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- Histories Connected
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What is BDS? The case for academic boycott
Debate
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ASCL Seminar: The State in Relief: civil servants navigating duties, dependencies and disasters in Malawi
Lecture
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Gaza, Palestine, Israel – the collective failure: how did we get here and what next?
Lecture
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
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A World Ablaze: Making Sense of Wars Today
Lecture
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What Do We Mean When We Say “Academic Freedom”?
“Praesidium Libertatis” is widely understood to mean the freedom of scholars from censorship on research, teaching, and free speech. But what if our conceptual vocabulary, questions, and methodologies are themselves products of a history of settler colonialism and imperial domination? Would “Praesidium…
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Non-Criminalisation and Super-Criminalisation of Same-Sex Love
Lecture
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Participatory Action Research: possibilities and challenges in the humanities
Course, Terra Incognita Masterclass
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Greening Casablanca: Speculative Fictions and Contested Planning Responses to the Climate Crisis
In this talk I explore some preliminary methodological and ethnographic considerations in relation to ongoing and contested urban regeneration schemes in Morocco. Specifically, I draw on the case of Zenata, a so-called ‘New Green City’ occupying 5 km of coast north of Casablanca, to explore how the…
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Booklaunch 'Security Studies: An Applied Introduction'
Lecture, Paneldiscussion
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
This online conference explores forms and usages of slavery as represented in textual sources from the early Islamic empire, ca. 600-1000 CE. The conference’s focus is on the regionality of the development of slavery as an institution and the lived experience of slavery in this formative period of Islam.…
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Refugees’ Livelihood Strategies in a Setting of Long-term Encampment: The Case of the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi
Lecture, LIMS seminar | Book Talk
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Sanctions, Remittances, and (in)Security: Legal Conundrums, Financial Paradoxes, and Humanitarian Puzzles
Conference
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Book launch: 'White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own'
This event will be held both online and physically in Leiden. All registrees will receive a link to the online platform one day before the start of the event. Please register via the ASCL website. The ASCL is pleased to announce the launch of Duncan Money's new book 'White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt,…
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Manufactured drought? An environmental history of water scarcity in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1952
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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LUCIS Summer School 2022 | Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
The Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society (LUCIS) will offer its fourth Summer School on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World from 23 August to 2 September 2022, with lectures by experts, practical classes, and hands-on experience with manuscripts from Leiden University’s…
- POPTalk: Mapping Slavery Walk & Potluck Spring Dinner
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Workshop 'Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges'
Workshop
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Transnational Figurations of Displacement (TRAFIG)
Do you want to get a better understanding of the challenges urban refugees in Africa face? Learn more about them? Are you interested in thinking about possible solutions for these refugees? Do you like gaming? Come and attend our workshop! As part of the research project TRAFIG (Transnational Figurations…
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Book presentation ‘Assisting International Justice’
Book presentation
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New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’
Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare time rambling through the forest, as a professor she sifts through colleagues’ research data. ‘I often come across information that doesn’t appear in the…
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Newsletter Student Support FSW April 2022
This Student Support FSW newsletter tells you all about the services provided by the FSW POPcorner, Career Service, and Community Engagement Service. You can read about upcoming activities and vacancies, and pick up tips on study skills, personal and professional development, student well-being, study…
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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MA International Relations: Alumni Career Networking Event 2023
Career event
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Van de Waal Lecture 2024 - Barkcloth: wrapping people, places and ideas
Alumni event, Lecture
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Opening public lectures Lorentz Center
Lecture
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Tailoring medicines for the genetically diverse African populations
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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Enthusiasm for PRINS 2022
This year’s edition of PRINS, the International Studies’ consultancy course, proved to be an inspiring event for most of its participants. Students, coaches and representatives of organisations are looking back on this rollercoaster of a course and reflect on why the PRINS experience is so special.
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
In this symposium, we are exploring the varieties of divinatory practice. These techniques are a way to envision, predict and understand the individual’s life from the perspective of the sacred world. Whether cast as mere funfair fortune-telling or as the most earnest augury, if religion refers to the…
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
- Career Café Leiden Law School
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Diversity & Inclusion Career Session
Course
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Flaws in the Flow: Investigating Gaps in the Governance of Post-Consumer Textile in the Netherlands
Workshop
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Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
Round Table
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Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
Lecture
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Yemen’s history of slavery and its lasting impact on social and racial hierarchies
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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MA International Relations: Alumni Career Networking Event 2022
Dear MA IR Students, Are you in need of a little bit inspiration and orientation regarding your career possibilities after graduation? Or do you want to expand your current professional network? Then please join us for the MA IR Student-Alumni Career Networking Event 2022 on Friday, the 6th of…
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Online Career Days FSW - Sustainability
From 1-3 February 2022 the Career Service FSW organises the online Career Days with the theme 'Sustainability'. During 3 days different workshops and presentations will be given by several Dutch and international alumni about their work in the sustainability sector, their career paths and how they look…
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate
Conference
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Campus the Hague 'Meet the Employer'
Course
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Interview with Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn
Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…
- FSW Career Days: 28-30 November 2023
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D&I Symposium 2023
Conference, D&I Symposium
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FestiWell en EUniWell
From 2 to 13 May 2022 EUniWell, the European University for Well-Being, will be hosting its second annual FestiWell. The nine-day event - 'Towards global sustainable well-being' - will explore with students, researchers, and academic and university staff from all EUniWell institutions one of the…
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Untold Stories: representation, heritage and museums
Conference, D&I Symposium