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Africa Knows! transformed into a three-month online event 20 November 2020Covid-19 has transformed Africa Knows! into a unique international knowledge-sharing event: it will now be a three-month online event instead of a phy...
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A real professor in the classroom 07 February 2020A school lesson by a professor, for instance about the history of Africa, the climate or research and healthcare. A hundred Leiden professors told pri...
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Dies natalis: ‘Collaboration requires firm grounding in the individual disciplines’ 06 February 2020‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as ...
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‘It’s time to modernise African Studies’ 30 January 2020In 1960, not one but 17 African countries became independent. Sixty years later the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) is offering a wide programme ...
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Honorary doctorate for South African professor, Lungisile Ntsebeza 04 December 2019South African professor Lungisile Ntsebeza will receive an honorary doctorate on the Foundation Day of Leiden University on Friday 7 February. Ntsebez...
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Africa 2020: reflecting on 60 years of independence 29 November 2019
In 1960, 17 countries on the African continent became independent. Sixty years later, the Africanists from Leiden University are reflecting on what in...
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Working and growing in science 01 March 2018'We must set out an agenda, in partnership, to manufacture our own means. This will stimulate science, small businesses, jobs and society in Africa an...
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Distinguished South African Minister visits Leiden as Honorary Professor 20 February 2018On 26th and 27th February, the South African Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor will visit Leiden University as honorary Oort Visiting ...
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Two different approaches at the Diversity symposium 14 November 2017One of the speakers at the Diversity symposium on 22 November is Estela Mara Bensimon, highly honoured professor of Higher Education in the US. A seco...
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Twentieth anniversary of the Lorentz Center: developing ideas in a scientific bubble 27 June 2017The 20th anniversary of the Lorentz Center will be celebrated on 28 June 2017 with the opening of an exhibition in the Oude UB. For two decades alread...
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Jan-Bart Gewald new director of Leiden's African Studies Centre 10 April 2017Professor Jan-Bart Gewald has been appointed as the new director of the African Studies Centre in Leiden with effect from 1 September 2017, for a peri...
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442nd Dies Natalis focuses on Asia 08 February 2017On the 442nd anniversary of the foundation of Leiden University, and at the start of the Leiden Asia Year, lawyer Jan Michiel Otto, an expert in the f...
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Voice4Thought: listening to other voices 09 September 2016People in motion. This is the theme of the Voice4Thought festival taking place in Leiden from 21 to 25 September. Debates, songs, art, workshops, a co...
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Book Africanist Stephen Ellis posthumously published 13 June 2016The African Studies Centre Leiden presented the last book by its renowned colleague Prof. Stephen Ellis (1953-2015), This Present Darkness: A history ...
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How Nelson Mandela became a Leiden Honorary Doctor 06 December 2013Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, who died on 5 december 2013, received an honorary doctorate from Leiden University in 1999. Mandela’...