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629 search results for “postcolonial history” in the Staff website

• Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies? Event - 7 November 2025

  Lecture, Conversation

• Materiality, Religion and the Senses Event - 11 December 2025

  Conference, L*CeSAR Masterclass

• Can the Qing subaltern speak? Exploring Tibetan and Mongol history through the use of sub-provincial Chinese language archival sources Event - 15 May 2025

  Lecture, China Seminar

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

  Lecture, Ancient History Research Seminar

• What did resistance look like in Indonesia during the Second World War? News - 4 May 2023

  Stories of resistance in the Second World War are widely covered in Dutch historiography: Hannie Schaft, Erik Hazelhoff Roelfzema, and Professor Cleveringa are some of the best known. But these accounts largely focus on the Dutch domestic perspective. On the other side of the world, a complex colonial…

• Clichéd version of an autocracy or a restored democracy? The Turkish elections explained News - 8 May 2023

  In less than a week’s time, millions of Turkish people are going to decide who will govern their country for the next five years. These elections promise to be the most closely contested in years, with the opinion polls showing very small differences and everything at stake, including for Europe. Alp…

• The Right to the Highest Attainable Standard of Health of LGBTQIA+ child asylum-seekers Event - 2 April 2025

  Lecture, LIMS seminar

• Materiality, Religion and the Environment Event - 19 March 2026

  Conference, L*CeSAR Research Workshop

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  Maxine David University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.e.l.david@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274118

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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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  Catherine Wood PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.wood@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277177

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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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  Daniel Schade Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.d.schade@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272796

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  Peter Klinkhamer Professor

  p.g.l.klinkhamer@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Sybille Lammes Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.lammes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272754

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  Andrea Warnecke Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.u.warnecke@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272679

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  Sarah Nelson Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.a.nelson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271268

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  Morena Skalamera Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.skalamera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271982

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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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  Yunnan Ye PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.ye@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

• Sensing Scripts: Popular Religion, the Senses and Textuality Event - 11 December 2025

  Lecture, Keynote

• Forced Choices: Migration, Identity, and Belonging in the South Tyrolean Option (1939-1955) Event - 7 April 2025

  Lecture, LIMS seminar / Austrian Studies Seminar

• Veni grants for 18 Leiden researchers News - 17 July 2025

  Eighteen researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant gives promising young researchers the opportunity to develop their ideas for a period of three years.

• Treasures Festival Event - 29 November 2025

  Festival

• Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant News - 11 April 2022

  Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their research ideas in the coming three years.

• CfP: Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond News - 27 June 2025

  We are pleased to invite submissions for a conference exploring how heritage and memory practices, alongside the legacies of climate coloniality, shape contemporary understandings and mobilisations of reparations. This event will examine how historical and political dynamics influence reparative justice…

• Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants News - 22 October 2024

  The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.

• Occupation makes for eventful Cleveringa Lecture: ‘Protect free spaces for debate’ News - 25 November 2025

  Despite an eventful afternoon – with Students for Palestine occupying the Academy Building – political scientist Hélène Landemore gave her Cleveringa Lecture as planned on 26 November. She reflected on the protest and the importance of open debate, within the university and within a democracy.

• Turkic Patronage in Central Asia: Patterns and Challenges Event - 20 March 2025

  Lecture

• Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series Event
• Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World Event
• Not Rifles but Books: FEC’s Book Programs (1954–1991) Event - 18 September 2025

  Lecture, CHEI Seminar

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  Susanna de Beer Senior University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.t.m.de.beer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272671

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  Jacqueline Vel Affliated researcher

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  j.a.c.vel@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Paul Smith Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.j.smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Anne Gerritsen Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.t.gerritsen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Corrie Bakels Emeritus professor

  c.c.bakels@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272393

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  Eelco van der Maat Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.van.der.maat@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271739

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  Masoud Kiani External PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.kiani@phil.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Aris Politopoulos Assistant professor

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

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  Zane Kripe Lecturer

  z.kripe@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Who was the owner of the drowned books near Texel? 'It must be someone who travelled a lot' News - 16 March 2023

  When hobby divers revisited a nearly 400-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Texel, they discovered more than 1,000 objects in wooden boxes. Eight years later, postdoc Janet Dickinson used recovered books to compile a profile of the mysterious owner.

• Imagining the future of UK-Europe relations: Narratives from Brexit Britain Event - 7 May 2025

  Lecture, CHEI Seminar

• Governance and Democracy in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects Event - 8 April 2025

  Lecture, Studium Generale

• Stephen Ellis Debate on the role of African philosophy in peace and security Event - 4 December 2025

  Debate