214 search results for “mexico” in the Public website
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Women Writing Mexico (WWM)
Women Writing Mexico (WWM) is a network of women and men concerned with the human rights crisis in Mexico and more specifically, with the impact of structural forms of poverty, everyday violence, and discrimination based on gender, race, social class, and ethnicity, that particularly have an impact…
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Mexico, Mahadai Besancon
How do our Leiden alumni cope with the restrictive measures in their country, the possible finding of a vaccine, medication to combat corona or how do they cope with working from home, with or without children? Read the story of Mahadai Besancon (Civil law 1989) , living in Mexico-City.
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Natural Resources and Spatial Structure at Dzehkabtún, Mexico
This projects investigates spatial relations between soils and other resources and the urban layout of a classic Maya center in Campeche, Mexico.
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Water Management in Ancient Mexico: Archaeological Heritage and Sustainable Development
This project investigates ancient water management of streams, springs and runoffs on the archaeological site of Monte Albán, Mexico, as a means to contribute with different stakeholders in the development of sustainable solutions to water problems today such as floods and scarcity.
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A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968
A Persistent Revolution: History, Nationalism, and Politics in Mexico since 1968
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The perception of time in the Ñuu Dzaui landscape, Oaxaca, Mexico.
1) How natural cycles and activities are interconnected for building the time in one community? 2) What perceptions of Ñuu Dzaui peoples about their landscape can be connected with precolonial times?
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Raymond Buve: famous in Mexico
Professor of Latin American Studies Raymond Buve was a pioneer in forging relations between Leiden and Mexico. Although he has since retired, he is still honoured by many Mexicans, as was clear when a Leiden delegation recently visited the country.
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Leiden expands collaboration with Mexico
A delegation from Leiden University is currently visiting Mexico to initiate collaboration with universities and science funding bodies in the country and to extend and expand existing partnerships. Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker is confident enough already to call it a success.
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Delegation from Leiden University visits Mexico
A delegation from Leiden University will be visiting Mexico from 21 to 25 October. The visit aims to strengthen the ties between Mexican universities and Leiden University.
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contemporary perception of time in Santa Catarina (Acaxochitlan, Hidalgo, México)
How was time understood during the colonial period by Tlaxcaltecan Naua communities? What is the relationship between time, spirituality and ritual in the present-day Naua community of Santa Catarina? What does this tell us about the strengths and values of Indigenous heritage and about the impact of…
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Leiden University deepens cooperation with Mexico
The Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Professor Wim van den Doel, recently visited Mexico to sign a number of cooperation agreements with universities and research institutes. These programmes broaden and strengthen the academic ties with Latin America.
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2009 State visit to Mexico & Indigenous People
As part of the state visit to Mexico a theme lunch on indigenous cultures was organised.
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Field seminar 'Time Intercultural' in Mexico
The Mesoamerican research group 'Time in Intercultural Context: the indigenous calendars of Mexico and Guatemala' funded by the ERC and directed by prof. dr. Maarten Jansen, met up in Mexico from the 13th until the 23rd of February for a field seminar in the states of Tlaxcala and Hidalgo.
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‘Without Leiden University, I wouldn't now be living in Mexico’
When delegations from Leiden University visit foreign countries, they often arrange a meeting specially for alumni of the country. Mexico was no exception. On Monday 23 October, some thirty alumni got together in Mexico City.
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Lecture on the human rights situation in Mexico
On 11 April 2018, students of the Advanced Master’s in European and International Human Rights Law attended a lecture on the human rights situation in Mexico. The lecture was delivered by Dr. Víctor Avendaño Porras, who lectures and researches at Mexico’s CRESUR (Research Centre on Teaching Formation…
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Mexican drugs world pans out into hybrid war
Drugs-related violence in Mexico is similar in terms of dynamics and strategy to the IS hybrid war in the West. This is the claim made by Teun Voeten. PhD defence 20 September.
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Angel Rivera Guzman
Faculteit Archeologie
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The Popular Culture of Illegality: Santa Muerte and Narco Cultus in Mexico
NWO has granted a 4-year subsidy to the project The Popular Culture of Illegality, ellaborated in collaboration between the University of Amsterdam, University Utrecht and Leiden University. This research focuses on the esthetic representations and practices in visual, musical and symbolical forms of…
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Successful Law and Society Conference in Mexico City for Moritz Jesse
Dr. Moritz Jesse, Associate Professor at the Europa Institute, presented his paper ‘Building Bridges or Erecting Walls? – The Application of Equal Treatment and Non-Discrimination in Europe ‘ at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association.
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Here it is. A Nahuatl translation of European cosmology
Context and contents of the Izcatqui manuscript in the Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam
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Tiempo, Paisaje y Líneas de Vida en la Arqueología de Ñuu Savi
This work focuses on the interpretation of the archaeological remains of the Mixtec culture in Southern Mexico on the basis of the knowledge, perceptions, economy and worldview of contemporary descendant communities.
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Rocio Vera Flores
Faculteit Archeologie
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Alexander Geurds
Faculteit Archeologie
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Chunhong Chen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Thomas Mareite
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden Alumni meeting Mexico City
Alumni Event
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Cleveringa Meeting in Mexico City
Alumni Event
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Debate: ‘A Crisis on the Rise? The Impact of Violence and Impunity on Mexican Society’
Mexico is currently facing an unprecedented social and political crisis, with expanding criminal and political violence, rampant impunity and crumbling political institutions. Next to the daily report of anonymous victims of violence, last summer in Central Mexico at least 15 citizens were executed…
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Writing and Iconography of Western Oaxaca
Mexico, between 500 B.C. and A.D. 900
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Time and memory
A study concerning the collective memory in the region of the Bene lo Ya/ Ene lo I'ya, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca.
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Roundtable: Authoritarianism in Mexico. Political and criminal violence against journalists and activists
Debate
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Time in Intercultural Context
The Indigenous Calendars of Mexico and Guatemala
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Cooperation
Leiden University has signed a substantial number of Memoranda of Understanding with institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean Region.
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Mixtec Writing and Society
Escritura de Ñuu Dzaui
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The linguistic past of Mesoamerica and the Andes: a search for early migratory relations between North and South America
The aim of the project is to unravel the genetic and contact relations between the indigenous languages of Mesoamerica (Mexico and western Central America) and the Middle Andes region (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia), as part of a larger endeavor to understand the historical process of the peopling of the Americas…
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Time and Identity in Indigenous Narrative and Aesthetic Strategies
This research hopes to contribute to social awareness of the consequences of colonialism for Indigenous Peoples, to the deconstruction of still existing colonial and discriminatory notions and to a better appreciation of Indigenous art and thought.
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The Presidential elections in Brazil and Mexico 2018: What have we learned
Lecture
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Sahin Sau
Curso de lengua mixteca (variante de Ñuu Ndeya)
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Gender, Migration and Categorisation: Making Distinctions between Migrants in Western Countries, 1945-2010
This volume is pubished in the IMISCOE-AUP Series and edited by Marlou Schrover and Deirdre M. Moloney.
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The Mixtec Pictorial Manuscripts
Time, Agency and Memory in Ancient Mexico.
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El Lienzo de Otla
Memoria de un Paisaje Sagrado
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Making Populism Great Again - Donald Trump and his impact on Mexico-USA relations
Lecture
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"Looking for the Missing: Mass Graves, Disappearances and Justice in Mexico"
Lecture, Interview session
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Mexico and Transnational Antislavery Connections in 19th-century North America
Lecture, Colonial Global History Seminar COGLOSS
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Beacons of Freedom: Slave Refugees in North America, 1800-1860
This project applies a social-historical approach to examine and contrast various groups of African-American slave refugees who sought freedom within North America between 1800 and 1860. It innovatively distinguishes between different “spaces of freedom” for runaway slaves, namely sites of formal, semi-formal,…
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Making the Invisible Visible: The Position of Indigenous Women in Mexico
PhD Defence
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The Rupture Generation: Nineteenth-Century Nahua Intellectuals in Mexico City, 1780-1882
PhD Defence
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Paisaje y Líneas de Vida en la Arqueología de Ñuu Savi (La Mixteca, México)
PhD Defence
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Paisaje y Líneas de Vida en la Arqueología de Ñuu Savi (La Mixteca, México)
PhD Defence
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racism in present-day Latin America. Cases from Bolivia, Chile and Mexico
Lecture, Colloquium Contemporary History of Latin America