Lecture, China Seminar

PhD defence

One Indonesian transgender population known as warias, whose gendered mobility and kinship challenges the fixity of bureaucratic fictions, used the card to engage with the terms of recognition offered by the state.

PhD defence

LIMS talk

PhD defence

On 4 March 2022, Cristiana Strava will present her recent monograph, Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco. Using rich ethnographic detail, Precarious Modernities offers an immersive account of the multiple scales and entangled…

This talk explores how the economy is related to what it means to be human and how the economy can subvert or annul our basic humanity. Specifically, I look at how the communicative protocols of a policy framework, known prosaically as “inflation targeting,” recast the contingencies of subject form…

Debate, Roundtable Conversation

Lecture, Online webinar

VVI Research Meeting 2023-2024

In this talk I explore some preliminary methodological and ethnographic considerations in relation to ongoing and contested urban regeneration schemes in Morocco. Specifically, I draw on the case of Zenata, a so-called ‘New Green City’ occupying 5 km of coast north of Casablanca, to explore how the…

Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series

In the contemporary era of globalization, the pressure of dominant languages on minority languages is relentless, partly because many speakers of smaller languages can see more opportunities if they shift to a dominant one. Despite these pressures, however, many minority language speakers (both indigenous…

Lecture

Lecture

Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series

The lecture will be followed by drinks in the basement of Matthias de Vrieshof 3.

This talk undertakes a rich ethnographic study of Bima Muslims of the Eastern Indonesia who constitute their Islamic identities and agencies. The analysis of the Muslims in the region shows that religious practice remains vigorous over such things as prayers, rituals, spirit possession, healings, and…

A new year that will bring all sorts of developments in the world of research. What are the new year’s resolutions in social sciences research at our faculty? What unites us, and what exciting developments do we anticipate?

Wija Wijayanto and Arum Perwitasari both were Indonesian PhD students at Leiden University, funded by the Leiden-DIKTI Graduate Scholarship Programme. With the help of this scholarship, literally thousands of students travel abroad to write their dissertations. During their research period, Arum and…

On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. For years, the role of women in the past has been nearly invisible. Four archaeologists reflect on this inequality of focus, from hunter-gatherers in the palaeolithic to…

Various researchers from Leiden University have been awarded NWO (Dutch Research Council) Open Competition funding. Nine social sciences and humanities projects will receive the funding.

Bart Barendregt has been appointed professor by special appointment per January 2020. “Anthropology of Digital Diversity has the potential to show that there are always multiple directions and different solutions to the challenges the digital transition to us all is.”

Are we going vegetarian this year? Shall we keep the dessert the same? Where do I find inspiration for a festive meal during the holidays? For readers who like to postpone these questions, for those who like to tell a good story with their culinary contribution, or for those who simply want to know…

Creating a good life and new work values through foodwork?

79 students, 15 organisations, and 16 projects: within the master’s programme Governance of Sustainability, diverse groups of students worked together with organisations to tackle sustainability challenges. In this blog, Annemiek de Looze reflects on how the power of their transdisciplinary approaches…

Wija Wijayanto and Arum Perwitasari both were Indonesian PhD students at Leiden University, funded by the Leiden-DIKTI Graduate Scholarship Programme. With the help of this scholarship, literally thousands of students travel abroad to write their dissertations. During their research period, Arum and…

Devin DeWeese, Indiana University Bloomington, will be the Central Asia Visiting Professor between 5-17 September 2016. Professor DeWeese will deliver a guest lecture on Monday, 12 September (Lipsius 148, 3pm) and a masterclass on Friday, 16 September within the Central Asia initiative at Leiden Uni…

High-quality education, research involving multiple faculties, collaboration between universities and central government funding to make all this possible: these were the topics covered in a working visit of the Standing Committee for Education, Culture and Science (OCW) to the Association of Universities…

Many students are finishing their master thesis on sustainability this summer. In this blog, we reflect on their topics, approaches, and goals by highlighting theses from Governance of Sustainability, European Law, Global Archaeology, Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Ecology, and…

Dr. Josien de Klerk, Associate professor in Global Public Health at Leiden University College The Hague recently published some of her work on HIV/AIDS. In collaboration with a team of interdisciplinary researchers from the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development she came to the conclusion…

Commission on Legal Pluralism - Keynote Lecture

Lecture, INVISIHIST event

Lecture, Research Seminar

Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series

VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023

Lecture

Join us for our next LUCDH lunchtime talk presented by Prof. dr. Bart Barendregt and Dr. Reza Ardekani on Wednesday, 7 December 2022 at 12:00 – 13:00 (CEST). The One Among Zeroes |0100| Project investigates the Islamic Information Society’s most debated component – artificial intelligence…

Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series

Lecture

Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series

On 20 September 2019, the opening drinks for the Open Science Community Leiden will be held at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Open science is the approach to science aimed at making scientific research accessible, reproducible, and freely available to people within and outside the academic…

Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that we do not do dinosaurs, the Faculty Board has now decided to listen to society’s call. ‘It is clear that the general public feels that dinosaurs are relevant…

From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant from the NWO. A grant of up to 250,000 euros will give them the opportunity to further elaborate their own ideas over…

Museums across Europe and the United States hold innumerable Latin American objects in their collections. A small percentage of these were collected in the Early Modern Era, most, however, were brought together in the 19th and 20th-century. While the trade and collecting of these items in the 19th-century…

Roundtable | SSEALS