918 search results for “latin american politics” in the Staff website
-
Polish Holocaust researchers accused of defamation will give Cleveringa Lecture
On 26 November historian Jan Grabowski and sociologist Barbara Engelking will both give the Cleveringa Lecture. They wrote a book about the Holocaust in Poland and were taken to court for defamation.
-
Travel log Laura Kamsma: travelling by train to the EAIE conference in Barcelona
Laura Kamsma, Head of the International Office of our Faculty kept a travel log during her visit to the EAIE conference. You can read her report here.
-
'Elections are in the air here in Brussels, the energy is surreal'
German-American Mia Müller (26) has been working at the European Parliament for three years now as Press Officer at The Greens/EFA Group. She is a bit nervous about her 'first' elections.
-
Crossing the divide: learning about language policies and practices around the world
During the past year online meetings and lectures have become a firm feature of university life. One of the highlights of the Leiden University Centre for Linguistics’ online activities has been the online seminar series ‘Language policy and practices in the Global North and South’ organised by guest…
-
From law student to successful entrepreneur in the water-quality industry
Yousef Yousef (39), a successful entrepreneur in the water-quality industry, recently joined the Advisory Board at Leiden Law School. Read the interview about his career.
-
Archaeologist Alejandra Roche Recinos investigates ancient immigration in Southern Guatemala
In June 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new Assistant Professor. Dr Alejandra Roche Recinos, originally from Guatemala, will strengthen the Faculty’s expertise on the archaeology of Central America. ‘I want to explore the lesser known archaeology of Southern Guatemala.’
-
Word from the LUCSoR Chair: September 2024
Welcome to the 2024-2025 academic year! I hope this finds you feeling refreshed following an enjoyable and restful summer holiday season. As we start the autumn semester, I want to look back briefly by highlighting 10 significant milestones at LUCSoR from this past year (some of which I referenced in…
- PCNI Research Seminars 2021-2022
- Symposium Contract Law and Legal Certainty
-
“Book Diplomacy” in the Cultural Cold War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Conference
-
Relationships that Count: Social Networks and Language Learning
Lecture
-
Forum Antiquum Lecture Spring 2023: 'Tempori serviendum est: Cicero’s public voice under the dictatorship of Julius Caesar'
Lecture
-
CSPPR Lecture: The Power of ‘Unpolitics’
Lecture
-
Global Challenges: The Regime of Lukashenka
Lecture
- Best practices
-
Daniel Pauly: The Human Appropriation of the Earth and the Oceans
Lecture
-
Witches and Snowflakes: Nurturing Feminist Ethnography in Times of Crises
Lecture, Research Seminar
-
Bridging the Gap Between Policy Makers and Academia
Career development
- Futures from the frontiers of climate science
- PCNI Research Seminars 2022-2023
-
Fragmented Marginalities: Dispossessed Peasantry and Migrant Labour Communities in Urban North India
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
-
Maktub shortfilm night with passion talks
Short film night
-
LCN2 seminar May 2024
Lecture
-
The Gulag Legacy - Memory of Stalinism in Today's Russia
Lecture
-
Workshop 'Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges'
Workshop
-
Disentangling citizenship from nationality and inclusion from belonging in Chile
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
-
With kind regards: September 2022
Lecture
-
On the Abuse of Photographs by Kevin Lewis O’Neill
Lecture
-
Defending Nature’s Rights: Paradoxes and Challenges
Masterclass
-
Recap of the 2021 Anthrooplogy PhD Conference
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opportunity to organize an in-person, on-site event: the CADS PhD Conference for 2021. With the theme "Young Scholars at the Intersection of Uncertainty,…
-
Meet the Student workgroup D&I Student Wellbeing
On Monday 14 November 2022, our faculty student workgroup Diversity & Inclusion + Student Wellbeing will start working. The workgroup consists of seven motivated student assistants under supervision of the Faculty Coordinator Susanne Deen will get started on making the topics diversity & inclusion and…
-
In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
-
‘Sometimes choosing a different path can take you further’
On International Women's Day (8 March) we take time to consider female emancipation and participation. What does this day mean for Leiden University, and how does it tie in with our aim of becoming more diverse and inclusive? We talked about these issues with Annetje Ottow, who recently became the…
-
Teaching Prize winner Ayo Adedokun: teaching is a calling
‘Teaching is not merely a profession; it’s a calling.’ These were the words of Ayo Adedokun on winning the LUS Teaching Prize at the opening of the academic year on 6 September. The prize is for the best lecturer of the year.
-
Leiden University celebrates curiosity at 449th Dies Natalis
How has evolution shaped our curiosity? And how does that curiosity ensure that we now have the technological ability to discover whether we are alone in the universe? This was all covered during the celebration of Leiden University’s 449th Dies Natalis.
-
Book Launch 'Freedom on the Offensive'
Lecture, Book Launch
-
Tiny Gardens Everywhere
Lecture, Leiden University Environmental Humanities Series
-
Elsa Charlety | On Zora Neale Hurston
Lecture, Research Seminar
-
Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
-
The Decade of Revolt? Class Conflict and the State of Permanent Crisis in the Post-2011 Middle East
Conference, Roundtable
-
Unknown Past: Leila Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
-
Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture by Jason De León
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
-
Understanding Continuity and Change in US Counterterrorism Policy Through Policymaker Profiles
PhD defence
-
On the Origins of 'The Origins of Inequality'
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
-
Consensus and ideology in expert communities: The case of economics
Seminar
-
Citizen Labor: correcting data and creating value in an Indian land records database
Lecture, Research Seminar
-
Academic data science: Transdisciplinary and extradisciplinary visions
CWTS Seminar
-
LUCDH Lunchtime Speaker Series: Digital Analyses: Old English Poems and Modern Comics
Lecture
-
Seminar and book discussion
Lecture, Seminar and book discussion