333 search results for “dutch colonialism” in the Staff website
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Philip PostFaculty of Humanities
p.g.post@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Wim van den DoelCollege van Bestuur
h.w.van.den.doel@bb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2922
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From canned fried rice to colonialism: Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood shows world history in miniature
Together with students and local residents, historians Ariadne Schmidt and Alicia Schrikker researched the Leiden Transvaal neighbourhood. They will present their findings on Thursday 20 October, at a specially organised mini-festival in the neighbourhood.
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
b.m.de.leede@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Erik OdegardFaculty of Humanities
e.l.l.odegard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2772
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Tristan MostertFaculty of Humanities
t.mostert@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1307
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Sex, power and colonialism: 'Marriages and sexuality were fundamental to colonial power'
Sex and power are closely linked, and this was certainly true in the former Dutch colonies. PhD student Sophie Rose investigated how sexual and love relationships influenced eighteenth-century power structures there. 'You can see that there was constant fighting over who stood where in the social hi…
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
a.f.schrikker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2769
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Olf PraamstraFaculty of Humanities
o.j.praamstra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Alexander van der MeerFaculty of Humanities
a.van.der.meer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
l.h.j.sicking@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2717
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Did Dutch investments contribute to Indonesia’s economic development?
Foreign investments in the Dutch East Indies during the colonial period could have been of more benefit to the Indonesian economy. Foreign investments in the Dutch East Indies during the colonial period could have been of more benefit to the Indonesian economy. But the complicated relationship between…
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Familiarizing the Colony: Distance and Proximity in Dutch and German Colonial Photography and Visual Culture
Lecture
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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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European grant to research colonial medical experiments: 'Should we keep using this data?'
When we think of unethical medical experiments, we tend to think first of Nazi Germany. What is less well known is that experiments were also carried out in colonised areas without the explicit consent of the test subject. University lecturer Fenneke Sysling has received a European grant to research…
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Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural lecture on 24 November. ‘As a university community, we must dare to hold up a mirror to ourselves and, where possible and necessary, also take concrete…
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Raising the colonial debate: ‘You have to create a story that’s easy to understand’
How can we best tell the current generations about some of the darkest parts of our past? To answer this question, researchers from Leiden are working with the Gedeeld Verleden, Gezamenlijke Toekomst foundation on public programmes about the Dutch history of slavery.
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Jessica RoitmanFaculty of Humanities
j.v.roitman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Liesbeth Rosen JacobsonFaculty of Humanities
e.w.rosen.jacobson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1293
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.
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Esther ZwinkelsFaculty of Humanities
e.p.m.zwinkels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
w.h.willems@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 6 5374 5961
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
a.m.c.van.dissel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2760
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Collective Labour Agreement (CAO) of Dutch Universities
The terms of employment of university employees are set out in the CAO of Dutch Universities.
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Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library
With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted back into the spotlight. Leiden University is devoting attention to this topic as well. History students Sander van der Horst and Melle van Maanen joined…
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Lennart BesFaculty of Humanities
l.p.j.bes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2768
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
g.burger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2339
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
r.j.ross@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
n.k.wickramasinghe@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2982
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Luc BultenFaculty of Humanities
l.j.bulten@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2706
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
m.c.r.schute@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Stefano BellucciFaculty of Humanities
s.bellucci@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3473
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Marlieke ErnstFaculty of Humanities
m.ernst@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2583
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Andi Richards-CumminsFaculteit Archeologie
a.c.richards@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Leonor Faber-JonkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
l.a.faber@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Márcia GonçalvesFaculty of Humanities
m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2946
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia
The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly suppressed.’ This what historian Christiaan Harinck from the KITLV discovered in his PhD research.
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The Colonial Era & Contemporary Indonesia
Lecture, Online
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
The IFLA-Section Rare Books and Special Collections committee and the Indigenous Matters Section, in collaboration with Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organize a satellite conference in Leiden – Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th – prior to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress…
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Exhibition on Anton de Kom’s second life, which began in Leiden
Few people would associate the name Anton de Kom with Leiden. Yet the Surinamese freedom fighter is the subject of an exhibition at Museum De Lakenhal.
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in museums: ‘A lot of museums have a dormant collection of pre-colonial art’
What effect do trends in the art world have on the formation of museum collections? University lecturer Martin Berger wants to answer that question in his research within the Museums, Collections and Society project, which asks ethical questions about the origin of collections.
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Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities 2023-2024 published
Human resources
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I Wish, I Wish, a Western Mosque: Colonial Continuities in Dutch Perspectives on Islamic Architecture
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Roberto Valcarcel RojasFaculteit Archeologie
r.valcarcel.rojas@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1966
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
j.e.bosnak@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
v.thakur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1256
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John KegelAfrika-Studiecentrum
j.b.kegel@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
e.mark@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2310