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1,272 search results for “history of south africa” in the Student website

• The Open Door to Hidden Paganism. Abraham Rogerius’s Account of South Indian Hinduism (1651) Event - 27 May 2025

  Lecture, Booklaunch - CoGloSS | Oosters Genootschap | Leiden University Press

• Writing history together in the Transvaal News - 18 October 2021

  Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…

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  Khizar Jawad Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.jawad@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272709

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  Daniele Paolini Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.p.paolini@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272623

• ASCL Seminar: Obscure Capital and Containers: History, Objects, and Power in Central Africa Event - 6 February 2025

  Lecture

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  Elisabeth Dieterman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.m.dieterman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Marcel Keurentjes External PhD

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.keurentjes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Klaas van Walraven Researcher

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  k.van.walraven@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• An archaeological perspective on South Holland and its Water Past and Present News - 16 June 2023

  Four students of the Faculty of Archaeology investigated how the current and past inhabitants of the Dutch province of South Holland deal with water. Their findings now feature in an exhibition that can now be visited in the Van Steenis building’s Reuvenshal.

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  Kenan van de Mieroop Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  k.j.van.de.mieroop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272715

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  Rodrigo Ochigame Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  r.k.ochigame@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Martine Bruil University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.bruil@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273340

• Remco Breuker makes documentary series about South Korea: 'The Netherlands and Korea are structurally related' News - 8 September 2025

  Professor Remco Breuker plays the leading role in the new documentary ‘Big in Korea’. Over three Sunday evenings, viewers can follow his journey through South Korea. How has the country developed over the past decades? And what is the impact of last December's failed coup?

• Call for Papers: Peace Movements - A Global History News - 10 February 2026

  From the First World War until the height of the Cold War, actors from the decolonizing world sought to build connections with international peace movements. These efforts produced new networks and practices of solidarity while also exposing tensions over the centrality of decolonization in global struggles…

• Willem van der Does sheds new light on the at times pitch-black history of psychiatry News - 4 May 2023

  Piercing through the skull with an ice pick, administering electric shocks without an anaesthetic, or applying leeches to the uterus: these may seem like medieval methods of torture, but they are in fact therapies used in medicine. Willem van der Does writes about all of them in his new book. ‘Physicians…

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  Doreen Müller Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.mueller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274954

• This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news News - 24 December 2021

  Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.

• Why North Korea and Southern Africa are dependent on each other News - 30 April 2024

  North Korea may seem like an isolated country but it has strong ties with African regimes. This alliance, which trades in arms despite international sanctions, is increasingly operating out of the liberal world order’s sight, PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog warns.

• Nira Wickramasinghe on New Books in South Asian Studies podcast News - 26 March 2021

  In the book 'Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' Nira Wickramasinghe, professor of Modern South Asian Studies, uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world. She was interviewed about the book in the New Books in South East Asian…

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  Peter Pels Emeritus hoogleraar

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  pels@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast News - 4 March 2022

  Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…

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  Ajeng Arainikasih PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.a.arainikasih@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• AI-enabled ultrasound: LUC alumna empowers women in rural Africa News - 29 August 2024

  AI ultrasounds: LUC alumna empowers women in rural Africa

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  Jay Huang Assistant Professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

  y.c.huang@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009596

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  Costanza Franceschini Postdoc

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  c.franceschini@fsw.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Anne Heyer Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.heyer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271121

• How can youth political participation in Africa be encouraged? News - 21 August 2025

  Do political knowledge and democratic values encourage young people to participate in politics or not? Political Scientist Leila Demarest had a closer look at adolescents’ participation intentions in Nigeria and shared her findings with The Conversation.

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  Simon Kemper PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.c.kemper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’ News - 8 November 2022

  Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to incorporate different scholarly approaches into my work and raise the profile of Central European Studies in Leiden.'

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  Mayke Kaag Professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  m.m.a.kaag@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273375

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  Carla Cisternas Guasch PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.g.cisternas.guasch@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Bálint Honos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.honos@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Nestor Marin Bravo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.f.marin.bravo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  David Home Valenzuela PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.home.valenzuela@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Tomás Díaz PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.diaz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Mariana Gaba PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.r.gaba@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Felipe Cousiño PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.cousino@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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  Cristian Saavedra Bastía PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.e.saavedra.bastia@hum.leidenuniv.nl |

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  Juliët Tinebra Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.j.tinebra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

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  Alliance Mango Kubota PhD candidate

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  a.mango.kubota@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Carlos Rilling Tenorio PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.g.rilling.tenorio@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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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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  Andrea Bravo Lee PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.p.bravo.lee@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Macarena Alegria Garcia PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.a.alegria.garcia@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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  Nadia Rojas PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.j.rojas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Theresa St John PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.l.st.john@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Nicole Pereira Ríos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.m.pereira.rios@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history' News - 14 October 2025

  A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…