2,659 search results for “university history” in the Staff website
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Hendrik den HeijerFaculty of Humanities
h.j.den.heijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Kai HebelFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
k.r.hebel@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9948
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Roos StolkerFaculty of Humanities
r.stolker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Raymond FagelFaculty of Humanities
r.p.fagel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2730
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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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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
v.thakur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1256
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Pam de GrootFaculty of Humanities
p.z.de.groot@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271954
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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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Jeroen OosterbaanFaculty of Archaeology
j.oosterbaan@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ying ZhangFaculty of Humanities
y.z.zhang.2@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6006
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Maud RijksFaculty of Humanities
m.rijks@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273516
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Movie screening: Aman 1967
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Carola HeinSocial & Behavioural Sciences
c.m.hein@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Kate BrackneyFaculty of Humanities
k.l.brackney@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7212
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Fan LinFaculty of Humanities
f.lin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2538
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Martijn StormsLeiden University Library
m.storms@library.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272855
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
s.bellucci@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3473
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
p.a.isla.monsalve@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272061
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
j.d.powell@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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New professor of Medieval History Philippe Buc: 'I am just like a shepherd'
A shepherd, but also a comparativist and historian with very broad interests. That is how Professor Philippe Buc describes himself. As of 1 August 2021, he will hold the chair of professor of Medieval History at the university. In an introductory interview, Buc introduces himself, his research and his…
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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Book ‘De Glazen Toren’: ‘The balance isn't quite right anymore’
Writing a book on the recent history of Leiden University in corona times. For educational and policy historian Pieter Slaman (34), this has meant working in the attic of his parents’ house while they looked after his daughter, along with numerous online conversations and very few, if any, visits to…
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Digital skills at History
In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an innovation project in order to research which digital skills history alumni need on the labour market and how these skills can be implemented in the cu…
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Andrew GawthorpeFaculty of Humanities
a.j.gawthorpe@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1740
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Factory Girls, Sex Workers, and Minorities: Writing the Marginalized in History
Hanan Hammad and Eftychia Mylona give a master class focusing on conceptual and methodological challenges in writing histories of marginalized social groups.
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Suzan ten HeuwFaculty of Humanities
e.s.ten.heuw@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272031
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Camilla MarracciniFaculty of Humanities
c.marraccini@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Exhibition Books that made history
From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had extraordinary historical impact, in some cases even to this day. Leiden University Libraries and the National Museum of Antiquities jointly present the…
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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Fransiskus WidiyarsoFaculty of Humanities
f.x.widiyarso@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272171
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
g.r.van.den.berg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272023
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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
d.e.j.smit@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2705
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
w.m.schmidli@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2341
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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The eternal student: exhibition travels through 450 years of studying
Over the centuries painters and photographers have depicted students at study in Leiden. An exhibition at the Hortus botanicus reveals the similarities and differences in 450 years of student life.
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Dimitris KastritisFaculty of Humanities
d.kastritis@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
f.h.sysling@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2737
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Ruben RosFaculty of Humanities
r.s.ros@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Second World War victims commemorated in Hour of Remembrance
On 4 May, Leiden University remembered the victims of the Second World War from our university community. Alumni, students and present and former staff of the University came together for this Hour of Remembrance.
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Cleveringa honoured with statue in birthplace of Appingedam
Almost 81 years after his famous protest speech against the German occupation, Leiden professor Rudolph Pabus Cleveringa will be remembered in his Groningen birthplace of Appingedam. A statue of him will be unveiled there on 12 November amid various other activities.
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrican Studies Centre
j.b.gewald@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3372
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Newly appointed Art History professor, Minna Valjakka: 'Art teaches us more than you may think'
On 1 January Minna Valjakka was appointed Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory from a Global Perspective. Valjakka sees her appointment as 'extremely topical' because of the discussions about the decolonisation of the arts: 'Art teaches us not just about art, but also about contemporary…
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Anne HeyerFaculty of Humanities
a.heyer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1121
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
c.v.weeda@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2718
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Koen Marijt is crazy about history: 'So much has happened within one kilometre of Rapenburg'
Anyone who has taken a walk through the centre of Leiden before might have come across him, an attentive group of tourists gathered around. After studying history, Koen van Toen, or Koen Marijt, started his own business. He now organises historical walks, among other things.
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
s.valdivia.rivera@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2947
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Materiality, Religion and the Senses
Conference, L*CeSAR Masterclass
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
k.j.fatah@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2666
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Jacobine MelisFaculty of Archaeology
j.melis@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Leonor Alvarez FrancésFaculty of Humanities
l.alvarez.frances@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646