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In lockdown during fieldwork abroad 23 September 2020
Imagine: 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 integrity 18 September 2020
On 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!’ 17 September 2020
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 Musso 07 July 2020
In 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 2020 17 June 2020
Bachelor’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-Indonesia 10 June 2020
For 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 Velzen 02 June 2020
On 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 Fellowship 29 May 2020
Cultural 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 adequate 29 April 2020
Bart 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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170 scientists sign manifesto with five policy proposals for a post-COVID-19 development model 14 April 2020
COVID-19 has shaken the world. 170 academics of eight different Dutch universities believe the time is right for a positive and meaningful vision. The...
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Are people willing to share risks together within a financial market? 06 April 2020
Economic anthropologist Erik Bähre does research on the morality of insurance. In his latest ethnography ‘Ironies of Solidarity’ Bähre explores how th...
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Leiden Anthropologists Reflect on the COVID-19 Pandemic 24 March 2020
The coronavirus outbreak raises fundamental questions about the politics and narratives of crisis, as well as about our “ordinary” everyday lives and ...
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Leiden Anthropology Conference in retrospect 28 February 2020
On February 14th the first Leiden Anthropology Conference took place. With around 80 anthropologists working at different institutes present, we can s...
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CADS alumna Shirley van der Maarel wins Leiden University Thesis Prize 2020 20 February 2020
Shirley van der Maarel won the Thesis Award 2020 with her thesis 'Terra Incognita'. Van der Maarel graduated summa cum laude for the master's speciali...
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Nature conservation initiatives – who foots the bill? 18 February 2020
In January 2020, Marja Spierenburg joined the FSW as the new Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihoods. Let’s get to know her. ‘All ...