1,247 search results for “history of south afrika” in the Staff website
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Simon KemperFaculty of Humanities
s.c.kemper@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
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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Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history'
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…
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Paul van TrigtFaculty of Humanities
p.w.van.trigt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271349
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
h.j.storm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272721
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past'
Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with, among others, Leiden researchers Anne-Marieke van der Wal-Rémy and Alicia Schrikker, therefore created a 'Canon of the Dutch Underexposed Past', which…
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
s.p.m.bussels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272693
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The History of Hebrew
Lecture
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Jonathan StöklFaculty of Humanities
t.j.stokl@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272255
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Elena Dacome
Faculty of Humanities
e.dacome@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Junjie HuangFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
j.huang@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Niels SchoubbenFaculty of Humanities
n.schoubben@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272408
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One history, different memories. Does this always lead to conflict?
Different groups can have different memories of the same historical event. This can lead to conflict but does not have to. How is this, and how can countries and people reconcile with the past?
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
j.w.buisman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Three new Master's specialisations in History: ‘More in line with students’ wishes’
The Master's programme in History at Leiden University is set to change. From September 2026, three of the five specialisations will be replaced by new subjects that are more closely aligned with the field of research and students’ interests. One of these new specialisations will also be taught entirely…
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Martijn van EtteFaculty of Humanities
m.van.ette@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272713
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Jasper’s Day – On a knowledge mission in South America
Jasper Knoester is the dean of the Faculty of Science. How is he doing, what exactly does he do and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives an insight into his life. On March 13, 2026, he is on a knowledge mission to South America.
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Tour of the South Cluster attracts more than 100 interested colleagues
The South Cluster - the former Van Wijkplaats/Van Eyckhof on Witte Singel - is currently undergoing an impressive transformation. On 25 October, more than 100 enthusiastic colleagues witnessed the progress of the renovation during a series of tours of the building.
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Annas Rabbania.rabbani@biology.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ying ZhangFaculty of Humanities
y.z.zhang.2@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276006
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Jeroen Oosterbaanj.oosterbaan@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Introducing: Marlisa den Hartog
Marlisa den Hartog is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History since January 2017. She is working on a thesis about perceptions of sexual desire and sexual identity in Italy between 1450 and 1550.
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
d.e.j.smit@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272705
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Jeff Fynn-Paul wins European History Quarterly Prize
Jeff Fynn-Paul, lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute for History, was recently awarded the European History Quarterly’s 2016 Prize for his article “Occupation, Family, and Inheritance in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona: A Socio-Economic Profile of One of Europe’s Earliest Investing Publics.”
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Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
a.b.wessels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272681
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
m.van.groesen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272765
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Louie Buana
Faculty of Humanities
m.a.a.buana@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Kamila SmagulovaFaculty of Humanities
k.smagulova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272159
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Floris de RuiterFaculty of Humanities
f.p.de.ruiter@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276899
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Pratika DewiFaculty of Humanities
p.r.dewi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272182
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Amza AdamFaculty of Humanities
a.adam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Sara de WitFaculty of Humanities
s.de.wit@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276429
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Walter Nkwi GamFaculty of Humanities
w.nkwi.gam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272322
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Katarzyna Cwiertka on the declining popularity of kimchi in South Korea
In the Western world, kimchi is on an unstoppable rise, but in South Korea the dish is actually losing popularity. Professor Katarzyna Cwiertka explains how this is possible in the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave'.
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Verena MeyerFaculty of Humanities
v.h.meyer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272281
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Guido Maschhaupt
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
g.w.maschhaupt@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Alain WijffelsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
a.a.wijffels@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Limin TehFaculty of Humanities
l.m.teh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275915
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
k.j.fatah@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272666
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Kerstin Winking
Faculty of Humanities
k.winking@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Jacobine Melisj.melis@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leiden' want to change this with guided tours and street markers. Representatives of the University and other Leiden institutions will be giving the first…
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Campus: Renovation of De Vrieshof starts and changed plans Lipsius South
There are some changes in the plans for the development of the Humanities Campus. The Faculty of Humanities along with the central organisation and the Real Estate department need to save costs due to the financial challenges at the faculty and the cuts in higher education. At the same time, we still…
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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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Tracing the Early History of Yoga
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Uncovering the role of Social Democracy in the History of European Competition Policy
Lecture, CHEI Seminar - Book launch
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Sander van der HorstFaculty of Humanities
s.p.van.der.horst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272372