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Deborah OyuuFaculty of Humanities
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
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This was 2021! An overview of Humanities in the news
Online, hybrid, on campus... It was an unpredictable year, also for the Faculty of Humanities. Luckily, there were also non-corona related stories. Let's review 2021 with this list of the most-read news articles per month.
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55th Colloquium on African Languages and Linguistics
Conference
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Why is that word there? Research on language structure completed
Communication is the transmission of information. All day long we are busy explaining and making things clear to each other, but exactly how we do that varies from language to language. Associate Professor Jenneke van der Wal delved into African Bantu languages for a Vidi project.
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Nils MartinFaculty of Humanities
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Anwesha Sengupta
Anwesha Sengupta is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Area Studies.
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Herman TiekenFaculty of Humanities
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PoortgebouwRijnsburgerweg 10, Leiden
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Sanjukta PoddarFaculty of Humanities
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Dr Graça Machel in Leiden: human rights, the crucial role of academia and the importance of intergenerational dialogue
Almost three years after receiving her honorary doctorate, Dr Graça Machel returned to Leiden University. Over the course of two days she spoke with students, researchers, and other interested persons, about human rights – particularly those of women and children – in a world in which these are continually…
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Da‘wa as Development: Kuwaiti Islamic Charity in Africa
Lecture
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Marianne WiesebronFaculty of Humanities
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Kexin ZhengFaculty of Humanities
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Indira RatwatteFaculty of Humanities
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Olli LittunenFaculty of Humanities
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Xiaoqiang MengFaculty of Humanities
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Roozbeh SeyediFaculty of Humanities
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Mery CecconiFaculty of Humanities
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Martine Kropman
Faculty of Humanities
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Abhishek AvtansFaculty of Humanities
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Pralay KanungoFaculty of Humanities
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Boukary Sangaré
Faculty of Humanities
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Code Yellow: Exams will continue
Education
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Keynote by Mayke Kaag at UN about trust and security sector reform
On 2 June, Prof. Mayke Kaag gave a keynote speech at the UN Headquarters in New York. The meeting was organised by the UN’s Security Sector Reform & Governance Unit.
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Jonah Schulhofer-WohlFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Martijn van EtteFaculty of Humanities
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Peace in the Middle East? Students seek solutions in Peace Academy
Finding solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the not-inconsiderable task of the new Peace Academy in The Hague. Professor Maurits Berger and twelve students from different conflict zones are starting a creative thinking process that aims to discover the basic conditions for peace in the…
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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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Science, technology and innovation is not addressing world’s most urgent problems
Global science research serves the needs of the Global North, and is driven by the values and interests of a small number of companies, governments and funding bodies, finds a major new international study published today. As such, the authors find, science, technology and innovation research is not…
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University Council at 50: ‘Everything in Leiden was a tad more Leiden’
After the May elections a new University Council has now taken seat. The university democracy is the result of the long-lived national student protests in 1969. Students from Leiden joined the protests for greater representation, although their actions were less revolutionary than at other universities.…
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Asia Academy #11: South Korea's Chip Power
Lecture, LAC Asia Academy
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LUMC professor Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives Spinoza Prize
Leiden professor of Cellular Immunology of Parasitic Infections Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives the prestigious NWO Spinoza Prize this year. This, in many ways, border-crossing scientist contributes with her research to more effective vaccines against parasitic infections and better medication for inflammatory…
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Kauthar KhamisAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Koundja Mayoubila
Faculty of Humanities
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ASCL Seminar: Animals in Africa - Human-animal relationships through the lenses of decoloniality and ubuntu
Lecture
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Expressions of "war" and "peace" in medieval Arabic North African conquest narratives
Lecture | Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Mamadjibeye Mamadjibeye
Faculty of Humanities
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Alliance Mango Kubota
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Sanne Dokter-MerschFaculty of Humanities
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Thesis and papers
When writing a thesis or paper you must make good use of the insights you have gained during your lectures and studies so far. You should also refer to relevant literature and carry out your own research on the topic.
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Call for Papers: Localizing the Women Peace & Security Agenda Across Multiple Governance Challenges
Hybrid Workshop: In person and online on 26 – 27 January 2023.
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André Leliveld awarded Comenius Senior Fellowship
André Leliveld has won a grant of 100,000 euros within the Comenius Senior Fellow programme for the project ‘Learning globally, acting locally: co-creation of an international multidisciplinary online learning environment around Frugal Innovation'. André is academic coordinator of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus…
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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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Berthe JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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UAF Meet-Up Region South-West
Arts and culture
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Sustainable Humanities Scholarship
Bachelor, Master
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Intergenerational Justice and Human Rights in a time of Planetary Crises in Africa
Conference
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Religiosity and Knowledge in Muslim Context in West Africa: Reconfiguring the Relationship between Boko and Adini
Lecture, LUCIS Keynotes