2,245 search results for “history of the contemporary middle echt” in the Staff website
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Introducing: Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
This summer, Jeffrey Fynn-Paul started as a lecturer at the Institute's Social and Economic History section.
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Jos Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, to be new interim Vice-Dean
Prof. J. (Jos) Schaeken, Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Cultural History, will be the interim Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Humanities from 1 March 2025. He will succeed the present Vice-Dean, Mirjam de Baar, who will complete her second term on that date.
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Marie-leen RyckaertFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
m.l.e.ryckaert@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009589
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Professor by special appointment Mariken Teeuwen: ‘There are so many new possibilities in research on medieval manuscripts’
Mariken Teeuwen started at the Institute for History as a professor by special appointment of Script Culture of the Middle Ages on 1 March. ‘I’m looking forward to doing research together with students.’
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
p.a.webb@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1689
- Language Policy and Practices Series
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a hundred years ago. PhD candidate Léjon Saarloos researched British scientists around the year 1900 and their idea of what makes a good - and therefore…
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Russians continue to use age-old military concepts
Russian military concepts developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries still exist and have not lost their strategic relevance. The Russians used them to annex Crimea and are now applying them in the war in Ukraine. Although the concepts have been around for a long time, it does not mean they…
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Book launch: Roots of counterterrorism, Contemporary Wisdom from Dutch Intelligence
Lecture, Book launch
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Tobias van der WalFaculty of Law
t.b.d.van.der.wal@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6879
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Wouter van BeekAfrican Studies Centre
w.e.a.van.beek@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6641
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Bareez MajidFaculty of Humanities
b.majid@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5154
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2024
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Historiography and Palaeography of Sasanian Middle Persian Inscriptions
PhD defence
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Thijs Brocades Zaalberg: 'How does the discourse on war influence practice?'
As a student, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg was primarily interested in diplomacy surrounding conflicts. Through research on peace operations and subsequently the fight against guerrillas, he became increasingly involved with the most violent aspects of colonial warfare. Per 1 September 2024 he is appointed…
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Lingyun Lai
Faculty of Humanities
l.lai@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Dettje BakkerFaculty of Humanities
d.j.bakker.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Anne van DamFaculty of Humanities
a.n.van.dam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Salem Ritenour
Faculty of Humanities
s.j.ritenour@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Daný van DamFaculty of Humanities
h.d.j.van.dam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Sarah BadwyFaculty of Humanities
s.badwy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Anna Ljung Grüner-HeggeFaculty of Humanities
a.b.ljung.gruner.hegge@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Emma de VriesFaculty of Humanities
e.m.de.vries@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Roosmarijn HompeFaculty of Humanities
r.g.hompe@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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The Helsinki Final Act at 50: Timeless Masterpiece or Relic of the Cold War?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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Ties DamsFaculty of Law
t.t.c.dams@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Luca Bruls Awarded Fellowship Grant for Research and Ethnographic Filmmaking
Luca Bruls has received a Catharina Halkes Fonds fellowship grant to finalize her fieldwork in Chad and Senegal and to complete her first ethnographic film.
- Call for papers: The Routledge International Handbook on Social Exclusion and Radicalisation
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Jesse Wichers SchreurFaculty of Humanities
j.g.wichers.schreur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274154
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Sense Embodied: Cloves and Olfactory Transitions in Middle Period China
Lecture
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Honorary doctorates for Safiya Umoja Noble and Catherine Malabou during 2026 Dies Natalis
Leiden University will award two honorary doctorates at its Dies Natalis on 9 February 2026. They will go to internet studies scholar Safiya Umoja Noble and philosopher Catherine Malabou.
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‘In the second half of the eighteenth century, decisions were made in the stadtholder’s audience chamber.’
The stadtholder’s court in the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands has long been underestimated. Real courts and the associated court culture were to be found elsewhere in Europe. PhD candidate Quinten Somsen is trying to reverse this image. ‘The stadtholder’s court was actually very lively.’
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White paper: we can’t just let smart cities happen
In a new Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Universities white paper, researchers and practitioners start the conversation that society desperately needs to have. ‘We’ve outsourced the visionary thinking to tech companies.’
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Introducing: Lauren Lauret
In February 2015 Lauren Lauret started her PhD project titled 'Meeting practices of the Dutch States General and the continuity of the early modern world of the political (1780-1848)' at the Institute for History, supervised by prof. H. te Velde.
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Shared Histories, Different Memories: Dutch East India Company (VOC) histories entwined with Australian aboriginal narratives
Conference
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While the men are away, the Scheveningen women do it their way
Women confined to the kitchen? Not in Scheveningen around 1900. There, some women ran entire shipping companies. This is according to new research by history student Sjors Stuurman. He compiled the results in a book he wrote for Muzee Scheveningen.
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Humanities for Contemporary Policy Research - the Case of China
Lecture
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These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’
Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course, co-taught by Vroom, Letty ten Harkel and various guest lecturers, investigated the transition of the city of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,…
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David Pieter Schaper
Faculty of Archaeology
d.p.schaper@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 06 12754061
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Impression: kicking off our 450th anniversary celebration!
On 6 January 2025, Leiden Law School celebrated a special milestone: our 450th birthday! Our special anniversary year got underway with a panel discussion with Bonnie Honig, as well as a celebratory toast.
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Imagining the future of UK-Europe relations: Narratives from Brexit Britain
Lecture, CHEI Seminar
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Introducing: Stefano Bellucci
In August 2014 Stefano Bellucci started working as Senior Lecturer in African History at the Institute for History.
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Marie SoressiFaculty of Archaeology
m.a.soressi@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5355
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Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library
With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted back into the spotlight. Leiden University is devoting attention to this topic as well. History students Sander van der Horst and Melle van Maanen joined…
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Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’
Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except that it was used in rituals to protect against spirit possession. PhD candidate Sigrid van Roode has explored its history and discovered that the jewellery…
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
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Dodo Through the Looking-Glass: A Mirror for Modern and Contemporary Culture
Inaugural lecture
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Daphne EngelFaculty of Humanities
d.engel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
b.allahissem@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7392