2,012 search results for “from history” in the Staff website
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A special procession – just like 450 years ago
An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February.
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Spaces of Conflicts: The Lebanese War Novel as Urban and Architectural History
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Beatrice Gründler: ‘Literary text can help us understand Europe better’
'Consider languages in their shared context.' That is the message of Professor and Arabist Beatrice Gründler, who will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on 8 February. ‘I would like people to learn that Arabic history has a close connection with Europe.’
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University introduces lay talk and it looks like this
Complex research with a generous sprinkling of jargon: PhD defences can be difficult for non-experts to follow. In the compulsory new lay talk, PhD candidates begin by explaining their dissertation in words of one syllable. And it’s not just the PhD’s family and friends who appreciate this.
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Traitors, profiteers or collaborators: ‘The Jewish Council has long been judged too harshly’
For too long the Dutch collective memory has judged the Jewish Council too harshly. This perspective needs to be adjusted, Bart van der Boom argues in his new book ‘De politiek van het kleinste kwaad’ (lit. ‘The Politics of the Lesser Evil’).
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How the Republic contributed to the French colonial empire: ‘People like you and me invested’
In the 18th century, the French colonial empire teemed with protectionist laws. Nevertheless, businessmen from the Republic played an important role in the French economy, and thus in the colonial system. PhD student Tessa de Boer explored how this came about.
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming'
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…
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Ethnic Bias in Immigration Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Britain
Lecture, LIMS seminar
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Carel’s Universe: Leiden museums depict Carel Stolker’s rectorship
Ten Leiden museums and heritage institutions have curated the online exhibition ‘Carel’s Universe’. They selected objects from their collections that symbolise retiring Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker and the research in Leiden. With direct references, playful associations and the odd nod and wink.
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Book Launch for Dr. Kate Brackney's 'Surreal Geographies: A New History of Holocaust Consciousness'
Lecture, Book Roundtable
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16 Years: From Wrongful Conviction to Justice - The Story of Jeffrey Deskovic
Film screening
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The State of the Earth: Estimating Physical Parameters from Noisy and Incomplete Earth Observation Data
PhD defence
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From Models to Mechanisms: Defects and Charge Trapping in Amorphous Silicon Nitride
PhD defence
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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Meet Dr. Rebekka Grossmann, LJSA Member
Before coming to Leiden, Dr. Grossmann worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She first did her PhD and then she joined the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History and the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective…
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Cleveringa Lecture: ‘I’m deeply ashamed of this orchestrated asylum crisis’
The rule of law is crumbling in the Netherlands, lawyer Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You warned in her Cleveringa Lecture.
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How gas conflicts between Ukraine and Russia were the precursor to war
The war between Ukraine and Russia is playing out not just on the battlefield but also on the geopolitical playing field of gas. Conflicts at the start of this century about this energy source were, says PhD candidate Ilia Barboutev, a precursor to today’s war.
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Contemporary Art History and Theory in a Global Perspective - Joint Art Talk by Matthew Rampley and Vera Wolff
Alumni event, Arts and Culture
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Hora est! Exhibition reveals the ritual world of earning a PhD
A dissertation covered in hot pink faux fur, antique prints of PhD ceremonies, a pot encrusted with sealing wax: the Hora est! anniversary exhibition at Oude UB takes you to the ritual yet idiosyncratic world of PhD ceremonies.
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Geo-Poetics and the Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabian History
Middle East Studies Lecture
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Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollman
Judith Pollmann, Professor of Early Modern Dutch History, has been awarded the Spinoza Prize. ‘An unbelievable honour.’
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Online Processing of Tonal Coarticulation in Standard Chinese: Evidence from L1 Speakers and L2 Learners
PhD defence
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Maarten MousFaculty of Humanities
m.mous@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Morena SkalameraFaculty of Humanities
m.skalamera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271982
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Esther van GinnekenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
e.f.j.c.van.ginneken@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272827
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Tazuko van BerkelFaculty of Humanities
t.a.van.berkel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272674
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Willemijn WaalFaculty of Humanities
w.waal@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Harry BuckokeFaculty of Humanities
h.e.buckoke@kunsten.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Mike Preussm.preuss@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Sigrid van WingerdenFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.g.c.van.wingerden@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278588
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Roxanne Kieltykar.e.kieltyka@chem.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274441
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Anthony Brownbrown@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275884
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Joni ReefFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.reef@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278596
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Sergei BoekeFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
s.boeke@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Elena Raponie.raponi@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Frits Rosendaalf.r.rosendaal@lumc.nl | 071 5264037
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Adam Cohena.f.cohen@lumc.nl | 071 5269111
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Rint SybesmaFaculty of Humanities
r.p.e.sybesma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272529
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Henk-Jan Guchelaarh.j.guchelaar@lumc.nl | 071 5262790
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David HenleyFaculty of Humanities
d.e.f.henley@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272226
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Maghiel van CrevelFaculty of Humanities
m.van.crevel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272211
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Jonathan SilkFaculty of Humanities
j.a.silk@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272510
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Nadine AkkermanFaculty of Humanities
n.n.w.akkerman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272065
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Ben ArpsFaculty of Humanities
b.arps@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272222
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Bernhard Brandlbrandl@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275830
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Akos Kovácsa.t.kovacs@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274384
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Michaël PeyrotFaculty of Humanities
m.peyrot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274177
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Dennis Claessend.claessen@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275052
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Simon Portegies Zwartspz@strw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278429