906 search results for “history of slavery” in the Staff website
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Damian Pargas
Faculty of Humanities
d.a.pargas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2736
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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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Karwan Fatah-Black
Faculty of Humanities
k.j.fatah@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2666
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Roundtable on Slavery: From Scholarly Debates to Public Reckoning
Conference, Histories Connected: Faculty Roundtable
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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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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in'
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic slavery expert Karwan Fatah-Black. 'Too bad they didn’t wait for the results of the study.'
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‘We have to stay alert and keep on feeling the past’
Space for open dialogue on historical slavery was created at the Keti Koti Table at Museum De Lakenhal, organised by Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden. There, just metres away from 17th-century paintings, Leideners shared a ritual meal and spoke about the effects of slavery and our colonial…
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researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery
In a speech on Keti Koti the Dutch king, Willem-Alexander, apologised on behalf of the royal family for the Netherlands’ historical role in slavery. What is the significance of this?
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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie
Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honour by Leiden mayor Henri Lenferink after giving his valedictory lecture, ‘The future of the colonial past’, in the Academy Building of Leiden University…
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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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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation
How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when studying preserved archives and collections? A new book series aims to address these questions. The initiators Karwan Fatah-Black and Ilse Josepha Lazaroms…
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Universiteit Leiden onderzoekt eigen slavernijverleden
Het College van Bestuur laat door een postdoc een eenjarig vooronderzoek doen naar het koloniale en slavernijverleden van de Universiteit Leiden.
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The history of the Perzian Book of Kings
Lecture, Studium Generale
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Special Guest Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Special Guest Lecture
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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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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
- Histories Connected
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.oostindie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
j.fynn-paul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9191
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Rens Tacoma
Faculty of Humanities
l.e.tacoma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2632
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Christine Mertens
Faculty of Humanities
c.m.m.mertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
m.c.r.schute@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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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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Nira Wickramasinghe receives grant to research forgotten Dutch slavery in the Indian Ocean World
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe will research forgotten lineages with an NWO Open Competition grant, in particular the afterlife of Dutch slavery in the Indian Ocean World.
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Leiden’s slavery past laid bare
The Mapping Slavery project will place markers that tell the story of Leiden’s slavery past. Why is this important and what does it mean for today’s society? Before the markers are placed, a panel came together on 24 March to discuss the slavery past of not only the city but the University too.
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Marlou Schrover
Faculty of Humanities
m.l.j.c.schrover@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2786
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Bianca Angelien Claveria
Faculty of Humanities
b.a.claveria@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4165
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
m.j.janse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4167
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Oran Kennedy
Faculty of Humanities
o.p.kennedy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Lauren Lauret
Faculty of Humanities
l.b.lauret@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2772
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Ann Marie Wilson
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.m.wilson@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9355
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Marlisa den Hartog
Faculty of Humanities
m.i.den.hartog@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2733
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Manon van der Heijden
Faculty of Humanities
m.p.c.van.der.heijden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2670
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
e.p.m.zwinkels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
c.a.p.antunes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2735
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Mapping Slavery Leiden tour
FULLY BOOKED | Guided tour in English
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Mapping Slavery Leiden tour
FULLY BOOKED | Guided tour in Dutch
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Leiden Law Cast: Slavery & the Somerset Case with Egbert Koops
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
l.h.j.sicking@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2717
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Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
t.v.c.bousard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
w.otterspeer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7242
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Herman Paul
Faculty of Humanities
h.j.paul@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2757
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Nira Wickramasinghe on New Books in South Asian Studies podcast
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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Bart van der Steen
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
b.s.van.der.steen@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6338
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Maria Pereira Bastiao
Faculty of Humanities
m.p.pereira.bastiao@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Evelien Walhout
Faculty of Humanities
e.c.walhout@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6412
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Turaj Atabaki
Faculty of Humanities
t.atabaki@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171