In de roman 1984 van George Orwell speelt het verleden een belangrijke rol: ‘degene die het verleden controleert, controleert de toekomst’ is een van de partijslogans. Dit mag dan fictie zijn, maar ook in het echte leven is geschiedenis vaak een politiek middel om natio...

This paper describes the design and construction of the CLARIN infrastructure, with a focus on the Netherlands part of it. The targeted audience of this paper is humanities researchers: I will try to explain what had to be done behind the scenes to make the CLARIN infra...

This paper describes what the CLARIN infrastructure is and how it can be used, with a focus on the Netherlands part of the CLARIN infrastructure. It aims to explain how a humanities researcher can use the CLARIN infrastructure.

<p> In this lecture I describe and expand upon a painting by Thomas Baines that depicts Amaxhosa migrant labourers leaving the Cape Colony in 1848. It is my belief that what is depicted in this painting is representative of what happened in Southern Africa as a whole be...

After several centuries of rising global inequality during the so-called era of the Great Divergence, our generation is witnessing a new epoch in world history, one of rapid economic convergence1. Emerging economies such as China, India, Brazil and Turkey are reconfigur...

<p> In this inaugural address the author, director of the African Studies Centre Leiden since 2010, first gives an impression of how Africans themselves perceive change and development, based on recent research in Ghana and Burkina Faso. He then presents some positive s...

Rede bij het afscheid als hoogleraar ruimtelijke planning en cultureel erfgoed, Wageningen Universiteit. Drie aspecten komen aan bod: ingeburgerd bij burgers, in de ruimtelijke planning, en in Wagenings onderzoek en onderwijs