776 search results for “african history” in the Staff website
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Lionel LaborieFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen JacobsonFaculty of Humanities
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Gerhard de KokFaculty of Humanities
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Luc BultenFaculty of Humanities
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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien StolteFaculty of Humanities
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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Peter MeelFaculty of Humanities
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Peter KopICLON
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Klaas WorpFaculty of Humanities
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Isabelle DuijvesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Maja VodopivecFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Julia FoudraineAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Jiayi XinFaculty of Humanities
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Vici for Victoria Nyst: 'The history of sign language contributes to identity formation'
Victoria Nyst's love for sign language was sparked when she accidentally ended up at a deaf school while studying African linguistics. The university lecturer has since been awarded a Vici grant to research the history of these languages.
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Densua MumfordFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Michiel VeldhuisScience
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Inge LigtvoetFaculty of Humanities
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World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL): A conference like no other
The 10th edition of the World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL), hosted by Leiden University, will be held online from 7 – 12 June. Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) researchers give us an insight into how important and special this event actually is.
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Eefke de HaanFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giliam de ValkFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Erik OdegardFaculty of Humanities
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Reseach funding for 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict'
Mirjam de Bruijn has received a funding from the Research Council of Norway for the research project called 'Decoding Digital Media in African Regions of Conflict (DDMAC)'. The project is a collaboration with colleagues from Oslomet and Simula, Norway, Utrecht University, University of Addis Abeba,…
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New book by Lydie Cabane explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters
Lydie Cabane, Assistant Professor in Governance of Crises at the Institute for Security and Global Affairs, recently published the book The Government of Disasters. In this book Lydie explores how the South African state bureaucracy reacts to disasters.
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Jos GommansFaculty of Humanities
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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Gert OostindieFaculty of Humanities
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Roots, branches and LHEAf
Conference, Final conference
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Corey WilliamsFaculty of Humanities
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Acquisition of early African photographs by explorer and photography pioneer Alexine Tinne
Over 160 years ago, the Hague-based photography pioneer and traveler Alexine Tinne (1835-1869) captured current South Sudan and its inhabitants on film. These photographs represent some of the earliest images taken in the heart of the African continent.
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History student wins thesis prize: ‘Look for the stories that didn’t make the history books’
Envoys jumping out of windows, fights, and illegal diplomacy: history student Tessa de Boer encountered them all while writing her master's thesis on Amsterdam as a diplomatic city during the 17th and 18th centuries. For her thesis, she was awarded the Uitgeverij Verloren/Johan de Witt thesis prize…
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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André GerritsFaculty of Humanities
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Irene O'DalyFaculty of Humanities
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Vineet ThakurFaculty of Humanities
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Pablo Isla MonsalveFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
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Roos StolkerFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Kim BeerdenFaculty of Humanities
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Jiyan QiaoFaculty of Humanities
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
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Bernhard RiegerFaculty of Humanities
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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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Diego SalamaFaculty of Humanities
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Hans JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Shenghao YueFaculty of Humanities
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Chie AritaFaculty of Humanities