473 search results for “empires and slavery” in the Staff website
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Camille Lefebvre
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
c.l.lefebvre@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jos Gommans
Faculty of Humanities
j.j.l.gommans@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2167
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Concubines vs. Khatuns: Sexual Slavery and Marriage Policy in the Turco-Mongol Middle East
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Esther Captain, Gert Oostindie and Valika Smeulders win Die Haghe Prize 2024
Researchers Esther Captain, Gert Oostindie and Valika Smeulders have won the Die Haghe Prize 2024. They were awarded the prize for their book The colonial and slavery past of Hofstad The Hague.
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Jean-Pierre van der Rest
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
j.i.van.der.rest@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6135
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
g.g.van.beijeren.bergen.en.henegouwen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6509
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Niek Strohmaier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
n.strohmaier@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7997
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Aris Politopoulos
Faculteit Archeologie
a.politopoulos@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Inspiration sessions Empirics and legal education
Inspiratiesessies
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Maartje Janse
Faculty of Humanities
m.j.janse@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4167
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“Was the Habsburg Empire an Empire?”
Lecture, Fourth Annual Leiden Austrian Studies Lecture
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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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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Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries'
Conference, Summer School
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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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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.oostindie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Oran Kennedy
Faculty of Humanities
o.p.kennedy@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Enlightenment, Empire and Fanaticism
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Participate and create in the ELS Atelier
Craft your own empirical research in workshops of the ELS lab @Leiden!
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Bleda Düring
Faculteit Archeologie
b.s.during@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6449
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Neske Baerwaldt
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
n.baerwaldt@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
e.l.l.odegard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2772
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Veni grants for 21 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 21 research projects by Leiden researchers have been awarded Veni funding from the Dutch Research Council (NWO).
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International publication about ELS in Dutch legal education
Researchers from the Coherent Private Law research program have published an article in The Law Teacher about the state of the art of Empirical Legal Studies education in the Netherlands.
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Keti Koti Table
Diner | Dialoog
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ELS Atelier – for lawyers who want to learn about empirical research
Course
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further notice] Connected Histories of Migration Control: The Ottoman Empire, Turkey and the ‘West.’
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Quantitative Empirical Research Methods in Law
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Paul Kloeg
Universitaire Bibliotheken Leiden
p.kloeg@library.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1094
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Empirical Analysis of Social Insurance
PhD defence
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Kimia Heidary and Helen Pluut win Best Paper Award
Kimia Heidary and Helen Pluut received the Best Paper Award at the Munich Summer Institute for their paper on consumer perceptions and personalized pricing.
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Slavery in the Indian Ocean World and the Work of Forgetting: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Top Downloaded Article!
We are excited to share that the article, Does pre‐packed bankruptcy create value? An empirical study of post-bankruptcy employment retention in The Netherlands, by our colleagues, Jan Adriaanse, Jean-Pierre van der Rest, Gert-Jan Boon, and Reinout Vriesendorp, published in the International Insolvency…
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' (Columbia University Press: New York 2020).
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Hybrid working seems to be working
‘It is OK for employees to work flexibly, as long as they spend 40 hours in the office’, said Elon Musk in June 2022. Are we back where we started now that the pandemic is over? What is needed to make flexibility prosper? Helen Pluut is researcher in Organizational Behaviour at Leiden University and…
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Work-in-Progress: ‘Connecting Histories of Abolition: ‘Ameliorating’ slavery in British crown colonies in the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Geslaagde studentenconferentie 'empirisch-juridisch onderzoek en het privaatrecht'
Waarom is empirisch-juridisch onderzoek van belang voor de rechtspraktijk en het wetenschappelijke onderzoek? Op die vraag kregen masterstudenten van de afstudeerrichtingen civiel recht, ondernemingsrecht en financieel recht antwoord tijdens het congres over empirisch-juridisch onderzoek en het privaatrecht…
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Leiden researchers and SEO Economisch Onderzoek examine financing insolvency administrators
Leiden researchers from the departments Company Law and Business Studies will be collaborating with SEO Economisch Onderzoek on behalf of the WODC. The subject of their research project will be the financing of the insolvency administrator.
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Helen Pluut
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
h.pluut@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5386
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
c.a.p.antunes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2735
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
m.a.goncalves@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2946
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Introducing: Kenan van de Mieroop
Kenan van de Mieroop recently joined the Institute for History as Assistant Professor. Below, he introduces himself.
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Difference and empire, or on the importance of thinking otherwise
Lecture
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Give peace a chance: the way conflict can be eased, according to social psychology
How to reduce aggression when two parties are at odds? PhD research by psychologist Lennart Reddmann's shows that it can help to offer them a peaceful alternative. However, the attacking party benefits the most from such a solution.
- European Week Against Racism
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ELS Atelier – for lawyers who want to learn about empirical research
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections
How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.
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Hephthalites, Romans, and Arabs: the Grand Strategy of the Sasanian Empire
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series