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Social Science Matters: The surveillance society 02 February 2022
Those who know their dystopian classics will inevitably associate the concept of surveillance society with the all-knowing oppressive force characteri...
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The importance of an interdisciplinary approach to open information provision in palliative care 28 January 2022
What if seriously ill patients do not want to hear their diagnosis? Does a clinician always need to provide a patient with all available information? ...
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Pieter de la Court Medal winners talk about accessibility and the conditions of education 26 January 2022
During the New Year’s Reception on 11 January 2022, the Pieter de la Court Medal was awarded to two students of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural ...
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CADS student Simay Çetin wins FSW Master’s Thesis Prize 2021 19 January 2022
Simay Çetin won the FSW Master’s Thesis Prize 2021 with her thesis “Interpreting Culture through Embodied Practice: An anthropological study of sexual...
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Two Cultural Anthropology students awarded Pieter de la Court Medal 2021 12 January 2022
Claire van den Helder and Orestes Kyrgiakis won the Pieter de la Court Medal 2021. The Pieter de la Court Medal is an initiative for students by stude...
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Honorary doctorate for anthropologist Rosemary Joyce 10 January 2022
American anthropologist Rosemary Joyce will be awarded an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on its Dies Natalis on 8 February. Joyce has deliv...
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Andrew Littlejohn in podcast Talking Humanitarianism 20 December 2021
In the episode 'Intersecting vulnerabilities of humanitarian disasters' of the 'Talking Humanitarianism' podcast, Andrew Littlejohn talks with host Ek...
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Leiden Anthropology of Asia Network created 10 December 2021
Last week, the 'Leiden Anthropology of Asia Network' was created, based on the network event 'Leiden Anthropology of and in Asia' on 8 December 2021. ...
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Recap of the 2021 Anthropoplogy CADS PhD Conference 06 December 2021
After a long period of isolation under pandemic, the PhD candidates of the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology seized the opp...
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8 Leiden Anthropologists jointly publish new guide for Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography 03 December 2021
On 30 November 2021 the book 'Audiovisual and Digital Ethnography: A Practical and Theoretical Guide' was published by Routledge. The book resulted fr...
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More focus on skateboarders in academic discourse 23 November 2021
There are approximately 60 million skateboarders worldwide. And yet in the academic world, this culture is not always looked upon seriously. Visual an...
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Kira Nijland about her role as a student member of the Institute Board of CADS 17 November 2021
Kira Nijland follows the master programme Policy in Practice and is since October the student member of the Institute Board of Cultural Anthropology. ...
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Navigating Boundaries in Ethnographic Fieldwork 15 November 2021
On Friday the 5th of November, members of the CADS Institute engaged in a lively roundtable lunch discussion on navigating boundaries in ethnographic ...
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Andrew Littlejohn awarded Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship 10 November 2021
Dr. Andrew Littlejohn has been awarded a Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. The fellowship provi...
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Encouraging secondary school students to think and talk about sustainability and policy 07 November 2021
Anne Veens is on a mission. She wants secondary school students to get acquainted with anthropology, and think about the value it can have in the deve...