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• A semester in Morocco: ‘You see the history that you’re learning about’ News - 14 March 2024

  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.

• Reflections on Power, Knowledge, and Trust. Political Dynamics in Africa and Beyond. Event - 29 September 2025

  Inaugural lecture

• 
  Leila Demarest Associate Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  l.demarest@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Crisófia Langa da Câmara PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.c.f.langa.da.camara@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Deborah Oyuu PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  i.d.oyuu@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Language Policy and Practices Series Event
• LUMC professor Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives Spinoza Prize News - 3 September 2021

  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…

• study of government and community responses to jihadi insurgencies in Africa Event - 13 November 2025

  Roundtable

• at a Time of Death: A Global Microhistory between Britain and South Africa Event - 9 April 2025

  Lecture, COGLOSS Seminar

• Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel News - 19 January 2021

  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…

• 
  Femke Fakkeldij PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.k.fakkeldij@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Mamadjibeye Mamadjibeye PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.mamadjibeye@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Jorge Blake PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

• Histories Connected Event
• CRG Seminar: The Economic Community of West African States at fifty: Edward Blyden and the road towards a people centered regional body Event - 19 November 2025

  Lecture

• Queen Máxima visits KITLV News - 26 May 2026

  During a visit, Queen Máxima spoke with researchers about projects exploring climate change, collections and culinary heritage.

• entanglement of online and offline networks in times of conflict in Africa Event - 20 November 2025

  Conference, 2-day Workshop

• colonial bureaucracy at the turn of the twentieth century in southern Africa Event - 17 April 2026

  Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series

• MEPs’ visit highlights importance of knowledge about Global South News - 3 February 2026

  Two MEPs visited Leiden University on Friday 30 January. Their visit underscored the vital importance of the university’s expertise on Africa, Asia and Latin America in a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.

• insights on human diet from the Later Stone Age to Neolithic in Northwest Africa, Morocco Event - 14 May 2025

  PhD defence

• 
  Corey Williams Senior university lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.l.williams@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276903

• Peace Movements: A Global History Event - 24 March 2027

  Conference

• We invite you to participate in the Day of Languages and Cultures 2026! Announcement - 7 May 2026

  Organisation

• Tanja Hendriks awarded Veni News - 17 July 2025

  The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced that Tanja Hendriks, along with 17 Leiden University researchers, will receive a Veni grant, embedded at the ASCL. With this grant, Hendriks will be able to develop the research project 'Taking a Risk on Disasters: speculative humanitarianism amidst a changing…

• Executive Board visits African Studies Centre: ‘We work from African perspectives’ News - 30 September 2025

  From the energy transition in Namibia to sustainable jobs for young Nigerians, from African cookbooks to vodcasts on vintage Swahili booklets: during a recent visit by the Executive Board, staff from the African Studies Centre Leiden and the African Library presented their research, teaching and acquisition…

• 
  Emmanuel Ogwuche Okpe PhD candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  e.o.okpe@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

• 
  Carla Cisternas Guasch PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.g.cisternas.guasch@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Mily Crevels Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.i.crevels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Bálint Honos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.honos@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Nestor Marin Bravo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.f.marin.bravo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  David Home Valenzuela PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.home.valenzuela@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Tomás Díaz PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.diaz@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Mariana Gaba PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.r.gaba@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Felipe Cousiño PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.cousino@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Joaquin Fernandez Abara PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  j.r.fernandez.abara@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Cristian Saavedra Bastía PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.e.saavedra.bastia@hum.leidenuniv.nl |

• 
  Juliët Tinebra Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.j.tinebra@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

• 
  Alliance Mango Kubota PhD candidate

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  a.mango.kubota@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• 
  Carlos Rilling Tenorio PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.g.rilling.tenorio@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Gabriel Veppo de Lima PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.veppo.de.lima@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Andrea Bravo Lee

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  Macarena Alegria Garcia PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.a.alegria.garcia@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Daphne Engel PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.engel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Nadia Rojas PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.j.rojas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Theresa St John PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  t.l.st.john@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Nicole Pereira Ríos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.m.pereira.rios@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

• 
  Ivan Dunduro

• Retrospective 75th anniversary African Studies Centre Leiden News - 15 September 2022

  A ‘world class institute’ with a ‘vibrant atmosphere’, doing research on a continent that is ‘becoming increasingly important’. That is how Annetje Ottow, president of Leiden University’s Executive Board, described the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) on its 75th anniversary celebration on 8 September…

• Five Comenius Teaching grants for Leiden lecturers News - 5 July 2021

  Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a €100,000 Comenius Teaching grant within the Senior Fellows programme. A further two lecturers have been awarded a €50,000 grant within the Teaching Fellows programme. The grants will enable the lecturers and their project teams to realise an…

• Introducing: Matthias Lukkes News - 21 April 2026

  Matthias Lukkes recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate within the NWO-funded project ‘Revisiting the Invention of Africa, 1590-1720’ led by Michiel van Groesen. Below he introduces himself.