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Jan-Bart Gewald new director of Leiden's African Studies Centre10 April 2017Professor Jan-Bart Gewald has been appointed as the new director of the African Studies Centre in Leiden with effect from 1 September 2017, for a peri...
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442nd Dies Natalis focuses on Asia08 February 2017On the 442nd anniversary of the foundation of Leiden University, and at the start of the Leiden Asia Year, lawyer Jan Michiel Otto, an expert in the f...
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Voice4Thought: listening to other voices09 September 2016People in motion. This is the theme of the Voice4Thought festival taking place in Leiden from 21 to 25 September. Debates, songs, art, workshops, a co...
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Book Africanist Stephen Ellis posthumously published13 June 2016The African Studies Centre Leiden presented the last book by its renowned colleague Prof. Stephen Ellis (1953-2015), This Present Darkness: A history ...
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How Nelson Mandela became a Leiden Honorary Doctor06 December 2013Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, who died on 5 december 2013, received an honorary doctorate from Leiden University in 1999. Mandela’...