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Honorary doctorate for Graça Machel: fund for female students from South Africa
On the occasion of the conferral of an honorary doctorate to children’s rights activist Graça Machel, a fund has been established that will enable two female students from South Africa to come and study in Leiden.
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Call for applications: Africa Thesis Award 2024 (deadline: 31 October 2024)
Education, Research
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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to Environmental Tragedy: Grant for Research into Polluted Mines in Africa
At one time, the railway from Kimberley to Kambove in Southern Africa symbolised prosperity and progress. Today, the exhausted mining towns along its route are marked by decay and pollution. Professor Jan-Bart Gewald has been awarded an NWO L grant to investigate the long-term global consequences.
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Spycraft in History Today’s and The Economist’s Books of the Year
Spycraft, by professor Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman has been selected by History Today and The Economist as one of 2024’s best books
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Frans Willem KorstenFaculty of Humanities
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Political elites and regime change in the Middle East and North Africa: accommodation or exclusion?
Political scientist Kevin Köhler (Leiden University) has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This prestigious grant enables him to set up a research group in the coming five years. Köhler and his team will examine how elite conflict affects processes of regime change…
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Tycho van der HoogAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Costanza FranceschiniFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Denied Justice: Double Jeopardy for Children in Conflict Situations in Africa’.
New Report Launched by ACPF with the support of the Department of Child Law and Health Law
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Dutch radio about the effects of the Russia-Ukraine grain agreement on Africa
Economic Anthropologist Erik Bähre talks on the Dutch News Radio Channel BNR about the effects of the Russia-Ukraine grain agreement for African countries.
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Raia receives NWO Impact Explorer grant: ‘We want to ensure that literature is once again voiced by its own society and resonates beyond it’
For decades, the trade in pocketbooks prescribing how to be a good Muslim flourished in East Africa, but in recent years the number of books in circulation has been declining. University lecturer Annachiara Raia is the recipient of an Impact Explorer grant to revive this tradition, in cooperation with…
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Minor in Law, Literature and Society shows inextricable link between law and art
The film Blade Runner as part of the law curriculum? It’s not that weird to Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law and Society, and Frans-Willem Korsten, Professor of Literature, Culture and Law. ‘The film raises a fundamental question: what’s a human and what’s not?’ From the next academic year onwards,…
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Esther EdelmannFaculty of Humanities
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
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Wim TiggesFaculty of Humanities
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Andries HiskesFaculty of Humanities
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Ernst van AlphenFaculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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Mitchell van VurenFaculty of Humanities
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Francesco BustiFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Rieneke SonneveltFaculty of Humanities
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Renske JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Ayokunu AdedokunFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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M. Y. Priscilla LamFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten KossmannFaculty of Humanities
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Mark WestmorelandFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Metje Postma
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Ton DietzAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Katharina NatterFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Rishuai ChenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Igor BoogFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Alette VonkFaculty of Humanities
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Sabine Luning
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Karen SmithFaculty of Humanities
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Erik BähreFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Marja SpierenburgFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Emmanuelle RadarFaculty of Humanities
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Peter PelsFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Loes OudenhuijsenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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Sara PetrollinoFaculty of Humanities
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Bombastic publications encouraged millions of Dutch people to emigrate
After the Second World War almost three million people emigrated from the Netherlands to countries such as Canada and Australia. The government information was anything but objective, Professor by Special Appointment of Dutch Studies/Dutch Literature Ton van Kalmthout concludes in his inaugural lect…
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