Series

Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture

The annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture is organized by the research group Colonial and Global History (COGLO) of the Institute for History at Leiden University and has the aim to explore the historiographical frontiers of the field of colonial and global history.

The lecture for December 2024 will be delivered by Ruth Bush (University of Bristol).

Previous Terra Incognita speakers were:

Emma Flatt ('Manifesting Minutes and Mapping Cosmographies: Time and Place in Early Modern Deccan', December 2023)
Kapil Raj (Circulation as Relational History, December 2022)
Cyrus Schayegh (Modern Transimperial Histories: Forms, Questions, Prospects', June 2022)
Pekka Hämäläinen ('Dark Matters of History: Uncovering Nomadic Empires', December 2019).

Programme

04 Dec
Lecture | Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture “Armez-vous des sciences”? The Creative Lives of African Universities Ruth Bush (University of Bristol)
06 Dec
Lecture | Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture Manifesting Minutes and Mapping Cosmographies: Time and Place in Early Modern Deccan Emma Flatt (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
06 Dec
Lecture | Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture Circulation as Relational History Prof. Kapil Raj (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
01 Jun
Lecture | Annual Leiden Terra Incognita Lecture Modern Transimperial Histories: Forms, Questions, Prospects Prof. Dr. Cyrus Schayegh (Geneva Graduate Institute)