1,111 search results for “africa in the world” in the Staff website
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Loes Oudenhuijsen
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Japan and the World
Lecture, COGLOSS
- Science and 'inequality': insights from Africa and environmental fields
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Babak Rezaeedaryakenari
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Johan Christensen
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Gerlov van Engelenhoven
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden Law School rises in QS World University Ranking
Leiden Law School has moved up three places in the global ranking of law faculties and is now in 21st place.
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Africa and Palestine
Lecture
- This Time for Africa! series
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Palliative Care Around the World
Conference, Seminar
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Jenneke van der Wal
Faculty of Humanities
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Josien de Klerk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Marike van Aerde
Faculteit Archeologie
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
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Abdourahamane Idrissa Abdoulaye
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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André Leliveld
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Elisabeth Kerr
Faculty of Humanities
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Anna-Alexandra Marhold
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Mark Driessen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wouter Linmans: 'The Netherlands did see World War II coming'
On 10 May 1940, the Netherlands was taken completely by surprise by the attack of the German army. Wasn’t it? In his dissertation, Wouter Linmans debunks the idea that the Second World War took the Netherlands by surprise. ‘From 1935 onwards, all major political parties wanted to invest in the military.’…
- Leiden City World Walks
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The Moroccan Register of “Slaves” in the Early 18th Century: Enslavement, Blackness and Racial Binary
Lecture
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Gerrit Dusseldorp: A visiting researcher at KwaZulu-Natal Museum
Under the title “New insights from old collections”, the archaeological research was introduced on the Museum’s news page.
- Language Policy and Practices Series
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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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Age Chronicles: The Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Southern Africa
Conference
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'I have always worked for a better world. Here at Biology we do the same'
The new institute manager of the IBL studied biology for six months, but went in a completely different direction: development cooperation and the financial sector. Three decades later, Resi Janssen is making a radical career switch. Or isn’t she? 'In ten years’ time I want IBL to be in a new, sustainable…
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The EU and Africa – joint visions for the future or falling back on the past?
Lecture, Seminar
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CRG Seminar: The regime of hopes and broken promises of a large-scale land deal in Senegal: “The company promised an elephant but finally gave
Lecture
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Mirjam de Bruijn receives NWO grant to research digital warfare in the Sahel
Professor Mirjam de Bruijn will research digital warfare in the North African Sahel with an NWO Open Competition grant. The focus of the research will be on Fulani social networks in war and cultural violence.
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Antjie Krog writer in residence at Leiden University this autumn
South African poet Antjie Krog will be the writer in residence at Leiden University in autumn 2021. Krog is famous for her poetry collections and books, which are often inspired by the history of South Africa. In her role as writer in residence, she will give the annual Albert Verwey Lecture and a series…
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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Border closures in East and Central Africa: asymmetry, severance, and disruption
Lecture
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New book by Lydie Cabane explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters
Lydie Cabane, Assistant Professor in Governance of Crises at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, recently published the book The Government of Disasters. In this book Lydie explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters.
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Rethinking the Scramble for Africa: Dutch Entrepreneurs in West Central Africa (1850s-1910s)
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Second World War victims commemorated in Hour of Remembrance
On 4 May, Leiden University remembered the victims of the Second World War from our university community. Alumni, students and present and former staff of the University came together for this Hour of Remembrance.
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Debate: Human Rights and the World Cup Qatar
Debate
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Azeb Amha
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Ellen van Reuler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Samatar Botan investigates ancient Aksum with a Mosaic 2.0 grant
In July 2022 our alumnus Samatar Botan received the news that he had received the NWO Mosaic 2.0 grant. This grant enables him to start a PhD research at our Faculty on the ancient Aksumite Empire, a topic that is close to his heart. We speak with him about his ambitions and drive. ‘I want to know more…
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Cleveringa lecture
Inaugural lecture
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India in the World: Interaction with Rahul Gandhi and Sam Pitroda
Lecture, Event
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Leila Demarest
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Felix Ameka
Faculty of Humanities
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Papers) Classics Colloquium: Migrants and Membership Regimes in the Ancient Greek World
Research
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Emerging Powers and Development Finance across the World
Debate, Roundtable
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Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Science, technology and innovation is not addressing world’s most urgent problems
Global science research serves the needs of the Global North, and is driven by the values and interests of a small number of companies, governments and funding bodies, finds a major new international study published today. As such, the authors find, science, technology and innovation research is not…
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Journal established at LIACS reaches world top
An impact factor of 3.2 in the Web of Science journal index. And in the first 10% of Elsevier's Scopus index. The International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval (IJMIR), founded at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), has become one of the most important multimedia j…
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Una Europa–Africa Partnership Seed Funding Call 2023: Launch webinar
Webinar