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Alumna Cultural Anthropology Ruth Erica writes youth novel about RwandaWriting a story from the perspective of a Rwandan girl set in Africa is not an easy task. Alumna Cultural Anthropology Ruth Erica did it. Her debut no...
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Sports Centre celebrates 50 yearsOnline competitions, online sports, dietary advice for staff and students and 'What do they eat for lunch?' The first 'volunteer' is Vice-Rector Heste...
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Pieter's Corner: How useful is deprivation of liberty?A new bill is currently under debate in the Netherlands, advocating raising the prison sentence for manslaughter from 15 to 25 years. ‘This very serio...
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Alumna Cultural Anthropology Van der Helm is 'Stadsfotograaf' Leidsch DagbladEvery year a photographer portrays Leiden as Stadsfotograaf (City Photographer) of the Leidsch Dagblad. This year it is the honor to Leonie van der He...
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Asma Mehan about PortCityFutures, anthropology and LeidenPort cities are internationally connected. Decisions and changes occurring in one city have a direct impact on port cities in other parts of the world...
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In lockdown during fieldwork abroadImagine: you are at the end of your fieldwork in Peru and ready to go home when all flights get canceled because of Covid-19. It happened to master st...
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LOWI conclusion: former employee did breach scientific integrityOn 28 July 2020, the Netherlands Board on Research Integrity (LOWI) concluded that a former employee of Leiden University breached several rules of sc...
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‘Let knowledge flow through the neighbourhoods!’Leiden during corona, loneliness in the elderly or making the city more sustainable. Students from Leiden University and Leiden University of Applied ...
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Voyage to Corona. An artistic insight on COVID-19 by Federico de MussoIn February Cultural Anthropologist Federico de Musso went to Northern Italy to visit his family. He was there for three days when COVID-19 cases star...
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Shirley van der Maarel and team ‘Samen Verder’ granted Speckmann Awards 2020Bachelor’s students Dana Huisman, Marleen Kop, Sam Wichers Schreur and Adriënne de Zoeten were granted the Speckmann Award for their Fieldwork NL repo...
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The Cinematic Santri: Youth culture, tradition and technology in Muslim-IndonesiaFor some devout Muslims, going to the cinema or viewing certain images is provocative and problematic. Ahmad Nuril Huda investigated the development S...
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In Memoriam professor Bonno Thoden van VelzenOn Tuesday 26 May 2020 professor H.U.E. (Bonno) Thoden van Velzen passed away.
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Dr. Anouk de Koning awarded with Urban Citizen FellowshipCultural Anthropologist dr. Anouk de Koning has been awarded the Urban Citizen Fellowship to carry out research about democratisation of local democra...
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The latest technology isn't always the best, most sustainable or adequateBart Barendregt has been appointed professor by special appointment per January 2020. 'Anthropology of Digital Diversity has the potential to show tha...
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Webinar series photo book Why I Cry On AirplanesAt the beginning of this year CADS Lecturer Koen Suidgeest published his photobook Why I Cry on Airplanes. In this book he takes you on a visual fligh...