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Research on climate change and sustainable livelihoods in the Hindu Kush Himalayas 24 September 2018
Anthropologist Erik de Maaker has received a grant from the Himalayan Universities Consortium worth USD 37.000, along with researchers from Yunnan Min...
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Radio interview with Bart Barendregt on the Indonesian digitising society 12 September 2018
Anthropologist Bart Barendregt is participating in a new Indonesian study program that focuses entirely on the Indonesian digital society. The Radio 1...
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Five short documentaries from the ERC 'Moralising Misfortune' project 12 June 2018
What moral concerns do people have when they encounter the financial sector in their everyday life? Erik Bähre's ERC consolidator project 'Moralising ...
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Annet Pauwelussen joins expert consultation to improve international policies on small-scale fishing 18 May 2018
Cultural anthropologist Annet Pauwelussen has been invited by the University of Washington to participate in an expert meeting on 'Global Measures of ...
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Social Science Matters: The stressed society 16 May 2018
Stress, burnout, depression – these conditions pervade all levels of our society. Children and students suffer from constant pressure to achieve; at t...
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Skills and social change in postsocialistic Mongolia 07 May 2018
How do people living in a remote part of Northern Mongolia experience the post-socialist transition that occurred twenty years ago? Based on extensive...
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Sabine Luning receives NORFACE grant for ST-ASGM project (lead: UK) 01 May 2018
Together with colleagues from the UK (lead), Burkina Faso, Ghana, Uganda, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, and Marjo de Theije of the VU (Amsterdam), Luning ...
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Bachelor and Master Speckmann Awards 2018 20 March 2018
Dominique Brommers, Lilly Brouwer, Annemiek Buijze and Kyra van Meijgaarden were granted the Bachelor Speckmann Award for their report ‘Community of H...
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Cultural Anthropology alumna in ‘The Newsletter’, IIAS 01 March 2018
Tarini J. Shipurkar was the winner of the 2016 IIAS National Master's Thesis Prize in Asian Studies. She wrote her thesis, entitled ‘Gender on Campus:...
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Cultural Anthropology alumna shortlisted for the IIAS Master Thesis prize 2017 15 February 2018
MSc Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology alumna Annelin Verkade is one of the four 'runners-up' for the IIAS Master Thesis prize 2017. Supe...
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Tigers and people can live next to each other in India 02 February 2018
When people and tigers use the same forest, their ability to cope and co-adapt to the influences of the other is much higher than currently understo...
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Research at the Faculty in 2018: a sneak preview 24 January 2018
A new year that will bring all sorts of developments in the world of research. What are the new year’s resolutions in social sciences research at our ...
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Photo contest 'Food and Society' (Deadline 3 April 2018) 17 January 2018
Are you a great photographer? Or not at all, but you do have a brilliant photo that captures the relationship between food and people? Join the photo ...
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Marianne Maeckelbergh receives ERC Consolidator grant for project ‘Property and Democratic Citizenship’ 06 December 2017
Marianne Maeckelbergh has received a Consolidator grant from the European Research Council for a project on the impact of property regimes on experien...
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‘Japan and Leiden aren’t so far apart after all’ 04 December 2017
A delegation from Leiden University visited Japan from 18 to 26 November to facilitate cooperation in research and teaching. The delegation also atten...