509 search results for “anthropology of nationalisme” in the Staff website
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Archaeologist Alejandra Roche Recinos investigates ancient immigration in Southern Guatemala
In June 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new Assistant Professor. Dr Alejandra Roche Recinos, originally from Guatemala, will strengthen the Faculty’s expertise on the archaeology of Central America. ‘I want to explore the lesser known archaeology of Southern Guatemala.’
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Tazuko van Berkel new member The Young Academy
The Young Academy has gained a new Leiden humanities scholar as a member. University lecturer Greek language and literature Tazuko van Berkel will be appointed as a member as of March.
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Thousands of new students start an old-style EL CID
Smiling faces, a mass dance and a bit of awkwardness: after two ‘corona editions’ of EL CID, the Leiden introduction week is back with a vengeance this year. A total of 3,412 first-year students from Leiden University and University of Applied Sciences Leiden, accompanied by 486 mentors, started EL…
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Extinction, Extraction, Emergence: Plantation Necrobiopolitics on the West Papuan Oil Palm Frontier
Lecture
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Research Seminar Katerina Rozakou
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Annual Social Citizenship and Migration Symposium
Conference
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Roundtable Digital Society in Contemporary China
Debate, China Seminar
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Who did all the work? The hidden labour of colonial science
Conference, Workshop
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KNOT: Envisioning A Virtual Museum of Indigenous American Heritage in Italy
Lecture
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Fieldwork NL conference 2022
Conference
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Modes of Human Becoming: Towards a Process Archaeology of Mind
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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How do international boycotts work for justice? Understanding the ethics and efficacy of the BDS movement
Panel discussion
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ASCL Seminar: Girls’ Education, Neoliberal Subjectivity, and Sacrifice in Niger
Lecture
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Philosophy of Science for Lawyers
Research
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Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
Lecture
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Imagining Oceans: A Critical Conversation on Oceanic Spaces
Lecture
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Meaningful sharing: how to improve our engagement with current Open Science practices
Lunch meeting
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Lunch lecture: ‘Geo’-Politics and Animist Social Contracts in the New Himalayas
Lecture
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Q&A with Professor Rosemary Joyce
Debate, Q&A
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Challenging Myths and Exceptions
Lecture, Film Screening
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Mara Buchbinder - Scritping Death
Lecture, Online webinar
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At the limits of cure | Bharat Venkat
Lecture, Online webinar
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Pedagogies of Occupation: Free Time, Professionalization and Protest in Urban Brazil
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Roundtable: Utopia from Within
Debate, Roundtable
- The Psychic Life of the Welfare State
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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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Once more Erasmus grants awarded for international cooperation
This year, eleven exchange projects from Leiden University received an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility education grant. The total award of almost €510.000 enables 98 students and staff members to go on exchange.
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How democratic is our kingdom? New ministry chair for Leiden political scientist
When we talk about the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it is not just about the Netherlands. On the contrary: our Kingdom consists of no less than four countries, three of which are Caribbean islands. This structure is complex, to say the least. Although all countries are officially equivalent, in practice…
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Archaeologist Jennifer Swerida investigates emergent social complexity in the Omani desert
In June 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new Assistant Professor. Dr Jennifer Swerida, originally from the United States, will strengthen the Faculty’s expertise on the archaeology of West Asia. ‘I explore human-environment relationships inside an ancient oasis and the surrounding land. Previous…
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Interdisciplinary research: brainstorming and bridge-building
Bring over a hundred driven researchers together in one room and the good ideas will start to flow: that was the thinking behind the internal networking meeting on interdisciplinary collaboration on Wednesday 17 May. Representatives from the nine interdisciplinary programmes were waiting at their stalls…
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‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
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Call for papers - Frontlines of protection: Thinking and defining protection against disasters in times of environmental disruptions
Research
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ACPA appoints new academic director
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) recently appointed a new academic director. Erik Viskil is taking over from Henk Borgdorff, who held the post for the past four years. What has been achieved in those years? And what does ACPA’s future look like? In this double interview we discuss…
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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Minimalism in Malay Verbal Art: towards a cognitive poetic approach of allusion in Malay
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Performing identity and buying love: self-expression and iyashi in the dansō escorting business
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Documenting Death| Adrienne Strong
Lecture, Online webinar
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ReCNTR Launch
Festival
- The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
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Visible hands, audible voices: Economy as a Matter of Fact and a Matter of Concern by Douglas R. Holmes (Binghamton University)
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Aging nationally in contemporary Poland| Jessica Robbins
Lecture, Online webinar
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The thousand war-battalions of the btsan: everyday demons in Ladakh
Lecture
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
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Undisciplined Collections
Workshop
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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Book Launch | Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Book Launch