357 search results for “south africa” in the Staff website
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Igor Boog
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Alette Vonk
Faculty of Humanities
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Sabine Luning
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Six NWO grants for FGW researchers: this is what the scientists are going to do
Six projects from the Faculty of Humanities recently received grants of up to 750,000 euros from the NWO Open Competition. Researchers involved tell how they will spend this money.
- This Time for Africa! series
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Natalia Donner
Faculty of Humanities
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Jenneke van der Wal
Faculty of Humanities
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Josien de Klerk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Marike van Aerde
Faculteit Archeologie
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
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Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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André Leliveld
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Elisabeth Kerr
Faculty of Humanities
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Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Rethinking the Scramble for Africa: Dutch Entrepreneurs in West Central Africa (1850s-1910s)
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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Azeb Amha
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Lipsius Building
Northern side: During an evacuation, all employees and students gather at the coffee room 001 of the Mathias de Vrieshof. Southern side: During an evacuation, all employees and students gather at the coffee room 004 of the PN van Eyckhof.
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GTGC lunch seminar series: an international, interdisciplinary scope
Starting February 6, the Leiden interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) will host a lunch seminar series on pressing global governance issues. The series will feature researchers from various disciplines. It promises to be a trove of inspiration and…
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Leila Demarest
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Felix Ameka
Faculty of Humanities
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Expanding Social Sciences & Humanities in African Global Health Discourse
LUNHA strives to redefine global health by prioritizing justice, fairness, and inclusion in Africa. Through collaboration with diverse stakeholders, LUNHA aims to reshape global health research and foster a broader engagement with social sciences and humanities.
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.
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Una Europa–Africa Partnership Seed Funding Call 2023: Launch webinar
Webinar
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One-time viewing: early photos of Africa by Alexine Tinne
Inloopavond
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How migration policy in autocracies and democracies differs from what we expect
What is the effect of a certain regime on a country’s migration policy? Political scientist Katharina Natter compared the migration policy of autocratic Morocco with that of democratising Tunisia. Her findings challenge some of the core assumptions.
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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Agnieszka Kazimierczuk
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Wouter van Beek
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Fábio Bonfim Duarte
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
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Telling Stories: Narrative Traditions from South and Southeast Asia
Roundtable
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the…
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University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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Apply for a PhD scholarship for a candidate with a migration background (Mosaic 2.0)
Research
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General Labour History of Africa Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Social media
Social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. It is an excellent way to tell people about what you are doing and to hear what they are up to too. But social media also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse…
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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Nisida Gjoksi
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Leiden Classics: the man behind the beadle
Almost everywhere in the world where the post exists, the beadle is a ‘master of ceremonies’ who only makes his appearance on special occasions. In Leiden the beadle does much more. He is indispensable at dissertation defences and orations. He directs ceremonies and is a master at calming nerves.
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Jonah Schulhofer-Wohl
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Corey Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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Sara Bolghiran
Faculty of Humanities
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EUniwell Open Lecture Series | Africa the Conservation Continent of the 21st Century?
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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Acquisition of early African photographs by explorer and photography pioneer Alexine Tinne
Over 160 years ago, the Hague-based photography pioneer and traveler Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) captured current South Sudan and its inhabitants on film. These photographs represent some of the earliest images taken in the heart of the African continent.
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The Moroccan Register of “Slaves” in the Early 18th Century: Enslavement, Blackness and Racial Binary
Lecture
- Histories Connected