1921 search results for “african politics” in the Public website
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We may not have money but we make up for it with class" : freedom of expression and censorship in today's Korean cinema
Lecture
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Pushing back against China: new Asian governments challenge the region’s balance of power
Lecture, International Relations Seminar Series
- StepTalks: science at the Spanish Steps
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Landscape, Land-Change and Well-Being in Small Island Contexts: Case Studies from St. Kitts and the Kalinago Territory, Dominica
PhD Defence
- Leiden Interdisciplinary Migration Seminars 2017-2018
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Optically Stimulated Luminescence dating of Palaeolithic cave sites and their environmental context in the western Mediterranean
PhD Defence
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The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia
Lecture, Book launch and discussion
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Symposium Human-Wildlife conflicts in Africa
Conference, Symposium
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Recasting Gendered Paradigms: An Indonesian Cleric and Muslim Women in the Malay World
Lecture
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CPP Colloquium: Exploring Rape as a Crime against the Erotic
Lecture
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Afrikaanse auteurs over vrouwenbesnijdenis: een literaire blik op een complex en evoluerend debat
Lecture
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Documentary screening on a mining conflict in KwaZulu-Natal: This land
Arts and Culture, Film screening
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Ethnicity and racism in present-day Latin America. Cases from Bolivia, Chile and Mexico
Lecture, Colloquium Contemporary History of Latin America
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Entrepreneurs by the grace of God: Rethinking policies to promote entrepreneurship among the poor
Lecture
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The Mexican Drug Violence: Hybrid Warfare, Predatory Capitalism and the Logic of Cruelty
PhD Defence
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“Snakebite - from science to society”
Conference
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Arabs and Blemmyes in the Kingdom of Makuria: On name and identity in medieval Nubia
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Role of Law in Development: steady beacon or mere sham?
Farewell Symposium Jan Michiel Otto
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MAKING MATTERS Symposium 2020- Material Practices in Critical Times
Conference
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Guest Researchers
We welcome a new round of advanced researchers (post-MA) to apply to the institute's guest researchers positions.
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Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, and the World Bank: Queer Progress in International Development
Lecture
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Publications
Recent publications
- Contemporary History and International Relations Research Seminar (CHIRRS) year 2018 - 2019
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Iran: Beyond the Headlines
LUCIS Discussion Panel
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NISIS Autumn School 2018: Travelling Muslims
Conference
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‘I became a stronger believer in the power of Europe’
She knew that a degree in Public Administration would be a stepping-stone to a career in politics. And that is exactly what Leiden alumna Samira Rafaela (30) wanted. Thanks to preferential votes, this member of the D66 party is the first Dutch MEP from an Afro-Caribbean background.
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The interpretation of syntactic focus variation
Lecture
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Customizing the Sharia: Matrilineal Muslims of the Indian Ocean Littoral
Conference
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Roundtable on human trafficking in the digital era: The ongoing tragedy of trade in refugees from Eritrea
Conference
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Urban Slavery in the Age of Abolition, ca. 1770-1930
Conference, Workshop
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Approaches to Ritual and Power in Central Asian History
Lecture
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Empires of the Weak: The Real Story of European Expansion and the Creation of the New World Order
Lecture
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Colloquium: Minorities and The Criminal Justice System
Debate
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H2020 - Influencing H2020 and the next framework programme
Course
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Is it Possible to Build World Order Without American Hegemony?
Lecture
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Turkic Identities in Pre-modern Central Asia
Lecture
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Cosmopolis
Cosmopolis seeks to explore the transnational and cultural dimensions of intra-Eurasian encounters through Dutch sources.
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Turning over a new leaf: Manuscript innovation in the twelfth-century renaissance
How did the medieval manuscript develop as a physical object during the Twelfth Century Renaissance and what do these changes tell us about the intellectual culture of the period?
- Volume 9 (2014)
- Volume 3 (2008)
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Nature conservation initiatives – who foots the bill?
In January 2020, Marja Spierenburg joined the FSW as the new Professor of Anthropology of Sustainability and Livelihoods. Let’s get to know her. ‘All my research is basically about nature conservation. I look at areas like national parks, but also at measures aimed at increasing the sustainability of…
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Deep sea research with microphone
‘Even at the deepest point in the ocean you can still hear the noise from boats,' says biologist Hans Slabbekoorn. ‘And that's while sound is the most important means of communication for underwater life.' What is the effect of all that underwater noise on fish and other animals? Slabbekoorn is on board…
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Veni grants for 25 Leiden researchers
From molecular ping-pong to cassava in the Amazon, and from extraterrestrial life to special antibodies. Twenty-five researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Veni grant from the NWO. A grant of up to 250,000 euros will give them the opportunity to further elaborate their own ideas over…
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Linguists: crimefighters extraordinaire
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this first…
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Hall of Fame 2017
Many of our staff and students have won prizes over the past year. Others have been awarded a subsidy, or, because of their eminence in their field, they have been appointed members of academic societies or have taken up positions in the community. Reasons enough to be proud of them and to include them…
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Silent Disco
Festival, Middle Eastern Culture Market 2019
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POSTPONED || Symposium ‘Money, Rationality, Solidarity’
Symposium
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Diversity, equity and inclusion in the sciences and beyond
Symposium
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Inclusive Leadership
Debate, Inclusive Leadership
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2020 Hall of fame
In 2020, many of our staff and students have again won prestigious prizes and been awarded important research subsidies.