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SciSTIP – The (South) African research funding landscapes (Phase 2)
Who is funding African science? How are different African and international funders interacting and contributing to develop scientific research in the continent? Are there potential inadvertent synergies among research funders that can be identified? These and similar questions are at the heart of this…
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Koen Caminada on Dr Kelder & Co: No increase in inequality
When it comes to wealth distribution in the Netherlands, you often hear that there is a huge gap. Is that true? And is this gap also widening, as is often claimed?
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Teaching Assistant Prize for Michał Pacholski and Koen van Deelen
To improve our teaching and reward excellent teaching assistants, the institute offers a Teaching Assistant Prize to the best teaching assistant of the semester.
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Koen Bastiaans wins first Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest physics thesis prize.
The winner of the Paul & Tatiana Ehrenfest physics thesis prize 2020 is Koen Bastiaans. He carried out his PhD research in the group of Milan Allan and defended his thesis in December 2019 cum laude at Leiden University.
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Building Northern Public Support to Finance Climate Policies in the Global South
As part of the Paris Agreement, countries across the world agreed to support developing countries to invest in climate mitigation and adaptation through a Green Climate Fund. However, developed countries have failed to meet funding commitments for the Green Climate Fund–the flagship program financing…
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The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South - INVISIHIST
The main aim of this project is to reveal and unravel the invisible histories of the UN, transcending the dominant Western perspective to recover the historical agency of Global South actors. The research will investigate how the UN has both facilitated and limited their role in shaping global order…
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South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon
This project, South American population history revisited: multidisciplinary perspectives on the Upper Amazon (SAPPHIRE), investigates population dynamics in western South America on the basis of traces in the geographical, genetic, archaeological, ethnological, and linguistic record.
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Taking Up Space: Waste and Waste Labor in Developing South Korea
On 25 January 2024 H.J. Pak successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Writing under Wartime Conditions: North and South Korean Writers during the Korean War (1950-1953)
Writing under Wartime Conditions is a study into North and South Korean literature written during the Korean War.
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Halting and Reversing Escalation in the South China Sea: A Bargaining Framework
Escalating tensions in South China Sea have epitomized US–China relations for nearly a decade. Warning signs of a possible collision between a rising China and steadfast US, bring to light the need to think about ways that can halt and reverse the intensification of their confrontational moves.
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Practitioners’ analyses of new mother’s challenges in Alexandra Township South Africa
Early Childhood Community Practitioners’ analyses of new mother’s challenges in Alexandra Township South Africa: a collaboration between academics and practitioners
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MAPHSA - Mapping the Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage in South America
The archaeological heritage of South America is facing increasing threats due to the expansion of agricultural activities, infrastructure expansion, illegal wood harvesting, and the current fire emergency plaguing the Amazon and other biomes of the continent.
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Girija Joshi
Faculty of Humanities
g.joshi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Channa Li
Faculty of Humanities
c.li.6@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1766
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Ajay Gandhi
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
a.gandhi@luc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9100
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IIAFSARS - Identification of irregular archaeological features in northern South America forest using remote sensing methods
Researchers using remote sensing technologies have characterized pre-Columbian regularly-shaped earthworks in forests in Central America and the Amazon. In tropical forested mountains in South America, two challenges arise when identifying archaeological sites through remote sensing. Firstly, sites…
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The People in Between: Education, Desire, and South Koreans in Contemporary China
Xiao Ma defended her thesis on 26 September 2018
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Language archive of insular South East Asia and West New Guinea (Laiseang)
The Laiseang archiving project ensures the preservation of unique records of languages in the region which have been gathered by more than two dozen linguists at, and in collaboration with Dutch universities over the last 40 years.
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Former Visual Ethnography lecturer Koen Suidgeest city photographer Leiden
People need to get to know each other to see the positive side of migration, according to photographer and documentary maker Koen Suidgeest. Since the end of September, Suidgeest has been the new city photographer for the region of Leiden. His goal is to photograph as many cultural identities as possible…
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Language policy and practices in the Global North and South: Challenges, opportunities and future directions
A thorough description of the relationships among languages and their social environment in a given context, reflecting an ecological perspective, involves attention to the agency of local actors, and the policies, discourse, and ideologies that surround them.
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The Heirs Of Vijayanagara: Court Politics in Early Modern South India
This comparative study investigates court politics in four kingdoms that succeeded the south Indian Vijayanagara empire during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries: Ikkeri, Tanjavur, Madurai, and Ramnad. Building on a unique combination of unexplored Indian texts and Dutch archival records, this research…
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Imperial Legacies in Early-Modern South India. Dynastic Politics in the Vijayanagara Successor States
This research deals with the royal houses of the Vijayanagara Empire and four of its successor states: Ikkeri, Tanjavur (under both the Nayaka and Bhonsle rulers), Madurai, and Ramnad. This study is thus concerned with dynastic politics and imperial legacies in south India between the 14th and 18th…
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A Class of Their Own - Black Teachers in the Segregated South
In this book Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later.
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the Relational Self: Law, Culture, and Injury in the Global North and South
Although official law generally conceives of personal injury victims as individual rights holders, the actual experience of physical injury and its consequences is relational. Indeed, many researchers in the global North as well as the global South have contended that the very concept of the Self should…
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(Non)recognition of legal identity in aspirant states: evidence from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Transnistria
Ramesh Ganohariti will examine legal identity in three post-Soviet aspirant states and outline four common scenarios in this article.
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Black Material Culture and the Development of a Consumer Society in South Africa, 1800-2020
This book is the first systematic analysis of the changes in the use of goods and services by households of Black South Africans since the early nineteenth century.
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Koen de Ceuster on the NKNews Podcast about North Korean art
Koen de Ceuster, university lecturer for Korea Studies at the Leiden University Institute for Area Studies, was interviewed on the NKNews Podcast about art in North Korea. He speaks about the role of art in North Korean society, art ‘business’, and argues why it is not possible to separate propaganda…
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Wetland Farming in the area to the south of the Meuse estuary during the Iron age and Roman period
An environmental and palaeo-economic reconstruction.
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A comparative study of COVID-19 responses in South Korea and Japan: political nexus triad and policy responses
This study aims to examine how South Korea (hereafter, Korea) and Japan, two neighboring countries in Northeast Asia, have been responding to and mitigating the spread of COVID-19.
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Koen Marijt is crazy about history: 'So much has happened within one kilometre of Rapenburg'
Anyone who has taken a walk through the centre of Leiden before might have come across him, an attentive group of tourists gathered around. After studying history, Koen van Toen, or Koen Marijt, started his own business. He now organises historical walks, among other things.
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Careers: The Work-lIfe Experiences of Women Employed by Japanese and South Korean Firms
On Wednesday 14 February 2024 Yorum Beekman successfully defended a doctoral thesis and graduated.
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Vice-Dean Koen Caminada speaks at the opening ceremony of the HOPweek
Last monday, the fourth edition of the HOPweek kicked-off. During this week, new students of Leiden University that will study in The Hague will get to know new people, their study, study associations and The Hague. HOPweek 2019 was officially opened during the opening ceremony in the Great Church (De…
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
v.thakur@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1256
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Karen Smith
Faculty of Humanities
k.smith@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1737
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governance, and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda (2014-2019)
On 1 June 2022, Bruno Braak defended his thesis entitled 'Overcoming ruptures: Zande identity, governance, and tradition during cycles of war and displacement in South Sudan and Uganda (2014-2019).' The doctoral research was supervised by Prof.dr. J.M. Otto, Dr.ir. C.I.M. Jacobs, and Dr. C. Leonardi…
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Lecture on international judicial cooperation by Ard van der Steur and Koen Geens
On Monday 21 November a lecture was given at Leiden Law School of Leiden University by Belgian Minister of Justice Koen Geens and Dutch Minister of Justice and Security Ard van der Steur in which they talked about international judicial cooperation. The lecture focussed on cooperation between the Netherlands…
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Ellen Raven
Faculty of Humanities
e.m.raven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Peter Bisschop
Faculty of Humanities
p.c.bisschop@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2980
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Fortress. Military Engineering and the Dutch East India Company in South Asia, 1638-1795
The remains of Dutch East India Company forts are scattered throughout littoral Asia and Africa. But how important were the specific characteristics of European bastion-trace fortifications to early modern European expansion?
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the Andes: a search for early migratory relations between North and South America
The aim of the project is to unravel the genetic and contact relations between the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica (Mexico and western Central America) and the Middle Andes region (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia), as part of a larger endeavor to understand the historical process of the peopling of the Americas…
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coercive diplomacy against the nuclear programs of Iran, Libya and South Africa
What are the conditions under which coercive diplomacy can compel a State to abandon its controversial nuclear (weapons) program? Based on the experience of the US coercive diplomacy against the nuclear programs of three countries, namely Iran, Libya and South Africa, Jean Yves Ndzana’s PhD research…
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Inaugural lecture Nira Wickramasinghe: South Asian political imaginaries
How can historical archive sources by non-elite groups help us understand modern-day politics in South Asia? This is one of the main themes of Prof. Nira Wickramasinghe’s inaugural lecture on 14 March.
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Photo Report Cluster South
The renovation of the South Cluster has been in full swing over the recent period. As the completion date approaches, no later than 1 April, we're excited to provide you with a glimpse of the current state of the building.
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Gul-i-Hina van der Zwan
International Institute Asian Studies
g.shahzad@iias.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Former president South-Africa visits Campus The Hague
Former President Kgalema Motlanthe of South Africa gave a public lecture on Campus The Hague on 7 July. His story was about the economic transformation of Africa.
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‘In South Korea, life goes on’
Aron is a second-year student of Korean Studies. He was in Seoul as part of the stay-abroad portion of the program when Leiden University took measures due to the coronavirus. He and his fellow students decided to let the last flight back to the Netherlands pass to stay in South Korea.
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New book by Lydie Cabane explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters
Lydie Cabane, Assistant Professor in Governance of Crises at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, recently published the book The Government of Disasters. In this book Lydie explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters.
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Irini Sifogeorgakis
Faculteit Archeologie
e.sifogeorgakis@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
r.j.ross@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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V.S. Srinivasa Sastri: A Liberal Life
This book explores the Indian tradition of liberalism through a critical intellectual biography of Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri (1869–1946).