2,604 search results for “african studies” in the Public website
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Alex Reuneker
Faculty of Humanities
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Evert Jan van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Radhika Gupta
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Mahmood Kooriadathodi
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten van 't Zelfde
Science
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Brenda Assendelft
Faculty of Humanities
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Remco Breuker
Faculty of Humanities
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Maarten van Leeuwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Adriaan van der Weel
Faculty of Humanities
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Dick Smakman
Faculty of Humanities
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Niek Strohmaier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Letty ten Harkel
Faculteit Archeologie
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
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Katja Lubina
Faculty of Humanities
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Charlotte van der Voort
Faculty of Humanities
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Reinout Vriesendorp
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade
Faculty of Humanities
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Eduardo Alves Vieira
Faculty of Humanities
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Frans Theuws
Faculteit Archeologie
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Alp Yenen
Faculty of Humanities
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Svetlana Kharchenkova
Faculty of Humanities
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Mandy de Wilde
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Tessa de Boer
Faculty of Humanities
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Gert-Jan Boon
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Efficient and flexible platform to isolate and study bacteriophages
We aim to develop a microfluidic platform that can parallelize testing the performance and characteristics of pure, mixed and environmental bacteriophage samples.
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Environmental and metabolomic study of antibiotic production by actinomycetes
Promotor: Prof.dr. G.P. van Wezel
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Programme structure
This Philosophy bachelor's programme offers perspectives from around the world. It will make you one of the next generation of students who will shape philosophy in the 21st century, ready to take on academic or professional challenges that call for critical thinking, analysis and argumentation skil…
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LeidenGlobal connects research and culture
On 27 November the official opening of LeidenGlobal will be celebrated in the Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde/National Museum of Ethnology. LeidenGlobal is a platform for global expertise that responds to the call from Minister of Education and Culture Jet Bussemakers that academic and cultural institutions…
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Child rights activist Graça Machel speaks in Leiden on justice between generations
Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel speaks October 27 at Leiden University about her work.
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Special recognitions
Every year, the World Cultural Council grants special acknowledgements to five to ten young researchers or scholars of the host country who have achieved outstanding performance in the fields of science, education or arts.
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Workshop at the NIMAR in Rabat: The socio (legal) study of migration in Morocco
Hosted at the Netherlands Institute in Morocco (NIMAR) in Rabat on 26 and 27 October, 20 junior and senior empirical researchers who all work on migration in Morocco came together to discuss two important topics that are frequently neglected in migration scholarship. The researchers were from different…
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Zebrafish: a new engraft model to study Ewing sarcoma progression
Can zebrafish provide a fast, sensitive in vivo vertebrate model for identifying novel mechanisms of Ewing sarcoma progression and for development of new anticancer compounds in a time- and cost-effective manner?
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Research in Africa reduces health spending and prevents diseases of affluence
Health workers have always sought ways to fight disease in vulnerable groups in the population. It is now clear that such research also benefits more prosperous countries. African worm infections and innovative thermometers have shown Leiden researchers how to fight diseases of affluence and keep health…
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An experimental approach to the interaction of tone sandhi and focus expression in six dialects of Chinese
This project employs a systematic experimental approach to examine the interaction of these two hitherto independent lines of research (tone sandhi and focus realization) in six dialects of Chinese, which lie on a continuum between dialects with dense tonal distributions and sparser distributions. In…
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Weblogs and podcasts
Academic staff and students blog about their research and teaching.
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Medieval and Early Modern Studies (c. 600-1800)
This research cluster explores processes of cultural creation, reception and transformation within a wide range of societal contexts from the early Middle Ages until c. 1800.
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Case study Käte van Tricht (1909-1996)
The Organ Art of the first female German concert organist and Bremen Cathedral organist and
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Synthesis of chemical tools to study the immune system
This thesis describes the synthesis and biological evaluation of TLR2/6, TLR4, TLR7/8 and TLR9 ligands, of which the activity can be conditionally controlled.
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The spiritual Tolkien milieu : a study of fiction‐based religion
Markus Davidsen defended his thesis on 16 October 2014
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Africa in the world - Rethinking Africa’s global connections
The debate about Africa’s changing relations with the world has rapidly evolved over the past decade. The initial emphasis on China’s role in Africa has given way to a more diversified approach, acknowledging that other emerging global players have also become important.
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Optically stimulated luminescence dating of Palaeolithic cave sites and their environmental context in the western Mediterranean
The Western Mediterranean is a key region to understand human dispersal events within and out of the African continent as well as for the eventual replacement of Neanderthals by anatomically modern humans during the Pleistocene. Central to any conclusive interpretation of archaeological and palaeoclimatic…
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Ebifananyi. On photographs and telling histories from and about Uganda
In Luganda, the widest spoken minority language in East African country Uganda, the word for photographs is Ebifananyi. However, ebifananyi does not, contrary to the etymology of the word photographs, relate to light writings. Ebifananyi instead means things that look like something else. Ebifananyi…
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Foreign investment in Africa
English The purpose of this research is to identify and examine the challenges faced by African States in the field of foreign investment with a view to contribute not only to the academic debate, but also to foster awareness and develop the capacities of these States with regard to the drafting, negotiation…
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Gold in Ghana
Research on the process of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in West-Africa
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Litigating the Rights of the Child
This book examines the impact of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on national and international jurisprudence, since its adoption in 1989.
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The Government of Disasters: State Formation and Disaster Management In South Africa
In this book, Lydie Cabane examines the history of disaster management in South Africa.
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Language socialization in deaf families in Africa
Across cultures, parents help their children master the social and linguistic codes needed in adult life. Recent research on language socialization found important cross-cultural differences, pointing out the need for more diversity for a full understanding of this process.
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Interaccion Colonial en un Pueblo de Indios Encomendados
El Chorro de Maita, Cuba