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East European Politics
The Center participates in East European Politics, one of the major political science journals focusing on the contemporary post-communist space.
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The Birth of Political Mass Parties
How did parties as political organizations emerge?
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Media | Art | Politics (MAP)
The Leiden Lectures in Media | Art | Politics (MAP) is a series of talks organized by Pepita Hesselberth and Yasco Horsman. Speakers from various academic backgrounds and in different stages of their careers reflect on diverging ways in which technological and social changes challenge and transform…
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Political Economy and Public Policy
Many of the big challenges of the 21st century (climate change, international migration, financial instability, socio-economic inequality) find their origins in the organisation of the global economy. Any solution to the world’s big challenges therefore requires forceful policy interventions at the…
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Fire and grazers in the West African savanna
Promotores: H.A. Udo de Haes, H.H.T. Prins, Co-promotor: H.H. de Iongh
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Organizing Democracy. Reflections on the Rise of Political Organizations in the Nineteenth Century
This volume challenges the idea that the development of ‘democracy’ is a story of rise and progress at all. It is rather a story of continuous but never completely satisfying attempts of interpreting the rule of the people.
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The Global Politics of Confucianism
The Global Politics of Confucianism, a monograph contracted with Columbia University Press, analyzes the interaction between Confucianism and globalism in past and present, using history to critically engage Confucianism’s place in contemporary international relations and policy debates.
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Hegemony and World Order - Reimagining Power in Global Politics
Hegemony and World Order explores a key question for our tumultuous times of multiple global crises.
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(Re)positioning Modern Concert Music in Contemporary Society
For several years, contemporary composed music has been critiqued among others by funds, sponsors, and festival organizers for having lost contact with their audiences. This music has increasingly become a pursuit of a privileged, well-situated, and higher educated public, and is most often confined…
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Derrida's Politics of Friendship
25 years after the publication of Derrida’s Politics of Friendship (Politiques de l’amitié, 1994), this edited collection gathers 23 critical chapters that revisit this underappreciated text. Engaging closely with Derrida’s text, the contributors analyse, extend and critique the work. They reconsider…
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Politics, Culture and National Identities
The research group Politics, Culture and National Identities 1789-present investigates a wide range of national political cultures in Europe and the Americas in the 19th and 20th centuries. Instead of only analyzing high politics (the acts of governments and political parties), the research group focuses…
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Politics of Withdrawal Media, Arts, Theory
'Politics of Withdrawal' considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal for radical thinking today.
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Terrorism and Political Violence
Understanding the evolving landscape of extremism in the 21st century.
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The Third Avant-garde: contemporary art from Southeast Asia recalling tradition
How are contemporary art practices from Southeast Asia negotiating notions of art and tradition?
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Transcription and the role of memory in contemporary music
What is the role of memory in contemporary music?
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Glory: Social Memory, Transnational Networks and Christianity in Contemporary China
To address the relevance of Christianity to the ideological negotiations with the officially established authority, this research will be conducted by asking how the history enthusiasts negotiate the Christianity-related ideology through reconstructing the Christian past and reproducing religious histories…
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Essays on African languages and linguistics : in honour of Maarten Mous
This book celebrates Maarten Mous, professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University.
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Engaging GiCheon as a Technology of Self in Contemporary Korea
This project embarks on empirical analysis of popular psycho-physical practices in contemporary Korea.
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Policing European Metropolises. The politics of security in city-regions
This book focuses on policing in city-regions in Europe bringing together experts from across the continent to develop a sociology of urban policing and a unique methodology for comparing different metropolises in the same country.
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Decentering Gagaku. Exploring the multiplicity of contemporary Japanese Court music
Andrea Giolai defended his thesis on 3 May 2017.
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Representation and Political Parties
This research cluster is a part of the Institute of Political Science’s research programme ‘Institutions, Decisions and Collective Behaviour’. Its members focus on the democratic role of citizens and the representative links between voters and politicians.
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Global Political Economy (MA)
The specialisation Global Political Economy of the master’s in International Relations at Leiden University provides you with a cutting-edge understanding of the world economy and its social and political foundations.
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Longo, The Politics of Borders
Political scientist Matthew Longo (Leiden University) takes a detailed look at the evolution of border security in the United States after 9/11. Far from the walls and fences that dominate the news, he reveals borders to be thick, multi-faceted and binational institutions that have evolved greatly in…
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Re-envisioning nature: the representation of post-nuclear landscapes in contemporary art and culture
How does contemporary art and culture represent nuclear contamination in post-nuclear landscapes?
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Collaboration and contestation in words: Dialogues and disputes in African social realities
In African societies today, growing inequality and continued exclusion due to ethnicity, gender, religion, disability or sexual orientation give rise to both contestation and cooperation for social change. How does the written or spoken word lead to collaboration and contestation in areas of social…
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Understanding Contemporary Islamic Crises in the Middle East
The Issues beneath the Surface
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Deliberation and Agonism: Rethinking conflict and its relation to law in political philosophy
The Institute for Philosophy at Leiden University is host to the NWO programme,
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LEiden university NexuS of Arts | Media | Politics
The purpose of LENS is to foster, coordinate and support research of visual media of analog and digital photography, film, and video, and the visual arts.
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European Politics and Society (MA)
In the unique two-year international joint Master’s programme in European Politics and Society (EPS) you will be able to study at four major European research universities in the cities of Prague, Leiden, Krakow and Barcelona.
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Cattle-talk: the language of colour among East African pastoralists
What categories exist in the languages of pastoralists? Do these semantic concepts reflect universal or languagespecific tendencies? What (environment? culture?) governs the similarities (or the differences) attested crosslinguistically in cattle colour systems?
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Maurits de Jongh, Is Political Liberalism Self-Defeating?
Political scientist Maurits de Jongh (Leiden University/Sciences Po) argues that political liberalism is self-defeating as a framework of justification for liberal conceptions of justice. He explores how the framework's self-imposed criterion of acceptability in the eyes of all reasonable citizens leads…
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Beyond Utopia: New politics, the politics of knowledge and the science fictional field of Japan
This project aims to uncover a series of sites of difference and innovation. In particular, it locates itself in two kinds of distancing: geo-cultural (ie. in the non-European space of Japan) and medial (ie. in innovative expressive media).
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Interreligious Encounter in a West African City: A Study of Multiple Religious Belonging and Identity Among the Yorùbá of Ogbómòsó, Nigeria
How has interreligious encounter in Ogbómòsó created multiple religious belongings and identities among individuals and groups?
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Rozemund Uljée
Faculty of Humanities
r.uljee@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 8986
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Corinna Jentzsch, 'Here are 4 reasons why Mozambique isn’t a post-war success story' (blog)
Political scientist Corinna Jentzsch (Leiden University) explains why Mozambique is not (yet) a success story.
- Media | Art | Politics (MAP)
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Heleen Smits
Afrika-Studiecentrum
h.j.smits@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3355
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Political Science
Politics is about the authorised allocation of values: who gets what, when and how much? This question is relevant at many different levels, in many different places and in very different ways.
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Political Science
The Institute of Political Science is a vibrant department with nearly 70 academic staff in Leiden and nearby The Hague.
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Political Legitimacy
Profile Area Political Legitimacy, Leiden University
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Gender, Sexuality and Identity in Contemporary Sinophone Cinema
This doctoral project, entitled Sinophone as Method: Reimaging Chinese Cinema in the Global Era, aims to explore the intricacies of knowledges and practices with regard to notions of China, Chinese, and Chineseness.
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Politics between Philosophy and Polemics: Political Thinking and Thoughtful Politics in the Writing of Karl Popper, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt
This dissertation offers a reconstruction of the propositional contents of the writings of Karl Popper, Leo Strauss, and Hannah Arendt while bringing these into discussion with their performative meanings, such as polemical forms of reasoning, analogical and metaphorical uses of language, and hidden…
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Political Science
We are very happy to welcome you to spend the fall semester, spring semester or full academic year studying with us at the Institute of Political Science Leiden or campus The Hague. Here you will find practical information as an exchange student.
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Political Science
Are you thinking about studying Political Science? Watch the introduction video’s and learn more!
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Pulling the Brakes on Political Violence
Under what circumstances do paramilitary groups limit their use of political violence? This article examines the use of political violence by the PIRA.
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Elisabeth Dieterman
Faculty of Humanities
e.m.dieterman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Transforming Wayang For Contemporary Audiences: Dramatic Expression in Purbo Asmoro’s Style, 1989-2015
Kathryn Emerson defended her thesis on 28 June 2016
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moments: How do events affect how we should judge the legitimacy of political authorities?
In what ways do historical and current events affect how we should judge the legitimacy of political authorities?
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and Video Intermediality: The Question of Medium Specificity in Contemporary Moving Images
In Film and Video Intermediality, Janna Houwen innovatively rewrites the concept of medium specificity in order to answer the questions “what is meant by video?” and “what is meant by film?”
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Expanded inspiration: metric improvisation and compositional tools in contemporary modal music
How can we enhance inspiration in metric modal improvisation and subsequently, in modal composition?