2,398 search results for “european colonialism” in the Public website
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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in'
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic slavery expert Karwan Fatah-Black. 'Too bad they didn’t wait for the results of the study.'
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Cycling away from inequality
A bike tour is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about inequality. However, students of a Master Honours Challenge came up with this and other solutions to tackle local inequalities. Creativity and empathy turned out to be useful ingredients.
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In memoriam: Carla Risseeuw, Professor emerita of CADS (1947 - 2024)
It is with great sadness that we share the news that on Friday, May 3rd 2024, Carla Risseeuw, Professor emerita of CADS, passed away. Carla Irene Risseeuw retired as Professor of Intercultural Gender Studies from CADS in 2009 after a long and productive career.
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Stereotypes and Misconceptions about the Middle East - The Reading List
The perception of the Middle East is riddled with stereotypes that have had dire consequences on its people. What is myth and what is reality? How did these stereotypes come about? What consequences have they had? All of these questions and more are answered within this reading list.
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Artificial intelligence as the co-pilot for drug discovery
There are more molecules that could conceivably be candidate drugs than there are stars in the universe. How can we ever efficiently identify those molecules? Professor of AI and Medicinal Chemistry, Gerard van Westen: ‘I’m going to use artificial intelligence as the co-pilot to make an automated search.’…
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Memory, Activism and Social Justice: Kao Jun-honn’s Great Leopard Project
Lecture, China Seminar
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
- Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Rewriting Caribbean history with local archaeologists
More than fifty researchers are working together to describe the colonisation of the Americas from the Amerindian perspective. In November they will be meeting for the first time, in Leiden. How is Corinne Hofman, Leiden Professor of Archaeology managing the international megaproject Nexus 1492?
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Leiden Team Wins Second Place at the International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court
Four master's students from Leiden University participated in this year’s edition of the International Migration and Refugee Law Moot Court, hosted by Antwerp University. Following the verbal rounds held between 21 and 22 March, the team went through to the finals, achieving second place overall.
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
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Slavery in the Indian Ocean World and the Work of Forgetting: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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The Power of Apology: In Conversation with Jacob Dlamini
Debate, LeidenGlobal Annual Event
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Manifesting Minutes and Mapping Cosmographies: Time and Place in Early Modern Deccan
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House
Lecture
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Reading Group: Things Fall Apart
Course | Reading Group
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African Languages as Medium of Instruction - the case of Nigeria
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Towards a Virtual Slave Island/Kompannavidiya Heritage, history and spatial contestation in Colombo (Sri Lanka)
Lecture, Event
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‘The sun never sets on our university'
Leiden University has partnerships in the local region, in the Netherlands, in Europe and with countries on almost all the world's continents. Students and researchers benefit from these partnerships, but society is also a beneficiary, says Rector Carel Stolker.
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How can we tell the story of multivocal the Netherlands?
At a time when statues of figures from history have an uncertain future Valika Smeulders has just become Head of History at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. What changes does she want to make? And how does she look back on her Languages and Cultures of Latin America degree programme in Leiden?
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Black lives matter: ‘Racism takes different forms but it’s a world issue’
It all started with demonstrations protesting about the death of George Floyd from police brutality in Minneapolis, but the Black Lives Matter protest is spreading like wildfire across the whole of the US. Every day, thousands of people are taking to the streets. We asked American Studies expert Sara…
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Hall of Fame 2020
In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.
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Burkina Faso: Artisanal Gold Mining in the Context of Violent Insecurity
Over the last 5-6 years Burkina Faso has become seriously implicated in the rapid and dramatic changes in the geopolitical situation in the Sahel. The country, once reputed for its stability and safety, has come under the spotlight for the number of violent attacks and of internally displaced people.…
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The impact of climate change on groups of people
The socio-economic effects of climate change often do not receive enough attention. At the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) a group of researchers will provide more insight. How does climate change affect whether people work together or conversely end up as opponents? And what can we learn from societies…
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Aitor Burguet-Coca studied fire-use from Palaeolithic to Bronze Age: ‘This gives us an image on different uses of fire across prehistory’
For the following years, Dr Aitor Burguet-Coca will be a returning face at the Faculty of Archaeology. He will join Dr Amanda Henry’s team with his expertise on prehistoric fire use and the methodologies that studying ancient hearths requires.
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Replica of unique prehistoric sword unveiled in Oss
The Faculty of Archaeology has a long research tradition in the municipality of Oss. Since 1974, researchers and students have been carrying out archaeological research here. In Januari 2019, an enormous replica of one of the top local finds was unveiled standing in the middle of a roundabout.
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Difference and empire, or on the importance of thinking otherwise
Lecture
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The policing of interracialized sex in France (1954-1979)
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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The Samarkand Cotton Mill that Very Nearly Was
Lecture
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Paul Christiaan Flu: a Surinamese professor in a time of war
Paul Christiaan Flu, originally from Surinam, was a brilliant tropical doctor, who in 1938 rose to the position of Rector Magnificus of Leiden University. The war years brought his lightning career to an abrupt end: his son was murdered and he himself was imprisoned in a concentration camp. A sad family…
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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’
What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the European Parliament asked Leiden legal scholar Evelien Campfens. Her advice: develop a registration system, issue art with a ‘passport’ and set up a European…
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Modern Transimperial Histories: Forms, Questions, Prospects
Lecture, Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture
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What Do We Mean When We Say “Academic Freedom”?
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
- Volume 16 (2021)
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Decolonizing and Deconstructing National Historical Frameworks: From the Comparative to the transnational turn in History
Lecture, Brown-bag Seminar
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Conference programme AHBx
Aquí pueden encontrar el programa del congreso.
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Working Paper Series
The Grotius Centre Working Paper Series is an occasional series through which researchers in the Grotius Centre can publish the unedited versions of manuscripts that have been accepted for publication by journals and books.
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Master Public Administration: Career Prospects Event
Study information, Career Prospects Event
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Master Public Administration: Career Prospects Event
Study information, Career Prospects Event
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Cultural continuities and discontinuities: the Neolithic ornament assemblages from Franchthi (Greece)
Lecture
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International Women's Day: the visibility of women in archaeology
On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. For years, the role of women in the past has been nearly invisible. Four archaeologists reflect on this inequality of focus, from hunter-gatherers in the palaeolithic to…
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Gaia spots stars flying between galaxies
A team of Leiden astronomers used the latest set of data from ESA’s Gaia mission to look for high-velocity stars being kicked out of the Milky Way, but were surprised to find stars instead sprinting inwards – perhaps from another galaxy.
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LCCP Working Seminar with Marita Tatari: The “we” and the human condition. Arendt, Jacobi, Nancy.
Lecture
- CMGI Brown Bag Seminars 2022-2023
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Decolonising International Law: Entrapments in Praxis and Critical Thought
Lecture
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Birth of a Pelagic Empire: Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansions in the Pacific
Lecture
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Legal socialization in law school: two types of professional identity formation and their impact on inclusion and diversity’
Lecture