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• Conflict continuities Research project

  Many conflicts in Africa have been studied and described as location and time bound. Yet conflict is rarely confined and contained, and instead reaches across communities, borders, and generations.

• Meet our staff Middle Eastern Studies (research) (MA)

• Islam: Religion and Society

  Islam is a religion as well as a cultural practice that takes on a diversity of forms, some of them contradictory. This has always been the case, and it is becoming increasingly apparant in the modern world through migration, globalisation and the digitial media. The minor Islam: Religion and Society,…

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  Roos van der Haer Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Fotini Vassou Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Eldad Vainstoc Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Tilko Arne Swalve Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Thomas Scarff Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Can Kurban Lecturer

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

• Technology Global Transformations and Governance Challenges

• Global Justice and Human Rights Global Transformations and Governance Challenges

• Identities and Inequalities Global Transformations and Governance Challenges

• Films: NVICinema Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo

  On some Sunday evenings the NVIC is presenting NVICinema. We bring a varied programme of Dutch or Flemish films, Egyptian classics as well as contemporary Egyptian feature films and short films from young talented directors, all with English subtitles.

• Business Against Markets: Employer Resistance to Collective Bargaining Liberalization During the Eurozone Crisis Research output

  Employer organizations have been presented as strong promoters of the liberalization of industrial relations in Europe. This article, in contrast, argues that the preferences of employers vis-à-vis liberalization are heterogeneous and documents how employer organizations in Spain, Italy, and Portugal…

• What Determines Perceptions of Bias toward the International Criminal Court? Evidence from Kenya Research output

  What Determines Perceptions of Bias toward the International Criminal Court? Evidence from Kenya. In this article, published on the website SAGE Journals in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, the authors Geoff Dancy, Yvonne Marie Dutton, Tessa Alleblas, Eamon Aloyo examine the attitude towards international…

• Chinese assertiveness and the rise of Xi Jinping: ideational mobilization, elite contestation, and the struggle over regional order Research output

  In 2009-2010, the notion of a more ‘assertive’ China emerged in Western discourse, a viewpoint that China vehemently rejects. Nevertheless, especially after Xi Jinping rose to power in 2012, it is clear that China has abandoned its long-held foreign policy doctrine of ‘keeping a low profile.’

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  Toon Kerkhoff Associate professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Jay Huang Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Madeleine Hosli Professor

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

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  Anna Notsu PhD Candidate

  Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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  Tin Kapetanovic Dual PhD candidate - guest

  Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs

• Featured Review | A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics News - 7 February 2023

  Tom Long (2022). A Small State’s Guide to Influence in World Politics. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780190926212, 240 pp. (hardback), £19.99.

• Skłodowska-Curie individual fellowships at Leiden University's Institute of Political Science News - 2 May 2016

  Leiden University invites pre-applications from scholars who wish to spend 12-24 months in the Institute of Political Science as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Programme.

• About the programme French Literature and Culture (MA)

  Learn the newest insights from established scholars.

• Programme structure Heritage and Museum Studies (MA)

  Learn about current approaches and ethical issues in heritage management and experience some of these in daily practice.

• Artistic Practices of Historical Sound Research project

  Memory, Imagination, and Mimetics in Contemporary Composition and Historical Performance

• Chinese 2 Course
• Chinese 3 Course
• War and Peace Studies (MSc)

  The War and Peace Studies track offers you a comprehensive understanding of the historical, theoretical, and practical dimensions of war and peace, while addressing the complex challenges of conflict and peacebuilding in the contemporary world.

• Minor Urban Studies in Morocco: Cities in Transformation The Netherlands Institute Morocco

  During the autumn semester (September-December), NIMAR offers a joint LDE (Leiden-Delft-Erasmus) minor Urban Studies in Morocco: Cities in Transformation (30 EC), an interdisciplinary programme focused on contemporary urban change in Morocco. The minor combines humanities, social sciences, design and…

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  Jeroen Duindam Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Noa Schonmann Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Tatiana Vargas Ortiz University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Saniye Ince PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Stéphanie Noach Assistant professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Jaap Goedegebuure Professor Emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Ton Anbeek van der Meyden Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Mineke Schipper-de Leeuw Professor emeritus

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Rosanne van der Voet University lecturer

  Faculty of Humanities

• Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human Research output

  Death’s Social and Material Meaning beyond the Human is edited by Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker and Philip R. Olson

• “This is Roosevelt’s World”: FDR as a Cultural Icon in American Memory Research output

  This dissertation studies the construction of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as a cultural icon in American memory, particularly by FDR himself.

• The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650). Theology, Travel, and Territoriality Research output

  In The Holy Land in Observant Franciscan Texts (c. 1480–1650) Marianne Ritsema van Eck analyses the development of the complex Observant Franciscan engagement with the Holy Land during the early modern period.

• Unbundled. European Collecting of Andean Mummies 1850-1930 Research output

  This dissertation approaches collections of Andean mummies in European national and university museums as the focus to understand the relationship between objects, documents, and the practice of collecting in the period from 1850 to 1930. Over 200 mummies, kept by 18 different museums in Western European…

• Remarks on Swahili manuscripts in Arabic script : layout and orthography of the Utendi wa Yusuf Research output

  This article is aimed to shed light on the Swahili-‘Ajam ī manuscripts, focusing on the major Swahili classical genre: the

• Why Minor Powers Risk Wars with Major Powers: A Comparative Study of the Post-Cold War Era Research output

  Through a range of case studies spanning the post-Cold War period in Iraq, Moldova and Serbia, this book studies asymmetric conflicts where warring sides exhibit vast power differentials.

• Anton Pannekoek: Ways of Viewing Science and Society Research output

  Astronomer and Marxist Anton Pannekoek was a remarkable figure. This book aims to study the connections between his life as a socialist theorist and as a pioneering scientist through the prism of Pannekoek's biography.

• Leiden Islam Blog Leiden University Centre for the Study of Islam and Society

  The Leiden Islam Blog offers a platform for scholars and publicists from Leiden and beyond to share their research and opinions with a broad audience.

• Virtual Photography. Artificial Intelligence, In-game, and Extended Reality Research output

  While it has traditionally been seen as a means of documenting an external reality or expressing an internal feeling, photography is now capable of actualizing never-existed pasts and never-lived experiences.

• Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective Research project

  The aim of the Indonesian-Dutch Literature Collective (which is allied to the Society of Dutch Literature (MNL)) is to support research into the literature of and about the Dutch Indies, from the era of the Dutch East India Company to the present. Starting in 1986, the collective has published its own…

• Democracy and Citizenship Global Transformations and Governance Challenges