52 search results for “india” in the Staff website
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India Wagg
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
i.l.wagg@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Towards the Hinduisation of India?
The recent consecration of India’s Ayodhya temple by Prime Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party figurehead Narendra Modi raises important questions. Is secularism giving way to religious rule in the world’s largest democracy? How does this resonate with India’s culturally diverse population? France 24…
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Hendrik den Heijer
Faculty of Humanities
h.j.den.heijer@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Tim van de Meerendonk
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
t.van.de.meerendonk@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6760
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Erik Odegard
Faculty of Humanities
e.l.l.odegard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2772
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
t.mostert@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1307
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
p.g.post@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Sarthak Bagchi
Faculty of Humanities
s.bagchi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Nicolas Blarel
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
n.r.j.b.blarel@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 3952
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Douglas Berger
Faculty of Humanities
d.l.berger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Shekhar Kolipaka
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
s.s.kolipaka@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
h.w.van.den.doel@bb.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2922
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
a.f.schrikker@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2769
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
l.p.j.bes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2768
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insurance, rural distress and the everyday moralities of quantification in India
PhD defence
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
b.m.de.leede@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Numbers are not an exact representation of an objective reality
Tim van de Meerendonk explores how farmers, insurance advisors and local politicians in India try to make sense of insurance figures through their moral convictions.
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Rethinking community in upland, ‘indigenous’ South Asia
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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An introduction to Performance art (live art)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Performative Photography (mix of photography & art performance)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Research Team Globalizing Palliative Care complete
The project officially started in September 2020, but with the enrolment of PhD students Hanum Atikasari and Shajeela Shawkat the research team of the ERC project 'Globalizing Palliative Care? A Multi-sited Ethnographic Study of Practices, Policies and Discourses of Care at the End of Life' is compl…
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CADS Alumna writes children's book that encourages diversity and inclusiveness among children and their parents
Monique Tekstra-van Lochem decided to develop a book of her own that all children can recognize themselves in. In May "Hey, who are you?" will be released, a children's book in which twenty fictional children from all over the world take you with them into their daily lives.
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Erik de Maaker and team awarded grant for research on the impact of ‘green farming’
Charisma K. Lepcha (PI, Sikkim University), Pradyut Guha (co-PI, Sikkim University), Rajib Sutradhar (co-PI, Christ University Bangalore) and Erik de Maaker (Leiden University) have been awarded a two-year grant of USD 18.000 to conduct research on the impact of ‘green farming’ on the sensitive mountain…
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From textiles to teaching: Leiden’s role in colonialism and slavery
Using enslaved people as servants, becoming an administrator in the Dutch West India Company or making uniforms for the colonial army. Many people from Leiden played a role in colonialism and slavery. Historians are conducting preliminary research and finding striking examples.
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Alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra: a speaker with a background in neuroscience
Her plan was to obtain a PhD, but, during her master’s, alumnus Sangbreeta Moitra discovered that her true interest lay in applying neuroscience in everyday life.
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Three Leiden PhD candidates awarded Mosaic 2.0 scholarships
Three PhD candidates from Leiden University have been awarded a Mosaic 2.0 scholarship for their PhD research. The Dutch Research Council (NWO) Mosaic 2.0 programme is aimed at an underrepresented group of graduates with a migrant background.
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Four Leiden researchers awarded Rubicon grants
Four promising young researchers will be able to conduct two years of research at a university abroad thanks to a Rubicon grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The Leiden laureates are Renske Janssen, Girija Josh, Anne van der Meij and Yana van der Weegen.
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Leiden Classics: Humbert de Superville, founder of the Print Room
Dutch artist and visionary David Humbert de Superville (1770-1849) was the founder and first director of the Print Room at Leiden University. An exhibition and symposium are now being organised in his honour. What makes him so remarkable?
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Netherlands and Japan united by a tradition of mutual curiosity
A delegation from Leiden University visited various universities in Japan at the end of March. The strong ties between the Netherlands and Japan are still based on a long tradition of knowledge exchange.
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Vietnam on Dutch maps
In 2023, it will be fifty years since Vietnam and the Netherlands established diplomatic relations. This will be commemorated in both countries. At the beginning of November, outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte visited Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. On that occasion Leiden University Libraries will launch…
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Freedom: what does it mean?
On 5 May we celebrate freedom, a basic human right that should not be taken for granted. We asked international students and staff what it means to them.
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In memoriam: Carla Risseeuw, Professor emerita of CADS (1947 - 2024)
It is with great sadness that we share the news that on Friday, May 3rd 2024, Carla Risseeuw, Professor emerita of CADS, passed away. Carla Irene Risseeuw retired as Professor of Intercultural Gender Studies from CADS in 2009 after a long and productive career.
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Citizen Labor: correcting data and creating value in an Indian land records database
Lecture, Research Seminar
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LUCIR Seminar: Power, Ideas, and International Orders: Contrasting the Classical Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean
Lecture
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Following the Pagla Jahaj ['the crazy ship']: The inevitable journey towards the un/familiar
Lecture
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At the limits of cure | Bharat Venkat
Lecture, Online webinar
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Celebrating Naga Culture: Authenticity, Indigeneity and Modernity
Lecture
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CADS student contributes to SOMO research report that is being picked up by international media
Eva Loeve (22), a fourth-year student of Cultural Anthropology, worked for five months at Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations (SOMO). At the end of May 2021, the report "Spinning Around Workers' Rights" about working conditions in spinning mills in South India was published, on which Eva…
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Science, technology and innovation is not addressing world’s most urgent problems
Global science research serves the needs of the Global North, and is driven by the values and interests of a small number of companies, governments and funding bodies, finds a major new international study published today. As such, the authors find, science, technology and innovation research is not…
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Radhika Gupta
Radhika Gupta has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to study how transnational Islamic charitable networks are entangled with Western humanitarianism and neoliberal welfare frameworks.
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Why we need to look underwater to understand our past
Traces of the past remain hidden in rivers, lakes and seas. In his inaugural lecture Martijn Manders will explain why underwater archaeology is important to understanding our history.
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Universiteit Leiden onderzoekt eigen slavernijverleden
Het College van Bestuur laat door een postdoc een eenjarig vooronderzoek doen naar het koloniale en slavernijverleden van de Universiteit Leiden.
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Double book launch Radhika Gupta and Erik de Maaker
Festival, Book launch
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ReCNTR Talk: The Country Without a Post Office / Archiving Photographic Histories of Armed Conflict
Lecture
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Lunch lecture: ‘Geo’-Politics and Animist Social Contracts in the New Himalayas
Lecture
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Decoding Research Software Impact
Seminar
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CADS Spotlight: Tim van de Meerendonk & Esther van der Camp
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Dynamics and practices of internationalisation in model organism science - a South American perspective
Seminar
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Our man in Jakarta keeps the institute running from Venlo
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many staff of Leiden institutes abroad to leave their posts in a hurry. How is the KITLV Jakarta team doing now? Director Marrik Bellen talks about the turbulent times for this Leiden institute and its staff. And can we learn anything from the Indonesian approach?
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Book presentation: The South Asia to Gulf Migration Governance Complex
Lecture