Text of the Reinwardt memorial lecture by Salvador Munoz-Vinas at the Reinwardt Academie on the 9th May of 2017.

Oratie uitgesproken door Prof.dr. D.R. Fontijn bij de aanvaarding van het ambt van hoogleraar op het gebied van Archaeology of Early Europe aan de Universiteit Leiden op vrijdag 18 maart 2016 The answer to the question why Europe has become so important in world history...

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...

Kunnen universele musea nog wel, vandaag de dag? Met hun autoritaire neutraliteit, modernistische inrichting, harde objectiviteit? Dat was de vraag die Indiase kunsthistorica Kavita Singh stelde tijdens de Reinwardt Memorial Lecture op 4 juni 2014. De gelegenheid was de...

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.

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 betwee...

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...