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Five Comenius Teaching grants for Leiden lecturers 05 July 2021Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a €100,000 Comenius Teaching grant within the Senior Fellows programme. A further two lectur...
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel 19 January 2021Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the right...
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New investigation of South African rock shelter sheds light into Middle and Later Stone Age modern human behaviour 21 October 2020In the eighties the Umhlatuzana rock shelter in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, was excavated. Results from this excavation led to an understanding when...
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Emily Anne Wolff in The New York Times on Kenya's Used Clothing Ban 13 July 2020The Kenyan second-hand clothing market is depended upon locally by citizens for its low cost, high quality and diversity. To prevent the spread of the...
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Southern Africa is bracing itself for the coronavirus 08 April 2020At the end of March, the first coronavirus infections were detected in southern Africa, which resulted in country after country rapidly closing their ...
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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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Children in Sierra Leone thrilled with pens from KOG cleaner Lamin 10 December 2019For almost ten years now Lamin Sow, a cleaner working at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building, has been collecting discarded pens he comes across throughout ...
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There is not one type of refugee 07 November 2019What is a refugee? This question might seem easy to answer, but it is not, concludes Catherina Wilson. For 7 years she did research in The Democratic ...
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NWO Open Competition funding for three humanities scholars 25 July 2019Manon van der Heijden and Leo Lucassen, and Maarten Mous will receive NWO Open Competition funding. This funding amounts to a maximum of 750,000 euros...
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Leila Demarest receives LUF research grant 02 July 2019Leila Demarest, Assistant Professor of African Politics at Leiden University, has recently been awarded with a Leiden University Fund research grant t...
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Return of customary law often a let-down for local people 23 January 2019Traditional leaders in many African countries have regained some of their former powers. Politicians and companies in some of these countries manage t...
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology" 30 August 2018Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has ...
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Joris Larik: New handbook cornerstone for emerging field of comparative foreign relations law 30 October 2017On 13-14 October, Dr. Joris Larik, Assistant Professor for Comparative, EU, and International Law at LUC, took part in the Duke-Pretoria Conference on...
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Why southern Africa is full of North Korean monuments 25 September 2017North Korean workers designed and built numerous monuments, museums and other buildings in southern Africa. This is clear from research by history stu...
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Call for papers: Claiming Rights and Resources in the African City 30 August 2017On Wednesday 11 October 2017 the African Studies Centre Leiden and the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society are organizing a work...