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Mirjam de Bruijn receives NWO grant to research digital warfare in the Sahel26 September 2022Professor Mirjam de Bruijn will research digital warfare in the North African Sahel with an NWO Open Competition grant. The focus of the research will...
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’26 September 2022Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (Un...
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Knowledge exchange visit: Morocco as an intermediary between Africa and the Netherlands26 August 2022Strengthening the cooperation between Moroccan, other African, and Dutch institutions for higher education. This was the focus of a two-day seminar at...
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Executive Board column: Annetje Ottow on Brussels, Africa and societal impact22 March 2022Within the scope of innovating and connecting – the theme of our new Strategic Plan – I paid a visit to Brussels last week. It is important to give Le...
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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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LUMC professor Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives Spinoza Prize03 September 2021Leiden professor of Cellular Immunology of Parasitic Infections Maria Yazdanbakhsh receives the prestigious NWO Spinoza Prize this year. This, in many...
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Five Comenius Teaching grants for Leiden lecturers05 July 2021Three lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded a €100,000 Comenius Teaching grant within the Senior Fellows programme. A further two lectur...
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Honorary doctorate for child rights activist Graça Machel19 January 2021Mozambican politician and child rights activist Graça Machel will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University for her commitment to the right...
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New investigation of South African rock shelter sheds light into Middle and Later Stone Age modern human behaviour21 October 2020In the eighties the Umhlatuzana rock shelter in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa, was excavated. Results from this excavation led to an understanding when...
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Emily Anne Wolff in The New York Times on Kenya's Used Clothing Ban13 July 2020The Kenyan second-hand clothing market is depended upon locally by citizens for its low cost, high quality and diversity. To prevent the spread of the...
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Southern Africa is bracing itself for the coronavirus08 April 2020At the end of March, the first coronavirus infections were detected in southern Africa, which resulted in country after country rapidly closing their ...
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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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Children in Sierra Leone thrilled with pens from KOG cleaner Lamin10 December 2019For almost ten years now Lamin Sow, a cleaner working at the Kamerlingh Onnes Building, has been collecting discarded pens he comes across throughout ...
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There is not one type of refugee07 November 2019What is a refugee? This question might seem easy to answer, but it is not, concludes Catherina Wilson. For 7 years she did research in The Democratic ...
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NWO Open Competition funding for three humanities scholars25 July 2019Manon van der Heijden and Leo Lucassen, and Maarten Mous will receive NWO Open Competition funding. This funding amounts to a maximum of 750,000 euros...