650 search results for “anthropology of maria and witchcraft” in the Staff website
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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How do international boycotts work for justice? Understanding the ethics and efficacy of the BDS movement
Panel discussion
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Fieldwork NL conference 2022
Conference
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Modes of Human Becoming: Towards a Process Archaeology of Mind
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: Girls’ Education, Neoliberal Subjectivity, and Sacrifice in Niger
Lecture
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Mara Buchbinder - Scritping Death
Lecture, Online webinar
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Challenging Myths and Exceptions
Lecture, Film Screening
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At the limits of cure | Bharat Venkat
Lecture, Online webinar
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Pedagogies of Occupation: Free Time, Professionalization and Protest in Urban Brazil
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Lunch lecture: ‘Geo’-Politics and Animist Social Contracts in the New Himalayas
Lecture
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Q&A with Professor Rosemary Joyce
Debate, Q&A
- The Psychic Life of the Welfare State
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Evidence Gathering Strategies in the Investigation of Crimes against Indigenous Peoples
Conference
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Meaningful sharing: how to improve our engagement with current Open Science practices
Lunch meeting
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Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom
Lecture
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Imagining Oceans: A Critical Conversation on Oceanic Spaces
Lecture
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Inclusive leadership for Depolarisation at Leiden University
Course, Course
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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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Economic, Social and Cultural Rights & Transitioning to a Sustainable Society
Conference
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Psychology End of Year Celebration
Festival, Celebration
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Workshop: Risk and Entrepreneurship – Old Discussions, Innovative Questions, New Insights
Conference, Workshop
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eLaw Summer School: 'Regulating AI and data in an age of EU digital reforms', 24-28 June, Leiden (Registration now open!)
Course, Summer School
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Call for papers - Frontlines of protection: Thinking and defining protection against disasters in times of environmental disruptions
Research
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‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
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Interdisciplinary research: brainstorming and bridge-building
Bring over a hundred driven researchers together in one room and the good ideas will start to flow: that was the thinking behind the internal networking meeting on interdisciplinary collaboration on Wednesday 17 May. Representatives from the nine interdisciplinary programmes were waiting at their stalls…
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ACPA appoints new academic director
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) recently appointed a new academic director. Erik Viskil is taking over from Henk Borgdorff, who held the post for the past four years. What has been achieved in those years? And what does ACPA’s future look like? In this double interview we discuss…
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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How democratic is our kingdom? New ministry chair for Leiden political scientist
When we talk about the Kingdom of the Netherlands, it is not just about the Netherlands. On the contrary: our Kingdom consists of no less than four countries, three of which are Caribbean islands. This structure is complex, to say the least. Although all countries are officially equivalent, in practice…
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Archaeologist Jennifer Swerida investigates emergent social complexity in the Omani desert
In June 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new Assistant Professor. Dr Jennifer Swerida, originally from the United States, will strengthen the Faculty’s expertise on the archaeology of West Asia. ‘I explore human-environment relationships inside an ancient oasis and the surrounding land. Previous…
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Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
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What Constitutes Being Muslim in Indonesia: Islamic Expressions, Politics of Contestation and Accommodation in Bima
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Maize, Monsters, Modernity
Lecture
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Undisciplined Collections
Workshop
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Asian(s) in the Netherlands
Panel conversation
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Documenting Death| Adrienne Strong
Lecture, Online webinar
- The Body Poetic: How identity is formed, negotiated, and renegotiated through interaction between the living and the dead
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Intimate Legal Interactions Meeting - Power and Projects: Reflections on Agency
Debate
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Visible hands, audible voices: Economy as a Matter of Fact and a Matter of Concern by Douglas R. Holmes (Binghamton University)
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Aging nationally in contemporary Poland| Jessica Robbins
Lecture, Online webinar
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Preferences and Beliefs in Behavior and the Brain
PhD defence
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Careful Waiting in the Last Phase of Life: Islam, Medicine and Life-Limiting Illness in Indonesia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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"Hello World!" #4 - Lecture by Zane Kripe
Lecture
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Legitimation as political practice: everyday authority in Tanzania and beyond
Lecture
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Difference and empire, or on the importance of thinking otherwise
Lecture
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I’m afraid it’s rather bad news | Debate in De Balie + livestream
Debate
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Book Launch | Precarious Modernities: Assembling State, Space and Society on the Urban Margins in Morocco
Book Launch
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The thousand war-battalions of the btsan: everyday demons in Ladakh
Lecture
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ASCL Seminar: The Blue Values Journey to Research and Resilience in Coastal Africa
Lecture
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Book talk 'Aspiring in Later Life: Movements across Time, Space, and Generations'
Lecture, Online webinar