1,518 search results for “history of south africa” in the Staff website
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities
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Amadou AdamouFaculty of Humanities
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Klaas van WalravenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Jos DamenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.
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PhD candidate reveals link between North Korea and southern Africa
North Korea is generally thought to be an isolated country. But, according to PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog from Leiden’s African Studies Centre, the opposite is in fact the case. North Korea actually has strong alliances with countries in southern Africa. Van der Hoog is trying to shed more light…
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Winner Africa Thesis Award 2023: Rachel Dubale
The winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2023 is Rachel Dubale, a graduate from the Research Master in African Studies at Leiden University, with her thesis “They think we can eat the condominium”. Chronicles of Economic, Social and Political Practices in Addis Ababa’s Condominiums.
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Maria van der SchaarFaculty of Humanities
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Alisa van de HaarFaculty of Humanities
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Christine MertensFaculty of Humanities
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Netflix hit a metaphor for South Korea: ‘You have to achieve’
South Korean smash hit Squid Game is on track to becoming the most successful Netflix production ever. The series is number one in over 90 countries. Professor and Korea expert Remco Breuker can see why South Korean pop culture is becoming so popular, also outside Asia.
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Akinyinka AkinyoadeAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Mayke KaagAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Photo Report Cluster South
The renovation of the South Cluster has been in full swing over the recent period. As the completion date approaches, no later than 1 April, we're excited to provide you with a glimpse of the current state of the building.
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Maarja SeireFaculty of Humanities
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Gerrit Dusseldorp: A visiting researcher at KwaZulu-Natal Museum
Under the title “New insights from old collections”, the archaeological research was introduced on the Museum’s news page.
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NWO Grant for Research into the History of Languages: ‘It tells us something about our past as humans’
A collaboration between linguists, geographers and anthropologists aims to uncover how languages spread across South America over thousands of years. Associate Professor Rik van Gijn is responsible for the linguistic side of this NWO project.
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Coen van 't VeerFaculty of Humanities
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Bart van der BoomFaculty of Humanities
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Andrew ShieldFaculty of Humanities
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Paul van TrigtFaculty of Humanities
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Limin TehFaculty of Humanities
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Dario FazziFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Carel SmithFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Unique research on inscriptions offers new insights into history Islam
From the very beginning, the Islam has known an oral tradition. It was only two hundred years ago that Muslims starting writing about the history of Islam, on rocks or other hard materials. Arabic epigraphy (study of inscriptions) turns out to be an essential tool in historical genealogy research. Abdullah…
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Robert SteinFaculty of Humanities
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Elisabeth DietermanFaculty of Humanities
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Doreen MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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Cleveringa lectures: how the Polish government is distorting the history of the Holocaust
In Poland the commemoration of acts of resistance is being misused to distort the history of the Holocaust. That is what Cleveringa Professor Jan Grabowski said in his inaugural lecture on 26 November. In her lecture, the second Cleveringa Professor, Barbara Engelking, pointed to the often indifferent…
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Where Are You Going? Composing Novel Oceanic Art Histories
Inaugural lecture
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Wim van den DoelCollege van Bestuur
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Jessica RoitmanFaculty of Humanities
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‘Podcast gives its listeners a sense of identity and belonging’
In the Netherlands, when we talk about the United Nations, the conversation is almost always about the member states from the northern hemisphere. But the most interesting players come from the ‘Global South’, Professor Alanna O'Malley and her team argue in a podcast.
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Liesbeth Rosen JacobsonFaculty of Humanities
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Gul-i-Hina van der ZwanInternational Institute Asian Studies
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Alanna O'MalleyFaculty of Humanities
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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Dirk AlkemadeFaculty of Humanities
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Europa Seed Funding Call: collaborate with researchers in Europe and Africa
Organisation, Research
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Alice KuboAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Roundtable: Writing a General Labour History of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries
Interest in the history of labour in Africa has experienced a rebirth after a long parenthesis of neglect. African labour history research enlarged its scope, characterized by a trend to analyse work beyond wage labour and to focus increasingly on different forms of labour relations, from commodified…
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General Labour History of Africa Workers, Employers and Governments, 20th-21st Centuries
The aim of the edited volume is to better understand the historical processes of transformation of African labour over roughly 100 years.
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Bente de LeedeFaculty of Humanities
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Writing history together in the Transvaal
Alicia Schrikker doesn't usually get involved in urban history. As a senior lecturer, her research field is generally the colonial history of Asia and partly South Africa. So, the fact that she is going to carry out an urban history research project together with colleagues, is something that even she…
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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…