldiscussion
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Annual Social Citizenship and Migration Symposium
Conference
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The Myriad Avatars of Izumi Shikibu in Medieval Japan
Lecture
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African methodologies in academic research
Lecture
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Genocide: Lessons from 20th Century History
Lecture, Seminar
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Appropriation foncière, migrations agricoles et conflits armés en Pays Dogon (Mali)
PhD defence
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Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
Lecture, China Seminar
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Reparative Encounters: Colonial Histories, Other-Archives, and Collaborative Artistic Research
Lecture, CADS/CWTS DataCultures seminar
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When Turkish Islamism Meets Social Sciences: Essentialism Upgraded?
Lecture
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Shadowboxing: Legal Mobilization and the Marginalization of Race in the Dutch Metropole, 1979-1999
PhD defence
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Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
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Rice Eaters in the Land of Cheese
PhD defence
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Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List
The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Linguistic Anthropology in Europe: Past, Present, and Futures
Conference
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Nation Building, Historiography, and School History in a Multi-Cultural Context: Ethiopia’s Enigma of Our Time
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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Veni grants for 16 Leiden researchers
Sixteen researchers at Leiden University are to receive a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). These awards offer promising young researchers the opportunity to further develop their own ideas over a period of three years.
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Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
Conference
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Just Peace Dialogue: Peace in Europe
Just Peace Festival
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Participatory Action Research: possibilities and challenges in the humanities
Course, Terra Incognita Masterclass
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Panel Discussion | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Debate, Panel Discussion
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Book Launch: After Savagery. Gaza, Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Book Launch
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Lineage and Gender in Islam: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean World
International Conference