428 Results found for "international studies"
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Become a student mentor: a few more persons needed!
Do you want to help future 1st year students feel at home at International Studies? Become a student mentor! We still need a few more persons to complete the team.
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Voices from the Silenced: The PSCORE and BASIS North Korea Event at Wijnhaven
On March 22nd at precisely 16.45h, we excitedly opened the doors of Wijnhaven’s biggest lecture hall and watched more than 400 students and staff members stream into the many increasingly cramped rows of our long-awaited ‘North Korea Event’. At the grand desk below between the busy-looking organizers from BASIS, four calm and concentrated people in suits were checking their speeches and presentations one last time. Dressed in modest black, two representatives of the South Korean NGO PSCORE and one translator, seemed to direct the audience’s attention to the woman dressed in bright red. A peculiar prominence for all of us in International Studies knowing of the unprecedented enigma of the country of her childhood, family, and home – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
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Academic Community Charter - Supplement to the Code of Conduct for Students
You are at our University and at the International Studies Programme in particular to increase your knowledge of the world and your intercultural awareness. You have chosen to participate in our academic community as a student, and conversations and debates form essential elements of being part of this community. We introduce this Charter to emphasise that being a member of an academic community brings with it certain responsibilities. We are committed to open debate, as long as that debate is carried out in an academic manner respectful of others, based on facts, and clear in argument We expect everyone to abide by this approach, not just in face to face meetings, but also, and especially, online. In this way, we all contribute to our Programme’s academic community in a professional and respectful way.
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Internship story: Maartje’s contribution to installing a special UN rapporteur on Democracy
Maartje Mensink, a third-year International Studies student with a focus on East Asia and Mandarin, shares her journey into the world of global democracy advocacy. Maartje recounts her experience with the NGO Democracy Without Borders (DWB), an organization that seeks to make the United Nations (UN) more democratic and representative. It has offices all over the world, filled with over 100 volunteers, but its headquarters, where Maartje was engaged, are based in Berlin.
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In the media: Brexit and Northern Ireland
The Programme Chair of the BA International Studies and Historian Joost Augusteijn has been consulted by various Dutch and Belgian media lately to shed his expert light on the matter of the Irish border and the Brexit negotiations. Feel like a deep dive into this subject? Find the links to radio shows like VPRO’s “OVT”, BNR nieuwsradio’s “Internationaal” and VRT’s “De ochtend”.
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One million euros for research on migrant cultures in European Cities
Dr. Sara Brandellero (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society), who teaches Culture Latin America among other courses at International Studies, will lead a research project about urban night life and migration, culture and integration in eight European cities. Together with Dr. Kamila Krakowska and Prof. Frans-Willem Korsten, also researchers at LUCAS and lecturers in our programme, she will collaborate with four other European universities to answer the question how night spaces are dynamically produced, imagined, experienced and narrated by migrant communities in Europe. This way, Night spaces: culture, migration and integraTion in Europe (NITE) aims to support community well being and better integration by taking culture after dark as a central axis of its analysis.
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Meet the new student members of the Programme Board!
Imogen Stevens and Matthias Obermeier have been the student representatives on the International Studies Programme Board this past academic year. On which successes can they look back? In this article they will introduce the new student Programme Board members and ask them what they would like to achieve in their term.
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Well-being Wednesdays: Advice from our students
If you follow International Studies on Instagram (@ba.international.studies) you might have noticed that every Wednesday is themed “Well-being” (the alliteration made us do it…). Students have been sharing their best advice and personal experience, telling us how they are getting through these days. During the past months, recognizable stories and tips on motivation, focus and how to stay healthy (mentally/physically/…) have been featured. Interested in what these students had to say? We’ve bundled three of the student stories for you. Enjoy! And if you are interested in reading more, check out our Instagram account!
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Challenge expected: creating a critical and open academic community
This spring BA International Studies will be a focus of investigation! An investigation we invite you to become an active participant in, by joining in and discussing some profound questions in order to build a strong(er) community in the uncertainty of the world around us.
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Let’s create a Silk Road Virtual Museum
Join Richard Griffiths, founder of the International Studies programme, as he explains his new initiative - to create a virtual museum about the Silk Road, highlighting the material and cultural heritage of this historical network of Eurasian trade routes. Why this subject and what would a virtual museum look like? Professor Griffiths explains what it all entails and how you can contribute as a volunteer.