Vijf eeuwen migratie

In Leiden wordt tussen februari en mei 2012 een spannende cursus gegeven voor BA studenten:  Migration, Cultural Interaction and Community Formation: from the roman
empire to the present . A Diachronic and multidisciplinary approach. In principe is het een honours class, maar ook andere studenten (uit Nederland en Vlaanderen) zijn welkom. Er zijn nog plaatsen vrij!

Voor informatie kunnen studenten contact opnemen met Marlou Schrover: m [dot] l [dot] j [dot] c [dot] schroverhum [dot] leidenuniv [dot] nl

Migration, Cultural Interaction and Community Formation: from the roman empire to the present 
A Diachronic and multidisciplinary approach

In this class a range of experts from different disciplines and different countries will present papers discussing migration, integration and community formation over a long period (2000 years) and in various parts of the world. Aim is to point out patterns, similarities and differences. Special attention will be paid to gender, class and ethnicity and other categories of inclusion and exclusion.

Friday 15-17 hours Huizinga 025 Leiden
Organized by: prof. Leo Lucassen and prof. Marlou Schrover (History, Leiden)

Program:
10 February 2012
Prof. Peter de Knijff, human geneticist at the LUMC (Leiden), launched a new vision of the migration and dispersal of modern man in Science (23 September 2011), on the basis of genome research. 

17 february 2012
Prof. Luuk de Ligt, (Chair Ancient History, Leiden University. De Ligt is a specialist in the demography of the Ancient World. He has combined in his studies social and geographical mobility

24 February 2012
Prof. Jos Gommans (Chair of Colonial and Global History, Leiden University) does research into practices of dynastic rulership in Eurasian empires ca. 1300-1800. He takes a global perspective, for example, by comparing and connecting the various relations between nomads and the settled empires of India, China and the Middle East.
 
2 March 2012
Prof. Adam McKeown (Columbia University, New York) teaches global history. He has written on the Chinese diaspora, global migration, and the history of passports and migration control. He is now researching the history of globalization since the 1760s.

9 March 2012
Prof. Judith Brown (Oxford) main interests are in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asian history and politics, and South Asian migration & the modern South Asian diaspora. She is an academic, specialising in South Asia and wider aspects of imperial history the South Asian diaspora, and more generally on the British empire.

23 March 2012
Prof. Judith Pollmann (Professor of Early Modern Dutch History, Leiden University) is a specialist on the history of the early modern
Netherlands and the Dutch Revolt. One of her fields of interest is identity formation which she has studied for the early modern Netherlands.

20 April 2012
Prof David Feldman (Birkbeck, University of London) research interests centre on the history of migrants and immigrants in Britain since the seventeenth century and also on the history of Jews in Britain since the eighteenth century the politics of immigration in twentieth-century Britain

27 April 2012
Prof Mark Ormrod (University of York) specializes in Migration in Medieval England. He has published on commercial empires and is starting a large new project into Medieval migration.

4 May 2012
prof. Sunil Amrith (History, Classics & Archeology, Birkbeck College University London) specializes in the stories and ecologies of migration in the Bay of Bengal. The Bay of Bengal is a space of economic and cultural interaction, with a particular focus on the history of migration between south India and Southeast Asia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Informatie: m [dot] l [dot] j [dot] c [dot] schroverhum [dot] leidenuniv [dot] nl