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A New Network for Queer History at Leiden 25 February 2019Ann Marie Wilson and Andrew DJ Shield have been recently awarded a Leiden Global Interactions SEED grant to support the launch of a new platform for s...
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’ 20 February 2019Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rive...
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Call for papers European Social Science History Conference 07 February 2019The ESSHC aims at bringing together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using the methods of the social sciences. The conference is...
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A world without American domination? 07 February 2019America’s dominance of the world stage is coming to an end. These were the words of Professor Amitav Acharya in his guest lecture in The Hague on 5 Fe...
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How Leiden University celebrated its first day in 1575 04 February 2019Lifelike gods, provisional professors and the city militia with weapons a clanking. Leiden put on a colourful procession and drummed up hundreds of ci...
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How two metal detectorists discovered a complete Roman treasure 17 January 2019In 2017, in an ordinary field, two brothers from Brabant discovered more than 100 ancient coins. The Leiden historian who examined the coins concluded...
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Marieke Bloembergen appointed Professor of Archival and Postcolonial Studies 11 January 2019On 1 November 2018, Marieke Bloembergen was appointed Professor of Archival and Postcolonial Studies at the Institute for History.
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Introducing Matthew Broad 10 January 2019Matthew Broad recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in International Relations. He introduces himself.
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Andrew Gawthorpe wins the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 09 January 2019At the Institute’s Council meeting of last December the Institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded.
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Introducing: Neilabh Sinha 12 December 2018Neilabh Sinha was awarded a subsidy from NWO Promoties in de Geesteswetenschappen and started as a PhD candidate at the Institute for History in Septe...
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Rethinking Disability through visual storytelling 11 December 2018The ERC project Rethinking Disability has been selected to participate in the ERCcOMICS scheme which exploits the power of visual storytelling to inno...
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Herman Paul appointed Professor of History of the Humanities 11 December 2018The Executive Board has appointed Herman Paul (Institute for History) as Professor of History of the Humanities. He will take up the role from 1 Janua...
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Latin American diplomats come together at Wijnhaven 05 December 2018Every year diplomatic representatives of Latin American countries, researchers and students come together during a conference of the GRULAC region gro...
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Stefano Bellucci receives grant by the British Library Endangered Archives Programme 14 November 2018Stefano Bellucci, university lecturer at the Institute for History, has been awarded a grant by the EAP for a pilot project for the preservation and d...
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Introducing: Lukas Milevski 13 November 2018Lukas Milevski is a lecturer in International Studies at the Institute for History. He introduces himself.