3,059 search results for “colonial and global history” in the Public website
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Contested landscapes in the age of encounter
Amerindian settlement patterns and early colonial cartography in Northern Hispaniola
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A Tale of One City: Actors of Globalization versus Bakufu Hegemony in Early Modern Nagasaki, c. 1571-1800
On 24 October 2023 Jurre Knoest successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Archaeology of the Americas
In the master’s programme in Archaeology, you can follow courses on the archaeology of the Americas, deepening your understanding of this large region.
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Early Modern Medievalisms
Early Modern Medievalisms: The Interplay between Scholarly Reflection and Artistic Production
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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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Profile 1. State formation in medieval Frisia
Politically speaking, the Frisian coastal area constitutes a special case in late medieval Europe since it was not subject to an overlord as it withstood feudalization in the 13th century. Its many sub regions, which were dominated by elites of small noblemen and freeholders, long time succeeded in…
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Maya Architecture and Urbanism, a holistic approach from the fields of astronomy and landscape
This work represents the final results of several years of research within the Maya region. It deals with the relations between architecture and urbanism with landscape and astronomy.
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THE BLACK ARCTIC
Since the Middle Passage is in the North Atlantic, and the North Atlantic has a relationship with the arctic, what relationship does the Arctic have with the Middle Passage? How can this relationship be used to provide a space of healing by uncovering Afro/diasporic counter narratives?
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Geometry in ornament: On the history, theory and science about the presumed universality of geometrical patterns and its cognitive foundation
Knowledge and culture subproject 3:
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Programme structure
Learn about current approaches and ethical issues in heritage management and experience some of these in daily practice.
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Ariadne Schmidt appointed professor of the Cultural History of Leiden
Ariadne Schmidt will be appointed professor by special appointment of the Magdalena Moons chair at Leiden University. From 1 September 2018 she will carry out academic research and teach on the cultural history of the city, in particular of Leiden.
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Expanding Social Sciences & Humanities in African Global Health Discourse
LUNHA strives to redefine global health by prioritizing justice, fairness, and inclusion in Africa. Through collaboration with diverse stakeholders, LUNHA aims to reshape global health research and foster a broader engagement with social sciences and humanities.
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Cleveringa Professor: ‘Individuals make history’
Through each individual decision, however small, people make history. This is what historian Katja Happe said in the Cleveringa Lecture on 26 November. She illustrated this with individual reactions to the persecution of Jews during the Second World War.
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Sustaining total war: Militarisation, economic mobilisation and social change in Japan and Korea (1931-1953)
This project investigates the effects of the Asia-Pacific War (1931-1945) and the Korean War (1950-1953) on the production, distribution, preparation and consumption of food in transwar Japan and Korea.
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About the programme
The master’s programme in Cities, Migration and Global Interdependence offers a general programme, as well as the subtrack Governance of Migration and Diversity.
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Hall of Fame
Many of our staff and students have won an award, received a grant, obtained an academic fellowship for their quality or have been socially engaged due to their specific expertise. See below for an overview per year.
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Ayşegül Keskin Çolak’a Armağan Tarih ve Edebiyat Yazıları [Essays of History and Literature in Memory of Ayşegül Keskin Çolak]
Despite not focusing on a particular theme, the academic contributions in this book include essays of history and literature ranging from the Middle Ages to 1970s, from Europe and America to the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.
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Irene O'Daly
Faculty of Humanities
i.odaly@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2155
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Pablo Isla Monsalve
Faculty of Humanities
p.a.isla.monsalve@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2061
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Caroline Waerzeggers
Faculty of Humanities
c.waerzeggers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2033
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Roos Stolker
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
r.stolker@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9589
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Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
g.p.scott-smith@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9503
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Kim Beerden
Faculty of Humanities
k.beerden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2761
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André Gerrits
Faculty of Humanities
a.w.m.gerrits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2949
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
i.c.huliselan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1167
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Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum is an annual publication collecting newly published Greek inscriptions and studies on previously known documents.
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Morphine, cocaine and the slippery history of pain relief/pleasure seeking in colonial Vietnam
Lecture
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Chengyi Liu
Science
c.liu@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Glenn Aguilar Hernandez
Science
g.a.aguilar.hernandez@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5557
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Ruben Gonzalez Vicente
Faculty of Humanities
r.gonzalez.vicente@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Tim Enwerem
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
t.k.enwerem@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9506
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Weilin Huang
Science
w.huang@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Densua Mumford
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
d.mumford@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Anne Uilhoorn
Science
a.g.uilhoorn@cml.leidenuniv.nl |
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Michiel Veldhuis
Science
m.p.veldhuis@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1494
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Dennis Broeders
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
d.w.j.broeders@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9030
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Jyothi Thrivikraman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
j.k.thrivikraman@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Crime and gender: a comparative perspective. England and the Netherlands, 1600-1800
The central aim is to systematically study differences in gendered crime patterns in the records of different types of courts in various English and Dutch cities in the early modern period.
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Jeff Fynn-Paul wins European History Quarterly Prize
Jeff Fynn-Paul, lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute for History, was recently awarded the European History Quarterly’s 2016 Prize for his article “Occupation, Family, and Inheritance in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona: A Socio-Economic Profile of One of Europe’s Earliest Investing Publics.”
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Universiteit Leiden onderzoekt eigen slavernijverleden
Het College van Bestuur laat door een postdoc een eenjarig vooronderzoek doen naar het koloniale en slavernijverleden van de Universiteit Leiden.
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Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization
Non-urban settlement organization and Roman expansion in the Roman Republic (4th-1st centuries BC)
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Emblems and the Natural World
The multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying artistic, literary, political and religious ideologies.
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Call for Papers: Imperial Artefacts. History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property
Call for Papers: Imperial Artefacts. History, Law, and the Looting of Cultural Property
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Diego Salama
Faculty of Humanities
d.salama@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
h.l.janssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2682
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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