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Bringing a community together with soup 12 July 2021
As part of her Anthropology studies, Leiden student Marleen Kop has made a short documentary about the importance of Leiden-Noord’s ‘soup time’. Her c...
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The ethics of returning colonial photography 30 June 2021
Is it ethical to freely redistribute photographs taken in colonial contexts, historically and today? Christoph Rippe, PhD-candidate Cultural Anthropol...
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Théo Pavlović granted with Master's Speckmann Award 2021 23 June 2021
Alumnus Théo Pavlović received the Masters Speckmann award for his thesis: PAN RECORDS - A digital journey through the ethnic music niche that was sup...
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Discover how research by anthropology students can contribute to solutions for current public problems 16 June 2021
Wondering what anthropology students can contribute in daily practice? Both during their bachelor's and master's studies, anthropology students conduc...
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Fieldwork in Leiden 16 June 2021
How do the residents of the Kooi neighbourhood in Leiden find living there? What can we do about loneliness? In this extraordinary academic year, stud...
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Call for Participation: Winter School Digital Visual Engagements in Anthropological Research 15 June 2021
The ERC consolidator project "Food Citizens? Collective food procurement in European cities: solidarity and diversity, skills and scale" will organise...
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Call for Participation online workshop Interrogating Speculative Futures 07 June 2021
Call for Participation for the online workshop Interrogating Speculative Futures: A workshop on the politics of imagining a future with(out) chronic i...
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CADS student contributes to SOMO research report that is being picked up by international media 02 June 2021
Doing an internship at a research organisation and contributing to a report that is subsequently picked up by the national and international media. Wh...
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Liveable Communities: project with a sustainable outlook 31 May 2021
With the Liveable Communities – Liveable Planet project, Marja Spierenburg, Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihood, is showing tha...
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CADS PhD Conference 2021: Call for contributions 31 May 2021
First inaugurated in 2018, the CADS PhD Conference aims to provide young anthropologists in Leiden University and beyond an opportunity to meet each o...
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What you see is not what you get: things that are not visible are worth studying 26 May 2021
Things that are not visible are also important and worth studying, according to cultural anthropologist Sabine Luning, cultural historian Paul van de ...
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CADS Alumna writes children's book that encourages diversity and inclusiveness among children and their parents 18 May 2021
When Cultural Anthropology alumna Monique Tekstra-van Lochem was having children and she wanted to teach them more about diverse cultures, she was una...
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Stories from Europe’s borderlands: A podcast series about living with, and resistance to, Europe's borders 10 May 2021
In the upcoming months, PhD candidates Neske Baerwaldt (FdR / VVI) and Wiebe Ruijtenberg (FSW / CAOS) will produce the ethnographic podcast series ‘Gr...
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Bachelor students Barink, Van der Geest, Van den Helder and Ruhe received Speckmann Award 2021 28 April 2021
Bachelor students Kirsten S. Barink, Milène van der Geest, Claire van den Helder and Pim L. Ruhe are granted the Speckmann award for their Fieldwork N...
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Social Science Matters: The (non)sense of conspiracy theories 15 April 2021
Climate change is made up, the secret services murdered Pim Fortuyn and JFK, and the moon landing was a fake show. Conspiracy theories are of all time...