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Tom Buitelaar
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
t.j.a.buitelaar@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9985
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Dissertation: Is it One Nile? The complexity and diversity of the world's longest river
Abeer Abazeed, PhD-student at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, will defend her thesis on Wednesday april 21st. Four questions about her PhD-research ‘Is it One Nile? Civic engagement and hydropolitics in the Eastern Nile Basin’.
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NICA is moving to Leiden
Since 1 January Leiden has a new graduate school. The Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA), previously based at the University of Amsterdam, has moved to the Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS).
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Political Social Networks in Indonesia Workshop
Workshop
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PCNI Research Seminar on Political Meetings
Lecture, PCNI Research Seminar
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KNOT: Envisioning A Virtual Museum of Indigenous American Heritage in Italy
Lecture
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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'The show must go on, but making politics less tedious is an almost effortless job these days!'
After almost a year of working from home during this Covid pandemic, Scientific Director Paul Nieuwenburg conveys how the Institute of Political Science is sailing through waves and lockdowns: from transformation to bi location to 'non location', from teaching on the beach to teaching to 'black cubes'…
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Minors
A minor allows you to develop your knowledge beyond the boundaries of your study programme, or to specialise further in your own field of study. You can follow a minor in Leiden and also in Delft or Rotterdam.
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Internships and research vacancies
During your studies you'll acquire a good theoretical basis. But what about practical experience? By doing an internship you can gain a clearer picture of a particular position or sector. For some study programmes an internship is a compulsory part of the curriculum.
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Legitimation as political practice: everyday authority in Tanzania and beyond
Lecture
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‘It’s a complete stalemate in Belarus’
What with coronavirus, the American elections and the Brexit botheration, we had almost forgotten that something miraculous happened in 2020: the repressed people of Belarus rallied against dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 26 years. Months later, what remains of the protest?…
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Justin Spruit: ‘TRAIl makes finding an internship easier’
In the upcoming months, we’ll talk to students of the FGGA faculty who have finished their internship. What did the internships bring them? And what kind of work did they do? In this interview we speak with Justin Spuit, a Master’s student Political Science: Dutch Politics and International Relations:…
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When Hospice Isn’t a ‘Choice’: Disregard, Care and End of Life on the American Periphery
Lecture
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Gioconda Belli: ‘La poesía es la palabra llevada al máximo de su capacidad expresiva’
Aprovechando la conferencia Spinoza, Nanne Timmer, Universitair Docent LUCAS, le hace unas preguntas a la escritora y Premio Reina Sofía Gioconda Belli sobre su poesía y su lugar en la Nicaragua de hoy.
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Leiden researchers explain shock PVV victory
Geert Wilders and his PVV party have won the 2023 elections. What was the deciding factor for this victory?
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LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Humanities for Contemporary Policy Research - the Case of China
Lecture
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Public Lecture: 'How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market'
Lecture
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Universal Jurisdiction Becoming more Universal? Taking Stock of Contemporary Practices
Conference
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On the Backlash: The Weimar Republic and the Contemporary World, UCDxLeiden
Lecture, INVISIHIST event
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‘Vastgelopen formatie te wijten aan afrekencultuur'
Expert in public affairs and politics Arco Timmermans advised the informer Kim Putters.
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system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics
In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…
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Robert Zwijnenberg
Faculty of Humanities
r.zwijnenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Raymond Fagel
Faculty of Humanities
r.p.fagel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2730
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Noa Schonmann
Faculty of Humanities
n.schonmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1432
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Jeroen Duindam
Faculty of Humanities
j.f.j.duindam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2759
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‘New Rutte IV administrative culture will be difficult to create’
The Rutte IV cabinet is more or less complete. It includes more women than ever. For the first time ever, the Netherlands will have two ethnic minority ministers, and ministers without political experience but with plenty of professional expertise will also be making their debut. However, political…
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The Political Economy of an Enigma: Exploring Vietnam's Domestic Dynamics and International Role
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Just to be sure... At any cost?
Security seems to most people a basic necessity of life, a prerequisite for a good life. But if you think about it a little longer and deeper, as political philosopher Josette Daemen has done, you realise that security sometimes comes at the expense of other important goods, such as freedom and equality.…
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spiritual care and forensic care: situating the remains of war dead in contemporary Vietnam
Lecture, Research Seminar
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A quick call about the war in Ukraine: ‘Did Putin underestimate his opponent?’
The war in Ukraine has lasted almost two weeks now. What does Putin expect to achieve with his invasion and how big is the chance that the West will get involved? We phoned André Gerrits, professor and expert on Russia.
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Ingrained Habits: The “Kitchen Cars,” American Wheat Promotion, and the Transformation of Japanese Diet and Identity, 1956-1960
Lecture
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Israeli Politics Now
Debate
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Solving the Pachakutik party puzzle
The Ecuadorian Pachakutik party is one of the oldest indigenous political movements in Latin America. Despite not being very successful at the polls and hardly having organisational resources at its disposal, Pachakutik is still part of Ecuador’s political landscape. In her dissertation, Political Scientist…
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The United States and the War in Gaza: History, Politics, and Culture
Debate, Panel and Q&A session
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Slavery excuses: 'Cabinet created its own problem by rushing in'
The excuses for the slavery past? It would have been better if the cabinet had taken some more time on that, thinks university lecturer and Atlantic slavery expert Karwan Fatah-Black. 'Too bad they didn’t wait for the results of the study.'
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'We are already going to see this effect of the coalition agreement in the coming weeks'
Few details, relatively few words. The coalition agreement presented is one of the shortest in the past 20 years, Arco Timmermans knows. Consequently, the outlines were not negotiated for very long, which has its advantages and disadvantages. 'Over the next few weeks, we are mainly going to see the…
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Conference ‘Power and Counterpower in Democracy: Multidisciplinary Perspectives'
As both old and new democracies experience increasing democratic backsliding, there is a critical societal need to rethink the design and effectiveness of democratic checks and balances. In this conference on Friday 9 June, the aim is to explore multidisciplinary insights about what makes the checks…
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Casper Wits in POLITICO on the EU's China Policy
University lecturer Casper Wits wrote an opinion piece on the ongoing diplomatic tensions between the European Union and China for POLITICO. In this article, he argues that 'rather than shrinking from the fight, the EU must develop a China policy that prioritizes progressive values and human rights.…
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Programme
When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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ASCL Seminar: Hope and uncertainty in African migration - a case study of involuntary return to Ghana
Lecture
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Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
Lecture, Research Seminar Medieval and Early Modern History
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Gaza: Humanitarian and Political Challenges
Lecture
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The PolSci Bookshelf: books released in 2023
The end of the year often means looking back with lists, overviews and stories. This combines nicely in a list of all the books published this year by various political scientists at Leiden University. Indeed, in terms of books, these scholars have certainly not been idle. A unique collection of stories,…
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Hoe kan de gemeente Leiden het contact met internationals verbeteren? Studenten Bestuurskunde zoeken het uit
Tweedejaars studenten van de Bachelor Bestuurskunde, track Bestuur Beleid en Organisatie (BBO), hebben tijdens het vak BBO II: Multi-level governance gewerkt aan een praktijkopdracht voor de gemeente Leiden. De bevindingen werden aan elkaar gepresenteerd tijdens een interactieve sessie.
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