News
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‘Belief in the end of time slowed down modernisation’ 10 April 2017
In the nineteenth century many Dutch people believed in the end of time and the coming of God's thousand-year reign. This belief effectively slowed do...
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‘International isolation is not an option’ 05 April 2017
Security in the broadest sense of the word was the key focus in the Interfaculty Conference on 4 April in Leiden. With almost 200 attendees and such w...
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Call for Papers 'Epistemic Vices: Continuities and Discontinuities, 1600-2000' 04 April 2017
Impartiality, objectivity, honesty, and accuracy are qualities that generations of scholars have regarded as necessary for the pursuit of scholarly in...
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A deeper understanding of Brazil 29 March 2017
This year, the Chair of Brazilian studies celebrates its 20 year anniversary. The chair invites professors from Brazilian universities to come to Leid...
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Introducing: Salvador Santino Regilme 23 March 2017
Salvador Regilme recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in International Relations. He introduces himself.
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History and Religious Studies #1 and #2 in The Netherlands in QS World University Rankings 2017 08 March 2017
History and Religious Studies in Leiden rank # 17 and #32 in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. With this, History in Leiden ranks as the be...
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ZonMw Grant for Project on Competitive Research Funding 07 March 2017
Herman Paul of the Leiden University Institute for History receives a € 150,000 grant from the Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Develo...
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4.1 million for study on Dutch East Indies war of decolonisation 02 March 2017
Three Dutch research institutes - including the Leiden University’s KITLV - will conduct a follow-up study on the use of violence during the Dutch Eas...
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Alanna O'Malley and Adriaan van Veldhuizen win the Carla Musterd Award for Teaching 28 February 2017
At the Institute’s Council meeting of last December the Institute’s biannual prize for teaching was awarded. The award is named after Carla Musterd, a...
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Introducing: Marlisa den Hartog 28 February 2017
Marlisa den Hartog is a PhD candidate at the Institute for History since January 2017. She is working on a thesis about perceptions of sexual desire a...
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Successful Pilot Project targeted at career development for PhDs 07 February 2017
Six PhD candidates from the Institute for History took part in a pilot project targeted at career development. Between September and December 2016 gro...
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History MOOC 'The Rooseveltian Century' returns 10 January 2017
Prof. Giles Scott-Smith has made the first History MOOC (Massive Online Open-Access Course) produced by Leiden University. The MOOC 'The Rooseveltian ...
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A nation of headstrong nationalists 09 January 2017
For the Netherlands, like many other European countries, the nineteenth century was a period of strengthening national identity. Anne Petterson descr...
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How Dutch Brazil was lost 04 January 2017
The Amsterdam media played a major role in the rise and fall of Dutch Brazil, the colony held briefly by the Dutch West India Company in the 17th cen...
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CfP 'Calendar Propaganda' of Human Rights? Historical Perspectives on the United Nations’ Global Observances 04 January 2017
Conference to be held at Leiden University, The Hague Campus, 14-16 June, 2017. Keynote speakers: Professor Thomas G. Weiss (The Graduate Center, CUNY...