3,223 search results for “african studies” in the Public website
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Hisashi Owada
Faculty of Humanities
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Marc Buijnsters
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities
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Jamaseb Soltani
Faculty of Humanities
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Tim Mickler
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Danielle Chevalier
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Leonardo Carmignani
Faculteit Archeologie
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Jan Just Witkam
Faculty of Humanities
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Rachel Schats
Faculteit Archeologie
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Eric Jorink
Faculty of Humanities
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
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Sarah Wolff
Faculty of Humanities
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Astrid Vandendaele
Faculty of Humanities
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Jacobine Melis
Faculteit Archeologie
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Mila van Nieuwenhuizen
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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Joeri Lammerts
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Nadia Bouras
Faculty of Humanities
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Barbara Krakovská
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Ironies of Solidarity
Ironies of Solidarity is an ethnographic study of how financial products and services affect inequalities and conflicts in South Africa.
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Bakola documentation project
The aim of this project is the linguistic documentation of Bakola, a Narrow Bantu language.
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Misha Plagis
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jan-Bart Gewald
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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John Kegel
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Rishuai Chen
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Lukas Milevski
Faculty of Humanities
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Jean-Pierre van der Rest
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jacqueline Hylkema
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Gabe van Beijeren Bergen en Henegouwen
Faculty of Humanities
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Ahab Bdaiwi
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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Mirjam de Baar
Faculty of Humanities
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Phonology and Morphology of Mambay (Niger-Congo, Adamawa)
This dissertation provides a description of the phonology and morphology of Mambay, an Adamawa (Niger-Congo) language spoken by 15,000 people in Chad and Cameroon.
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Word order and information structure in Makhuwa-Enahara
This dissertation investigates the grammar of Makhuwa-Enahara, a Bantu language spoken in the north of Mozambique. The information structure is an influential factor in this language, determining the word order and the use of special conjugations known as conjoint and disjoint verb forms.
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The Syntax of Object Marking in Sambaa: A comparative Bantu perspective
This thesis investigates the syntax of object marking in Sambaa and the Bantu languages in general, with particular focus on Swahili and Haya, as points of comparison.
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History is a matter of a longing for rifles and flat screen TVs
History can be found in utensils and in interviews with ordinary citizens. ‘With the reconstruction of everyday life, an anthropological approach works better,’ thinks historian Jan-Bart Gewald. Inaugural lecture on 6 June.
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Projects
In our HANDS!Lab for Sign Languages and Deaf Studies, we run projects pertaining to sign language linguistics with a focus on Africa. In addition, we are running projects on sign language teaching, tactile signing, deaf people’s experiences with the legal system, and deaf history.
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Asia Beyond Boundaries
Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State is a major multidisciplinary research project which aims to re-vision the history of Asia in one of its most significant periods. The project is based at the British Museum, British Library and the School of Oriental and African Studies, and…
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Ewout and Nicole discover the world with Area Studies
Middle Eastern Studies, African Studies or International Relations: all examples of studies that are part of Area Studies at the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden. Within Area Studies you study a region and immerse yourself in (complex) subjects of that region, such as cultural uniqueness, conflicts,…
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Kenya
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden Law School with three universities in Kenya.
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Tanzania
This is an Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility project of Leiden Law School with the University of Dar es Salaam.
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Associate Professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies
Leiden Law School and the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies are very pleased to announce that Dr. Mamadou Hébié will be re-joining the Grotius Centre on the 1st of May 2021.
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Ethnographies of Insurance
How do insurance products transform intimate and personal relations? What are the consequences of the classifications that insurance companies use and how do these affect solidarity, morality and inequality?
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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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Rijk van Dijk
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Katarzyna Cwiertka
Faculty of Humanities
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Yasco Horsman
Faculty of Humanities
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Language, Education and Identity in Africa
On the 16th of September, Bert van Pinxteren successfully defended a doctoral thesis. The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics congratulates Bert on this achievement!
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Ton Anbeek van der Meyden
Faculty of Humanities