1,435 search results for “twentieth centre political comparative history” in the Staff website
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Dismantling National Colonialism: the role of Chilean political indigenous movements
Guest Lecture
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PCNI Research Seminar on Political Meetings
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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Cybersecurity and the politics of knowledge production
Debate
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Tjet MeijerFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
t.meijer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ivar Halfman
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
i.halfman@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8003941
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Nynke Heegstra
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
n.e.heegstra@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8003941
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Eline Joor
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
e.e.j.joor@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Judy SpruitFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
j.a.spruit@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3650
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Bart SchuurmanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
b.w.schuurman@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9347
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VVIK Lecture: Court politics in the Vijayanagara successor states
Lecture, VVIK Lecture
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Concert and book launch "The Oud: An Illustrated History"
Arts and culture
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Environmental History in the Medieval and Early Modern Low Countries
Conference
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Talking Palestine: The Politics of Narrating the Conflict
Lecture
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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie
Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honour by Leiden mayor Henri Lenferink after giving his valedictory lecture, ‘The future of the colonial past’, in the Academy Building of Leiden University…
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Democracy, from 1990 to 2022 Plebiscite: Recent Historical Analysis in Comparative Perspective
Lecture, MAIR Seminar
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Femicide: a comparative approach from a Dutch, Italian and European point of view
Conference
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LUCIR US Elections Roundtable 2: Comparative perspectives on the results and where the US is headed to now
Debate
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Iris Jongejan
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
i.k.jongejan@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9500
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Memory Politics and Contentious Heritage in Anṣār Allāh/Ḥūthī Yemen
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Wayfarers: Roma and Sinti’s bumpy ride through education
Access to education for people from the lower socio-economic class has improved immensely in Europe from the 1950s onwards. Yet the Roma and Sinti were unable to reap benefits from this. PhD candidate Anita van der Hulst researched why so few Roma and Sinti went on to higher education. PhD defence on…
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Political Factors Affecting European Union Legislative Decision- Making Speed
PhD defence
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Politics and Policy Pre-Analysis Plan (PAP2) Workshop
Workshop
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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Ethics of Political Commemoration: Applying a New Paradigm to Remembrance
Lecture
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Graduation ceremony BSc Political Science: International Relations and Organisations
Festival
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Feeling the Nudge: Political Communication and Governance in Digital China
Inaugural lecture
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Meet Dr. Kathyrn Brackney, LJSA Member
Dr. Brackney is a modern European intellectual and cultural historian with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Leiden, she held postdoctoral teaching posts in the History & Literature program at Harvard University and the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.
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Museum Talks: ‘Our access to the past starts with in-depth knowledge of objects’
Geert-Jan Janse has always been fascinated by the way objects can bring the past closer. On 16 November, he will present a Museum Talk about his work as the director of the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Association).
- The Economic, Social and Political Effects of Migration
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Ethics of Political Commemoration: Applying a New Paradigm to Remembrance
Lecture
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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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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
- Juynboll Lecture: Towards connected histories of Muslim Qur’an translation
- Museum Talks at the Leiden Department of Art History
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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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Student Sjoerd reveals link between cloth trade and slavery
What do the cloth trade and slavery have to do with each other? Quite a lot, as it turns out, as by history student Sjoerd Ramackers demonstrated in his bachelor’s thesis. He reveals that cloth merchant Daniel van Eijs was closely associated with four plantations in Berbice, a former Dutch colony on…
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Maritime historians and vocational college students together create historical database
What do you do when you’re suddenly given access to a whole lot of data but don’t know how to organise and analyse it? Maritime historians in the Faculty of Humanities joined forces with vocational college (MBO) students to build a database. ‘We’re so compatible with each other.’
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Tenth Easter Island conference focuses on reconciliation
The tenth International Conference on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and the Pacific will be a special edition with a focus on reconciliation. The fatal shooting in 1722 will be remembered, when the Dutch shot and killed ten Easter Islanders. The conference will be held in Leiden from 19 to 24 June.
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Text Matter: The Material and Political Lives of Javanese Manuscripts
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Generating Freedom; Hegel's Conception of Political Order
PhD defence
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SRS seminar series: Deep history of violence and security
Seminar series
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Chunyuan YinScience
c.yin@lacdr.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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‘Je kan door een stage veel beter aan jezelf werken‘
Oberon Janszen, alumnus Bestuurskunde, ging na zijn studie als stagiair bij de Inspectie der Rijksfinanciën aan de slag
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Revolutionary Historiography: How Leftist Debated the Historical Sociology of the Ottoman Empire in Cold War Turkey
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Towards a crisis resilient society
Pandemics, terrorist attacks, environmental disasters... These are real threats, which we cannot ignore. In fact: we need to prepare better for the large-scale crises of the future. Preferably in a way that suits our lifestyle and respects our social values. Over the next ten years, an interdisciplinary…
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Centre for Digital Scholarship: Summer Training Week
Seminar series
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How does the European Union deal with distinctiveness?
On 31 January 2024, Alex Schilin defended his dissertation ‘United in Distinctiveness: The Institutionalisation of Differentiated Integration in Economic and Monetary Union during the Sovereign Debt Crisis.’ What motivated him to research this specific topic, and how did he tackle this project? And…
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Sebastian Diessner wins research grant from Leverhulme Trust
Sebastian Diessner, assistant professor at the Institute of Public Administration, has won a grant from the Leverhulme Fund together with three researchers from the United Kingdom. The grant, worth 350,000 euros, is for the research project: 'The Political Economy of Knowledge-Based Growth.'
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Andrew Gawthorpe in The Guardian about the Republicans’ more radical agenda
University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe argues in The Guardian that the Republican's new agenda for a second Trump term is more radical than the first. He says that they seek to take control of federal agencies by replacing civil servants with ‘American First footsoldiers’.