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930 search results for “decolonization in south asia” in the Staff website

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  Ody Dwicahyo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.dwicahyo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Asia Bertuccioli Student Assistant LUGO

  Administration and Central Services

  a.a.i.p.bertuccioli@bb.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Marleen Reichgelt Postdoc

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.g.w.reichgelt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272063

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  Emma Lynn Cantal Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.l.cantal@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512

• New podcasts on Islam in South and Southeast Asia News - 5 February 2025

  As part of the final project for the Islam in South and Southeast Asia course (taught by Dr Verena Meyer), students were tasked with creating podcasts that delve into significant cultural and historical topics related to the region. Two students, Roma Bhiekhemsing and Shaneeva Bean, have chosen to share…

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  Fadly Rahman PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.rahman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277237

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  Ritanjan Das University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.das@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5278022

• 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.

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  Arthur Crucq University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  a.k.c.crucq@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276275

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  Ajay Gandhi Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  a.gandhi@luc.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009100

• More than 100 years of studying South Asia: ‘The view of the area is changing’ News - 17 June 2025

  At the Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), scholars have been studying the Indian subcontinent with attention and expertise for more than 100 years. This part of South Asia is an economic giant with a population of over two billion. Nira Wickramasinghe, Professor of Modern South Asian Studies,…

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  Ellen Raven Guest Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.m.raven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Emmanuelle Radar Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.m.a.radar@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273662

• Nira Wickramasinghe on New Books in South Asian Studies podcast News - 26 March 2021

  In the book 'Slave in a Palanquin: Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' Nira Wickramasinghe, professor of Modern South Asian Studies, uncovers the traces of slavery in the history and memory of the Indian Ocean world. She was interviewed about the book in the New Books in South East Asian…

• Spierenburg in NRC on the neoliberal system in South Africa News - 22 March 2023

  Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg talks in the Dutch newspaper NRC about the neoliberal system and how it has to change in order to solve the energy crisis in South-Africa.

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  Bart Verheijen Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  l.j.verheijen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271743

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  Cecilia-Louise von Ilsemann PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.l.von.ilsemann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646

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  Fransiskus Widiyarso PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  f.x.widiyarso.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Rethinking community in upland, ‘indigenous’ South Asia News - 9 March 2022

  Erik de Maaker wrote a monograph on how Garo, an indigenous community of the extended eastern Himalayas, experience and negotiate such disparities. The book shows how relatedness is reinterpreted as religious practices change, and communally held land ends up being privately controlled. Erik de Maaker…

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  Carolien Stolte Associate professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.m.stolte@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277308

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  Boyao Zhang PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.zhang@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Katarzyna Cwiertka on the declining popularity of kimchi in South Korea News - 20 October 2022

  In the Western world, kimchi is on an unstoppable rise, but in South Korea the dish is actually losing popularity. Professor Katarzyna Cwiertka explains how this is possible in the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave'.

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  Nira Wickramasinghe Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  n.k.wickramasinghe@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272982

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  Chisato Makishima PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.makishima@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Helena Hanhikangas PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.h.hanhikangas@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Xinyu Dong PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculty of Humanities

  x.dong.5@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Coen van 't Veer Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.b.van.t.veer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Verena Meyer University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.h.meyer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272281

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  Maria Ditmars Education development officer

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

  m.d.ditmars@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Yujing Tan Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

  y.tan.5@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009303

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  Paul Kessler Prefect / professor by special appointment of Botanical gardens and botany of South East Asia

  Faculty of Science

  p.j.a.kessler@hortus.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5235

• General Jacques Pâris de Bollardière and the French Nonviolence Movement, ca. 1960s-1980s Event - 16 February 2026

  Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series

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  Vineet Thakur Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  v.thakur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271256

• The ICJ's interim ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel: what now? News - 27 January 2024

  Israel was ordered to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza. Giulia Pinzauti, an expert on state conflicts and humanitarian law, explains the significance of the case, the specific details of the ruling and what we can expect to happen next.

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  David Henley Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  d.e.f.henley@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272226

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  Al Al Farabi Postdoc / Guest

  Faculty of Law

  a.al.farabi@law.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Irini Sifogeorgakis PhD candidate / guest

  Faculty of Archaeology

  e.sifogeorgakis@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Peter Bisschop Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  p.c.bisschop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272980

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  Nisida Gjoksi Guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

  n.gjoksi@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500

• Contested Mobility: Free African Americans and the Law in the U.S. South, 1790-1830s Event - 19 February 2026

  PhD defence

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  Marijke Klokke Guest

  Faculty of Humanities

  m.j.klokke@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Channa Li Guest Researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  c.li.6@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• New book by Lydie Cabane explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters News - 23 October 2023

  Lydie Cabane, Assistant Professor in Governance of Crises at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, recently published the book The Government of Disasters. In this book Lydie explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters.

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  Thijs Jan van Schie PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  t.j.van.schie.2@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273451

• Former president South-Africa visits Campus The Hague News - 10 July 2023

  Former President Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa gave a public lecture on Campus The Hague on 7 July. His story was about the economic transformation of Africa.

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  Hélène Nut External PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

  h.nut.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Sarah Holma

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.k.holma@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Youth Precarity in South Korea Event - 8 October 2025

  Lecture

• How did Proto-Indo-European reach Asia? News - 15 July 2024

  Five thousand years before the common era (BCE), Proto-Indo-European, the mother of many languages that are spoken today in Europe, Central Asia and South Asia, originated in eastern Europe. PhD candidate Axel Palmér has combined a 175-year-old hypothesis with new techniques to demonstrate how descendants…

• Manga and Militarism Event - 20 March 2026

  Lecture