484 search results for “northeast africa” in the Staff website
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Rethinking the Scramble for Africa: Dutch Entrepreneurs in West Central Africa (1850s-1910s)
Lecture, Histories Connected: Work-in-Progress
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Worlds to Discover: Ajami Manuscripts of West Africa
Lecture, Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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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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Leila DemarestFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Felix AmekaFaculty of Humanities
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EU Global Gateway Strategy: Transforming relations with African countries in a new geopolitical era. A practitioner's perspective
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Islam: English-language Islamic curriculum in post-Apartheid South Africa
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Da‘wa as Development: Kuwaiti Islamic Charity in Africa
Lecture
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Agnieszka KazimierczukAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Wouter van BeekAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Fábio Bonfim DuarteFaculty of Humanities
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Una Europa–Africa Partnership Seed Funding Call 2023: Launch webinar
Webinar
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Leiden - ACPF AMR Workshop
Leiden University and African Child Policy Forum hold ‘ground-breaking’ workshop on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and human rights in Africa
- Science and 'inequality': insights from Africa and environmental fields
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.
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LeidenASA Lecture: Inclusive growth and venture capital in Africa
Lecture
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Mandela Scholarship Fund
Bachelor, Master
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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Mirjam de Bruijn receives NWO grant to research digital warfare in the Sahel
Professor Mirjam de Bruijn will research digital warfare in the North African Sahel with an NWO Open Competition grant. The focus of the research will be on Fulani social networks in war and cultural violence.
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Cultural Heritage Scholarship
Master
- Language Policy and Practices Series
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LUMC professor Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives Spinoza Prize
Leiden professor of Cellular Immunology of Parasitic Infections Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives the prestigious NWO Spinoza Prize this year. This, in many ways, border-crossing scientist contributes with her research to more effective vaccines against parasitic infections and better medication for inflammatory…
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Rethinking community in upland, ‘indigenous’ South Asia
Erik de Maaker wrote a monograph on how Garo, an indigenous community of the extended eastern Himalayas, experience and negotiate such disparities. The book shows how relatedness is reinterpreted as religious practices change, and communally held land ends up being privately controlled. Erik de Maaker…
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Social media
Social media is a good way to meet others or to hear about the latest news and developments. It is an excellent way to tell people about what you are doing and to hear what they are up to too. But social media also has its downsides: disinformation, trolling, disrespectful comments and even the misuse…
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God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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General Labour History of Africa Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel
Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the rights of women and children in Africa and elsewhere. She will be awarded the honorary doctorate on the Dies Natalis, the University’s foundation day, on 8…
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The EU and Africa – joint visions for the future or falling back on the past?
Lecture, Seminar
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Roundtable: Writing a General Labour History of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries
Lecture
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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Towards multi-species histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa
Lecture
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Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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Corey WilliamsFaculty of Humanities
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ASCL Seminar: Religion and economic policy in sub-Saharan Africa
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: The COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Africa's New Era of Austerity
Lecture
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"I Now Declare You…”: Marital Status as Legal Technology in South Africa, Past and Present
Commission on Legal Pluralism - Keynote Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Africa's Second Struggle for Freedom: What's decolonisation got to do with it?
Lecture
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Graphic Novels in South-Africa: the Work of Nathan Trantraal
Arts and culture
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EUniwell Open Lecture Series | Africa the Conservation Continent of the 21st Century?
Lecture, Lecture part of a series
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One-time viewing: early photos of Africa by Alexine Tinne
Inloopavond
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North Korea and the Liberation of Southern Africa, 1960-2020
PhD defence
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The Transformation of Science Systems in the Middle East and North Africa
PhD defence
- Histories Connected
- Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’
The Netherlands Institute in Morocco is open to students from all Dutch universities. Two students explain why they are spending a semester studying in Rabat.
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Ann Skelton in Aljazeera on child rights in Syria Camps
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) has accused Finland of violating the rights of Finnish children by leaving them in life-threatening conditions in Syrian camps. Ann Skelton, member of the committee, calls the situation 'inhuman'.
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Heritage? Developing Academic Agendas for Una Europa from Southern Africa
Network event