588 search results for “south afrika” in the Staff website
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Paul KesslerFaculty of Science
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Aritri DuttaFaculty of Humanities
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From Modern Marvel to Environmental Tragedy: Grant for Research into Polluted Mines in Africa
At one time, the railway from Kimberley to Kambove in Southern Africa symbolised prosperity and progress. Today, the exhausted mining towns along its route are marked by decay and pollution. Professor Jan-Bart Gewald has been awarded an NWO L grant to investigate the long-term global consequences.
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Nicolas Blarel
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Youth Precarity in South Korea
Lecture
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Gerrit Dusseldorp: A visiting researcher at KwaZulu-Natal Museum
Under the title “New insights from old collections”, the archaeological research was introduced on the Museum’s news page.
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Jennifer Swerida -
Patricio SilvaFaculty of Humanities
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Christopher Green in Calgary Sun about North Korea's friendly gesture
As South Korean president Moon Jae-in prepares to leave office, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has thanked him for trying to improve relations. Assistant Professor Christopher Green explains in the Calgary Sun what impact North Korea's gesture of goodwill might have.
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Asia Academy #17: South Korea's Political Rollercoaster
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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Mandela Scholarship Fund
Bachelor, Master
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Lipsius Building
Northern side: During an evacuation, all employees and students gather at the coffee room 001 of the Mathias de Vrieshof. Southern side: During an evacuation, all employees and students gather at the coffee room 004 of the PN van Eyckhof.
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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PoortgebouwRijnsburgerweg 10, Leiden
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Aleydis Nissen and Co-Author on K-pop in The Diplomat
Brandon Valeriano (Cato Institute) and Aleydis Nissen (Leiden University) publish an article on the soft power of K-pop in The Diplomat.
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Herman TiekenFaculty of Humanities
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Nils MartinFaculty of Humanities
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Sanjukta PoddarFaculty of Humanities
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Parallel Worlds: Information Warfare in the Sahel (Dutch-spoken)
Debate, Haags Actualiteitencollege
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Abhishek AvtansFaculty of Humanities
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Miriam WaltzFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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When the Rains Came: A Medieval Moment in South Asia
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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Mapping debt, displacement, and rentier urbanism in South Korea
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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Sanne Dokter-MerschFaculty of Humanities
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Winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2024: Baleseng Maeneche
The jury of the Africa Thesis Award is delighted to announce that the 2024 prize has been awarded to Baleseng Maeneche, a graduate of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, for her thesis 'Media Representations of Male Perpetrators of Violence against Women and Children:…
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Marian Klamer on Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history'
A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…
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Martijn van EtteFaculty of Humanities
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Department of Child Law welcomes back alumna Lucy Opoka
In the summer of 2021, Lucy Opoka was awarded one of the coveted Meijers PhD positions. In October, she arrived back in Leiden, where she obtained her LLM degree Advanced Studies in International Children’s Rights in 2019. Professor Liefaard interviewed Lucy upon arrival.
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CINETS 2026: Crimmigration in an Age of Authoritarian Drift
Conference
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Grant awarded to scale up research into resilience and self-management during waiting times in Youth GGZ
The Healthy Society Programme (HSP) has selected five scale-up projects for a special acceleration grant, giving successful health initiatives the opportunity to be rolled out more widely across the province of South Holland. One of these projects is StartKracht, led by clinical psychologist Anika B…
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‘Podcast gives its listeners a sense of identity and belonging’
In the Netherlands, when we talk about the United Nations, the conversation is almost always about the member states from the northern hemisphere. But the most interesting players come from the ‘Global South’, Professor Alanna O'Malley and her team argue in a podcast.
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Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-South Omotic Suprasegmentals: Initial Findings
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
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Adjudicating Legal Pluralism in South Africa's Constitutional Democracy: The Challenge of Paradox
Van Vollenhoven Lecture 2025
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From Coup to Classroom: Viewing the South Korean film "12.12: The Day (Sŏul-ui pom)"
Film screening
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Does Cadaster Say? Digital Archives and Traces of Urban Inequality in South Korea
Lecture
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Forced Choices: Migration, Identity, and Belonging in the South Tyrolean Option (1939-1955)
Lecture, LIMS seminar / Austrian Studies Seminar
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Financing the Basel German Evangelical Mission in South India during the 19th century
Lecture, COGLOSS lecture
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The Open Door to Hidden Paganism. Abraham Rogerius’s Account of South Indian Hinduism (1651)
Lecture, Booklaunch - CoGloSS | Oosters Genootschap | Leiden University Press
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Kexin ZhengFaculty of Humanities
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Lola VerhoevenFaculty of Humanities
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Xiaoqiang MengFaculty of Humanities
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Martine Kropman
Faculty of Humanities
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Mischa CramerFaculty of Humanities
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Mery CecconiFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan SilkFaculty of Humanities
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel
Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the rights of women and children in Africa and elsewhere. She will be awarded the honorary doctorate on the Dies Natalis, the University’s foundation day, on 8…
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Contested Mobility: Free African Americans and the Law in the U.S. South, 1790-1830s
PhD defence