738 search results for “global art history” in the Student website
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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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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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Ukraine and the Failure of Global Security
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Information meeting Honours Governance and Global Affairs
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Ancient History (UMW) Research Seminar
Lecture, Ancient History (UMW) Research Seminar and Ancient Worlds Network Lecture
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Information meeting Honours Governance and Global Affairs
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Information meeting Honours Governance and Global Affairs
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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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Manon Schouten: ‘I’m the kind of teacher who also works on her profession during the weekend.’
After a detour via the ANWB in Munich, alumna Manon Schouten works as a history teacher at two schools. ‘It's so rewarding to see the material resonate with students.’
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from?
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.
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Call for Papers: Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges
Hybrid Workshop: In person and online on 26 – 27 January 2023.
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NICA is moving to Leiden
Since 1 January Leiden has a new graduate school. The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA), previously based at the University of Amsterdam, has moved to the Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).
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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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Global Challenges: The Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Debate, Studium Generale
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Call for applications for student assistant for GTGC seed grant project
The project “Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges” funded by the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges Seed Grant Program, is seeking a student assistant to assist the project leaders on a variety of administrative tasks from April 2022-January…
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Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities
What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the French television programme 27.
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conferentie gtgc 2023
Geopolitiek, klimaat, pandemieën, migratie, AI, genderpolitiek: de wereld van vandaag verandert in in meerdere opzichten. Hoe ga je als bestuursorganisatie om met deze veranderingen? Dat was het thema van de tweede internationale conferentie van het Leiden University's Global Transformations and Governance…
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Student Johan collaborated on three books: ‘1572 was not a celebration of tolerance’
This year marks the 450th anniversary of the Capture of Brielle by the Watergeuzen (lit. ‘Sea Beggars’) and therefore the birth of the Netherlands. Student Johan Visser is contributing to no fewer than three books about the extraordinary year of 1572.
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations'
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society' project. Researchers will reconstruct how seventeenth-century scientists recorded and shared their groundbreaking microscopic discoveries. We…
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Henk te Velde on ABC Nightlife about Queen Wilhelmina
82 years ago Queen Wilhelmina fled to England. Henk te Velde tells about her on the Australian radio show 'Nightlife'.
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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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Dive into the origins of the International Labour Organisation and the League of Nations
The Leiden interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) and the Embassy of Ireland are jointly organising a special book launch in The Hague. On 13 November, Gerry Finnegan, author and a former director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), will…
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'Rome after Rome': a unique student-scholar exploration of early medieval Rome
Debates about the ‘end’ of the Roman era, how, when, and even if it ended, are still very much alive and raging. However, what happened after the (long) late antique period is a lesser-known and lesser-studied subject. The post-Roman past needs, however, as much energetic investigation and discussion.…
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".
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Water’s Way: Female Agency and the Artful Legacy of Chinese Imperial Women
Lecture, IIAS/Rijksmuseum Annual Lecture
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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Ellen van Reuler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
a.a.h.e.van.reuler@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5077
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Sophie van Romburgh
Faculty of Humanities
s.g.van.romburgh@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jan Wim Buisman
Faculty of Humanities
j.w.buisman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
k.j.cwiertka@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2599
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Tycho van der Hoog
Afrika-Studiecentrum
t.a.van.der.hoog@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
s.bolghiran@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1693
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Jan Abbink
Afrika-Studiecentrum
g.j.abbink@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ancient Roman cuisine was varied, international and accessible to all social classes
Banquets for the rich, porridge for the poor and a standard diet of bread, olive oil and wine. Just a few assumptions about the Roman diet.
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Successful signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding between the CCOE and ISGA/FGGA
On 24 November a High-Level panel discussion on the occasion of the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding between the NATO Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence and the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs took place at Campus…
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Information meeting Honours programme Governance and Global Affairs
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Information meeting Honours programme Governance and Global Affairs
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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Masterclass in International History with Patrick O. Cohrs
Lecture, INVISIHIST Masterclass
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‘You have no love for truth’: 19th-century British scientists accused each other at every turn
Lack of manliness, avaricious or too imaginative. These are just a few of the accusations with which British scientists discredited each other over a hundred years ago. PhD candidate Léjon Saarloos researched British scientists around the year 1900 and their idea of what makes a good - and therefore…
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Concert and book launch "The Oud: An Illustrated History"
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- Well-being Activity - Social Glue: The Art of Bonding and Breaking Loneliness
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These lunch seminars prepare you for upcoming world events
Climate and human rights will again become major issues on the world stage by the end of 2023. The new series of lunch seminars by the interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) seamlessly tie into these events. All Leiden researchers and students are…
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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Valentina Carraro on peer review in financial integrity matters
On 25 February 2021, the UN High Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda (FACTI panel) has adopted its final report, to which Valentina Carraro (GTGC) and Hortense Jongen (VU Amsterdam) have contributed by writing a background paper…
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Back to the roots of Shia Islam: ‘We need to get the full picture.'
When discussing the history of Islam, the focus is almost always on the history of the Sunni majority. University Lecturer in the history of Islam, Edmund Hayes wants this to change. His new ERC-funded project , focuses on the development of the early Shia community.
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The history of the Perzian Book of Kings
Lecture, Studium Generale
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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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SRS seminar series: Deep history of violence and security
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