997 search results for “history of south afrika” in the Staff website
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Eefke de HaanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giliam de ValkFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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The ICJ's interim ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel: what now?
Israel was ordered to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza. Giulia Pinzauti, an expert on state conflicts and humanitarian law, explains the significance of the case, the specific details of the ruling and what we can expect to happen next.
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Spierenburg in NRC on the neoliberal system in South Africa
Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg talks in the Dutch newspaper NRC about the neoliberal system and how it has to change in order to solve the energy crisis in South-Africa.
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Three questions to Maurits Berger about his new Islam podcast
Maurits Berger's new English-language podcast, Matters of Humanities: History of Islam in Europe covers no fewer than thirteen centuries of history. In eight episodes, professor of Islam and the West Maurits Berger argues that the Islam and Muslims are an important part of European history: ‘That was…
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Vote now! A new name for the South Cluster
Facility
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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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Glenn Aguilar HernandezScience
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Harry StroomerFaculty of Humanities
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Edmund AmannFaculty of Humanities
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appointed professor: ‘I want to uncover the underrepresented stories in history’
Sarah Cramsey was appointed professor by special appointment of Central European Studies at the Institute of History on 14 September. 'I am keen to incorporate different scholarly approaches into my work and raise the profile of Central European Studies in Leiden.'
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Annachiara Raia receives NWO Impact Explorer grant: ‘We want to ensure that literature is once again voiced by its own society and resonates
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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South Cluster construction work continues over the summer
The construction work on the South Cluster is going ahead throughout the summer. See the photo's and the video below!
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History of Water Management in Yemen: An Interdisciplinary Study
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Adam FaircloughFaculty of Humanities
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One history, different memories. Does this always lead to conflict?
Different groups can have different memories of the same historical event. This can lead to conflict but does not have to. How is this, and how can countries and people reconcile with the past?
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Underexposed colonial past: 'You can suddenly feel like you are connecting with someone from the past'
Attention to the colonial past may be increasing, but many aspects of it are still underexposed. Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant, in collaboration with, among others, Leiden researchers Anne-Marieke van der Wal-Rémy and Alicia Schrikker, therefore created a 'canon of the Dutch underexposed past', which…
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A History of Alorese (Austronesian)
PhD defence
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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Jiyan QiaoFaculty of Humanities
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André GerritsFaculty of Humanities
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Jonathan StöklFaculty of Humanities
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Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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Tour of the South Cluster attracts more than 100 interested colleagues
The South Cluster - the former Van Wijkplaats/Van Eyckhof on Witte Singel - is currently undergoing an impressive transformation. On 25 October, more than 100 enthusiastic colleagues witnessed the progress of the renovation during a series of tours of the building.
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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and Scientific Analysis in the History of Philosophy, History of Political Thought, and Intellectual History
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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The history of Medicine and Asia
Conference, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Hans JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Berry DongelmansFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den HeijerFaculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen OosterbaanFaculteit Archeologie
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Jacobine MelisFaculteit Archeologie
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Nadia BourasFaculty of Humanities
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Marieke BloembergenFaculty of Humanities
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Carola HeinFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Diego SalamaFaculty of Humanities
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Rachel SchatsFaculteit Archeologie
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Katarzyna Cwiertka on the declining popularity of kimchi in South Korea
In the Western world, kimchi is on an unstoppable rise, but in South Korea the dish is actually losing popularity. Professor Katarzyna Cwiertka explains how this is possible in the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave'.
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Alain WijffelsFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Henk te VeldeFaculty of Humanities