2,916 search results for “africa history” in the Public website
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Why North Korea and Southern Africa are dependent on each other
North Korea may seem like an isolated country but it has strong ties with African regimes. This alliance, which trades in arms despite international sanctions, is increasingly operating out of the liberal world order’s sight, PhD candidate Tycho van der Hoog warns.
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Nada HeddaneFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Carolien JacobsFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Esther van de CampFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Densua MumfordFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Nadia SonneveldFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jan JansenFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Sara PetrollinoFaculty of Humanities
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Gerald AchoFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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Costanza FranceschiniFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Crime and gender: a comparative perspective. England and the Netherlands, 1600-1800
The central aim is to systematically study differences in gendered crime patterns in the records of different types of courts in various English and Dutch cities in the early modern period.
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Jeff Fynn-Paul wins European History Quarterly Prize
Jeff Fynn-Paul, lecturer at Leiden University’s Institute for History, was recently awarded the European History Quarterly’s 2016 Prize for his article “Occupation, Family, and Inheritance in Fourteenth-Century Barcelona: A Socio-Economic Profile of One of Europe’s Earliest Investing Publics.”
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The ICJ's interim ruling in South Africa’s genocide case against Israel: what now?
Israel was ordered to take steps to prevent acts of genocide in Gaza. Giulia Pinzauti, an expert on state conflicts and humanitarian law, explains the significance of the case, the specific details of the ruling and what we can expect to happen next.
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African Studies Centre Leiden
Africa has a population of 1.5 billion people. By 2050, this number is projected to rise to 2.5 billion. The continent’s impact on the global economy, societies but also on the environment, will therefore increase drastically.
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First ever summer school in Africa for and by deaf academics
Academic studies or an academic career are a big challenge if you are deaf. Particularly in Africa, where many countries don’t even have secondary schools for the deaf. A team of Leiden academics has organised the first summer school for and by deaf academics on the African continent, in Ghana. We spoke…
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Leiden make Ted Ed videos: ‘We want to integrate Islamic history into world history’
What are the origins of the Islamic Empire? And what was daily life like there? Two new Ted Ed animations answer these questions in simple language. Arabists Petra Sijpesteijn and Birte Kristiansen explain what the process of developing the videos was like.
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Challenging monopolies, building global empires in the early modern period
How did free agents in the Dutch Republic react to the creation of colonial monopolies (VOC and WIC) by the States-General? This project answers this question by looking at the role individuals played in the construction of an informal global empire parallel to the institutional empire devised by the…
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NWO Open Competition funding for three humanities scholars
Manon 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 and is intended to carry out research into a subject of their your own choice, without thematic preconditions.
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Hans JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Berry DongelmansFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Just WitkamFaculty of Humanities
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Ako TsujitaFaculty of Humanities
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Hendrik den HeijerFaculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen OosterbaanFaculteit Archeologie
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Manfred HorstmanshoffFaculty of Humanities
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Nadia BourasFaculty of Humanities
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Carola HeinFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Diego SalamaFaculty of Humanities
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Rachel SchatsFaculteit Archeologie
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Marieke BloembergenFaculty of Humanities
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Jacobine MelisFaculteit Archeologie
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Zhengshan JiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Suzan ten HeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Chie AritaFaculty of Humanities
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Shenghao YueFaculty of Humanities
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Latin America and the UN
Subproject of the ERC project 'Challenging the Liberal World Order from Within: The Invisible History of the United Nations and the Global South'.
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Workshop: Gaping Holes: Towards multi-species histories and ethnographies of mining in southern Africa
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Emblems and the Natural World
The multiple connections between emblematics and Natural History in the broader perspective of their underlying artistic, literary, political and religious ideologies.
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Honorary doctorate for Graça Machel: fund for female students from South Africa
On the occasion of the conferral of an honorary doctorate to children’s rights activist Graça Machel, a fund has been established that will enable two female students from South Africa to come and study in Leiden.
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Hoekstra’s investment in safari enterprise that escaped taxation in Africa
The Pandora Papers turned the spotlight on Wopke Hoekstra’s investment in an African safari company via a tax haven. Apparently, there was no tax evasion, but that does not seem to be the whole story. Martijn Nouwen, assistant professor in tax law, explains in Follow the Money how the safari enterprise…
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About the programme
Studying Africa’s history, cultures and languages in this programme, will give you an insight in other aspects of Africa as well, including economics, politics and international relations. In the second year, you will be able to specialise in one or more of our themes, tailoring the programme to your…
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Crime and gender before the courts of the Netherlands, 1600-1800
The central aim is to systematically study differences in gendered crime patterns in the records of different types of courts in various Dutch cities in the early modern period.
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Power and Persuasion. Essays on the Art of State Building in Honour of W.P. Blockmans
The transformation of the myriad of medieval kingdoms, principalities, local lordships, city-‘states’ and peasant ‘republics’ into ‘modern’ states, claiming some measure of sovereignty, remains one of the core themes of European history, because it gets down to the very root of the (idea on the) Europe…
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William Michael SchmidliFaculty of Humanities
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Alain WijffelsFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lukas MilevskiFaculty of Humanities
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Henk te VeldeFaculty of Humanities
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Tessa de BoerFaculty of Humanities