1,385 search results for “intellectual history” in the Public website
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Alanna O'Malley
Faculty of Humanities
a.m.omalley@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2785
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Colonialism and Slavery: An Alternative History of the Port City of Rotterdam
Unlike most city histories, this book focuses exclusively on the city’s connections with colonialism and slavery.
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General Labour History of Africa: Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
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Pepper to Sea Cucumbers: Chinese Gustatory Revolution in Global History, 900-1840
On 10 November Guanmian Xu successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Seyyed Hassan Taqizadeh: A Political Biography
On the 24th of June Hossein Pourbagheri successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
c.v.weeda@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2718
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– Challenges and Opportunities in Uncovering Hidden Institutional Histories
Masterclass
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Culture, History and Society (BA Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
Today, globalization makes us all aware of how closely we are connected to, and often dependent upon, the actions of people who are distant from us. Human migration and economic liberalization have confronted local communities with changes happening on a global level. How can we devise ways to share…
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A Literary History of Reconciliation. Power, Remorse and the Limits of Forgiveness
From William Shakespeare to Marilynne Robinson, A Literary History of Reconciliation is the first study to examine representations of interpersonal reconciliation in work of literature across a long-term period, from the early seventeenth century to the present day, focusing on how these representations…
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Gianclaudio Malgieri
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
g.malgieri@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8838
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Apocalypse Now: Connected Histories of Eschatological Movements from Moscow to Cusco, 15th-18th Centuries
Eschatology played a central role in both politics and society throughout the early modern period. It inspired people to strive for social and political change, including sometimes by violent means, and prompted in return strong reactions against their religious activism.
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Peter Meel
Faculty of Humanities
p.j.j.meel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2654
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Nature and History Towards a Hermeneutic Philosophy of Historiography of Science
Nature and History, Towards a Hermeneutic Philospohy of Historiography of Science
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V.S. Srinivasa Sastri: A Liberal Life
This book explores the Indian tradition of liberalism through a critical intellectual biography of Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri (1869–1946).
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Carl Schmitt’s Hamlet oder Hekuba and the Question of a Philosophy of History
The thesis reconstructs Carl Schmitt's 1956 monography on 'Hamlet'. By scanning and unearthing books, essays, think-pieces, articles, personal diaries and private correspondence, this investigation fully addresses the unwritten philosophy of history -partially developed- in Schmitt's late thought. The…
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The World and The Netherlands: A Global History from a Dutch Perspective
This book examines the history of The Netherlands in a way that connects global processes to local developments.
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The Future is Elsewhere: Towards a Comparative History of the Futurities of the Digital (R)evolution
How did digital intermediality symbolise and facilitate the transfer of content from popular culture into policy statements and vice versa in the period between 1945 and the new millenium?
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Peter Kop
ICLON
p.m.g.m.kop@iclon.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3470
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Klaas Worp
Faculty of Humanities
k.a.worp@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Julia Foudraine
Afrika-Studiecentrum
j.b.foudraine@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512
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Jiayi Xin
Faculty of Humanities
j.xin@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Isabelle Duijvesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
i.g.b.m.duijvesteijn@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9325
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Political legitimacy in Chinese history : the case of the Northern Wei Dynasty (386-535)
Liu Puning defended his thesis on 25 April 2018.
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Being a Slave: Histories and Legacies of European Slavery in the Indian Ocean
Being a Slave brings together scholars and writers who try to come to terms with the histories and legacies of European slavery in the Indian Ocean.
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Digital nationalism in China: Sino-Japanese history in online networks
This project will explore how Chinese digital networks are grounded in real-world institutions, and how interest groups and individuals use digital infrastructures to shape public discourse on national history.
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South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon
This project, South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon (SAPPHIRE), investigates population dynamics in western South America on the basis of traces in the geographical, genetic, archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic record.
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Unravelling the genes responsible for life history traits in the giant woody cabbage (Brassica oleracea)
Which genes are involved in woodiness and associated traits such as drought tolerance, flowering time, stem elongation, life span, and plant herbivory, and how do these gene regulatory pathways overlap?
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A Social History of Painting Inscriptions in the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644)
Wenxin Wang defended her thesis on 26 October 2016
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Youth, Media and Protest: Histories of Engaging in Central African politics and social life
How do old and new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) relate to new social and political movements in Central Africa? What does this tell us about Africa and the Information Age?
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Return to the Interactive Past. The Interplay of Video Games and Histories
A defining fixture of our contemporary world, video games offer a rich spectrum of engagements with the past.
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Podcast History Roundup: Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion
In a podcast episode of 'New Books in History' Claire Weeda talks about her book 'Ethnicity in Medieval Europe 950-1250: Medicine, Power and Religion'.
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Workshop "The Cognitive Turn in History" (Groningen)
On 4 and 5 November 2021 an ICOG-workshop will be held on the cognitive turn in history. It is possible to attend this workshop online. The participants of the workshop are cultural and intellectual historians of the pre-modern periods and/or of the historiography of academia from a long-term perspective,…
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A History of Dutch Corruption and Public Morality (1648-1940)
A History of Dutch Corruption and Morality showcases 300 years of change, continuity, and diversity in the history of Dutch political corruption and public morality. It analyses a series of corruption scandals and shows how the following debates were connected to the big changes of that time: from the…
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Japan’s Occupation of Java in the Second World War: A Transnational History
Japan's Occupation of Java in the Second World War draws upon written and oral Japanese, Indonesian, Dutch and English-language sources to narrate the Japanese occupation of Java as a transnational intersection between two complex Asian societies, placing this narrative in a larger wartime context of…
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Negotiating Custom: A History of the Galle Landraad (1740-96)
Nadeera Seneviratne defended her thesis on 21 January 2016.
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Uprooting the Diaspora: Jewish Belonging and the "Ethnic Revolution" in Poland and Czechoslovakia, 1936-1946
In Uprooting the Diaspora, Sarah Cramsey explores how the Jewish citizens rooted in interwar Poland and Czechoslovakia became the ideal citizenry for a post–World War II Jewish state in the Middle East. She asks, how did new interpretations of Jewish belonging emerge and gain support amongst Jewish…
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Spectacle and Surveillance: The Making and Unmaking of Collective Visual History
What is the iconography of propaganda specifically as it relates to the historical development of political ideologies in modern Egypt and how was/is this propaganda disseminated among creative fields such as cinema, art, monuments, architecture, and literature?
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Reading and Transferring the Sublime. The Scholarly Reception and Political Relevance of the Sublime in the Dutch Golden Age
This research will investigate which aspects of On the sublime received attention in the intellectual milieu of the seventeenth century and how the sublime found its way in the political and artistic discourse of that time. Thus I aim to shed light on the role of art in politics and society in this…
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From the First Galaxies to the Peak of the Star Formation History
How did galaxies form? How did galaxies evolve?
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Eefke de Haan
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
e.j.de.haan@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9589
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Giliam de Valk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
g.g.de.valk@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9028
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Vacancies: four PhD positions in History
The Institute for History announces vacancies for three PhD positions on Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Historical Perspective and one PhD position to conduct research on the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC).
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
e.l.l.odegard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2772
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Judith Naeff
Faculty of Humanities
j.a.naeff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 5485
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Enlightened Fish Books: A New History of Eighteenth-Century Ichthyology (1686-1828)
How did learned natural historical inquiries into the underwater world develop in eighteenth-century Europe?
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Fixing history: Ancient cultural practices of stone sculpture in central Nicaragua
For three millennia, carved sculptures were ubiquitous among ancient peoples in the Americas. Sculpted in stone, metal or wood, they developed into the well-known totem poles, colossal Olmec heads, royal Maya stelae and golden Inca statues.
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classics: Reading surimono and kyōka books as social and cultural history
D.P. Kok defended his thesis on 10 October 2017
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New History of Fishes. A long-term approach to fishes in science and culture, 1550-1880
From 1550 onwards, a great interest in the natural world developed across Europe. This interest was not only stimulated by a growing knowledge of local flora and fauna, but also by the import of numerous exotic animal and plant species. Think, for instance, of researches and collectors like Gessner…
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Captured on paper: fish books, natural history and questions of demarcation in eighteenth-century Europe (ca. 1680–1820)
On the28th of September Didi van Trijp successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.