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Now also in Indonesia: The butterflies of Boven-Digoel11 February 2025Three years ago, associate professor Alicia Schrikker published De vlinders van Boven-Digoel, in which she chronicled several stories about colonial l...
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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...
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Karwan Fatah-Black launches book series on slavery and emancipation20 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...
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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...
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Leiden researchers on king’s apology for the Netherlands historical role in slavery04 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...
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The Chains of Holland’s Glory: research into South Holland's slavery past completed08 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...
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NWO Open Competition grants for six researchers22 May 2023Six researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. This funding gives them the opportunit...
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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in'15 December 2022The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic s...
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Leiden’s slavery past laid bare29 March 2022The Mapping Slavery project will place markers that tell the story of Leiden’s slavery past. Why is this important and what does it mean for today’s s...
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Royal honour for Gert Oostindie20 December 2021Gert Oostindie, Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, has been made an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. He was awarded the royal honou...
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Writing history together in the Transvaal18 October 2021Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and...
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Historian Nadia Bouras: ‘I wanted to succeed, for my parents and myself’06 July 2021In 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 seco...
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Black lives matter: ‘Why the American protests have resonated in the Netherlands’04 June 2020The death of George Floyd at the hands of the police may have sparked the Black Lives Matter protests in the United States and here in the Netherlands...
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#CoronaHulp: ‘There's a broad desire to help one another'17 March 2020Coronavirus is generating a great deal of uncertainty throughout the world. Fortunately, there are some bright spots, such as the residents of Italian...
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Karwan Fatah-Black joins The Young Academy10 December 2019Historian Karwan Fatah-Black researches the Dutch colonial past, and regularly joins in the public debate about this. He has been admitted to The Youn...