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• CRG Seminar: The Economic Community of West African States at fifty: Edward Blyden and the road towards a people centered regional body Event - 19 November 2025

  Lecture

• European Border Policing Amidst (Geo-)Political Turmoil Event - 14 April 2025

  Lecture

• entanglement of online and offline networks in times of conflict in Africa Event - 20 November 2025

  Conference, 2-day Workshop

• Call for Participants: Researching Migration Policy in Autocratizing Countries News - 10 June 2025

  Are you doing research on migration policy in a country that is facing democratic backsliding or breakdown, or that is deepening its already-autocratic character? Are you struggling with how to best do your research so that it is meaningful and scientifically sound yet safe for you and research participants?…

• Van de keukentafel tot de hoogste Haagse kringen: iedereen lobbyt News - 27 October 2022

  Je onderdompelen in de wereld van de lobby. Dat kan op donderdag 10 november tijdens de Nacht van de Lobbyist, een publiek event dat de Universiteit Leiden en de Public Affairs Academie voor de 2de keer organiseren. Vijf vragen aan initiatiefnemer Bert Fraussen, universitair docent bij het Instituut…

• Russia correspondent Eva Hartog: ‘Return to the Netherlands? No way!’ News - 17 October 2022

  Russia correspondent Eva Hartog took a Master’s in Political Philosophy in Leiden in 2011. This former editor-in-chief of The Moscow Times sees this short period as a new chapter in her life. And she is once again contemplating her future now she can no longer ask the big questions in Russia.

• Research into sustainable finance: ‘Vidi funding is an amazing opportunity’ News - 6 July 2022

  Natascha van der Zwan is one of twelve scientist of Leiden University that have been awarded a Vidi grant of 800,000 euros in this round. The Associate Professor at the Institute of Public Administration conducts research into investment politics and how to make the financial system more sustainable.…

• Cultural genocide: 'I see no scenario in which Uyghur culture can revive in Xinjiang' News - 26 April 2023

  Within just a few years, the Chinese government's policy towards the Uyghurs deteriorated sharply. From control and marginalisation, it shifted to violation of human rights. PhD candidate Elke Spiessens was right in the middle of it with her research. 'The fabric of the community is being completely…

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  Esther Edelmann Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Louis Sicking University Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Unaesah Rahmah PhD candidate / self funded

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Lars Brummel Assistant professor

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Thomas Renard Guest employee

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Alysa Eijkelenboom PhD candidate

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

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  Vittorio Nespeca Postdoc

  Faculteit Governance and Global Affairs

• insights on human diet from the Later Stone Age to Neolithic in Northwest Africa, Morocco Event - 14 May 2025

  PhD defence

• Bastiaan Rijpkema in Trouw over partijverbod News - 24 November 2022

  Het voorstel van D66 om een wetsartikel zo te veranderen dat een politieke partij kan worden verboden, is onverstandig, zegt rechtsfilosoof Bastiaan Rijpkema. Hij spreekt er uitgebreid over tijdens een interview met de Volkskrant. ‘Het is overduidelijk bedoeld om één specifieke partij aan te pakken:…

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  Carla Cisternas Guasch PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mily Crevels Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Bálint Honos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nestor Marin Bravo PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  David Home Valenzuela PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tomás Díaz PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mariana Gaba PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Felipe Cousiño PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Joaquin Fernandez Abara PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Cristian Saavedra Bastía PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Juliët Tinebra Lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Alliance Mango Kubota PhD candidate

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Carlos Rilling Tenorio PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Gabriel Veppo de Lima PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Andrea Bravo Lee PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Macarena Alegria Garcia PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Daphne Engel PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nadia Rojas PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Theresa St John PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Nicole Pereira Ríos PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

• Dissertation: Is it One Nile? The complexity and diversity of the world's longest river News - 19 April 2021

  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’.

• Co-Producing Nationalism in Crisis: State and Public Dynamics on Weibo News - 26 June 2025

  During the corona pandemic, the Chinese government's digital communication with its citizens changed. Hard propaganda was increasingly replaced by ‘soft news’. PhD candidate Dechun Zhang mapped the developments in digital society.

• Een permanent burgerberaad, de missing link in de Nederlandse politiek News - 17 August 2022

  Landen om ons heen laten zien: als burgers mogen meedenken, komt er beweging in vastgelopen politieke discussies. Zou een dergelijke derde kamer ook de oplossing kunnen zijn voor Nederland, waar samenleving en overheid elkaar steeds verder uit het oog lijken te verliezen?

• Which MPs have Leiden roots? News - 5 December 2023

  Twenty-two of the 150 newly elected members of the Dutch House of Representatives studied at Leiden University or did their PhD research here. But who are they and which degrees are most popular?

• The Complicit Politics of EU Migration Diplomacy Event - 4 June 2025

  Lecture, LIMS seminar

• Lauren Lauret receives D.J. Veegens Prize 2022 News - 30 June 2022

  University lecturer Lauren Lauret has been awarded the D.J. Veegens Prize 2022 for her dissertation on the meeting practices of the States General during the time of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces compared to those of the Lower House during the first half of the 19th century.

• Introducing: Karen Smith News - 30 May 2017

  Karen Smith recently joined the Institute for History as a lecturer in International Relations. She introduces herself.

• ‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch News - 11 April 2022

  Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center for International Relations (LUCIR) has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique. Her resulting book, Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil…

• Asia Academy #17: South Korea's Political Rollercoaster Event - 11 February 2025

  Lecture, LAC Asia Academy

• Introducing: Stefano Bellucci News - 24 September 2014

  In August 2014 Stefano Bellucci started working as Senior Lecturer in African History at the Institute for History.

• How to address sensitive subjects in class? News - 17 May 2024

  The war between Russia and Ukraine, the conflict in Gaza or the global rise of the far-right: topics that stir up emotions but are also regularly discussed in classes at Political Science. Moreover, with a diverse group of students, there is a great diversity of life experiences, backgrounds and opinions.…

• Religion as political tool: the influence of Christian Zionism in the US Event - 6 October 2025

  Lecture, Actualiteitencollege Den Haag

• Conversation on Islam in Today’s Indonesian Politics Event - 30 September 2025

  Roundtable