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Elite attitudes and the future of global governance
The idea of global governance and trust in international institutions are apparently getting into deep water. But is there a legitimacy crisis? Not according to international élites, as Jan Aart Scholte (Leiden University), Soetkin Verhaegen (Maastricht University) and Jonas Tallberg (Stockholm University)…
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Cultural Memory of War and Conflict
From Apartheid in South-Africa to 9/11 in the United States: there is not a single culture that is not shaped by the memory of war or conflict. The minor Cultural Memory of War and Conflict focuses on how such memory cultures influence and shape societies today.
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Views on Africa
In the media, we hear a lot of worrying news from Africa: refugees, attacks, Ebola, starvation, corruption... But Africa is much more than that: it is a continent in transition, with developments occurring at breakneck speed. African Studies scholars from different academic disciplines in Leiden conduct…
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Public lecture by former South African President Kgalema Motlanthe
Lecture
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the Relational Self: Law, Culture, and Injury in the Global North and South
Although official law generally conceives of personal injury victims as individual rights holders, the actual experience of physical injury and its consequences is relational. Indeed, many researchers in the global North as well as the global South have contended that the very concept of the Self should…
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Sound Practices in the Global South: Co-listening to Resounding Plurilogues
ACPA alumnus Budhaditya Chattopadhyay explores sound practices across South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America in his new publication 'Sound Practices in the Global South: Co-listening to Resounding Plurilogues'.
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(Non)recognition of legal identity in aspirant states: evidence from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria
Ramesh Ganohariti will examine legal identity in three post-Soviet aspirant states and outline four common scenarios in this article.
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel
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…
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Age Chronicles: The Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Southern Africa
Conference
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Leiden University to strengthen research on Africa
The Leiden African Studies Centre (ASCL) will become part of the University from 1 January 2016.
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Language and the human past
At LUCL, researchers aim to contribute to a comprehensive and informed perspective on the human past.
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Language and the human past
At LUCL, researchers aim to contribute to a comprehensive and informed perspective on the human past.
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Resilient Diversity: the Governance of Racial and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800
Resilient Diversity: the Governance of Racial and Religious Plurality in the Dutch Empire, 1600-1800
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Wetland Farming in the area to the south of the Meuse estuary during the Iron age and Roman period
An environmental and palaeo-economic reconstruction.
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A comparative study of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and Japan: political nexus triad and policy responses
This study aims to examine how South Korea (hereafter, Korea) and Japan, two neighboring countries in Northeast Asia, have been responding to and mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
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What’s in a plant?
Tracking early human behaviour through plant processing and -exploitation.
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Careers: The Work-lIfe Experiences of Women Employed by Japanese and South Korean Firms
On Wednesday 14 February 2024 Yorum Beekman successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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SciSTIP
SciSTIP was established on 1 April 2014 as part of the DSI-NRF Centres of Excellence Programme funded by the South Africa’s National Research Foundation (https://www.nrf.ac.za/). SciSTIP is hosted by the Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) at Stellenbosch University and…
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Forged in the Great War : people, transport, and labour, the establishment of colonial rule in Zambia, 1890-1920
The territories that would make up what is today the Republic of Zambia officially became British in 1891. However, this did not equate to an on-the-ground presence of colonial authority capable of affecting the destiny and daily lives of people.
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The application of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by national courts
On 3 December 2019, Meda Couzens defended her thesis 'The application of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child by national courts'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. T. Liefaard and Prof. J.J. Sloth-Nielsen.
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Multimedia Research and documentation of African Oral Genres
The project Multimedia Research and Documentation of African Oral Genres: Connecting Diasporas and Local Audiences (Director: D.Merolla) focuses on multimedia as technology that allows scholars to share documentation and scientific knowledge with the cultural owners of the collected oral genres.
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In-Forest: A multi-method study of inequality and its epistemic effects in forest research
The project seeks to explore the interplay of valuation and inequalities in science, using the interdisciplinary and planet-critical field of forest research as empirical case. It examines which/whose knowledge is recognised on what grounds, and how social dimensions like gender and geographical location…
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About the programme
Visual Ethnography combines anthropological theory and hands-on audiovisual practice.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Applied Archaeology at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Archaeological Science at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
If you would like to apply for this programme, you should first check the admission requirements.
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Admission requirements
To be eligible for Archaeology (research) at Leiden University, you must meet the following admission requirements...
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Why southern Africa is full of North Korean monuments
North Korean workers designed and built numerous monuments, museums and other buildings in southern Africa. This is clear from research by history student Tycho van der Hoog for his master's thesis. These monuments can be an important source of income for a country that has become quite isolated on…
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Chibuike Uche
Afrika-Studiecentrum
c.u.uche@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3854
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UNESCO Chair on Diversity and Inclusion in Global Science
This UNESCO Chair at CWTS aims to contribute to UNESCO’s agenda to foster diversity and inclusion in science. The chair has two main lines of work:
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Library
Our library contains around 23,000 books, journals and historical documents under the care of a specialized librarian.
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Julia Foudraine
Afrika-Studiecentrum
j.b.foudraine@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9512
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Caroline Archambault
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
c.archambault@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9963
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Gunnar Weimann
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
g.j.weimann@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9965
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Julia Sloth-Nielsen received A-rating from South African National Research Foundation
Professor Julia Sloth-Nielsen has received an A-rating from the National Research Foundation in South Africa, where she holds a Chair in Public Law at the University of the Western Cape.
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Facebook in Africa
Chad-born youngsters in Paris come into contact with youngsters actually in Chad via Facebook: it would be difficult to find a better way to demonstrate the possibilities social media offer for people scattered across the world by war. Mirjam de Bruijn has been awarded a Vici grant for a study of the…
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Return of customary law often a let-down for local people
Traditional leaders in many African countries have regained some of their former powers. Politicians and companies in some of these countries manage to gain access to valuable land via these leaders, at the cost of the local population. This is the message of Professor of Law, Administration and Development…
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Distinguished South African Minister visits Leiden as Honorary Professor
On 26th and 27th February, the South African Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor will visit Leiden University as honorary Oort Visiting Professor of Astronomy for Development. She will give a ceremonial lecture on Astronomy for Development in the Academiegebouw on 26th February and lead…
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trends in Counter-terrorism and the Implications for Human Rights in Africa
On 8 March 2023 Helen Duffy, Professor of International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law in Leiden, published a monograph on Global Trends in Counter-terrorism and the Implications for Human Rights in Africa.
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governance, and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda (2014-2019)
On 1 June 2022, Bruno Braak defended his thesis entitled 'Overcoming ruptures: Zande identity, governance, and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda (2014-2019).' The doctoral research was supervised by Prof.dr. J.M. Otto, Dr.ir. C.I.M. Jacobs, and Dr. C. Leonardi…
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Indigeneship, bureaucratic discretion, and institutional change in Northern Nigeria
‘Can he do it?’ Since the remarkable victory of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2015 Nigerian presidential elections, this has arguably been the most frequently posed question in Nigerian politics.
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Language diversity, its genesis, history and cognitive base
The project aims at highlighting and strengthening Dutch research into the diversity of the world’s languages from a historic and a cognitive perspective.
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Overview awarded projects
Here you can find an overview of the Erasmus+ projects undertaken by Leiden University since 2015.
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Gradients of Europeanness in Colonial Africa: the case of the Portuguese in the Congo Free State (c. 1885-1908) (GRADIENTS)
The project GRADIENTS investigates what it meant to be European in colonial Africa where identification as European often did not depend on skin colour and was understood on a spectrum with many gradients.
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