947 search results for “south africa” in the Staff website
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From the ground up: The politics of burial and memory in the early Islamic world
Conference
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Matthew Canfield and Danielle Chevalier receive NWO Grants
Matthew Canfield (Assistant Professor, Van Vollenhoven Institute) and Danielle Chevalier (Assistant Professor Law & Society, Van Vollenhoven Institute) both received XS Grants from the NWO Open Competition SSH for their respective research projects. These grants are a maximum of €50,000 and enable…
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Aleydis Nissen in The Diplomat on BTS and mandatory military service
K-pop band BTS joining the Korean military is a compulsory obligation, one with increased meaning as tension builds on the Korean Peninsula and around the world, postdoc Aleydis Nissen writes in an article in The Diplomat.
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Podcast tips for Pentecost
Are you looking for some listening material for the upcoming long weekend? Staff members and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities have been creating various podcasts over the last few months. A selection is shown here:
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Stephen Ellis Debate on the role of African philosophy in peace and security
Debate
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Peace Movements: A Global History
Conference
- COGLOSS seminars 2024-2025
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How should we use AI? The Islamic world may have an answer
The secular West is struggling with the rise of AI, but so too is Muslim Southeast Asia. What can we learn from each other?
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Fanny Wonu Veys: ‘I want to introduce students to the art history of Oceania’
Fanny Wonu Veys was appointed Professor of Art and Material Culture of Oceania on 1 August. Time for an introduction.
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Book Talk: The Psychic Lives of Statues
Lecture, Book Talk
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MA Asian studies Graduate Student Conference: Who is Asian? Definitions, Representations, and Marginalizations
Conference
- Scholarships
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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
Lecture
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entanglement of online and offline networks in times of conflict in Africa
Conference, 2-day Workshop
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Ivan DunduroFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Emmanuel Ogwuche OkpeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Carla Cisternas GuaschFaculty of Humanities
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Mily CrevelsFaculty of Humanities
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Bálint HonosFaculty of Humanities
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Gabriel Veppo de LimaFaculty of Humanities
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Liliana Morawietz Yanez
Faculty of Humanities
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Nadia Rojas
Faculty of Humanities
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Nestor Marin Bravo
Faculty of Humanities
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David Home Valenzuela
Faculty of Humanities
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Tomás Díaz
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicole Pereira Ríos
Faculty of Humanities
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Mariana Gaba
Faculty of Humanities
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Felipe Cousiño
Faculty of Humanities
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Macarena Alegria Garcia
Faculty of Humanities
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Joaquin Fernandez Abara
Faculty of Humanities
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Cristian Saavedra Bastía
Faculty of Humanities
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Juliët TinebraFaculty of Humanities
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Carlos Rilling Tenorio
Faculty of Humanities
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Alliance Mango Kubota
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Theresa St John
Faculty of Humanities
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Daphne EngelFaculty of Humanities
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Errance and Border Transgressors: African Mobilities from Dakar to the Atlantic | Research Seminar
Lecture, Research Seminar
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insights on human diet from the Later Stone Age to Neolithic in Northwest Africa, Morocco
PhD defence
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Visitors and guest staff members
Guest staff and contractors can park at the university’s parking locations. Different rules and rates often apply.
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Policy and politics pre-analysis plan workshop
Workshop
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Southeast Asia as method, History as prevention Decentering the history of measles (to better control the disease?)
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Leïla Gfeller and Tobias van Brandwijk win Political Science bachelor’s thesis prizes for 2021
2021, again, sees a rich harvest of bachelor theses in Political Science. Students have been tackling fascinating subjects—ranging from European solidarity in the COVID-19 crisis to the representation of women in democratically elected parliaments—and crowning their research projects with interesting,…
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ERC Consolidator Grant for Radhika Gupta
Radhika Gupta has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to study how transnational Islamic charitable networks are entangled with Western humanitarianism and neoliberal welfare frameworks.
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Retrospective 75th anniversary African Studies Centre Leiden
A ‘world class institute’ with a ‘vibrant atmosphere’, doing research on a continent that is ‘becoming increasingly important’. That is how Annetje Ottow, president of Leiden University’s Executive Board, described the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) on its 75th anniversary celebration on 8 September…
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Opening public lectures Lorentz Center
Lecture
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Black hole one year later: proof of a persistent shadow
The brightness peak of the ring around M87's supermassive black hole has shifted 30 degrees counterclockwise in a year. This is shown by new images released by the Event Horizon Telescope consortium.
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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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ASCL Seminar: Waves of Memory in the Red Sea: Unpacking Mixedness through Italo-Eritrean Livescapes
Lecture
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Exhibition Early Photography of the Middle East
From Persia and Arabia to North Africa: as early as the nineteenth century, there were Dutch people who used the camera themselves in various regions of the Middle East.