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Cultural Anthropology graduate nominated for 'most impactful student project' by Leiden Science CityCultural Anthropology graduate Tommie Lambregts conducted fieldwork in the Slaaghwijk neighbourhood in Leiden as part of a Policy in Practice research...
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‘We’re not only studying society, we’re creating society’Students, staff and alumni of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences joint forces to interact, debate, pitch, and speed date together at the C...
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Moralising misfortune: the ethical side of insuranceHow do you gain access to insurance? With whom are you willing to share the risk? And when does an insurance policy pay out? These and other moral que...
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Latin American representatives visit Faculty of Social and Behavioural SciencesEach year, Latin American diplomats meet the researchers and students from Leiden University who specialise in their region. This year, they visited t...
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Introducing new students for the Programme Committee of CADSThe Programme Committee consists of teachers, students, a secretary and an education coordinator. The committee meets once a month (on average), to di...
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Jan Jansen awarded ASA Service Award by the American African Studies AssociationThe ASA Board of Directors notes that, serving for almost a decade, the editors transformed History in Africa “into a peer-reviewed journal that not o...
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Leiden through the eyes of seven city photographersFreemasons, young circus artistes, people at a clothes swap and many more. Seven young anthropologists spent a year exploring Leiden as city photograp...
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Workshop Report: The Stigma of ‘Underdevelopment’ in Heritage Production
On Friday 11 October, the workshop on “The Stigma of ‘Underdevelopment’ in Heritage Production” took place in the beautiful building of the Faculty of...
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Opening 'Stadsfotograaf Leiden' photo exhibitionFor one year, seven young anthropologists were appointed as Stadsfotograaf Leiden. They published on a weekly basis photo-series on daily life in and ...
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Leiden Anthropology Conference: Call for ContributionsMore than 100 anthropologists work at Leiden University – not only at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (CA/DS) in the...
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Pieters Corner: Open ScienceOn 20 September 2019, the opening drinks for the Open Science Community Leiden will be held at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. Open sc...
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‘What is the value of the social sciences?’At the Faculty's opening of the 2019-2020 academic year, the focus lay not just on the vision for the future of the social sciences, and the opening o...
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Five ERC Starting Grants for young researchers from LeidenThe ERC has awarded a Starting Grant to five promising researchers from Leiden. Two are from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, one is fr...
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LUF research grants for two anthropologistsAnnemarie Samuels and Andrew Littlejohn, Assistant Professors at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, have both be...
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Data in the city: new research projectsThe Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities uses data research to help solve urban issues. Three interdisciplinary research projects will begin so...