599 search results for “africa economics” in the Student website
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Luuk de LigtFaculty of Humanities
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EU Global Gateway Strategy: Transforming relations with African countries in a new geopolitical era. A practitioner's perspective
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Peter PelsFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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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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Ilya KokorinFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Suiting DingScience
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Sjoerd LopikFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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ASCL Seminar: Roadblock Politics - Predation and Resistance in Central Africa
This event will take be held both online and physically in Leiden. All registrees will receive a link to the online platform one day before the start of the event. Along the muddy roads and forested rivers snaking through Central Africa, rebels and soldiers, traditional authorities and civil servants,…
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Da‘wa as Development: Kuwaiti Islamic Charity in Africa
Lecture
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Science and 'inequality': insights from Africa and environmental fields
Download the recording of this Seminar In this talk, we first reflect on the various manifestations of ‘inequality’ in science, based on a reading of the science policies of a selection of African countries, as well as of relevant literature produced by African scholars, and by scholars publishing about…
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Loes van der Hulst-SchefferFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mandela Scholarship Fund
Bachelor, Master
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Thijs BusschotsFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Arvid MikkersFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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The EU and Africa – joint visions for the future or falling back on the past?
Africa is the EU’s closest neighbour and shares with it a long, if conflicted, history. The EU is also Africa’s most important partner with regard to investment, trade, and development assistance. But the nature of this partnership is changing. Africa is growing, demographically and economically, a…
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Johan ChristensenFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Gavin RobinsonFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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LUMC professor Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives Spinoza Prize
Leiden professor of Cellular Immunology of Parasitic Infections Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives the prestigious NWO Spinoza Prize this year. This, in many ways, border-crossing scientist contributes with her research to more effective vaccines against parasitic infections and better medication for inflammatory…
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Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Master
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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ASCL Seminar: The COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Africa's New Era of Austerity
Lecture
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Kilian de Kruyf Molina: ‘I would recommend doing an internship if you want to gain more work experience’
Trail, FGGA’s internship platform will be one-year old in November. In the upcoming weeks, we will be interviewing some FGGA students who went on internships. What did they learn from their internships? And what tasks were assigned to them?
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God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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Priorities of Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Towards multi-species histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa
This event will take place physically in Leiden. The full programme will be announced soon. Histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa have tended to concentrate on the issues of labour and capital. The rich ethnographic work of the Manchester School in Zambia, and the fractious race and…
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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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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Sebastian Diessner for Le Figaro about quantitative easing
Sebastian Diessner, associate professor at the FGGA, recently appeared in an article called 'Inflation: a spring remontée des taux se dessine' (Inflation: a slow rise in rates is emerging) in the newspaper Le Figaro.
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Alistair Kefford on French television on the future of European cities
What does the retail crisis mean for the future of Europe's urban centres? Assistant professor Alistair Kefford answers this very question in the French television programme 27.
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Poor countries recycle far more of our plastic than we thought. But it's not enough.
Countries that import plastic waste recycle an average of at least 63 percent of it. This is surprising, as we previously believed that the vast majority was incinerated or ended up as litter. This was discovered by PhD candidate Kai Li and his colleagues from the Institute of Environmental Sciences in…
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Simone van der HofFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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ASCL Seminar: Africa's Second Struggle for Freedom: What's decolonisation got to do with it?
Lecture
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EUniwell Open Lecture Series | Africa the Conservation Continent of the 21st Century?
As part of the EUniWell Open Lecture Series, Prof. Dr. Michael Bollig will be speaking on 'Africa the Conservation Continent of the 21st Century? Contemporary Practices and Future Orientations of Biodiversity Protection between Globalisation and Local Action' on Thursday, 28 April, 18:00 CET /…
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.
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Retrospective 75th anniversary African Studies Centre Leiden
A ‘world class institute’ with a ‘vibrant atmosphere’, doing research on a continent that is ‘becoming increasingly important’. That is how Annetje Ottow, president of Leiden University’s Executive Board, described the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) on its 75th anniversary celebration on 8 September…
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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights & Transitioning to a Sustainable Society
The Hernan Santa Cruz Dialogue Series brings together academics, civil society, economists, politicians, community leaders, students and others to identify barriers to implementing Economic, Social and Cultural rights, and approaches to operationalize these rights as a framework to address local and…
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Giacomo BoffiFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Policy in Practice Heritage and the Question of Conversion
Students researchers’ research proposals are drawn up in consultation with D&I Expertise Office staff, taking account of what the latter find urgent and relevant. The results of the research are shared with D&I Expertise Office staff, even if subject to common ethical standards of ethnographic research…
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Apply now for the Una Europa Virtual Sustainability Exchange
Education, Research
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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Student for a Day - Economic and Consumer Psychology (MSc Psychology)
Study information
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Student for a Day - Economic and Consumer Psychology (MSc Psychology)
Study information
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How polluting buildings and machinery make rich countries ever richer
Rich countries are getting richer because of environmentally polluting (construction) investments from the past, largely at the expense of poor countries. This was shown by long-term economic and environmental data. 'The gap between poor and rich countries is widening.' Scientists from the Leiden Institute…