339 search results for “global slavery” in the Staff website
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conferentie gtgc 2023
Geopolitiek, klimaat, pandemieën, migratie, AI, genderpolitiek: de wereld van vandaag verandert in in meerdere opzichten. Hoe ga je als bestuursorganisatie om met deze veranderingen? Dat was het thema van de tweede internationale conferentie van het Leiden University's Global Transformations and Governance…
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Valentina Carraro offers recommendations on strengthening the UN system
At an international high-level conference, Valentina Carraro, Deputy Coordinator of the interdisciplinary programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) presented her research on human rights in the UN Human Rights Council and Treaty body systems. One of the most practical recommendations…
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Leiden University Libraries acquires a rare map of Suriname
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has acquired a rare manuscript map of Suriname. The map from 1830 is almost 2.5 meters long and is highly detailed. It was hand-drawn by Helmuth Hendrik Hiemcke (1808-1858), one of the official surveyors employed by the colonial administration, and shows Suriname in…
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Introducing: Kenan van de Mieroop
Kenan van de Mieroop recently joined the Institute for History as Assistant Professor. Below, he introduces himself.
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A Global South Divided: Rising Powers in International Environmental Politics
Lecture, China Seminar
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Academics call for more powers for international organisations
Organisations like the UN and the EU should be given more powers to combat transboundary problems. This is the message of a report published by the Swedish SNS Democracy Council, whose authors include Prof. Jan Aart Scholte of Leiden University. The researchers also wrote the following article.
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GTGC lunch seminar series: an international, interdisciplinary scope
Starting February 6, the Leiden interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) will host a lunch seminar series on pressing global governance issues. The series will feature researchers from various disciplines. It promises to be a trove of inspiration and…
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Dive into the origins of the International Labour Organisation and the League of Nations
The Leiden interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) and the Embassy of Ireland are jointly organising a special book launch in The Hague. On 13 November, Gerry Finnegan, author and a former director of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), will…
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International Summer School Global History in the 2020s
Conference, Summer School
- Walk-in lunch Kernvisie BRUIST Global Lounge
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Assessing global regionalized impacts of eutrophication on freshwater fish biodiversity
PhD defence
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Intersecting Global Trends: antidemocracy and anti-environmentalism
VVI Research Meetings 2022-2023
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Successful signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding between the CCOE and ISGA/FGGA
On 24 November a High-Level panel discussion on the occasion of the signing ceremony of the memorandum of understanding between the NATO Civil-Military Cooperation Centre of Excellence and the Institute of Security and Global Affairs and the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs took place at Campus…
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Planetary Thinking in the Era of Global Warming
Inaugural lecture
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Una Europa webinar: Building Global Networks through Heritage
Webinar
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Summer School 'The European Union, the United Nations and Global Governance'
Course, Summer School
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Nira Wickramasinghe wins John F. Richards Prize
Professor Nira Wickramasinghe has won the American Historical Association John F. Richards Prize in South Asian History for her book Slave in a Palanquin. Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka' (Columbia University Press: New York 2020).
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German beyond its native speakers: pluricentric, multilingual, and globalized perspectives
Lecture, Lunch Time Talk
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Exploring the relationship between metacontrol and global/local processing
PhD defence
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Trading Responsibility: Navigating national burdens in a globalized world
PhD defence
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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These lunch seminars prepare you for upcoming world events
Climate and human rights will again become major issues on the world stage by the end of 2023. The new series of lunch seminars by the interdisciplinary research programme Global Transformations and Governance Challenges (GTGC) seamlessly tie into these events. All Leiden researchers and students are…
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‘Leiden and the university can learn a lot from each other’
We always need to find a new way to tell the story of 3 October, believes Ariadne Schmidt. The professor by special appointment of History of Urban Culture will be working with students to involve more people in the history of that day. ‘I’m too much of a historian to say: we can just let it be a “fun…
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Human Rights and Climate Change: Call for Abstracts
On 27-28 January 2022, Leiden University’s interdisciplinary seed grant programme ‘Beyond Anthropocentric Interests and Values? Human Rights and Climate Change’ will host a conference on human rights and climate change. Researchers are welcome to join and contribute their view. The deadline for the…
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Valentina Carraro on peer review in financial integrity matters
On 25 February 2021, the UN High Level Panel on International Financial Accountability, Transparency and Integrity for Achieving the 2030 Agenda (FACTI panel) has adopted its final report, to which Valentina Carraro (GTGC) and Hortense Jongen (VU Amsterdam) have contributed by writing a background paper…
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Irma Mosquera appointed as Professor of Tax Governance
In her teaching and research, Mosquera primarily seeks the connection between tax law and other disciplines. Her appointment is effective as of 1 November 2021.
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‘Podcast gives its listeners a sense of identity and belonging’
In the Netherlands, when we talk about the United Nations, the conversation is almost always about the member states from the northern hemisphere. But the most interesting players come from the ‘Global South’, Professor Alanna O'Malley and her team argue in a podcast.
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GTGC conference on the pressing social issues of our time
Major developments worldwide are creating new challenges for society. The pandemic has hit us hard, for example, and we are already feeling the effects of global warming. How can society and politics deal with the urgent problems of our time? That is the theme of the Global Transformations and Governance…
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Interactions Meeting: Legitimacy as lens to study the governance of global citizenship education
Conversation
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Annual Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence Seminar 2023
Conference, Annual Cities, Migration, and Global Interdependence Seminar
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Striking a Balance between Local and Global Interests
PhD defence
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The New Atlantic Order - and Transformation of Global Politics in the "Long" 20th Century
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Summer school 'Socioeconomic diplomacy and global empire building, 16th-19th centuries'
Conference, Summer School
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The internet has many bosses. It’s chaotic but it works
Governance of the internet is chaotic, says Professor Jan Aart Scholte. Can we learn from this relatively new form of governance?
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to the Wanghong Restaurant…”: Following the wanghong as an aspect of global China
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Alternative? Examining the Emerging Role of Chinese NGOs in China's Global Development Footprint
Lecture, Lunch Research Seminar
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CompaRe: Smart and lean integration: finding regional solutions to global challenges
Conference
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Former CADS PhD student MacDonald on climate change in Dutch tv show
In the Dutch tv-programme 'NOS Amalia and the Dutch Caribbean' Stacey shows the impact of climate change on the coast, coral and culture.
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This was 2022! An overview of Humanities in the news
After two years of corona restrictions, it was ‘back to normal’ in 2022. Migration, elections, the history of slavery, Russia, and Ukraine were much-discussed topics. We compiled an overview of the most-read news items and other events of the past year.
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Globalizing the Northern Muslim World: the Mongol Exchange and the Horde
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Global Online Thesis Topic Meetings (GOTTMs) in IP and unfair competition
Conference
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Field Notes: An Interactive Session on Housing, Land, and Property in Global Hotspots
Debate
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Multilateralism: the Play of International United Front in China’s Global Grand Strategy
Lecture
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Researchers from Leiden visit Indonesia on knowledge mission
A delegation from Leiden University recently embarked on a knowledge mission to various NGOs, universities and government organisations in Indonesia. New partnerships were formed and important knowledge exchanged, and researchers from Leiden gave guest lectures.
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AI for Bad: Superpowers, Cydiplo and the Myth of Global Regulation
Lecture
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India in the Making of the Global Esoteric: 1200-2000
Conference
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Security and Global Affairs: Reflections on Research, Education and Academic Management
Inaugural lecture
- Book presentation: Aleydis Nissen - ‘The European Union, Emerging Global Business and Human Rights’
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From Baghdād to Baghpūr: Global Blackness in Medieval Arabo-Asia
Lecture, Research Seminar Europe 1000-1800