809 search results for “africa politics” in the Student website
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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Eileen Moyer
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Environmental Humanities: Science, Art, and Activism
Lecture
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Opening exhibition Kieran Smith
Arts and culture
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History Master Symposium
Conference, Symposium
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ASCL Seminar: The State in Relief: civil servants navigating duties, dependencies and disasters in Malawi
Lecture
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Seminar and book discussion Frank Gerits
Lecture, Seminar / book discussion
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European foreign policy after a crisis: change and continuity
‘Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy.’ That is the title of Nikki Ikani’s book that was published last month. We asked the writer five questions about her book. Presentation: 5 & 20 April.
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Three students nominated for an ECHO Award: ‘I want to make the world a better place’
A more inclusive and diverse society is what Talisha Schilder, Hawra Nissi and Chiraz Hassoumi spend many hours a week working towards. Their hard work led them to being nominated for the ECHO Award.
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GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations?
Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor in Lesotho. ‘If you have the prospect of an afterlife, you often respond differently to illness.’
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Office for International Education and internationalisation
Internationalisation is an important pillar of the Strategic Plan of Leiden University and Leiden Law School. The driving force behind internationalisation at our faculty is the Office for International Education (known as BIO). The Head of BIO is Anette van Sandwijk. Now the current political climate…
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Aline-Priscillia and Ruşen nominated for an ECHO Award
Working towards a more inclusive and diverse society, next to your studies. Humanities students Aline-Priscillia Messi and Ruşen Koç devote a considerable amount of hours to this every week. Now they have been nominated for an ECHO Award.
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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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Manufactured drought? An environmental history of water scarcity in Colonial Kenya, 1895-1952
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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What is happening in Yemen?
Debate
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On the Origins of 'The Origins of Inequality'
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
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A World Ablaze: Making Sense of Wars Today
Lecture
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Gaza, Palestine, Israel – the collective failure: how did we get here and what next?
Lecture
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Maxim Osipov - Public Interview By Michel Krielaars
Lecture
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Textual Sources and Geographies of Slavery in the Early Islamic Empire, ca. 600-1000 CE
Conference
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Non-Criminalisation and Super-Criminalisation of Same-Sex Love
Lecture
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Media, Race and the Infrastructures of Empire
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Refugees’ Livelihood Strategies in a Setting of Long-term Encampment: The Case of the Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi
Lecture, LIMS seminar | Book Talk
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Book launch: 'White Mineworkers on Zambia's Copperbelt, 1926-1974: In a Class of Their Own'
Lecture
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Workshop 'Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges'
Workshop
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LUCIS Summer School 2022 | Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World
Course, LUCIS Summer School
- POPTalk: Mapping Slavery Walk & Potluck Spring Dinner
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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Transnational Figurations of Displacement (TRAFIG)
Conference, Workshop
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Sanctions, Remittances, and (in)Security: Legal Conundrums, Financial Paradoxes, and Humanitarian Puzzles
Conference
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Book presentation ‘Assisting International Justice’
Book presentation
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Newsletter Student Support FSW April 2022
This Student Support FSW newsletter tells you all about the services provided by the FSW POPcorner, Career Service, and Community Engagement Service. You can read about upcoming activities and vacancies, and pick up tips on study skills, personal and professional development, student well-being, study…
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New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’
Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare time rambling through the forest, as a professor she sifts through colleagues’ research data. ‘I often come across information that doesn’t appear in the…
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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MA International Relations: Alumni Career Networking Event 2023
Career event
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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Van de Waal Lecture 2024 - Barkcloth: wrapping people, places and ideas
Alumni event, Lecture
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Online event - Working in the Netherlands for non-EU
Career and apply for jobs
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Diversity & Inclusion Career Session
Course
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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10th Leiden Symposium on New Religiosity - The Tell-Tale Art: Divination and Oracular Practice from All Angles
Lecture, Symposium
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Enthusiasm for PRINS 2022
This year’s edition of PRINS, the International Studies’ consultancy course, proved to be an inspiring event for most of its participants. Students, coaches and representatives of organisations are looking back on this rollercoaster of a course and reflect on why the PRINS experience is so special.
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MA International Relations: Alumni Career Networking Event 2022
Alumni event
- Career Café Leiden Law School
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Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
Lecture
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Is the WPS Agenda Working? Preventing Conflict Related Sexual Violence and Beyond
Round Table