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Leiden University to partner with Roosevelt Institute for American Studies13 December 2016Leiden University and the Roosevelt Institute for American Studies (RIAS) in Middelburg, previously the Roosevelt Study Center, will sign an agreement...
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Regional context changes Islamic law12 December 2016Mahmood Kooria shows in his dissertation that Islam often adapts to the regional context. PhD defense 14 December.
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Introducing: Monika Baar07 December 2016Monika Baar started working in Leiden in September 2015. She's currently the project leader of the ERC Research Project 'Rethinking Disability'.
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Introducing: Paul van Trigt07 December 2016Since 1 February 2016, Paul van Trigt is postdoctoral researcher in the project Rethinking Disability: the Impact of the International Year of Disable...
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Introducing: PhD candidates ERC project 'Rethinking Disability'07 December 2016Three PhD candidates have recently started working in the ERC project 'the Global Impact of the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) in Histo...
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Introducing: Sam de Schutter07 December 2016Sam de Schutter recently started working as a PhD candidate in the ERC project 'Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of ...
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Introducing: Anaïs van Ertvelde07 December 2016Anaïs Van Ertvelde is a PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute for History. She is working on a thesis that investigates the cross-Iron Curtain impact ...
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Introducing: Anna Derksen07 December 2016Anna Derksen is a PhD candidate at Leiden University Institute for History. Her thesis examines the International Year of Disabled Persons (1981) with...
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‘Indonesians want more focus on fine details in research on war of decolonisation’05 December 2016After a lobby lasting many years, the Dutch government has decided to finance an independent study of the war of decolonisation (1945-1950) in the for...
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Five History projects selected for Research Traineeship Programme 2016-201724 November 2016Five research projects of the Institute for History have been selected for the Research Traineeship Programme 2016-2017. The programme was initiated b...
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Leonard Blussé wins ‘Special Book Award of China’22 November 2016Professor emeritus Leonard Blussé of the Leiden University Institute for History has won the ‘Special Book Award of China’. The Chinese government awa...
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Introducing: Andrew Gawthorpe22 November 2016Andrew Gawthorpe recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in Contemporary Military History and Security Studies.
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Under the spell of right and wrong07 November 2016Today, radical right-wing parties like the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV) are full partners in debates in the political arena. In the 1980s and 1990s, ...
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Professor Willem Otterspeer on his retirement: ‘My career is like the Danube.’01 November 2016University historian Willem Otterspeer is about to retire, and he will give his farewell lecture on 4 November. Although... it is really a farewell? ...
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Alanna O'Malley on the election of new United Nations secretary-general António Guterres13 October 2016The election of a new secretary-general of the UN has reinvigorated the discussion on reform of the institution. Criticism on its functioning often fo...