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Why did wealthy Romans dine with whole cities?04 September 2018In some parts of the Roman Empire public meals were the norm: the wealthy treated the whole city to a meal. This phenomenon that suddenly arose and di...
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The 2018 Teaching Prize for the Humanities30 August 2018Who will win this year’s Teaching Prize in the Faculty of Humanities? Who will the students honour with this coveted token of their appreciation? Read...
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Carolien Stolte awarded Veni grant17 July 2018Carolien Stolte lectures at the Institute for History within the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden. She intends to use her Veni grant to research the in...
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A reminder of our slavery past11 July 2018Karwan Fatah-Black of Leiden University, an expert in the area of Dutch colonial history, wrote the text for a slavery remembrance memorial that was u...
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Henk te Velde appointed as President of the Association for Political History06 July 2018Prof.dr. Henk te Velde is appointed as the new President of the Association for Political History.
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NWO awards grants to Leiden University Humanities scholars20 June 2018No fewer than three Leiden University Humanities scholars have been awarded funding from the NWO’s Free Competition in the Humanities programme: two g...
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Leiden Disability Studies Lunch19 June 2018On 13 June the first Leiden Disability Studies Lunch was organized upon the initiative of the ERC Rethinking Disability team, based in the Institute f...
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Hugo Weiland steps back as president of the Foundation for Austrian Studies12 June 2018On Friday 8 June 2018, Hugo Weiland’s long-standing service was celebrated with a festive lunch organized by board members Ida van Veldhuizen en Hans ...
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'If you weigh up the state of migration today, the outcome isn't bad'04 June 2018Professor Leo Lucassen often adds his voice to the public debate on his specialist field. If there is talk of a 'flood of migration', he feels compell...
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'Relations with Morocco go much further back than the first migrant workers'04 June 2018The Netherlands and Morocco: relations between the two countries go back a long way. Assistant professor Nadia Bouras is researching these relations. ...
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Vidis for nine Leiden researchers01 June 2018Nine talented Leiden researchers have been awarded a Vidi subsidy by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Vidis are intended fo...
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Most escaped slaves remained in the south of the US22 May 2018
Afro-American slaves in the 19th century did not always flee to the north of the United States, according to historical research. Most of the slaves w...
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How the Battle of Heiligerlee became a legend22 May 2018The Battle of Heiligerlee, on 23 May 450 years ago, is famous as an epic battle in Dutch history. But was it really so momentous? Professor of Early M...
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Putting the history of squatting in Leiden on the map08 May 2018When you think of squatting, the picture that comes to mind is of young people occupying derelict buildings in big cities. Leiden also has a history o...
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National Museum of Antiquities: 200-year partnership with Leiden University30 April 2018From Caspar Reuvens to the royal grave in Oss, and from ancient images in the Hortus to a table from Naturalis. The National Museum of Antiquities is ...