606 search results for “laan africa literature” in the Staff website
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“No metadata no future” – kicking off UMADA [on a donkeys’ island]
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive project (UMADA) is among the UCLA Library 29 international cultural preservation projects supported by the Modern Endagered Archive Program (Cohort 3). From the 3rd up to the 5th of October, a digitization training workshop took place on Lamu island, on the so-called northern…
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Lineage and Gender in Islam: Perspectives from the Indian Ocean World
International Conference
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
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Women in Data Science (WiDS)
Conference
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
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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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What is happening in Yemen?
Debate
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On the Origins of 'The Origins of Inequality'
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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A World Ablaze: Making Sense of Wars Today
Lecture
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Gaza, Palestine, Israel – the collective failure: how did we get here and what next?
Lecture
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Greening Casablanca: Speculative Fictions and Contested Planning Responses to the Climate Crisis
Lecture, Research Seminar
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In the Making #2: Etienne Kallos, Searching for a Diasporic Time Image
Lecture
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Lancering The Hague Global Futures Hub
Conference
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Non-Criminalisation and Super-Criminalisation of Same-Sex Love
Lecture
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LUCIS Summer School 2022 | Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
Course, LUCIS Summer School
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An Introduction to the Arabic Language History and Origins
Alumni event, Lunch webinar
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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)
Conference, Workshop
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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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Book launch: 'White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own'
Lecture
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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Book presentation ‘Assisting International Justice’
Book presentation
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
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Sanctions, Remittances, and (in)Security: Legal Conundrums, Financial Paradoxes, and Humanitarian Puzzles
Conference
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A Sociolinguistic Study of an Ewe-based Youth Language of Aflao, Ghana
PhD defence
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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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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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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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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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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Between the Court and the Village: Uncovering how was Early Modern Warfare Really Waged in Southeast Asia
Lecture, COGLOSS
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Celebrating 30 Years of IIAS
Festival
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Jean Monnet Seminar: CompaRe meets EUTAXGOV
Seminar
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
Workshop
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Van de Waal Lecture 2024 - Barkcloth: wrapping people, places and ideas
Alumni event, Lecture
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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Dies natalis 2021
University ceremony
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
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Closing the Gap 2023 | Emerging and Disruptive Digital Technologies: Regional Perspectives
Conference
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University diversity policy is alive and kicking: ‘We need to acknowledge each other’s experiences’
Leiden University has had a diversity policy since 2014. The aim is to create a diverse and inclusive learning and working environment for all students and staff. Diversity Officer Aya Ezawa updates us on the process and the results. It’s now 2022, what has already changed?
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Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
Lecture
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A New industry in an Ancient Land: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads
Conference, Public event
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Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
Round Table
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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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Yemen’s history of slavery and its lasting impact on social and racial hierarchies
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Humanities and International Relations Graduate
Conference