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• Jentzsch, Auxiliary Armed Forces and Innovations in Security Governance in Mozambique’s Civil War Research output

  Political scientist Corinna Jentzsch (Leiden University) about the organisation of rebel and government auxiliaries in the civil war in Mozambique (1976–1992).

• Aestheticized politics : the workings of North Korean art Research output

  This dissertation is a study of North Korean art as a site where politics, history, and culture meet.

• History: Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present (MA)

  Are you thinking about studying Politics, Culture and National Identities, 1789 to the Present? Learn more and watch the introduction video.

• Facebook in Africa News - 27 February 2012

  Chad-born youngsters in Paris come into contact with youngsters actually in Chad via Facebook: it would be difficult to find a better way to demonstrate the possibilities social media offer for people scattered across the world by war. Mirjam de Bruijn has been awarded a Vici grant for a study of the…

• Thinking Globally About World Politics: Beyond Global IR Research output

  This book asks what it means to think globally about world politics. In an attempt to contextualise the recent ‘globalising turn’ in International Relations (IR), it takes stock of more than 30 years of efforts at addressing IR’s Eurocentric limitations, and explores what ‘thinking globally’ means in…

• Counting and Accountability. The Politics of Numbers in the democracy of Classical Athens Research project

  We live in a data-drenched society awash with numbers. An inhabitant of the democratic polis of Athens (5th and 4th centuries B.C.E.) increasingly found himself surrounded by numerical data. This project aims to analyze the communicative functions and the political meaning(s) ascribed to these public…

• Manifesting Mandates: Navigating Ambiguity in UN Special Political Missions Research project

  How are top-down directives translated and implemented at mission level in UN peacekeeping?

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  Lisanne Jansen Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

• Le roi sublime. Overwhelming Politics and Performance under Louis XIV Research project

  This project will clarify how these concepts operated in theoretical writings on performance ,this broadened conceptual framework will not only give us a clear view on how sublime effects in performance were theorized, it will also provide us a concrete apparatus to understand the cultural and political…

• Political Memory in and after the Persian Empire Research output

  An interdisciplinary study of the Persian Period

• Knowledge exchange visit: Morocco as an intermediary between Africa and the Netherlands News - 26 August 2022

  Strengthening the cooperation between Moroccan, other African, and Dutch institutions for higher education. This was the focus of a two-day seminar at NIMAR (Netherlands Institute Morocco) in Rabat in July, during which scholars of the African Studies Centre Leiden interacted with colleagues from NIMAR…

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  Ayokunu Adedokun Assistant professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Mark Westmoreland Associate Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Ton Dietz Professor emeritus African Studies

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Loes Oudenhuijsen PhD candidate

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Peter Pels Professor of Anthropology and Sociology of Africa

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• From Homo Economicus to Political Animal Research project

  Who is Economic Man? Every economic paradigm presupposes an anthropology, a theory of human nature. This project explores the anthropologies presupposed and produced by ancient Greek economic texts, and the specific knowledge forms that shape these anthropologies.

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  Juan Masullo Jimenez Assistant professor/guest

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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• Reading and Transferring the Sublime. The Scholarly Reception and Political Relevance of the Sublime in the Dutch Golden Age Research project

  This research will investigate which aspects of On the sublime received attention in the intellectual milieu of the seventeenth century and how the sublime found its way in the political and artistic discourse of that time. Thus I aim to shed light on the role of art in politics and society in this…

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  Robert Stein Senior University Lecturer in Medieval History

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Clara van Dam Guest

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Ymre Schuurmans Professor Constitutional and Administrative Law

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Henk Kern Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Herman Siemens Senior University Lecturer History of Modern Philosophy

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Sine Bagatur University Lecturer Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Economics

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Victor Posthuma External PhD candidate/guest

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Jan-Bart Gewald Professor History of Africa

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Lidewyde Berckmoes Associate professor

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

• The political effects of intra-EU migration: Evidence from national and European elections in seven countries Research output

  This article examines how immigration from Central and Eastern Europe influences political support for Eurosceptic parties.

• Sharing knowledge about social media in Africa News - 30 July 2013

  Africa is online. Leiden Africa expert Mirjam de Bruijn is fascinated by the fast development of mobile telephony and social media in Africa. She maintains a website on the topic, focusing on isolated, marginalised and conflict-ridden areas in Middle Africa.

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  Tom Theuns Senior Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Nikoleta Yordanova Associate professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Gisela Hirschmann Senior Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Paul Nieuwenburg Professor Political Philosophy

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Philippe van Gruisen Associate professor

  Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid

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  Stefan Cetkovic Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• The Politics of Heritage in Indonesia. A Cultural History Research output

  This study offers a new approach to the history of sites, archaeology, and heritage formation in Asia, at both the local and the trans-regional levels.

• Democratization and political terrorism: The formation and destruction of the two-party system in the Red River Valley of Louisiana, 1865-1868 Research project

  The project examines the political conflict in the Red River Valley of Louisiana between the majority-black Republican Party and the overwhelmingly white Democratic Party by studying the composition and actions of each party.

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  Ingrid van Biezen Professor of Comparative Politics

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Amadou Adamou PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Klaas van Walraven Researcher

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Jos Damen Head of Library Service

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Michael Meffert Assistant Professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

• Art beyond Japan: Contemporary art in the politics of translation Research project

  Investigation of 1.) The whereabouts of the epistemological dissonances in art criticisms on Post-war contemporary art from Japan between two different language realms, in this case in English and Japanese; and 2.) What the dissonances disclose, disturb, and contribute in the process of the establishment…

• Political discourses and the securitization of democracy in post-1991 Ethiopia Research output

  This thesis attempts to interrogate post-1991-2015 political development in Ethiopia, focusing on the political discourses espoused by the government and opposition, using the discourse analysis method and securitization theory.

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  Amy Verdun Guest professor

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Natascha van der Zwan Associate professor

  Faculty Governance and Global Affairs

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  Lauren Lauret Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities