344 search results for “latin america literature” in the Staff website
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Video series: Why Latin America matters
Latin America matters! With its rich history, culture, its impressive resilience and creative innovation in the face of such a diverse array of challenges, Latin America can indeed show the way forward inspiring for positive change. Working together with Latin American institutions, our researchers…
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‘We are destroying our own planet' (and Latin America pays the price)
The whole world gets raw materials from Latin America, but at the expense of nature. Håvar Solheim researches the role of organised crime in this environmental crime and Soledad Valdivia researches sustainable urban initiatives in Latin America. What do these university lecturers think the future of…
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Patricio SilvaFaculty of Humanities
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Nike van HeldenFaculty of Humanities
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Beyond borders: Toward an archaeology of Middle America
Inaugural lecture
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Francianne Dos Santos VelhoFaculty of Humanities
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Irina ZudinaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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From Latin America to Africa: 'I always say I ended up on the wrong continent'
During her study of Latin America, Tineke Floor laid the intercultural foundation that has served her well in her career. Floor currently works as Director Europe at African Parks, an NGO that promotes nature conservation in Africa. How does she look back on her studies? And why the leap to another…
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Daniela Vicherat MattarFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Nadine AkkermanFaculty of Humanities
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Kim DankoorFaculty of Humanities
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Manon Portos MinettiFaculty of Humanities
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Felipe Colla De AmorimFaculty of Humanities
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Ronald KonFaculty of Humanities
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Manuel Cabal LopezFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Paz Gonzalez GonzalezFaculty of Humanities
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Claudia BouteligierFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Bálint HonosFaculty of Humanities
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Esther EdelmannFaculty of Humanities
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Dorine SchellensFaculty of Humanities
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Duende and Café: The 40th Anniversary of Latin American Studies
“Europe must look […] southward, where the global majority resides. The BRICS countries alone represent almost 50% of the world economy and a quarter of the world trade, it is where the youngest populations lives, with an enormous amount of creative energy, something that is often lacking in the northern…
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Gepco de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Peter LiebregtsFaculty of Humanities
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Erik BähreFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Wilt IdemaFaculty of Humanities
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Bram CaersFaculty of Humanities
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Karla Paola Cabrera AcuñaFaculty of Humanities
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NWO grant for research about crossing language borders: ‘ We know very little about how multilingualism works outside Western societies’
Professor Felix Ameka and university lecturer Maria del Carmen Parafita Couta have received an NWO Open Competition grant together with Enoch Aboh (University of Amsterdam) to do research on ‘code-switching’: switching languages by multilinguals.
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Ako TsujitaFaculty of Humanities
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Esther Op de BeekFaculty of Humanities
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A Donroe Doctrine? Latin America Confronts a New Global Reality
Debate, Academic Roundtable
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Latin America Community Meet-up and Christmas Borrel
Meet-up and drinks
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Christoph PieperFaculty of Humanities
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Internationalisation in research
Leiden researchers work together with other researchers from across the world. The University has developed a regional policy focused on three specific regions with which we maintain intensive contact through a number of faculties: China, Indonesia and Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Maud RijksFaculty of Humanities
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Japanese Literature Reading List
From experimental essays to comfort reads, and from manga to court literature in verse: Japanese literature has it all.
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
- Language Policy and Practices Series
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Sander Bax: 'Literature doesn’t confine itself to national borders'
To truly understand Dutch literature, we have to look beyond borders. At least, that is the view of Sander Bax. From 1 August, he will be Professor of Contemporary Dutch Literature and Culture in a Transnational Dynamic.
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Eduardo Alves VieiraFaculty of Humanities
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Tingting HuiFaculty of Humanities
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Rianti ManullangFaculty of Humanities
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in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature
How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of mass murder – despite heavy censorship – found a place in Indonesian literature. PhD defence 31 March.
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‘Literature explores all sorts of things that the law is not yet ready for’
As Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans Willem Korsten explores the interplay between literature and law. These are two disciplines that most people wouldn’t immediately connect, but Korsten can see a lot of common ground between them. ‘A fictional story can have a huge impact on law.’
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Emma GrootveldFaculty of Humanities