3,143 search results for “africa history” in the Public website
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Progress in equality and law for women: the glass is half full
Following 40 years of research into the legal equality principle, Emeritus Professor Titia Loenen gave her valedictory lecture in which she took stock of the progress that has been achieved. She focused on equal rights for women and is cautiously optimistic, despite the current rise in conservatism…
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Walking among elephants: A 300,000-year-old, nearly complete elephant skeleton from Schöningen
Elephants ranged over Schöningen in Lower Saxony 300,000 years ago. In recent years, remains of at least ten elephants have been found at the Palaeolithic sites situated on the edges of the former opencast lignite mine. Now, a collaboration of archaeologists from University of Tübingen and the Lower…
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2019 Hall of fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2019 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
- Medieval Middle East Meeting (1ECTS)
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CRG Seminar: The regime of hopes and broken promises of a large-scale land deal in Senegal: “The company promised an elephant but finally gave
Lecture
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Anthropology at Sea: Displacement as Ethnographic Praxis
Lecture
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Priorities of Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Violence Visible and Invisible: On Political Violence and Forms of Aesthetic Resistance to its Erasure and Distortion. One day symposium
Conference
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God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
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The PolSci Bookshelf: books released in 2023
The end of the year often means looking back with lists, overviews and stories. This combines nicely in a list of all the books published this year by various political scientists at Leiden University. Indeed, in terms of books, these scholars have certainly not been idle. A unique collection of stories,…
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Situating "Wicked" Women: Gender Panic and Savoir Vivre in Urban Senegal
PhD defence
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Ruben van UdenFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Lewis WadeFaculty of Humanities
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Jamaseb SoltaniFaculty of Humanities
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Zahra AzharFaculty of Humanities
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Nicholas KontovasFaculty of Humanities
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Robbert StriekwoldFaculty of Humanities
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Laura BerdikhojayevaFaculty of Humanities
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Johanna Berkheij-Dol
Faculty of Humanities
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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Kate PukhovaiaFaculty of Humanities
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Lucas GahrmannFaculty of Humanities
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Aminuddin Siregar
Faculty of Humanities
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Frederic LensScience
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
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Helen WestgeestFaculty of Humanities
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Laura BertensFaculty of Humanities
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Book Presentation of Beyond the Mulatta: Haunted Hybridity in Advertising
Book Presentation | Studium Generale Lecture
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The Classical Zaydi Imamate (1200-1600) and its Legacy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Imagine you’re Ilias from Turkey
In the confrontational ‘House of Misconceptions’, visitors put themselves in another person’s shoes and have to justify their existence. The performance is the result of a unique collaboration between the Liquid Society art collective and Professor of Law and Society Maartje van der Woude and her st…
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'If you weigh up the state of migration today, the outcome isn't bad'
Professor Leo Lucassen often adds his voice to the public debate on his specialist field. If there is talk of a 'flood of migration', he feels compelled to give the issue some historical perspective. 'Concerned? Yes, I am.'
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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Ship channels and their landscapes require radical reconsideration
Han Meyer, Carola Hein, Paul van de Laar and Sabine Luning, argue that in the current moment of major crises these ship channels necessitate radical reconsideration.
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‘Heritage is never neutral. It is always interpreted’
As of 1 September 2019, Prof. Pieter ter Keurs will assume the position of Scientific Director at the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development as well as that of Professor of Museums, Collections and Society at the Faculties of Humanities and Archaeology at Leiden University.…
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2024
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Interdisciplinary roundtable: Commitment, Islam and Social Justices in Mahmoud Ahmed Abdulkadir’s Swahili Poetry
Debate
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The Children's Rights Moot Court Competition 2023
Moot Court
- The WPS Agenda and the Middle East: Progress or Procrastination?
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Liveable Planet Lunch Meeting: "The dark side of co-creation in sustainability research"
Lecture
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The WPS Agenda and the Middle East: Progress or Procrastination?
Debate
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ASCL Seminar: Girls’ Education, Neoliberal Subjectivity, and Sacrifice in Niger
Lecture
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Hidden patterns in space: What geography can tell us about language evolution.
Lecture, Language and the Human Past
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Career College: Challenges of an international career
Career and apply for jobs
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‘My mother’, ‘Your father’: Suppletive kinship terms in African languages
Lecture, Com(parative) Syn(tax) Series
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Environmental Humanities: Science, Art, and Activism
Lecture
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Ethnolinguistic parallels between Indo-Europeans and the traditional Nuer
Lecture, This Time for Africa!
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Cameroon: From colonial discriminatory decrees to forging new multilingual language policies
Lecture, Applied African Linguistics
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Understanding coercive nuclear reversal dynamics
PhD defence
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ASCL Seminar: The State in Relief: civil servants navigating duties, dependencies and disasters in Malawi
Lecture