675 search results for “komen history” in the Student website
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Rudi van MaanenFaculty of Humanities
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Thea HilhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Weilun Zhang
Faculty of Humanities
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Ton Elias
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiaxuan Huang
Faculty of Humanities
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Sulakshana de Mel
Faculty of Humanities
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Eva Pfanzelter
Faculty of Humanities
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Sarah Siegenthaler
Faculty of Humanities
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NIAS grant for research into 19th century bohemians and their love for anarchistic assassins
It was a remarkable trend in 19th-century London: middle-class bourgeois bohemians falling in love with anarchism and its assassins. University lecturer Michael Newton has been awarded a NIAS subsidy to reconstruct the lives of three of these families.
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Hundred-year-old causes of death mapped: ‘The past is the laboratory of the present’
If it is up to university lecturer Evelien Walhout, in a year's time we will know exactly what people from Haarlem and Zwolle died of a century ago. Together with colleagues from other universities, she started the doodsoorzaken.nl platform, where causes of death are recorded. ‘Somewhere around the…
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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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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Rubicon for research into Roman law: ‘We don’t know what wider society thought about law’
Expert in Classics Renske Janssen has been awarded a Rubicon grant. She will use the grant to conduct research at the University of Edinburgh into how Roman law was perceived by society at the time.
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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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Andrew Gawthorpe on ABC Radio about ‘Orbánism’ and the American right
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Texas last week. University lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe explains in an interview with ABC Radio what the embrace of 'Orbánism' means for the American right, and democracy more broadly.
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Holding the Byvanck Chair in times of corona
Professor Caroline Vout, Cambridge University, was awarded the Leiden University Byvanck Chair in 2020. In a pre-Covid-19 world, the Byvanck Chair would stay in Leiden for seminars, lectures, and research activities. Instead, the pandemic disrupted this schedule. Last month, Vout taught her masterclass…
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Rights, The United Nations and the Intimacies of International Law: A History
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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Ghulam Ali Murtaza
Faculty of Humanities
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Suzan AbozyidFaculty of Humanities
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Arie van der Wiel
Faculty of Humanities
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Sanâa May Swart
Faculty of Humanities
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Tomás Díaz
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicole Pereira Ríos
Faculty of Humanities
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Marjolein Jorna
Faculty of Humanities
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Rosa Kösters
Faculty of Humanities
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Maud RijksFaculty of Humanities
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Felix Kram
Faculty of Humanities
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Theresa St John
Faculty of Humanities
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Tony van der Togt
Faculty of Humanities
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Cristian Saavedra Bastía
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonard Ornstein
Faculty of Humanities
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Felipe Cousiño
Faculty of Humanities
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Harold van der Kraan
Faculty of Humanities
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Carla Cisternas GuaschFaculty of Humanities
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Hannah Busch
Faculty of Humanities
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Macarena Alegria Garcia
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadia Rojas
Faculty of Humanities
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Liliana Morawietz Yanez
Faculty of Humanities
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Zoltán Quittner
Faculty of Humanities
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Scholars and senators on the legitimacy of the Dutch Senate
The Leiden Research Profile Area Political Legitimacy organizes a public symposium on the 12th of May 2016 on the legitimacy and future of the Dutch Senate.
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Global dynamics: a very deep historical perspective on the history of Humanity
Keynote Lecture
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Hein Drop
Faculty of Humanities
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Felipe Colla De AmorimFaculty of Humanities
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Jamel BuhariFaculty of Humanities
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Henrike Vellinga
Faculty of Humanities
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Pichayapat NaisupapFaculty of Humanities
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Rong YuanFaculty of Humanities
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Anne PorFaculty of Humanities