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Who will pay for our energy transition?
The Dutch Development Bank's new SDG loan fund for green energy in the global south may not be as positive as it seems. Anthropology professor Marja Spierenburg raises concerns about its potential impact on local communities.
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Florian Herrendorf wins Fruinprijs 2023
Florian Herrendorf has won the Fruin Prize 2023. His thesis was chosen out of 11 nominees as the best master's thesis in history studies.
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Call for chapters: Sustainable development in Africa
Research
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Strategic Litigation workshop unlocks new collaboration options for young researchers
Researchers Rowie Stolk and Caelesta Braun’s ‘Litigation in the name of public interest’ Kiem project included an interdisciplinary workshop on the same topic. For starting PhD candidates in particular, this was the chance to build valuable connections.
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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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The coding sociologist John Boy developed Textnets: software to make large amounts of text visually comprehensible
Software development is probably not the first thing that comes to mind when you think of a sociologist. Three years ago, John Boy began developing his software package Textnets. Because of Corona, he was less able to concentrate on writing scientific research and also setting up the online courses…
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
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LeidenASA Annual Meeting: Leiden-based Africa research in the spotlight
The Leiden African Studies Assembly (LeidenASA) held its Annual Meeting on 12 December. LeidenASA is the network of Leiden based Africa-researchers. Fifteen researchers gave pitches on their projects, and sketches of Leiden University's Africa strategy were outlined.
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Wil Roebroeks looks back on a life in archaeology: ‘I’ve always enjoyed my work’
After nearly two years of retirement, Wil Roebroeks looks back on a career that began in a time of freedom and ended in a field that has undergone profound academic and social change. ‘I have been fortunate to always enjoy my work,’ he says. ‘That is also my advice to younger generations: above all,…
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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Who did all the work? The hidden labour of colonial science
Conference, Workshop
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Roundtable Digital Society in Contemporary China
Debate, China Seminar
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Annual Social Citizenship and Migration Symposium
Conference
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‘In the heel, not the head’: the sensory know-how of skateboarders
Lecture, Research Seminar
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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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Research Seminar Rebecca Bryant
Lecture, Research Seminar
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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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Flexible Relations: Experimentation and Innovation in Human-Environmental Links Across the Americas
Conference, RITMO Annual Meeting
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Fieldwork NL Conference
Festival
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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Water Legacy: Mayan world meets the Netherlands
Lecture, Faculty Lecture and Photo Exposition
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ASCL Seminar: Girls’ Education, Neoliberal Subjectivity, and Sacrifice in Niger
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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Race and Ethnicity in Dutch Academia
Lecture, LIAS After-Lunch Talk Series
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Theopolitical Patchworks: Rule and Material Religion in Rio de Janeiro
Lecture, Research Seminar
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ASCL Seminar: Waves of Memory in the Red Sea: Unpacking Mixedness through Italo-Eritrean Livescapes
Lecture
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Should Nature be given Rights?
LeidenGlobal Annual event
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Workshop: Sharing field notes
Workshop
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Modes of Human Becoming: Towards a Process Archaeology of Mind
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
- The Psychic Life of the Welfare State
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Racism versus Socialism in Cuba
Lecture, Discussion
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Pedagogies of "Con/Tact" in unsettling times
Conference, BOCA Workshop
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Meaningful sharing: how to improve our engagement with current Open Science practices
Lunch meeting
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Museum visit: A talk with Colombian Artist Nika Sorzano
Arts and culture
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Challenging Myths and Exceptions
Lecture, Film Screening
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Lunch lecture: ‘Geo’-Politics and Animist Social Contracts in the New Himalayas
Lecture
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Imagining Oceans: A Critical Conversation on Oceanic Spaces
Lecture
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Roundtable: Utopia from Within
Debate, Roundtable
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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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Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grants
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to Leiden researchers.
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A better understanding of democracy across cultures and contexts
A new collaborative monograph of democratic theory, The Sciences of the Democracies, was released by UCL Press on August 7. The book, in the style of a democratic manifesto, is written by a large number of co-authors in a bold attempt to expand and deepen how democracy is studied and understood. Among…
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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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Call for papers - Frontlines of protection: Thinking and defining protection against disasters in times of environmental disruptions
Research
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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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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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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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‘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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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center for International Relations (LUCIR) has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique. Her resulting book, Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil…