1,475 search results for “centre african history” in the Staff website
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These are the nominees for the 2022 Faculty Teaching Prize!
Every year, an outstanding lecturer receives the Faculty Teaching Prize. Lecturers are nominated by students, and a jury – comprising students and lecturers – decides who will receive the prize. The prize will be awarded during the official opening of the academic year on 7 September. Meet this year’s…
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Sovereign debt as strategy: Kathleen Brown on the politics behind the numbers
On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Kathleen Brown will defend her dissertation 'Deception, Risk, and Evasion: The Politics of Sovereign Debt in Emerging Markets' in Leiden’s Academy Building. Her research sheds light on the hidden world of sovereign debt politics, revealing how governments…
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Eduard van de Bilt and Joke Kardux say goodbye to Leiden
For more than 35 years they helped put American Studies on the map: Joke Kardux and Eduard van de Bilt. This spring, the couple retired. A farewell interview.
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ASCL Seminar: The COVID-19 Pandemic Response and Africa's New Era of Austerity
Lecture
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Adjudicating Legal Pluralism in South Africa's Constitutional Democracy: The Challenge of Paradox
Van Vollenhoven Lecture 2025
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Publish or Perish: Religious Zaydi publishers in Yemen during the 1990s
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Documenting Death| Adrienne Strong
Lecture, Online webinar
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Book Launch Research Handbook on End of Life Care and Society
Book launch
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ASCL Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
- Una Europa Talk | Connections in International Relations: Competition vs. Integration
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CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
Lecture, CMGI Brown Bag Seminar
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
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Can Neurodiversity be a Lens to Study Sufism?
Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars
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Non-Criminalisation and Super-Criminalisation of Same-Sex Love
Lecture
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: What Use are Networks Anyway?
Lecture
- Migration and Remittances Major Projects: Wrapping Up and Ramping Up
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Conflict Escalation: Explaining the Rise of Violence
Lecture
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Nasser Road, Political Posters in Uganda
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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The Western Part of the East Indies: Colonial Worldmaking and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape Colony
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Book presentation ‘Assisting International Justice’
Book presentation
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LUCIR Talk: Ghost Army - Snapshot of the Wagner Group’s Operations and Structures
Debate
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Graphic Novels in South-Africa: the Work of Nathan Trantraal
Arts and culture
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Full-day International Workshop: Perspectives on Traditional Chinese Medicine. From Taiwan’s Experiences to Global Practice
Full-day International Workshop
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Rice Eaters in the Land of Cheese
PhD defence
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The Power of Social Media Networks: Scientific research on the entanglement of online and offline networks in times of conflict in Africa
Conference, 2-day Workshop
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Why Humanities? Cristiana Strava on Middle Eastern Studies
Lecture
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The colour purple: why it's important to our new Dean
During the New Year's Reception at FSW, new Dean Sarah de Rijcke gave her maiden speech. The first official moment at which she's able to share what she stands for and what to expect of her. In case you weren't there, or you want to read the speech at your own pace, below you can find the integral copy…
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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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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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Unravelling the complexity of HIV/AIDS
Dr. Josien de Klerk, Associate professor in Global Public Health at Leiden University College The Hague recently published some of her work on HIV/AIDS. In collaboration with a team of interdisciplinary researchers from the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development she came to the conclusion…
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…
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Twenty-five lecturers gain Senior Teaching Qualification
Twenty-five passionate lecturers earned their Senior Teaching Qualification (SKO) on Monday 12 January. Five of these lecturers talk about how the SKO has benefitted them and what they think ‘good teaching’ is.
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2025
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Symposium: The Power of Dialogue in Education
Conference
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Maria BoletsiFaculty of Humanities
m.boletsi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272357
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
e.minnaard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272358
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
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Why Humanities? Arthur Crucq on Art as a "Leftist Hobby"
Lecture
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LUCL Brainstorm on Gender and Nominal Classification
Conference, Brainstorm
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The operations of multinational businesses in conflict areas - towards a conceptual operational framework, the LEIDEN Protocol
Conference
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Why Humanities? Frans-Willem Korsten about Literature & Law
Lecture
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Online discussion: Is a River Alive?
Online discussion
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In the Shadow of the Constitution: the Micropolitics of Constitutionalism in Cambodia
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Interdisciplinary roundtable: Commitment, Islam and Social Justices in Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir’s Swahili Poetry
Debate
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ASCL Seminar: Neoliberal Authoritarianism in Rwanda: A Feminist Analysis
Lecture