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1,302 search results for “from history” in the Staff website

• From Underground to Overground, from Print to Digital: A Symposium on Unofficial Poetry from China News - 31 October 2024

  Leiden University Libraries holds an internationally unique collection of unofficial poetry from China. Produced outside the System over the last fifty years or so, this poetry is hugely influential yet hard to find beyond the informal networks through which it travels. To address this paradox, the…

• Imagining Hierarchies in Vegetarianism between Europe, the United States, and India (19th -20th Century) Event - 6 October 2025

  Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series

• Self-Determination in Very Small Places Event - 30 March 2026

  Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series

• an AI Attuned to Dissent and Consensus in Historical Events: Evidence from Wikipedia Event - 12 December 2025

  Lecture

• Writing a bottom-up, practice-oriented and connected history of Christianities in the medieval Middle East (12th-17th centuries Event - 13 February 2026

  Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History

• General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière and the French Nonviolence Movement, ca. 1960s-1980s Event - 16 February 2026

  Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series

• Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam News - 27 October 2021

  Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.

• Second World War victims commemorated in Hour of Remembrance News - 10 May 2022

  On 4 May, Leiden University remembered the victims of the Second World War from our university community. Alumni, students and present and former staff of the University came together for this Hour of Remembrance.

• From #COVID to #GOFIT News - 4 June 2021

  How do you get fit after these challenging times? How do you actively start a healthy lifestyle? Healthy University Leiden would like to address these topics during the upcoming from #COVID to #GOFIT Week, which will take place from 21 to 25 June 2021.

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  Anna Notsu PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  a.notsu@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Lindsay Black Associate Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.black@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272218

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  Jue Wang University Lecturer Chinese Economy

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.wang.18@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272532

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  Lennart Schada von Borzyskowski Assistant professor

  l.schada.von.borzyskowski@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274278

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  Eleftheria Makri Assistant professor

  e.makri@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Joost Broekens Associate professor

  d.j.broekens@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277139

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  Somayah Elsayed Assistant professor

  s.elsayed@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271886

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  Hermen Overkleeft Professor

  h.s.overkleeft@lic.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275037

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  Wessel Kraaij Professor

  w.kraaij@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275778

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  Annemarie Meijer Professor

  a.h.meijer@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274927

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  Mario van der Stelt Professor

  m.van.der.stelt@chem.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274768

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  Miranda van Eck Scientific director / professor

  eck_m@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276238

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  Bob van de Water Professor

  water_b@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276223

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  Thomas Hankemeier Professor

  hankemeier@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274226

• The Ptolemaic Ruler Cult in Egypt: The Greek Temple of Hermopolis Magna in its Religious and Socio-Historical Context Event - 5 February 2026

  Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

• The Complicit Politics of EU Migration Diplomacy Event - 4 June 2025

  Lecture, LIMS seminar

• Exhibition - Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: Shadowy art from Leiden University Libraries News - 28 May 2024

  Ominous witches, gruesome monsters, and hideous freaks: from Saturday 15 June, Kunsthal Rotterdam will be putting the spotlight on the shady depths of human imagination in the exhibition Hello darkness, my old friend. Seventy works on paper from the collection of the Leiden University Libraries confront…

• Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power' News - 5 April 2023

  Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…

• Punishment or refuge? ‘Women sometimes aimed to be convicted’ News - 28 January 2025

  Over a thousand women ended up in a State workhouse between 1886 and 1934. This was a place for vagrants, beggars and drunkards: people who were said to be too lazy to work. Who were these women who were sent there? PhD candidate Marian Weevers found out.

• Large grant for research into Islamic non-conformism News - 22 April 2021

  In the coming years, Asghar Seyed Gohrab receives an advanced European Research Council grant of two and a half million euros to spend on his research into non-conformism in Islam. ‘Hopefully I can use this to contribute something to society, to pass something on to future generations.’

• first Islamic Description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbī / History of the West Indies), 16th-20th centuries Event - 14 April 2026

  Lecture, Global Questions Seminar

• The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade Event - 7 February 2025

  Conference, Book presentation

• Building Epistemic Justice After Nuclear Weapons Testing: The Case of Kiritimati Event - 9 September 2025

  Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series

• Eight projects receive funding from JEDI Fund News - 13 February 2024

  From a queer art exhibition to a podcast about people with disabilities, the JEDI Fund this year again honored several projects that contribute to diversity and inclusion.

• Sacrifice and Social Imaginary in Hellenistic Kos Event - 16 April 2026

  Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

• From tulip to quantum: Leiden discoveries revisited News - 22 September 2025

  To mark the university’s 450th anniversary, the Leiden Discoveries science route has been updated and was relaunched on the Night of Discoveries. New signs in town and a revamped website tell Leiden residents and visitors the stories of the city’s spectacular discoveries.

• How does Ans differ from Remindo? Announcement - 11 April 2025

  Education, ICT

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  Ilios Willemars University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.f.d.m.r.willemars@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277160

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  Helen Westgeest Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.f.westgeest@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Pouwel van Schooten PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.s.van.schooten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271589

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  Robert Zwijnenberg Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.zwijnenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Michael Newton University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.newton@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272165

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  Robbert Striekwold External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.j.striekwold@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Angus Mol Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.a.a.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278828

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  Anastasia Nikulina Postdoc

  a.nikulina@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Cecilia-Louise von Ilsemann PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.l.von.ilsemann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Onur Ada PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.ada@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009927

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  Felipe Colla De Amorim PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.colla.de.amorim@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Jesse Doornenbal Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  j.d.doornenbal@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Ugur Derin PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  u.derin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Laura Bertens University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.m.f.bertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272154