News
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Anthropologists Erik de Maaker, Tessa Minter and Gerard Persoon on Sentinel Island 28 November 2018
Despite repeated warnings, John Chau visited the remote Indian island of North Sentinel. His goal: to convert the North Sentinelese to Christianity. T...
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‘Coherent policies for the development of biofuels needed’ 12 November 2018
In the early 2000s, Jatropha Curcas was worldwide promoted as a promising solution to global concerns on climate change, fossil fuel depletion and rur...
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Moral Politics of Nationhood: Four Lessons Learned 09 November 2018
Bart Barendregt, Ratna Saptari, and Annemarie Samuels co-organised a two-day workshop on "Moral Politics of Nationhood: Constructions of Sexual, Polit...
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Social Science Matters: Housing 22 October 2018
Students, first-time buyers, parents with stay-at-home children, migrants in need of a house; the problems in the housing market affect many layers wi...
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GOLD MATTERS: launch of NORFACE/Belmont Forum project on sustainability transformations in Artisanal and Small-scale Gold Mining 19 October 2018
An international and multi-disciplinary research consortium spent two days at Leiden University for the launch of their ‘GOLD MATTERS’ project, funded...
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Senior Teaching Qualification for first ten lecturers 15 October 2018
The Senior Teaching Qualification is for experienced lecturers who have done more than lecturing alone. Ten quotes from the first ten lecturers to re...
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Research on climate change and sustainable livelihoods in the Hindu Kush Himalayas 24 September 2018
Anthropologist Erik de Maaker has received a grant from the Himalayan Universities Consortium worth USD 37.000, along with researchers from Yunnan Min...
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Radio interview with Bart Barendregt on the Indonesian digitising society 12 September 2018
Anthropologist Bart Barendregt is participating in a new Indonesian study program that focuses entirely on the Indonesian digital society. The Radio 1...
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Five short documentaries from the ERC 'Moralising Misfortune' project 12 June 2018
What moral concerns do people have when they encounter the financial sector in their everyday life? Erik Bähre's ERC consolidator project 'Moralising ...
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Annet Pauwelussen joins expert consultation to improve international policies on small-scale fishing 18 May 2018
Cultural anthropologist Annet Pauwelussen has been invited by the University of Washington to participate in an expert meeting on 'Global Measures of ...
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Social Science Matters: The stressed society 16 May 2018
Stress, burnout, depression – these conditions pervade all levels of our society. Children and students suffer from constant pressure to achieve; at t...
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Skills and social change in postsocialistic Mongolia 07 May 2018
How do people living in a remote part of Northern Mongolia experience the post-socialist transition that occurred twenty years ago? Based on extensive...
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Sabine Luning receives NORFACE grant for ST-ASGM project (lead: UK) 01 May 2018
Together with colleagues from the UK (lead), Burkina Faso, Ghana, Uganda, Brazil, Sweden, Germany, and Marjo de Theije of the VU (Amsterdam), Luning ...
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Bachelor and Master Speckmann Awards 2018 20 March 2018
Dominique Brommers, Lilly Brouwer, Annemiek Buijze and Kyra van Meijgaarden were granted the Bachelor Speckmann Award for their report ‘Community of H...
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Cultural Anthropology alumna in ‘The Newsletter’, IIAS 01 March 2018
Tarini J. Shipurkar was the winner of the 2016 IIAS National Master's Thesis Prize in Asian Studies. She wrote her thesis, entitled ‘Gender on Campus:...