326 search results for “localizing global garrett biographers” in the Staff website
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Forging Global Citizens: Part 2
The Aernout van Lynden Global Citizenship Award award is a recognition given by the LUC community. Each year a student who has demonstrated the qualities of active engagement, responsive and responsible participation in civic and/or community building, within and/or beyond LUC is presented with the…
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Thijs VosFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Anneke MonsmaFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Local Panama communities work with archaeologists on historic land rights
The question of land property titles is a common source of conflict between indigenous communities and federal authorities all over the Americas. A new Panamanian law have led indigenous communities to reach out to archaeologist Dr Natalia Donner. A grant from the Centre for Indigenous American Studies…
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Leiden conference to look for emerging trends in global governance
Global challenges require global governance answers. For that reason, between 5 and 7 June, the interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) has selected 'Emerging trends in global governance' as the theme of its annual conference. Researchers, students…
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How a local shaman can help fight climate change
Who knows more about environmental governance: a professor of natural resource governance or a local shaman in the remote uplands of Myanmar?
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NWO grant for research on new type of global organisation
To what extent can global issues be solved by multistakeholder collaboration, a relatively new type of organisation? Jan Aart Scholte, the coordinator of the Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) interdisciplinary research programme, has received a Dutch Research Council (NWO) grant…
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Simcha Jong Kon ChinScience
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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New professor calls for more research with a ‘global lens’
Jan Aart Scholte is the first professor on the new Leiden interdisciplinary programme, Global Transformations and Governance Challenges. He researches how to tackle global challenges such as climate change and inequality. Inaugural lecture on 4 February.
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What global cities are made of
Understanding what our buildings and cities are made of is an important step in making them more sustainable. Industrial ecologist Tomer Fishman (CML) has received an ERC Starting Grant to map the construction materials used in buildings in the Global South. 'Without the data, you can't formulate po…
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How a Taiwanese organisation strengthens local communities through recycling
Most people think of waste as something dirty that needs to be disposed of as soon as possible, but Olivia Yun-An Dung's dissertation aims to show that this does not always have to be the case. For this purpose, she focuses on Tzu Chi recycling in Taiwan. There, an army of elderly volunteers has been…
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Thijs Bosker and Paul Behrens receive funding to develop Local Actions - set
Thijs Bosker and Paul Behrens, Professors in Environmental Sciences at Leiden University College in The Hague, have received funding from the Leiden University Fund and the Gratama Foundation to work on developing a set of Local Actions: tangible and practical exercises that students can engage in…
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Call for Papers and Panels: Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2022
Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) will hold its first international conference on 8-10 June 2022 in The Hague. Deadline submissions: 22 April 2022.
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Johan Christensen for the Global Blog about experts in global governance
Recently, Johan Christensen, Assistant Professor at the FGGA, contributed to the commentary series on technocracy and democracy in global governance that is organised by the Global Governance Centre and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy.
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Call for Papers and Panels: Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) Conference 2023
From 7-9 June 2023 Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) organises its second international conference in The Hague. Deadline for submissions: 15 February 2023.
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Research Team Globalizing Palliative Care complete
The project officially started in September 2020, but with the enrolment of PhD students Hanum Atikasari and Shajeela Shawkat the research team of the ERC project 'Globalizing Palliative Care? A Multi-sited Ethnographic Study of Practices, Policies and Discourses of Care at the End of Life' is compl…
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Logging in tropical forests has a major social impact on local people
Exploring logging's real impact: Insights from Anthropologist Tessa Minter in the Solomon Islands.
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Leiden Law School joins Global Law Consortium
Leiden Law School has joined the Global Law Consortium (GLC), a global group of leading law faculties including many partners of our faculty.
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Global Governance Journal comes to Leiden
A team of researchers based at Leiden has taken over the editorship of the journal Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organizations. For the first time, the journal will now be based outside the United States. The new Editor-in-Chief, Associate Professor Alanna O'Malley…
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Leiden Law Cast #6: Geerten Boogard on (local)elections & political upheaval
Leiden Law Cast is a podcast made by Leiden Law School, Leiden University, for everyone who wants to learn more about current legal issues.
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Trying to fight global warming with philosophy
In her inaugural lecture Susanna Linberg will ask how philosophy should respond to global warming.
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Striking a Balance between Local and Global Interests
PhD defence
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Embedding Global Diversity in Antiquity: a retrospect
Research
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Jasmijn Rana granted Marie Curie Global Fellowship
Jasmijn Rana has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska Curie Global Fellowship for her research project “The Embodiment of Racialization: Running Muslim Women and the Sense of Non-Belonging”.
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Leiden University seventh in global sustainability ranking
Leiden University has taken seventh place in the UI Green Metric, a global sustainability ranking for universities. Almost 1,000 universities from all over the world participate in the ranking.
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Carlotta Rigotti attends Global Digital Intimacies conference
With ongoing discussions on digital intimacy in mind, Carlotta Rigotti presented preliminary findings on the regulation of sex robots through the AI Act. On 27 and 28 June 2024, Carlotta participated in the Global Digital Intimacies conference hosted by the University of Amsterdam. This international…
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Jelena BelicFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Michael SampsonFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Xiaoyang ZhongScience
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Joris LarikFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Yali SiScience
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Stephen HarrisFaculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Remus DameScience
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Riccardo MancinelliScience
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Jonathan LondonFaculty of Humanities
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Karen SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Madeleine HosliFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Matthew HoyeFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Oliver TaherzadehScience
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Jue WangFaculty of Humanities
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Alyssa Akkerman
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Kiri ParamoreFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Jiyan QiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Raoel NanhekhanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Paul van TrigtFaculty of Humanities