1,271 search results for “indigenous rights” in the Public website
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Sada Mire’s Leiden Experience: "the Johnny Cash of Archaeology"
Pioneering in the archaeology of Somaliland, hosting international TV and radio shows, and producing a very successful MOOC: Dr Sada Mire already has a formidable track record.
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Universal typological traits of Nivaclé and their implications
Lecture
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Becoming Indios: Genealogy, Landscape and Political Subjectivity in the Zaña Valley, Peru, 15th-18th Centuries CE
Lecture
- Opening lecture Master European Law
- Volume 11 (2016)
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Misha PlagisFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lucy OpokaFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Guilherme Peixoto MiglioraFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Justice, Truth and Reparations for Syria
Debate
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CANCELLED - CA-OS Research Seminar | Perfomativity and Mediatization of Cultural Heritage through Artistic Intervention and Filmmaking in Sápmi
Lecture, Seminar
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Engaged Humanities Summer School 2017 - Language, Heritage, Transdisciplinarity
Conference, Summerschool
- Topical Issues in Museums
- Book Launch - Confronting Apartheid by Prof. John Dugard
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Debate ‘International Days at the United Nations’
Debate
- Adriaan Gerbrands Lectures
- Two days on the Maya
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Dissertation Yannick van den Brink awarded FJR Prize 2018
Dr. Yannick van den Brink’s PhD thesis, titled ‘Pre-trial detention in the Dutch juvenile justice system’, has been awarded the FJR Prize 2018.
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Theatre and literature in minority languages: the cases of Ecuadorian Siona and Colombian Sign Language
Conference
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The Roman World Between Global Society and Local Cultures
Conference
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Bart Schuurman on the CPL Summer Programme “Preventing Violent Extremism”
This August, the second edition of the Advanced Summer Programme
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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI)
Course, Summer School
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Straightjacket: Same-Sex Orientation under Chinese Family Law
‘Visibility and secrecy are both valuable tactics and should not be antagonized in LGBT movements, ’ says Jingshu Zhu. Zhu will defend her dissertation on Wednesday 21 February. Time for a short interview with the PhD candidate.
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Visual Ethnography MSc student film screenings
Festival
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The pathway forward
Webinar | Cleveringa Dallaire critical conversation series
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Facts about water: local knowledge, scientific models and societal conflict regarding dams and fracking
Lecture, First Water Talk of the Water and Society Lab
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The Eurasian Question
PhD Defence
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Translanguaging practices, vulgar language, and metalinguistic comments in late-colonial Indonesia
Lecture, Sociolinguistics Series
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Gendered Ritual and Performative Literacy: Yao Women, Goddesses of Fertility, and the Chinese Imperial State
PhD Defence
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European and Arab linguistic endeavours and exchanges in interwar Europe (1898-1948): Teaching and learning Arabic
Conference
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LUCL PhD presentations
Lecture
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Landscapes of survival
Conference
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Community through Custom?
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Film screening: The Whale Rider
Arts and Culture
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A ‘pygmy‘ language - myth or reality?
Lecture, Language & the Human Past Lecture Series
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Agenda
Overview of all Asia events at Leiden University
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Farewell symposium and reception Rikki Holtmaat
Conference
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Special Event at Leiden University featuring the Secretary General of the Organization of American States
Lecture
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Call for papers 'Whose Welfare? Fresh Perspectives on the Post-war Welfare State and its Global Entanglements'
Recently, the so-called refugee crisis has been framed as a threat for well-developed welfare states in Europe by the president of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem. According to him, external borders have to be guarded, because otherwise ‘loads of people will come to demand support and they blow up…
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From Background Noise to Alarm Bells: Towards Inclusive Climate Action
Debate
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Duke-Leiden Institute in Global and Transnational Law
Course
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Protecting cultural heritage in conflict situations
Violent conflicts all over the world pose a great threat. Not only to the region’s inhabitants, but also to the cultural heritage in the area. This is the subject of the Europe Lecture in The Hague on 13 June.
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Aris Politopoulos’ Leiden Experience: “video games can provide new avenues for research”
Seven years ago, Aris Politopoulos left Athens for a master’s programme at the Leiden Faculty of Archaeology. Now he has nearly finished his PhD dissertation. Furthermore, he has become a lecturer at the research group for the Archaeology of the Near East, and co-founded a foundation that deals with…
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How the Arabs gained control of Egypt
How did Fustat develop between 640 and 750 to become the capital of Egypt? At the time Egypt was a province of the Islamic empire - the caliphate - that had been started by the prophet Muhammad. Original sources used by Arabist Jelle Bruning give new insights into the city. PhD defence on 2 April.
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‘We should help nature to help us’
Biodiversity and healthy ecosystems continue to decline in Europe, which has serious consequences for human welfare. These are findings of a report that was formally approved by delegates from 127 governments during a UN plenary in Medellin, Colombia. Leiden researcher Alexander van Oudenhoven was one…
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Five History projects selected for Research Traineeship Programme 2016-2017
Five research projects of the Institute for History have been selected for the Research Traineeship Programme 2016-2017. The programme was initiated by The Faculty of Humanities to offer motivated students the opportunity to develop themselves in academic research. In December the research trainees,…
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Alumna Cultural Anthropology Ruth Erica writes youth novel about Rwanda
Writing a story from the perspective of a Rwandan girl set in Africa is not an easy task. Alumna Cultural Anthropology Ruth Erica did it. Her debut novel The tree with the bitter leaves, in which an important supporting role is played by a student of cultural anthropology, appeared in August 2020.
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Dutch East Indies tax system was supposed to elevate the colony, but turned out to be token politics
In the late 19th century, the Dutch government introduced a tax system in the Dutch East Indies, with the intention of transforming the colony into a modern state. PhD student Maarten Manse wrote his thesis on this development and discovered how grandiloquent colonial ideals became bogged down in daily…
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Forging ties abroad
In 2017, Leiden University secured ties with numerous foreign partners. This is how we bring foreign talent to Leiden, and ensure our students and scientists can gain experience across borders. In this article, we look back on four foreign trips.
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Vidi grants for nine Leiden researchers
From artificial intelligence to letters from the Dutch East Indies and from breast-cancer gene BRCA-1 to the collaboration between government and opposition: nine researchers from Leiden University have been awarded a Vidi grant for their research.
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Delegation from Leiden University forges new links in Brazil
A delegation from Leiden University is visiting Brazil from 14 to 18 March. The first day of the visit was spent with scientists in São Paolo.