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Professor Bleda Düring interviewed for podcast Tides of History
The Tides of History is a history podcast that takes listeners into the past while trying to identify how it echoes today. The current season centers around the Iron Age and the new episode features an interview with our own Bleda Düring.
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Overhandiging tweede deel 'A History of Russian Law'
Vijf jaar na de overhandiging van ‘A History of Russian Law’, overhandigde emiritus hoogleraar Ferdinand Feldbrugge op 16 januari het tweede deel van zijn unieke overzichtswerk aan decaan van de Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid Joanne van der Leun.
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Ying Zhang looks for the person behind the history
The Chinese History chair has a long, rich history within Leiden University. Since 1 February, this position has been held by Ying Zhang. ‘Leiden University brings together a legendary range of Asian knowledge.’
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Now available: Open Science: A Practical Guide for Early-Career Researchers
This practical guide is aimed at PhD candidates, Research Master Students, and early-career researchers from all academic disciplines. The instructions in the guide intend to inspire young researchers and to help them practice Open Science, by sharing all aspects of research as open possible.
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‘Islam is a constant in Europe’: new Humanities podcast delves into the history of Islam
‘Islam and Muslims are not something that happened to Europe; they are part of Europe. In fact, Islam is one the biggest constants in European history,’ argues Professor Maurits Berger in the new eight-part History of Islam in Europe podcast series of the Leiden University Faculty of Humanities.
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One history, different memories. Does this always lead to conflict?
Different groups can have different memories of the same historical event. This can lead to conflict but does not have to. How is this, and how can countries and people reconcile with the past?
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Exhibition encourages us to reflect on the history of slavery
What is the significance of the history of slavery for our present-day society? A special exhibition in the inner courtyard of the Academy Building features eleven insightful portraits of students and staff, and their answer to this question. The aim of the exhibition’s initiators is to make the subject…
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Maintenance at KOG building: no access to bike basement in early May
Facility
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Krista Murchison in History Today on medieval pen-twisters
Minims are letters that are made up of short, vertical pen strokes, such as 'm', 'i', 'n' and 'u'. In Gothic script, there is often little distinction between letters composed of minims. Assistant professor of medieval literature Krista Murchison has written an article in History Today on the hidden…
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‘As an ambassador you witness history as it unfolds’
Carmen Gonsalves has been the Dutch ambassador to Chile since this autumn. She studied history in Leiden. How useful has her degree been and what’s it like to be an ambassador? ‘Diplomacy is fascinating.’ We spoke to her just before the presidential elections.
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Regulating Relations: Controlling Sex and Marriage in the Early Modern Dutch Empire
PhD defence
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Between the Court and the Village: Uncovering how was Early Modern Warfare Really Waged in Southeast Asia
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
On Thursday, May 16, Leiden University Libraries is organizing a workshop on early photography of the Middle East. In the workshop, curator Maartje van den Heuvel shows photos of three adventurous Dutch nineteenth-century travel and photography pioneers. They created beautiful photos and photo albums…
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Krista Murchison receives Veni grant for ‘Righting and Rewriting History’
Krista Murchison, University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, received a Veni grant of 250.000 euros. Her Veni-project will explore the ‘immaterial archive’ and its social and historical significance by digitally recreating manuscripts that were destroyed during World…
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Femke Lippok
Faculteit Archeologie
f.e.lippok@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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CFA: Summer school Global History in the 2020s, Leiden 27-29 June 2023
On 27-29 June, 2023, Leiden University's Institute for History will host a summer school on Global History in the 2020s, in collaboration with the Huizinga Institute-Research School for Cultural History, the Research School Political History, and the Flying University of Transnational Humanities (FUTH).…
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Modern Moroccan Photography
Lecture
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming'
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…
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Liselore Tissen
Faculty of Humanities
l.n.m.tissen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
- Framing Late Antique Religion Lecture Series
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Panel Discussion | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Debate, Panel Discussion
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Book Launch | A Hundred Years of Republican Turkey: A History in a Hundred Fragments
Lecture, Book Launch
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Check it out: NIMAR contributes to COBRA museum exhibition
This summer, the COBRA Museum will be focusing on Moroccan art. 'The other story' exhibition presents for the first time Moroccan modernism in the Netherlands. The Netherlands Institute Morocco (NIMAR) contributed to its exhibition
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Technical problems are history with the Teacher Support Desk
For many teachers, they are a lifesaver: the people at the Science Teacher Support Desk. When a teacher has technical problems, they come to the rescue immediately. Veerle Warnders is one of them and she tells us what is so great about her job.
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Valerio Gentile
Faculteit Archeologie
v.gentile@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Our perspective on history is changing and our museums are changing too
Museums have long focused on power, wealth and a few famous figures. But that is changing, says Valika Smeulders, head of the history department at the Rijksmuseum. What this change comprises and how it has come about is the subject of her keynote speech at the D&I Symposium on 11 January.
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Curator of the National Museum Marion Anker: ‘History can cause friction'
Marion Anker is a junior curator at the Rijksmuseum, the National Museum of the Netherlands. She studied History in Leiden and Amsterdam. Together with her team, she organised the controversial exhibition ‘Revolusi! Indonesië onafhankelijk!’ What did studying History teach her?
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Geeske Langejans
Faculteit Archeologie
g.h.j.langejans@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6003
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Bosch wins the World Cup prediction competition of the Institute for History
With a well-attended award ceremony at the entrance of the Johan Huizinga Building on Tuesday 20 December, we concluded the World Cup prediction competition of the Institute for History in which 57 colleagues of 17 different nationalities competed for glory.
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Leiden Papyri and the Economic History of the Early Medieval Islamic World
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Before the Law: Skepticism, Performance as Proof, and Law as Magic in Early Modern Witch Trials’ – Lecture by Julie Stone Peters (Columbia University)
Lecture
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
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Tsolin Nalbantian
Faculty of Humanities
t.nalbantian@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2985
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Acquisition of early African photographs by explorer and photography pioneer Alexine Tinne
Over 160 years ago, the Hague-based photography pioneer and traveler Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) captured current South Sudan and its inhabitants on film. These photographs represent some of the earliest images taken in the heart of the African continent.
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.
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Applying for jobs during the coronavirus pandemic: Ancient History alumni share their experiences
Three alumni of our Master’s degree programme in Ancient History talk to us about how they found a job after graduation during the coronavirus pandemic. During the interview, Gabriël hung a huge board covered in post-it reminders behind his laptop, Molly was glad that the members of the selection committee…
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KNAW Early Career Award for Alisa van de Haar: ‘I want to take a more positive approach to migration and multilingualism’
Alisa van de Haar is one of three humanities scholars to win a KNAW Early Career Award this year. The university lecturer of Ancient French Literature is receiving the award for her innovative research on multilingualism and migration. 'It would be nice to use this to set up a project with students.…
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incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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Jay Huang
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
y.c.huang@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9596
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Francesco Busti
Faculty of Humanities
f.busti@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2668
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Ruurd Halbertsma
Faculty of Humanities
r.b.halbertsma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Rieneke Sonnevelt
Faculty of Humanities
d.a.m.sonnevelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Nina Jaspers
Faculteit Archeologie
n.l.jaspers@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Johannes Müller
Faculty of Humanities
j.m.muller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2193
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Göran Sundholm
Faculty of Humanities
b.g.sundholm@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Jorrit Smit
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.p.smit@cwts.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Claire Vergerio
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
c.vergerio@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
pnieuwenburg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1983
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Havar Solheim
Faculty of Humanities
h.a.s.solheim@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5342