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- Ancient History Research Seminars 2025-2026
- Global Histories of Knowledge 2023 - 2024
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
- Global Histories of Knowledge 2024 - 2025
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Tanja Hendriks awarded Veni
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced that Tanja Hendriks, along with 17 Leiden University researchers, will receive a Veni grant, embedded at the ASCL. With this grant, Hendriks will be able to develop the research project 'Taking a Risk on Disasters: speculative humanitarianism amidst a changing…
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Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’
A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University lecturer Alexander Dencher knows how to hold the attention of a growing audience. How does he do it? And what makes the history of interior design so fa…
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Henrike VellingaFaculty of Humanities
h.j.vellinga@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272714
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Gijs DreijerFaculty of Humanities
g.p.dreijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Hannelore BraekenFaculty of Humanities
h.braeken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271348
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Cigdem Billur-AdaFaculty of Humanities
c.billur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Brian ShaevFaculty of Humanities
b.shaev@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276658
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Shared Histories, Different Memories: Dutch East India Company (VOC) histories entwined with Australian aboriginal narratives
Conference
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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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European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) 2025
Conference
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Ody DwicahyoFaculty of Humanities
s.dwicahyo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Rosanne BaarsFaculty of Humanities
r.m.baars@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272720
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Tim LubbersFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
t.lubbers@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274727
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Pichayapat NaisupapFaculty of Humanities
p.naisupap@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Richard GriffithsFaculty of Humanities
r.t.griffiths@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009938
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Christiaan van Beek
Faculty of Humanities
c.j.h.van.beek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Felix BoschFaculty of Humanities
f.r.bosch@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Saskia van Anen
Faculty of Humanities
s.van.anen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Ysbrand LamersFaculty of Humanities
y.h.lamers@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
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Sil DoumaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.j.douma@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Mahdis Mirzadeh
Faculty of Humanities
s.m.mirzadeh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Harold van der Kraan
Faculty of Humanities
h.van.der.kraan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Marinus van Hekken
Faculty of Humanities
m.f.van.hekken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Ibrahim Harun Demirel
Faculty of Humanities
i.h.demirel@phil.leidenuniv.nl |
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The Roman empire and world history
Debate
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Student Johan collaborated on three books: ‘1572 was not a celebration of tolerance’
This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (lit. ‘Sea Beggars’) and therefore the birth of the Netherlands. Student Johan Visser is contributing to no fewer than three books about the extraordinary year of 1572.
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Samatar Botan investigates ancient Aksum with a Mosaic 2.0 grant
In July 2022 our alumnus Samatar Botan received the news that he had received the NWO Mosaic 2.0 grant. This grant enables him to start a PhD research at our Faculty on the ancient Aksumite Empire, a topic that is close to his heart. We speak with him about his ambitions and drive. ‘I want to know more…
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Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities
What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the French television programme 27.
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Why have murals been used in social and political movements?
Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a backdrop for Instagram snapshots, art history professor Minna Valjakka says there are rich traditions and intricate histories that uncover more critical…
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations'
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society' project. Researchers will reconstruct how seventeenth-century scientists recorded and shared their groundbreaking microscopic discoveries. We…
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery
Lecture
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Exhibition honours Niels Stensen, pioneer in medicine and geology
Seventeenth-century Danish scientist Niels Stensen made groundbreaking discoveries in the anatomy of the body and of Earth. This Leiden alumnus’s theories are still relevant, as an exhibition at the Oude UB shows.
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Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina
82 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.
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Katarzyna CwiertkaFaculty of Humanities
k.j.cwiertka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272599
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
a.d.m.van.de.haar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272179
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Ivan DunduroFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
i.m.a.dunduro@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Emmanuel Ogwuche OkpeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
e.o.okpe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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How migration policy in autocracies and democracies differs from what we expect
What is the effect of a certain regime on a country’s migration policy? Political scientist Katharina Natter compared the migration policy of autocratic Morocco with that of democratising Tunisia. Her findings challenge some of the core assumptions.
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Stephanie Noach wins Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Dissertation Prize
Assistant professor Stephanie Noach has won the Dissertation Prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. She is receiving this prestigious prize for her research on darkness in contemporary art from Latin America and the Caribbean.
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CRG Seminar: The Economic Community of West African States at fifty: Edward Blyden and the road towards a people centered regional body
Lecture
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entanglement of online and offline networks in times of conflict in Africa
Conference, 2-day Workshop
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colonial bureaucracy at the turn of the twentieth century in southern Africa
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Antjie Krog writer in residence at Leiden University this autumn
South African poet Antjie Krog will be the writer in residence at Leiden University in autumn 2021. Krog is famous for her poetry collections and books, which are often inspired by the history of South Africa. In her role as writer in residence, she will give the annual Albert Verwey Lecture and a series…