490 search results for “african literature” in the Staff website
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Oriol Febrer i VilasecaFaculty of Humanities
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Marcos Neto de CordovaFaculty of Humanities
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Rianti ManullangFaculty of Humanities
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marriage of the Kitchen God’s wife in the rewriting of Chinese Folk Literature in the 1950s and its enduring legacy
Lecture, China Seminar
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in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of mass murder – despite heavy censorship – found a place in Indonesian literature. PhD defence 31 March.
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that most people wouldn’t immediately connect, but Korsten can see a lot of common ground between them. ‘A fictional story can have a huge impact on law.’
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World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL): A conference like no other
The 10th edition of the World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL), hosted by Leiden University, will be held online from 7 – 12 June. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) researchers give us an insight into how important and special this event actually is.
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Middle Eastern Library and African Library soon to be accessible from Herta Mohr Building
Facility
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Reseach funding for 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict'
Mirjam de Bruijn has received a funding from the Research Council of Norway for the research project called 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict (DDMAC)'. The project is a collaboration with colleagues from Oslomet and Simula, Norway, Utrecht University, University of Addis Abeba,…
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Mirjam de BruijnFaculty of Humanities
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Frans Willem KorstenFaculty of Humanities
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Rishuai ChenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Harry WelsAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Misha PlagisFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Book Presentation of Beyond the Mulatta: Haunted Hybridity in Advertising
Book Presentation | Studium Generale 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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English version podcast ‘Scandal and controversy in Russian literature’ launched
Following the success of the Dutch version, the podcast 'Scandal and Controversy in Russian Literature' is now also available in English. Senior University Lecturer Otto Boele guides listeners through eight infamous texts in this version.
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Acquisition of early African photographs by explorer and photography pioneer Alexine Tinne
Over 160 years ago, the Hague-based photography pioneer and traveler Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) captured current South Sudan and its inhabitants on film. These photographs represent some of the earliest images taken in the heart of the African continent.
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Rijk van DijkAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
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Esther EdelmannFaculty of Humanities
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Modern Literature from the Middle East - The Reading List
The Middle East has a rich literary tradition, which is steadily gaining a foothold in the West. Modern literary works deal with contemporary issues, such as the legacy of colonialism, the struggles between traditionalism and modernity, the place of women in society and the war in Israel/Palestine.
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Mamadou Hébié represents Latvia and the African Union in landmark use of force and climate change cases
Dr Mamadou Hébié, Associate Professor of International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, served last week as legal counsel in the world’s first advisory proceedings concerning climate change before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), on the one hand, and…
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
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Ernst van AlphenFaculty of Humanities
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Anne Sytske KeijserFaculty of Humanities
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Yinzhi ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Peter WebbFaculty of Humanities
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Francesco BustiFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Renske JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Lieke SmitsFaculty of Humanities
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Georgios-Evgenios DouliakasFaculty of Humanities
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Aritri DuttaFaculty of Humanities
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Extra information faculties on OER
The faculties Humanities and Science have made a page with extra information on OER.
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Minor in Law, Literature and Society shows inextricable link between law and art
The film Blade Runner as part of the law curriculum? It’s not that weird to Maartje van der Woude, Professor of Law and Society, and Frans-Willem Korsten, Professor of Literature, Culture and Law. ‘The film raises a fundamental question: what’s a human and what’s not?’ From the next academic year onwards,…
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Judith NaeffFaculty of Humanities
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities
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Edwin de VetteFaculty of Humanities
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Mitchell van VurenFaculty of Humanities
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Sara PolakFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten Mous: ‘Your language is part of the world’
In the new video series 'The World of Linguistics', alumni and researchers talk about their passion for their field. Professor of African Linguistics Maarten Mous explains the importance of hearing your language at school.
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Coen van 't VeerFaculty of Humanities
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for the courage and clinical acuity with which she uncovers the roots, estrangements and collective restraints of personal memory'.
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Bareez MajidFaculty of Humanities