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How should we deal with global warming? Anthropologist Marja Spierenburg answers this question on the “Beste-ID” platformGlobal warming 04 December 2025At the end of 2024, the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency stated that it is “highly unlikely that the Netherlands will achieve its statutory...
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Everyone has the right to good end-of-life care, but what exactly does that entail?Social Sciences Connect 01 December 2025Over the past five years, medical anthropologist Annemarie Samuels has studied palliative care in different parts of the world. Over the next five yea...
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Anthropologist Anna Notsu co-creates children’s book together with Biate communityDonate and help publish the first-ever Biate picture book 27 November 2025In collaboration with the Biate community of Meghalaya (Noth East India), I am co-creating the first-ever bilingual picture book in the Biate language...
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Leiden University Global Seed Fund for Sara de Wit and Miriam Waltz17 November 2025Congratulations to Sara de Wit and Miriam Waltz, who have just won a Leiden University Global Seed Fund. Their proposed project entails 'Climate Talks...
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Anthropologist Andrew Littlejohn on NU.nl: 'With Trump taking office, the tide is turning on disaster management'"in the media 23 October 2025More than twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina devastated the southern United States with nearly 1,400 deaths. Due to climate change, the lessons from ...
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Meet the new student Programme Committee members of Cultural Anthropology22 October 2025Maria Moser, Mischa de Jong, and Ander Damiano Delliturri are the newly appointed student representatives on the Programme Committee (OLC). This commi...
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Lou Boshart, Xiaohui Liu, and Sarah Noordeloos winners of the Metje Postma AwardsMetje Postma Awards 20 October 2025Lou Boshart won the Excellence in Visual & Multimodal Ethnography Thesis Prize for his film ‘Layers of Confidence’. Lou produced a multimodal thesis a...
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Narrating Highland Heritages of Bhutan16 October 2025Highland Bhutan is facing unprecedented challenges from a combination of climate change, new economic opportunities, and changing cultural aspirations...
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Look to Africa as a mirror of global developmentsInaugural lecture on 29 september 29 September 2025Western countries still tend to view Africa as the periphery, says anthropologist Mayke Kaag. In her inaugural lecture, she calls for a shift in persp...
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Visual Ethnography alumna Wilke Geurds exhibits photography during Leiden KunstrouteAlumni in the spotlight 25 September 2025Photographer and Visual Ethnography alumna Wilke Geurds captured special encounters during her travels. As an anthropologist, Wilke is always curious ...
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Providing information in palliative care: what if patients don’t want to know everything?Palliative care 17 September 2025How do you behave towards patients with life-threatening conditions who do not want to know all the details of the state of their health? This questio...
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Anthropologist Sander Hölsgens on The Conversation on what schools can learn from skate cultureThe Conversation 29 July 2025Skateboarding philosophy can transform education in numerous ways. Together with colleagues, Sander researched the value of skateboarding in education...
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Translating medical anthropological academic insights to policy recommendations24 July 2025How do we balance policy critique with constructive policy recommendations? How do we navigate power relations between policy makers and (disadvantage...
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LDE GMD Seed Grant for research on diasporic aid and care in crises21 July 2025Cultural Anthropologists of Leiden University and Development studies researchers of ISS-EUR have been awarded funding to explore how diaspora communi...
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Veni grants for 18 Leiden researchers17 July 2025Eighteen researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This grant gives promising young resea...