News
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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...
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Leiden University to partner with Roosevelt Institute for American Studies 13 December 2016
Leiden 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 law 12 December 2016
Mahmood Kooria shows in his dissertation that Islam often adapts to the regional context. PhD defense 14 December.
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Introducing: Monika Baar 07 December 2016
Monika 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 Trigt 07 December 2016
Since 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 2016
Three 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 Schutter 07 December 2016
Sam de Schutter recently started working as a PhD candidate in the ERC project 'Rethinking Disability: the Global Impact of the International Year of ...