News
-
Wim van den Doel wins 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize 24 October 2024Professor of Contemporary History Wim van den Doel has won the 2024 Boerhaave Biography Prize. Van den Doel receives the prize for his book 'Snouck: H...
-
Eleven Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants 22 October 2024The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 11 Leiden researchers. This grant of up to 850,000 euros will enable them to develop an in...
-
Thijs Brocades Zaalberg: 'How does the discourse on war influence practice?' 30 September 2024As a student, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg was primarily interested in diplomacy surrounding conflicts. Through research on peace operations and subsequent...
-
Website shows the history of Sri Lanka’s ‘Slave Island’: ‘Soon there will be none of it left’ 30 August 2024In the eighteenth century, the Dutch East India Company (VOC) housed its enslaved people on ‘Slave Island’ in Colombo, the capital of Sri Lanka. Today...
-
Esther Captain, Gert Oostindie and Valika Smeulders win Die Haghe Prize 2024 14 May 2024Researchers Esther Captain, Gert Oostindie and Valika Smeulders have won the Die Haghe Prize 2024. They were awarded the prize for their book The colo...
-
Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation 20 February 2024How do we account for historical power dynamics when writing new histories of slavery and emancipation? What critical methods can we employ when study...
-
Call for Papers: "Voices of resistance in and against Dutch empire" 23 January 2024For the upcoming conference "Voices of Resistance in and Against the Dutch Empire, 1600-2020s" on September 12 and 13, 2024, at Utrecht University, pr...
-
Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where' 18 January 2024A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Assoc...
-
Two new Leiden members of The Young Academy 16 January 2024Leiden researchers Fenneke Sysling (Institute for History) and Joris van der Voet (Institute of Public Administration) will be admitted to the Royal N...
-
Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past' 15 January 2024Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with,...
-
‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’ 20 November 2023A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have be...
-
Influencers, X and WhatsApp: social media and the coup in Niger 02 August 2023A number of European countries have started evacuating their citizens and there is a threat of military intervention by neighbouring countries: the si...
-
Leiden researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery 04 July 2023In a speech on Keti Koti (meaning ‘the chain is broken’ and the name given to 1 July, the day marking the abolition of slavery) the Dutch king, Willem...
-
The Chains of Holland’s Glory: research into South Holland's slavery past completed 08 June 2023Karwan Fatah-Black and Lauren Lauret are co-authors of Geketend voor Hollands Glorie (The Chains of Holland’s Glory) that studies the political and ec...
-
India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000 17 May 2023On 15-16 June, Jos Gommans, Marieke Bloembergen, and Carolien Stolte will organize an international conference entitled “India in the Making of the Gl...