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Adriana Churampi Ramirez
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
- Brought under the law of the land
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Latin America and the UN
Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.
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Twitter attacks on Hillary Clinton are about gender, rather than politics
Political scientist Rebekah Tromble (Leiden University) and computational sociolinguist Dirk Hovy (University of Copenhagen) analyse how much hostility and sexism Clinton faces on Twitter, as well as who seems to be behind such attacks.
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Iranian orientalism: notions of the other in modern Iranian thought
This study addresses and explains the issue of negative descriptions of the Arab Other in modern Iranian thought.
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Invertebrates on the edge
What invertebrates live in the fields and edges? Do the populations change with landscape complexity?
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Utterance-final particles in Taiwan Mandarin: Contact, context and core functions
This study explores regional variation in the use of utterance-final particles by analyzing spoken Taiwan Mandarin data recorded from spontaneous conversations.
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‘Do Not Say They Are Dead’: The Political Use of Mystical and Religious Concepts in the Persian Poetry of the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88)
The chief aim of this study is to explore how classical Persian poetry and the Persian mysticism that is interwoven with the poetry have been used in the new politics of the Islamic Republic of Iran, especially during the Iran-Iraq war.
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Student for a day Latin American Studies
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About this minor
Everything you need to know about the minor American Studies.
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Carina van de Wetering
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Patricio Silva
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacky Nieuwboer
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities
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Havar Solheim
Faculty of Humanities
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Black lives matter: ‘Racism takes different forms but it’s a world issue’
It all started with demonstrations protesting about the death of George Floyd from police brutality in Minneapolis, but the Black Lives Matter protest is spreading like wildfire across the whole of the US. Every day, thousands of people are taking to the streets. We asked American Studies expert Sara…
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Introducing: Håvar Solheim
Håvar Solheim started his PhD at the Institute for History and the Centre for Study and Documentation of Latin-America, Amsterdam (CEDLA) April 1st 2011.
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About the programme
The multidisciplinary one-year master’s programme in North American Studies provides students with comprehensive knowledge of North American history, literature, film, and culture and their connection to contemporary social, political, literary and cultural developments in an international perspecti…
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Elective credits (15EC)
Does your programme have an elective space of only 15EC? Then you can follow a modified programme of the American Studies minor, which we call 'Elective credits'.
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Reasserting America in the 1970s: US Public Diplomacy and the Rebuilding of America's Image Abroad
Reasserting America in the 1970s brings together two areas of burgeoning scholarly interest.
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About the programme
This programme focuses on the ideas and practices of resistance and change in Latin America and the Caribbean. You will be able to specialise in one of three areas: Culture and identity; State-society relations; and Literature, arts and media.
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Financial Law (LL.M.)
Financial Law is a specialisation of the master’s programme Rechtsgeleerdheid (Law) at the renowned Leiden Law School of Leiden University.
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Related master’s programmes
Did you know that after succesful completion of the minor American Studies, you can apply for the master’s programme North American Studies? Find out more below.
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Communicating Communities
Unravelling networks of human mobility and exchange of goods and ideas from a pre-colonial, pan-Caribbean perspective
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Admission and application
Find out how to apply for North American Studies at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
- US Diplomacy
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Extra-curricular
Get the most out of your studies at Leiden University by taking part in our extracurricular activities.
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- Cold War
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for North American Studies at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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About the programme
Over the course of the Latin American Studies programme you will learn to understand the here and now of this region by engaging with the most recent academic debates.
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Master's Online Experience Day Latin American Studies: Q&A
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Education
The Leiden University Institute for History has a wide-ranging academic scope unique for the Netherlands. This is directly reflected in the participation of her staff in various Master's and Bachelor's programmes at Leiden University.
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Neil Young and Philosophy
Neil Young and Philosophy, edited by Douglas L. Berger, explores the meanings, importance, and philosophical dimensions of the music, career, and life of this prolific singer/songwriter over the past five decades.
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Debate: ‘A Crisis on the Rise? The Impact of Violence and Impunity on Mexican Society’
Mexico is currently facing an unprecedented social and political crisis, with expanding criminal and political violence, rampant impunity and crumbling political institutions. Next to the daily report of anonymous victims of violence, last summer in Central Mexico at least 15 citizens were executed…
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Política del anonimato en el cine de América Latina
This research aims to address the relationship between cinema and political thought in Latin America, in order to question a limited understanding of cinema politics, which has dominated the field of study since the middle of the last century, and to propose a different one that we will call politics…
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From Gesture to Language
Like any language, the natural sign languages (henceforth: SLs) of deaf communities differ from each other in their grammars and lexicons. A growing number of studies indicates that SLs make use of the gestures of hearing speakers to build linguistic structure. This implies that variation and similarities…
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About us
The Hazelhoff Centre for Financial Law provides academic education and performs research in the field of financial law.
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Pride and Prejudice: Moral Languages in Scholarly Codes of Conduct, 1900-2000
If idioms employed in codes of conduct could be as idiosyncratic as examples suggest, then to what extent did early modern language of vice, too, persist in this genre?
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Conditions for a successful interregional approach: the case of EU-Latin America
Analysing the EU’s interregional relations with three Latin American (sub) regions: Central America, Andean Community and Mercosur in order to create a set of conditions to explain the success/failure of EU-led interregionalism
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About
Leiden University has been promoting studies on Latin America and the Caribbean for a long time.
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Why Leiden University
Leiden University offers ambitious students the freedom to develop their own area of expertise.
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Education
The Leiden Institute for Philosophy has a unique profile in the Low Countries and is one of few of its kind worldwide. It takes a global and comparative perspective of philosophy, whereas most philosophy programs restrict themselves to European and Anglo-American philosophical traditions rooted in Greek…
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Latin American Studies at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Admission and Application
Find out how to apply for Latin American Studies (research) at Leiden University by following our step-by step guide.
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Describing Prescriptivism
Usage Guides and Usage Problems in British and American English, 1st Edition