413 search results for “war” in the Staff website
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Hulpgoederen brengen naar Oekraïne: ‘Ook iemand anders had nu wat aan mijn studie’
Samen met andere studenten bracht Fien Lurvink hulpgoederen naar Oekraïne en nam vluchtelingen mee terug.
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Paula Harvey
Faculty of Humanities
p.j.harvey@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Martijn van Ette
Faculty of Humanities
m.van.ette@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2713
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Juan Masullo Jimenez
Social & Behavioural Sciences
j.masullo@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’
The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Cleveringa Lecture itself: our relationship with history is often ritualistic, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree will say in his inaugural lecture on 27 Nove…
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Zelensky addresses students: 'Live your own life, but do so together with others'
A standing ovation. A wave and a smile from the president. A final selfie. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed students in the Netherlands for the first time on Tuesday morning via a livestream in The Hague. He did so in front of two packed lecture halls at both Leiden University and The…
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A Just War versus a Dignified Peace? Discourses about War and Peace in the Peace Negotiations between the Chinese Communist Party and Nationalist
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Traitors, profiteers or collaborators: ‘The Jewish Council has long been judged too harshly’
For too long the Dutch collective memory has judged the Jewish Council too harshly. This perspective needs to be adjusted, Bart van der Boom argues in his new book ‘De politiek van het kleinste kwaad’ (lit. ‘The Politics of the Lesser Evil’).
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
c.m.stolte@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7308
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Niels Heukelom
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
n.f.heukelom@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Ernst Dijxhoorn
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
e.e.a.dijxhoorn@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9082
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Joris van Buiten
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
j.van.buiten@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Tom Buitelaar
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
t.j.a.buitelaar@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9985
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The Laboring Refugee: Profiting from the Displaced during Hot and Cold War
Lecture, China Seminar Series event
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Violence and Transformation: The Political Economy of Russia’s War against Ukraine
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Recovery Plan for Ukrainian Astronomy: Supporting Post-war Recovery in Ukraine through Astronomy
Conference
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
k.j.cwiertka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2599
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
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India: Omissions and Exceptions, Incarceration camps of the Pacific War
Guest Lecture | SSEALS
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Leftist Debated the Historical Sociology of the Ottoman Empire in Cold War Turkey
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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World Women's Committee Against War and Fascism (WWCAWF) 1934-1941
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Worlds of War: violent legacies and memories in the Burma-India frontiers
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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infrastructural, connectivity and closure across China-Burma-India during global war
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Maisy Charles
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
e.m.charles@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Marie Robin
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
m.p.c.e.robin@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Social & Behavioural Sciences
j.b.schulhofer-wohl@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 3903
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The Art of Cold War Globalism: A Visual History of Post-Migration and Minority Alliances after 1945
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Herta Mohr: Headstrong female scientist in a man's world
As a twelve-year-old girl, Nicky van de Beek became intrigued by the tomb chapels in Saqqara, Egypt. Now she is doing her PhD on them, just like another Leiden Egyptologist decades earlier. Herta Mohr persevered with her research during World War II. Now she is the namesake of the first Leiden building…
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The First Great War of the Middle Ages: Sasanians, Byzantines, and the Rise of Islam, 602-642
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Research and current affairs: 2022 in six stories
Life returned to something resembling normal after Covid but other crises soon took its place. These great challenges are also being felt at the University and our researchers are working on solutions. The nitrogen crisis, problems with young people’s services and an increasingly urgent climate crisis:…
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Anti-war protests, transnational solidarity and the liberation of Portuguese-speaking Africa, c. 1961-1974
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Spice War: Ternate, Makassar, the Dutch East India Company and the struggle for the Ambon Islands (c. 1600-1656)
PhD defence
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Somia Sadiq
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
s.sadiq@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506
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Florien Hollander
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
w.f.hollander@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506
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Peter Schrijver
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
p.schrijver@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Maarten Broekhof
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
m.p.broekhof@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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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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Spinoza Prize for historian Judith Pollman
Judith Pollmann, Professor of Early Modern Dutch History, has been awarded the Spinoza Prize. ‘An unbelievable honour.’
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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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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’
Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Poland for a book they co-edited. How has this affected them? ‘This is an attempt to wear us down.’
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A quick call about Ukraine: 'Putin wants to be taken seriously'
Suddenly there they were, the Russian soldiers near the border of Ukraine. Since then, reports of tensions between Russia on the one hand and the United States and Europe on the other have dominated the news. What is going on? An interview with Russia expert André Gerrits.
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Introducing: Andrew Gawthorpe
I am a Lecturer in Contemporary Military History and Security Studies, teaching in both the History and International Relations programmes here at Leiden. I grew up in Yorkshire, England and was interested in history and international politics from a young age. In 2003 I went to the University of Cambridge…
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Gjovalin Macaj
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
g.macaj@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Gas Wars: A Two-Level Analysis of Ukraine’s Bargaining Position in the 2006 and 2009 Energy Conflicts with Russia
PhD defence
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Belarus is the only Russian ally left in Europe: what is in it for them?
While all European nations have condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is one country Russia can still count on: Belarus. Russia even used its territory as a stepping stone for the invasion. We spoke with Matthew Frear, Assistant Professor and expert on contemporary Belarus, to shed light…
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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
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Jelena Prokic
Faculty of Humanities
j.prokic@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4158
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Isabela Floriana Pirlogea
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
i.f.pirlogea@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Saurav Narain
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
s.narain@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Sophie Vériter
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
s.l.veriter@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500