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The skate-friendly city 01 March 2024
In cities like Leeds, Seoul and Malmö, a museum park is a place for unintentional creativity, unsolicited interventions and unorganised sport. Dutch c...
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How do you measure democracy? Leiden political scientist collaborates on international freedom report 01 February 2024
Wouter Veenendaal, a political scientist at Leiden University, is an analyst for the Freedom House report. Freedom House is an American non-profit org...
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Towards the Hinduisation of India? 25 January 2024
The recent consecration of India’s Ayodhya temple by Prime Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party figurehead Narendra Modi raises important questions. Is...
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Annemarie Samuels in podcast 'Boldcast' about the evolution of libraries 02 May 2023
Episode 5 of BOLDcast, the podcast of the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for BOLD Cities, discusses the evolution of libraries from simple lending points...
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Fact or fiction: people with autism never make eye contact 21 March 2023
There's a myth that people with autism avoid eye contact in conversations. This can come across as indifferent. Unjustified, stresses Jiayin Zhao, who...
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Fact or fiction: people with autism are not social 21 March 2023
Half the world's population is introverted and comes home drained after an evening of drinks. Their social battery is empty. 'People with autism have ...
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Former CADS PhD student Stacey MacDonald in science programme Atlas on nature policy in Bonaire 12 October 2022
In the scientific television programme Atlas, social psychologist and former Cultural Anthropology PhD student Stacey MacDonald talks about her resear...
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Andrew Littlejohn in podcast Talking Humanitarianism 20 December 2021
In the episode 'Intersecting vulnerabilities of humanitarian disasters' of the 'Talking Humanitarianism' podcast, Andrew Littlejohn talks with host Ek...
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Visit the virtual Gold Matters exhibition 03 November 2021
The virtual Exhibition Gold Matters is now live and can be explored online. This exhibition is the result of collaborations between artists, members o...
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Former Visual Ethnography lecturer Koen Suidgeest city photographer Leiden 20 October 2021
People need to get to know each other to see the positive side of migration, according to photographer and documentary maker Koen Suidgeest. Since the...
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Six modes of co-production for sustainability - Marja Spierenburg in Nature Sustainability 20 August 2021
In a recent publication in Nature Sustainability, an international team led by Josephine Chambers from Wageningen University, and including Marja Spie...
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Watch the best films of Visual Ethnography alumni on Alexander Street Press 28 July 2021
The Leiden University Visual Ethnography collection has been added to Alexander Street Press, an educational streaming video service. The master’s spe...
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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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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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Film by Visual Ethnography alumna selected for the RAI Film Festival 19 March 2021
'Don’t Let the sunny weather fool you' a film made by Visual Ethnography alumna Guusje Meeuwissen has been selected for the RAI film festival in Londo...