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1,820 search results for “histories” in the Student website

• ‘Drawing for Dummies’, but in the Renaissance News - 22 August 2022

  The way the great masters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries learned to draw is more similar to a present-day drawing class or book than you might think. Professor of ‘Art on Paper and Parchment’ Yvonne Bleyerveld tells us about the art of copying and model books.

• PhD candidate Didi van Trijp researches: When is a fish a fish? News - 30 September 2021

  Bird, butterfly, fish: when you look through a children’s book, you usually don’t think about the fact that humans divided these animals, depicted in bright colours, into categories. Yet, this division has been discussed for centuries. In her PhD dissertation, Didi van Trijp shows how natural scientists…

• University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’ News - 9 June 2021

  After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…

• Scaling Up Book History: A Computational Investigation of 18th-Century Book Ornaments from Manual Catalogues to Automated Discovery Event - 14 October 2025

  Lecture

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  Maria Voltsichina PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.voltsichina@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Bruno Allahissem PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.allahissem@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277392

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  Nuranisa Nuranisa PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.nuranisa@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Koundja Mayoubila PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.mayoubila@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Pichayapat Naisupap PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.naisupap@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  José María Castro Ibarra PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.m.castro.ibarra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Daphne Engel PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.engel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Brian Shaev Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.shaev@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276658

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  Gijs Dreijer Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.p.dreijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Cigdem Billur-Ada PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.billur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Henrike Vellinga PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.j.vellinga@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272714

• A special procession – just like 450 years ago News - 3 February 2025

  An extra-long procession with musical accompaniment will mark the beginning of the university’s 450th birthday celebrations on 7 February.

• A university in times of corona: one year on News - 15 March 2021

  It is exactly one year ago that the university had to close, bang in the middle of the academic year. Suddenly, on that third Monday in March, we found ourselves at home, working and studying online – many of us from that cramped attic or student room. The momentous coronavirus year in pictures.

• Academic Freedom: The Palestinian Condition and the Production of History Event - 13 November 2025

  Lecture, LUCIS Keynote

• ‘Little’ Stories in ‘Big’ Histories. Families, Mobility, and Identity in the Indian Ocean Event - 10 December 2025

  Lecture

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  Michel Wyss PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.d.wyss@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Sulakshana de Mel PhD Candidate

  Koninklijk Instituut Taal, Land- en Volkenkunde

  demel@kitlv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Eddie Meijer PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.e.t.meijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Sil Douma PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  s.j.douma@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Orson McMahon PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  o.mcmahon@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Rosanne Baars Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.m.baars@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272720

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  Timur Khan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.khan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276154

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  Elsa Saez Jara PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.a.saez.jara@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Liliana Morawietz Yanez PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.morawietz.yanez@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Willem de Vries PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  w.b.s.de.vries@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Joaquin Fernandez Abara PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.r.fernandez.abara@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Tim Lubbers PhD candidate

  Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid

  t.lubbers@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274727

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  Gabriel Veppo de Lima PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.veppo.de.lima@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Richard Griffiths Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.t.griffiths@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009938

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  Marinus van Hekken PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.f.van.hekken@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Harold van der Kraan PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.van.der.kraan@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Remembering and Forgetting in Two Worlds. Writing Histories of Forced Displacement and Submerged Genealogy Event - 11 December 2025

  Lecture

• The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War News - 28 April 2025

  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?

• Spaces of Conflicts: The Lebanese War Novel as Urban and Architectural History Event - 27 February 2025

  Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series

• Geo-Poetics and the Reconstruction of Pre-Islamic Arabian History Event - 10 February 2026

  Middle East Studies Lecture

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  Maarten Jansen Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.e.r.g.n.jansen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marie-leen Ryckaert Dual PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  m.l.e.ryckaert@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009589

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  Sara Bolghiran PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.bolghiran@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271693

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  Liselore Tissen Postdoctoral researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.n.m.tissen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• (In)equalizers - Social and Economic Histories of Inequality(ies) and Difference(s), 1500-2000 Event - 5 December 2025

  Conference, Workshop

• Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to Guadalajara News - 14 October 2025

  In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done well in the South. He was not the only Guadalajara resident with Leiden roots: at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a stream of Dutch textile workers…

• Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention News - 8 September 2023

  For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…

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  Vincent Chang Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.k.chang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272151

• From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery News - 28 May 2024

  Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.

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  Alisa van de Haar University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.d.m.van.de.haar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272179

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  Rob Cullum Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.r.cullum@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274142