1,383 search results for “history of slavery” in the Public website
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Thunderstorm: A small cultural history (1752-1830) (in Dutch)
More on the Dutch webpage.
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Ebifananyi. On photographs and telling histories from and about Uganda
In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi…
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Old Age in Early Medieval England, A Cultural History
How did Anglo-Saxons reflect on the experience of growing old? Was it really a golden age for the elderly, as has been suggested?
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Research
Labour law is constantly changing. Concurrently, the laws dealing with workers address fundamental issues which are invariably of major significance and value. The research carried out at the Department of Labour Law and Social Security focusses on both the (constant) changes in labour law and social…
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Hellenistic economic thought
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking of the Hellenistic period.
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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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Selling the UN: Public Diplomacy for a New World Order
How was the future United Nations Organization promoted to global publics during WW II?
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Language diversity, its genesis, history and cognitive base
The project aims at highlighting and strengthening Dutch research into the diversity of the world’s languages from a historic and a cognitive perspective.
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The urban labour market of Roman Italy
This thesis analyses the existence and the functioning of the urban labour market in the early Roman empire by looking at the crucial influence of social structures, such as the family and non-familial labour collectives.
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Gerhard-Jan Nauta
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.nauta@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2745
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Autonomy and Objectivity
The aim of this project is to foster a historiography that does justice both to the realization that scientific knowledge is constructed by local, contingent, and contextual processes, and the claims of science to objective validity.
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Joseph Priestley, Grammarian: Late Modern English normativism and usage in a sociohistorical context
This dissertation the role of the English dissenting minister Joseph Priestley (1733-1804) as a grammarian is studied.
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Pages of Prayer: The Ecosystem of Vernacular Prayer Books in the Late Medieval Low Countries, c. 1380-1550 [PRAYER]
This project investigates the full ecosystem of Middle Dutch prayerbooks in order to answer questions about their role in – and impact on – religion, culture, and society in the late medieval Low Countries.
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Eric Storm
Faculty of Humanities
h.j.storm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2721
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
r.e.breuker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2921
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
j.j.hylkema@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
a.f.schrikker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2769
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
e.w.rosen.jacobson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1293
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About the programme
Classics and Ancient Civilizations (Research) covers two years and can be studied in four programmes, one of them is the Assyriology (Research) programme. When you choose to study Assyriology, you will both be guided through the broadness of Assyriological sub-disciplines, as well as gradually led to…
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‘Research on slave ships too moralistic’
‘In recent publications about the slave trade the same rhetorical weapons are used as two centuries ago in the battle for the abolition of the British slave trade. It is a topic fraught with emotions, but that should not prevent historians from being as careful and impartial as possible in their research,’…
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Glen Newey appointed Professor of Pracical Philosophy
From 1 September 2014, Glen Newey takes up the post of Professor of Practical Philosophy in Leiden University’s Institute for Philosophy.
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Profiling Leiden Japan Sources in the Global History field: From Bipolar to Multipolar Research
Leiden University Library and related museum holdings in Leiden contain a body of materials showing the unique role of Dutch-Japanese trade relations as a node in the history of global flows of knowledge, materials and culture during the early modern period.
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Diversifying the Collections: Inclusive Citizenship and Public Histories of Exclusion
In educational settings such as museums, universities and schools, white, male, able-bodied and rational subjects still dominate. Although there has been a lot of theoretical work on processes of in- and exclusion through racialization, sexualization, and disabilization, we still know very little about…
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Dirk Alkemade
Faculty of Humanities
d.g.a.alkemade@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8052
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Alexander Geurds
Faculteit Archeologie
a.geurds@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2206
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Maria van der Schaar
Faculty of Humanities
m.v.d.schaar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2005
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Carel Smith
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
c.e.smith@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7733
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Turks, texts and territory: Imperial ideology and cultural production in Central Eurasia
Turkic nomadic rulers established large empires in the Middle East and Asia between the 11th and 14th centuries. This project will explore the link between their political ideology and the production of art and literature, via the cultural heritage of five cities along the Silk Road: Kashgar, Samarkand,…
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Economic thinking in the Socratic authors and Aristotle
This subproject of 'From Homo Economicus to Political Animal' analyzes Greek economic thinking in late 5th- and 4th-century philosophical circles.
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Pepper to Sea Cucumbers: Chinese Gustatory Revolution in Global History, 900-1840
On 10 November Guanmian Xu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Gerhard de Kok
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.de.kok@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2623
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Miko Flohr
Faculty of Humanities
m.flohr@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2753
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
c.m.stolte@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7308
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Luc Bulten
Faculty of Humanities
l.j.bulten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2706
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Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
a.m.omalley@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2785
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Culture, History and Society (BA Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
Today, globalization makes us all aware of how closely we are connected to, and often dependent upon, the actions of people who are distant from us. Human migration and economic liberalization have confronted local communities with changes happening on a global level. How can we devise ways to share…
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
c.v.weeda@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2718
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Modern Perceptions of Ancient Religions
The aim of this Research Traineeship will be to analyze the underexplored reception of ancient religions in popular culture, taking Dutch spiritual magazines as a case study. There are five such magazines: Paravisie (1986- ), Paraview (1997- ), Happinez (2003- ), Bres (1965- ), and Prana/Mantra (1975-…
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Introducing Viola Müller
Viola Müller is a PhD candidate at the Leiden University Institute for History. Her research focuses on slave refugees in the US South, 1800-1860.
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Apocalypse Now: Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th Centuries
Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against their religious activism.
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Nature and History Towards a Hermeneutic Philosophy of Historiography of Science
Nature and History, Towards a Hermeneutic Philospohy of Historiography of Science
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Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet oder Hekuba and the Question of a Philosophy of History
The thesis reconstructs Carl Schmitt's 1956 monography on 'Hamlet'. By scanning and unearthing books, essays, think-pieces, articles, personal diaries and private correspondence, this investigation fully addresses the unwritten philosophy of history -partially developed- in Schmitt's late thought. The…
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The World and The Netherlands: A Global History from a Dutch Perspective
This book examines the history of The Netherlands in a way that connects global processes to local developments.
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Political legitimacy in Chinese history : the case of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-535)
Liu Puning defended his thesis on 25 April 2018.
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CfP Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000
On 8 and 9 May 2018 the Workshop 'Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000' takes place at Leiden University.
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Peter Kop
ICLON
p.m.g.m.kop@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3470
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Klaas Worp
Faculty of Humanities
k.a.worp@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Maja Vodopivec
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
m.vodopivec@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9472
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Julia Foudraine
Afrika-Studiecentrum
j.b.foudraine@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512
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Jiayi Xin
Faculty of Humanities
j.xin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646