2,783 search results for “history of south africa” in the Public website
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Youth, Media and Protest: Histories of Engaging in Central African politics and social life
How do old and new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) relate to new social and political movements in Central Africa? What does this tell us about Africa and the Information Age?
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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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History
About the history of ProParte and its predecessors.
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History: Colonial and Global History
Are you thinking about studying Colonial and Global History? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
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Democracy in Europe. A Conceptual History
As one of the most influential ideas in modern European history, democracy has fundamentally reshaped not only the landscape of governance, but also social and political thought throughout the world.
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Asia 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'.
- Dutch Missionaries and Deaf Education in Africa between 1960-1990
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Patrick Dassen
Faculty of Humanities
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Joost Augusteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Pieter Slaman
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Commonplace - Photographs from the Drummond-Fyvie Collection and the Ngilima Collection
Commonplace - Photographs from the Drummond-Fyvie Collection and the Ngilima Collection. By Tamsyn Adams and Sophie Feyder.
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SciSTIP – The (South) African research funding landscapes (Phase 2)
Who is funding African science? How are different African and international funders interacting and contributing to develop scientific research in the continent? Are there potential inadvertent synergies among research funders that can be identified? These and similar questions are at the heart of this…
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Asia Beyond Boundaries
Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State is a major multidisciplinary research project which aims to re-vision the history of Asia in one of its most significant periods. The project is based at the British Museum, British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, and…
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Peter Bisschop
Faculty of Humanities
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Mariana De Campos Francozo
Faculteit Archeologie
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A war of words: What ancient Manchurian history does to Korea and China today
Why does the past elicit this intense activity in the present? What does the past mean for the present, and what does it do to it? A WAR OF WORDS will engage this complex of Chinese claims to Manchu-Korean ancient history, South Korean reactions, public discourse and cultural expression in both states,…
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Ironies of Solidarity
Ironies of Solidarity is an ethnographic study of how financial products and services affect inequalities and conflicts in South Africa.
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Mandela Scholarship Fund
Bachelor, Master
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National Culture and Africa Revisited: Ethnolinguistic Group Data From 35 African Countries
This study seeks to partially fill the knowledge gap about national culture in Africa, basing its research on data on ethnolinguistic groups (instead of administrative regions).
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The City Is Ours: Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from the 1970s to the Present
Squatters and autonomous movements have been in the forefront of radical politics in Europe for nearly a half-century—from struggles against urban renewal and gentrification, to large-scale peace and environmental campaigns, to spearheading the antiausterity protests sweeping the continent.
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African Oral Literatures, new media and technologies
African oral literatures, new media and technologies: challenges for research and documentation
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History
The Flentrop Organ is the third organ to have been built for the Great Auditorium in the Academy Building in Leiden.
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Side@Ways: Mobile Margins and the Dynamics of Communication in Africa
This book is about the workings of networks of the mobile in Africa, a continent usually associated with the ‘global shadows’ of the world.
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‘Good’ Parenting?
Evidence and Care-work in a home visiting program to promote maternal sensitivity and parental reflective functioning in Alexandra township, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Felipe Colla De Amorim
Faculty of Humanities
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Paz Gonzalez Gonzalez
Faculty of Humanities
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Arthur Crucq
Faculty of Humanities
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Visit to Ghana: Leiden University strengthens ties with partners in Africa
Leiden University will deepen its cooperation with knowledge institutions in Africa. During a trip to Ghana, a delegation spoke with several African knowledge institutions about intensifying their collaboration.
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Fertility: Practices, Materiality and Sacred Landscapes in the Horn of Africa
This project examines the notion of sacred fertility and sacred landscapes, associated rituals and material culture, both archaeological and ethnographic manifestations in the Horn of Africa.
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Juliette Roding
Faculty of Humanities
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Dennie Oude Nijhuis
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-Black
Faculty of Humanities
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Lionel Laborie
Faculty of Humanities
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Memorial stone points to turbulent history of Indonesian students
A new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Leiden before and during the Second World War. Some of them were active in the Resistance, which cost a number of them their lives.
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Facebook in Africa
Chad-born youngsters in Paris come into contact with youngsters actually in Chad via Facebook: it would be difficult to find a better way to demonstrate the possibilities social media offer for people scattered across the world by war. Mirjam de Bruijn has been awarded a Vici grant for a study of the…
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History (MA)
The History Master at Leiden University has a strong international orientation.
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History (BA)
Are you fascinated by the past and do you like to challenge yourself? In the Dutch-taught Bachelor's programme History at Leiden University you will approach the past with a sharp and analytic view and you will learn to look at the past from a completely new perspective. study the history of the ancient…
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Maritime History
Maritime History encompasses humankind’s relationships to the seas and oceans of the world.
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Podcast: the history of self-tracking
Fenneke Sysling has recently launched a podcast: Het Gemeten Zelf (in Dutch). This five-part podcast series explores the history of self-tracking.
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Damian Pargas
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities
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Marion Pluskota
Faculty of Humanities
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Legal History
Historical evolution law
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Fortress. Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795
The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to early modern European expansion?
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A mosaic of scripts : Arabic script in Africa from a comparative perspective
Taught from primary school to the university level – where new courses on the globalization of the Arabic writing system have cropped up (Abdallah 2014) – the Arabic script, with all its orthographic peculiarities and multiple facets, continues to shape languages other than Arabic, their communities…
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The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900
The Uses of Justice in Global Perspective, 1600–1900 presents a new perspective on the uses of justice between 1600 and 1900 and confronts prevailing Eurocentric historiography in its examination of how people of this period made use of the law.
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Building Northern Public Support to Finance Climate Policies in the Global South
As part of the Paris Agreement, countries across the world agreed to support developing countries to invest in climate mitigation and adaptation through a Green Climate Fund. However, developed countries have failed to meet funding commitments for the Green Climate Fund–the flagship program financing…