1,917 search results for “africa law and governance” in the Staff website
-
Co-creation with researchers in Indonesia: ‘We welcome misunderstandings’
How do you co-create with researchers in other parts of the world? LDE wants to gather and share knowledge on the grand challenges and to do so across national borders. A delegation of 27 researchers will therefore travel to Indonesia at the end of October to take part in the LDE-BRIN Academy.
-
Sovereign debt as strategy: Kathleen Brown on the politics behind the numbers
On Tuesday 30 September 2025, PhD candidate Kathleen Brown will defend her dissertation 'Deception, Risk, and Evasion: The Politics of Sovereign Debt in Emerging Markets' in Leiden’s Academy Building. Her research sheds light on the hidden world of sovereign debt politics, revealing how governments…
-
COIn grants awarded to improve research infrastructure
Several FGW projects have received a COIn grant. This grant, ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 euros, is intended to improve research infrastructure, for example by purchasing software licences, applications, electronics or laboratory equipment.
-
Office for International Education and internationalisation
Internationalisation is an important pillar of the Strategic Plan of Leiden University and Leiden Law School. The driving force behind internationalisation at our faculty is the Office for International Education (known as BIO). The Head of BIO is Anette van Sandwijk. Now the current political climate…
-
GP in the Bible Belt: does God play a role in consultations?
Jaïr van Rhenen studied Medicine in Leiden and is now a GP in the largely religious Veenendaal. Before this, he worked as a tropical medicine doctor in Lesotho. ‘If you have the prospect of an afterlife, you often respond differently to illness.’
-
Three students nominated for an ECHO Award: ‘I want to make the world a better place’
A more inclusive and diverse society is what Talisha Schilder, Hawra Nissi and Chiraz Hassoumi spend many hours a week working towards. Their hard work led them to being nominated for the ECHO Award.
-
In Memoriam: Harriet Zurndorfer (1946-2026)
Harriet Zurndorfer passed away on 18 March 2026 in Leiden.
-
A university conversation on Israel/Palestine
Debate
-
Sensing Darjeeling: Experiential Ethnographies Across Time
Workshop
-
Countering Misinformation in the EU: Origins, Evolution, and Prospects
PhD defence
-
Sub State Recognition: The Politics of State Recognition from Below
Lecture
-
Symposium on Cyber Security in Humanitarian Organizations in The Netherlands
Symposium
-
Language Barriers in Healthcare Settings: A Case for Machine Translation Literacy
Course
-
PE_PP talk: The political cost of tax reform
Lecture
-
Public Speaking Competition for Students of Dutch Studies
Arts and culture, Competition
-
Trade Unions in Morocco: National Unity, Political Struggle, and Trade Union Fragmentation in the Independent State, 1955-1978
PhD defence
-
Syntactic effects of negation — A’-interactions and more
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
-
The Power of Empathy in International Development Work: Beyond Policies and Numbers
Lecture
-
Parallel Worlds: Information Warfare in the Sahel (Dutch-spoken)
Debate, Haags Actualiteitencollege
-
Our man in Jakarta keeps the institute running from Venlo
The COVID-19 pandemic forced many staff of Leiden institutes abroad to leave their posts in a hurry. How is the KITLV Jakarta team doing now? Director Marrik Bellen talks about the turbulent times for this Leiden institute and its staff. And can we learn anything from the Indonesian approach?
-
‘A safe city starts with good education and robust policing’
It is more myth than reality that people with migration backgrounds commit more crime. Leiden has successfully tackled anti-social behaviour by Moroccan youths, says former mayor Henri Lenferink. Good education forms the basis of a healthy and safe society, says ‘crimmigration’ researcher' Maartje van…
-
‘Polarisation is good. Much better than an uneasy silence’
If a young person from a migrant background climbs the social ladder despite internship discrimination, the exclusion often gets worse. It is only when we acknowledge these problems that we can resolve them, say Nadia Bouras and Tikho Ong, who are both experiential and academic experts. ‘Racism and…
-
Opening of the Academic Year: ‘Stop the cuts to education’
Scrap the radical cuts to research and teaching. This was researchers and students’ message to government at the opening of the new academic year. Various speakers in Leiden’s Pieterskerk highlighted the importance of science for society.
-
FGGA in 2022: This was the year for our Faculty
We started this year as we ended it in 2021: in a lockdown. But the world continues to open up. We are occasionally allowed to go into the office and students are able to return to Campus. Continue reading to find out what the rest of the year has been like.
-
University historian Pieter Slaman: ‘I can point to valuable constants and experiments that went too far’
As University historian, Pieter Slaman researches the University’s past, but he’s equally interested in its present. ‘It’s useful to be familiar with issues from the past. Not to be rooted in the past because some developments from history are things you definitely don’t want to repeat.’
-
Book Launch: After Savagery. Gaza, Genocide and the Illusion of Western Civilization
Book Launch
-
From the ground up: The politics of burial and memory in the early Islamic world
Conference
-
Panel discussion: Green Colonialism
Debate
- Orange the World 2025
-
International Criminal Justice: Utopia or Reality?
Lecture, 5th Owada Chair Symposium
-
Water movements
Lecture, Blue History Network Graduate Forum
-
Screening documentary on peacekeepers in Mali: Colombes Sans Gravité/Doves Without Gravity
Screening documentary
-
African methodologies in academic research
Lecture
-
The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
Conference, Book presentation
-
Book Talk: The Psychic Lives of Statues
Lecture, Book Talk
-
Young people and children and the counter-smuggling project
Lecture
-
Radical Spotlights: Personhood, the Economy, and Values
Lecture, Radical Spotlights Seminar
-
'Meet and greet' with the directors of Leiden University’s Institutes Abroad
Informatiesessie
-
Diversity and Functional Potential of the Sorghum Root Microbiome to Control Striga hermonthica
PhD defence
-
Book presentation: Shifting sovereignties — Manifestations of sovereignty from a global historical perspective
Lecture, Book presentation
-
Hans de VriesFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
-
Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
-
Newsletter Student Support FSW April 2022
This Student Support FSW newsletter tells you all about the services provided by the FSW POPcorner, Career Service, and Community Engagement Service. You can read about upcoming activities and vacancies, and pick up tips on study skills, personal and professional development, student well-being, study…
-
New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’
Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare time rambling through the forest, as a professor she sifts through colleagues’ research data. ‘I often come across information that doesn’t appear in the…
-
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!
- Migration and Remittances Major Projects: Wrapping Up and Ramping Up
- COGLOSS seminars 2024-2025
-
Opening public lectures Lorentz Center
Lecture
-
Quietly Otherwise: Atmospheres of Sharing in Unusual Ik Families
Lecture, Research Seminar
-
Tailoring medicines for the genetically diverse African populations
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights