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PhD candidate reveals link between North Korea and southern Africa07 March 2022North Korea is generally thought to be an isolated country. But, according to PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog from Leiden’s African Studies Centre, t...
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Three new Leiden bloggers for Faces of Science07 March 2022What is life like as an academic? Twelve PhD candidates will report on their daily work in videos and blogs on the Faces of Science website (in Dutch...
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Reseach funding for 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict'10 November 2021Mirjam de Bruijn has received funding from the Research Council of Norway for the research project 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Confl...
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‘Different languages of instruction could help African education move forward’09 September 2021The high number of students that we are used to in the West would never have been possible if Latin were still the language of instruction in our univ...
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André Leliveld awarded Comenius Senior Fellowship03 June 2021André Leliveld has won a grant of 100,000 euros within the Comenius Senior Fellow programme for the project ‘Learning globally, acting locally: co-cre...
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Africa Knows! transformed into a three-month online event20 November 2020Covid-19 has transformed Africa Knows! into a unique international knowledge-sharing event: it will now be a three-month online event instead of a phy...
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A real professor in the classroom07 February 2020A school lesson by a professor, for instance about the history of Africa, the climate or research and healthcare. A hundred Leiden professors told pri...
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Dies natalis: ‘Collaboration requires firm grounding in the individual disciplines’06 February 2020‘Collaboration is increasingly important,’ Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker said at the 445th Dies Natalis of Leiden University on 7 February. But, as ...
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‘It’s time to modernise African Studies’30 January 2020In 1960, not one but 17 African countries became independent. Sixty years later the African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL) is offering a wide programme ...
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Honorary doctorate for South African professor, Lungisile Ntsebeza04 December 2019South African professor Lungisile Ntsebeza will receive an honorary doctorate on the Foundation Day of Leiden University on Friday 7 February. Ntsebez...
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Africa 2020: reflecting on 60 years of independence29 November 2019
In 1960, 17 countries on the African continent became independent. Sixty years later, the Africanists from Leiden University are reflecting on what in...
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Working and growing in science01 March 2018'We must set out an agenda, in partnership, to manufacture our own means. This will stimulate science, small businesses, jobs and society in Africa an...
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Distinguished South African Minister visits Leiden as Honorary Professor20 February 2018On 26th and 27th February, the South African Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor will visit Leiden University as honorary Oort Visiting ...
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Two different approaches at the Diversity symposium14 November 2017One of the speakers at the Diversity symposium on 22 November is Estela Mara Bensimon, highly honoured professor of Higher Education in the US. A seco...
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Twentieth anniversary of the Lorentz Center: developing ideas in a scientific bubble27 June 2017The 20th anniversary of the Lorentz Center will be celebrated on 28 June 2017 with the opening of an exhibition in the Oude UB. For two decades alread...