3,114 search results for “history of south africa” in the Public website
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
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Colonial and Global History (MA)
The master’s programme in Colonial and Global History at Leiden University offers the most in-depth and comprehensive programme on the history of colonialism and globalisation currently available in Europe.
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African Activism at 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'.
- Histories Connected
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Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
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Institute for History
The motto of the Institute for History is: ‘Global questions, local sources.’ Its researchers use local sources to find answers to major historical questions. Without historical analysis, it is impossible to understand and explain the issues in society today. Leiden itself has a rich history, with big…
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Louis Sicking
Faculty of Humanities
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Language diversity, its genesis, history and cognitive base
The project aims at highlighting and strengthening Dutch research into the diversity of the world’s languages from a historic and a cognitive perspective.
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Gradients of Europeanness in Colonial Africa: the case of the Portuguese in the Congo Free State (c. 1885-1908) (GRADIENTS)
The project GRADIENTS investigates what it meant to be European in colonial Africa where identification as European often did not depend on skin colour and was understood on a spectrum with many gradients.
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Migration History in World History. Multidisciplinary Approaches | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 3
Migration is the talk of the town. On the whole, however, the current situation is seen as resulting from unique political upheavals. Such a-historical interpretations ignore the fact that migration is a fundamental phenomenon in human societies from the beginning and plays a crucial role in the cultural,…
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Oil, Labour and Revolution in Iran: A Social History of Labour in the Iranian Oil Industry, 1973-1983
Peyman Jafari defended his thesis on 11 October 2018
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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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IIAFSARS - Identification of irregular archaeological features in northern South America forest using remote sensing methods
Researchers using remote sensing technologies have characterized pre-Columbian regularly-shaped earthworks in forests in Central America and the Amazon. In tropical forested mountains in South America, two challenges arise when identifying archaeological sites through remote sensing. Firstly, sites…
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Supporting Primary Justice in Insecure Contexts, South Sudan and Afghanistan
How can the emergence of primary justice systems be facilitated and furthered?
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Luc Bulten
Faculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Nicolette Mout
Faculty of Humanities
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Ann Marie Wilson
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Travelling Islam: The Circulation of Ideas in Islamic Africa
This programme starts from the idea that cultural discourse is one of the main engines of intellectual history and the history of ideas.
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Art History (BA)
Troughout the ages, art has always had a large impact, from the first cave drawings until modern art forms. In the Bachelor's programme Art History at Leiden University you will not just get to know art from the Netherlands and Europe, but also from North-America, Asia and Africa. Study art from the…
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Islam in North Africa: A Critical Return to Youth
In recent years, and especially since the ‘Arab Spring’ of 2011, a growing body of research, media reporting, and scholarly literature has focused on the role of ‘Arab youth’ as the drivers of social and political movements across the Middle East and North Africa.
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Between the Holy Land and the World. A connected history of Christian communities in the Near East via the unpublished photographic collections
The project ‘Between the Holy Land and the World’ proposes a connected history of the Christian communities in the Near East (1900-1948) by means of a study of unpublished Franciscan and Dominican photographic collections.
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State, Society, and Labour in Iran, 1906-1941: A Social History of Iranian Industrialization and Labour with Reference to the Textile Industry
Serhan Afacan defended his thesis on 23 June 2015
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Irini Sifogeorgakis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Nature and wild animals in Africa and Indonesia
Leiden University investigates biodiversity not only in the Netherlands, but also abroad, with the goal of improving global nature conservation. We do so in collaboration with local universities. Education is also high on our agenda.
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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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Navigating the Turn to the Indo-Pacific: Perspectives from South and Southeast Asia, and the Netherlands
Panel discussion
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Karen Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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In the Spotlight: Professor Robert Ross
On the occasion of the retirement of Robert Ross, Professor in African History at Leiden University, his successor and former student Jan-Bart Gewald wrote a valedictory note.
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"If I deserve it, it should be paid to me": A social history of labour in the Iranian oil industry 1951-1973
Maral Jefroudi defended her thesis on 11 October 2017
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ERC grant for Corinna Jentzsch: Countering Jihadi insurgencies in Africa
The European Research Council (ERC) announced the awarding of 494 Starting Grants to young scientists across Europe. One of these scholars is Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science. She received this grant for her research project ‘Countering…
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Rethinking African history
This Collaborative Research Group acts primarily as a platform for discussion of historical issues related to the African continent, its place in the world and in African Studies.
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Colonial and Global History (research) (MA)
The Colonial and Global History (research) programme at Leiden University offers the most in-depth and comprehensive programme of European expansion and globalisation currently available in Europe.
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and biophysical factors in the evolution of linguistic diversity in South America
This project combines an extensive new open database on linguistic distributions, spatial modelling and areal linguistics in order to disentangle the roles of social and environmental factors on the emergence of linguistic diversity patterns of South America.
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Chie Arita
Faculty of Humanities
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Ako Tsujita
Faculty of Humanities
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Thato Magano
Faculty of Humanities
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Zhengshan Jiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Manfred Horstmanshoff
Faculty of Humanities
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Suzan ten Heuw
Faculty of Humanities
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Shenghao Yue
Faculty of Humanities
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Customary Authorities and Environmental Governance in Africa: A Systematic Review
This systematic review of 68 English-language articles explores the roles of customary authorities in environmental governance in sub-Saharan Africa
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Globalising Migration History. The Eurasian Experience (16th-21st centuries) | Studies in Global Migration History, Volume: 15/3
This volume edited by Jan Lucassen and Leo Lucassen aims to quantify and qualify cross-cultural global migrations and was published in the series 'Studies in Global Migration History'.
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Tycho van der Hoog
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Profile 3. Sources on Frisian medieval history
Due to the fact that the Frisian lands lacked major political centers in the Middle Ages and also because most of its monasteries suffered complete destruction in the second half of the 16th century, relatively few written documents concerning medieval Frisian history have survived. To analyze them…