769 search results for “african history” in the Staff website
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-Black
Faculty of Humanities
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Lionel Laborie
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Jeffrey Fynn-Paul
Faculty of Humanities
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Gerhard de Kok
Faculty of Humanities
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Luc Bulten
Faculty of Humanities
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Miko Flohr
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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Claire Weeda
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Meel
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter Kop
ICLON
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Klaas Worp
Faculty of Humanities
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Isabelle Duijvesteijn
Faculty of Humanities
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Maja Vodopivec
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Julia Foudraine
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Jiayi Xin
Faculty of Humanities
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Densua Mumford
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Michiel Veldhuis
Science
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Inge Ligtvoet
Faculty 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 Haan
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giliam de Valk
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Erik Odegard
Faculty 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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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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Jos Gommans
Faculty of Humanities
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Corey Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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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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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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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André Gerrits
Faculty of Humanities
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Irene O'Daly
Faculty of Humanities
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Vineet Thakur
Faculty of Humanities
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Pablo Isla Monsalve
Faculty of Humanities
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Fenneke Sysling
Faculty of Humanities
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Caroline Waerzeggers
Faculty of Humanities
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Roos Stolker
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Giles Scott-Smith
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Kim Beerden
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiyan Qiao
Faculty of Humanities
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Indira Huliselan
Faculty of Humanities
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Bernhard Rieger
Faculty of Humanities
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Mamadou Hébié represents Latvia and the African Union in landmark use of force and climate change cases
Dr Mamadou Hébié, Associate Professor of International Law at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, served last week as legal counsel in the world’s first advisory proceedings concerning climate change before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), on the one hand, and…
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Diego Salama
Faculty of Humanities
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Hans Janssen
Faculty of Humanities