290 search results for “black hour” in the Staff website
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate
Conference
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Dark Matters
PhD defence
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
- Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800
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Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Masterclass: The Lores of Flatbush: Dutch Storytelling in Colonial North America
Lecture, Histories Connected: Masterclass
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Special Guest Lecture ‘Knickerbocker Renaissance: Dutch Schools and Slavery in the Early United States’
Lecture, Histories Connected: Special Guest Lecture
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CCLS Seminar
Conference, seminar
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Graphic techniques: the linoleum cut
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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What is BDS? The case for academic boycott
Debate
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The Making of a Standard Mountain: A Road-Construction Campaign of 1934 and the Formation of Mount Huang’s Modern Image
Lecture
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Connect & Preserve: Preserving digital-born information
Webinar, Q&A, discussion
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Rice Eaters in the Land of Cheese
PhD defence
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Joint Lectures on Evolutionary Algorithms - January 2024
Lecture
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Globalizing the Northern Muslim World: the Mongol Exchange and the Horde
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Prosecutorial Discretion in International Criminal Justice
PhD defence
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From Slavery to Freedom
Conference, Webinar
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The Ten Kings of Earth Prisons: Theatricality of Death in Late Imperial China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Anthropology at Sea: Displacement as Ethnographic Praxis
Lecture
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Immersion without Mimesis: Song-Dynasty Cybernetics, the Game of Go, and Autopoeisis in Premodern Chinese Literature
Lecture, China Seminar
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Drawing and Painting
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Card making: the language of flowers
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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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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Warfare: technology and ethics - a reading list
While the United States continues to carry out drone strikes, and China conducts large-scale cyber and information operations, Ukrainian and Russian soldiers live in trenches, and NATO sends tanks to the Donbas front to force a breakthrough. Has war changed dramatically in recent decades as a result…
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Social Science Matters: Out-of-home placement
...What does seem clear, though, is that there is a great deal of room for improvement in the process of out-of-home placement. The FSW's social and behavioural scientists give their views.
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‘Prehistory holds up a challenging mirror to us’
Leiden alumnus Luc Amkreutz is a curator at the National Museum of Antiquities. His exhibition about the submerged landscape of Doggerland highlights what we can learn from prehistory. ‘Just like the people of Doggerland, we are confronted with climate change, but we are responsible for the speed of…
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Interview Roxane de Massol Rebetz – ‘Vulnerability doesn’t come out of a vacuum.’
The legal distinction between victims of human trafficking and victims of migrant smuggling is unjust, argues De Massol Rebetz in her PhD thesis. In certain instances, smuggled migrants should be treated the same as victims of human trafficking.
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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Hanneke Hulst on realistic expectations for researchers: ‘Let’s stop expecting people to be experts at everything.’
‘Am I setting a good example myself?’ Hanneke Hulst wonders. As Recognition and Rewards project leader, she maintains that we should stop expecting researchers to be experts at everything, even though she herself keeps a lot of balls in the air.
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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‘A safe city starts with good education and robust policing’
It is more myth than reality that people with migration backgrounds commit more crime. Leiden has successfully tackled anti-social behaviour by Moroccan youths, says former mayor Henri Lenferink. Good education forms the basis of a healthy and safe society, says ‘crimmigration’ researcher' Maartje van…
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Van de Waal Lecture 2024 - Barkcloth: wrapping people, places and ideas
Alumni event, Lecture
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Brexit’s second anniversary - a reading list
On 31 January 2020, the United Kingdom officially left the European Union. New regulations, agreed upon by both parties took effect on 1 January 2021. What impact did Brexit have politically? Do British and European citizens now have different opinions of one another? And why did the Brits want to leave…
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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Philosopher of law Ali Kösedag: Hague heart, Leiden mind
In the Pioneers of Leiden University series we talk to past and present students who were the first in their family to go to university. In this fourth instalment: alumnus and philosopher of law Ali Kösedag (1992): ‘Philosophising about equality before the law in the Netherlands at an early-morning…
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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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Turkey’s Centennial: Democracy, Diplomacy, Security
Lecture, Panel Discussion
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
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In the Making #7: { Dis, A } - Pearing
Arts and culture