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Cleveringa Professor Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You: ‘Exclusion is dangerous’ 18 November 2024Amid rising polarisation and discrimination, lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You wants to show in her Cleveringa Lecture on ...
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Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You is the new Cleveringa professor 09 July 2024Lawyer and human rights activist Lilian Gonçalves-Ho Kang You is the new Cleveringa professor. She will deliver the Cleveringa lecture on 26 November ...
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons 28 November 2023From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western rememb...
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Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree: ‘It’s high time to discuss the ritualisation of the past’ 13 November 2023The annual commemoration of the nation’s war dead on Dam Square and at Waalsdorpervlakte, the Dutch apologies for historical slavery and the Clevering...
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Historian Frank van Vree is the new Cleveringa Professor 13 June 2023Frank van Vree, Emeritus Professor of War, Conflict and Memory Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UVA), is the new Cleveringa Professor at Leiden...
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New Cleveringa books donated to Leiden University 01 December 2022Two Cleveringa books from Theo ten Kate's law library were donated to Leiden University by grandson Sebastiaan ten Kate on 24 November. They are the d...
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Debate on courage, threats and an ounce of Cleveringa 25 November 2022‘If we all possessed just an ounce of Cleveringa, then all would be well in the world,’ said Professor Leo Lucassen. In the Cleveringa debate on the l...
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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history 24 November 2022It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural le...
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Cleveringa professor Gert Oostindie: ‘We stood up for our own freedom but ignored that of others’ 19 October 2022Now that war is once again raging in Europe, the question of when you need to stand up against injustice has become more relevant than ever. In his Cl...
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Historian Gert Oostindie the new Cleveringa Professor 04 October 2022Gert Oostindie, Emeritus Professor of Colonial and Postcolonial History, is this year’s Cleveringa Professor at Leiden University. He was appointed by...
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Hour of Remembrance on 4 May: ‘We commemorate war victims and draw links to the present’ 19 April 2022During the ‘Hour of Remembrance’ on 4 May, the University community remembers its students and staff who were killed in the Second World War. It also ...
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University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’ 18 January 2022As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with ...
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Lecture Antoaneta Dimitrova in Prague: Freedom is Precious 30 November 2021Antoaneta Dimitrova, Professor Comparative Governance, presented the Cleveringa Lecture at the Vaclav Havel Library in Prague last week. We spoke to h...
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust 26 November 2021In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grab...
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Cleveringa professors target of hate campaigns: ‘Intimidation frustrates Holocaust research’ 11 November 2021Holocaust scholars Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski will jointly hold the Cleveringa lecture on November 26. They were accused of defamation in Pol...