1,461 search results for “history of south africa” in the Student website
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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
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Three new Master's specialisations in History: ‘More in line with students’ wishes’
The Master's programme in History at Leiden University is set to change. From September 2026, three of the five specialisations will be replaced by new subjects that are more closely aligned with the field of research and students’ interests. One of these new specialisations will also be taught entirely…
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Verena MeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Guido Maschhaupt
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Mehmet KentelFaculty of Humanities
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Amza AdamFaculty of Humanities
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Sara BolghiranFaculty of Humanities
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Rishuai ChenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Loes OudenhuijsenAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Antje WesselsFaculty of Humanities
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Marleen DekkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Annas RabbaniFaculty of Science
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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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ASCL Seminar: Subjective dimensions of peace- and statebuilding across Africa
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When deciding what to study you undoubtedly read a lot of information about your study programme. Leiden University employs various systems to provide information about programmes and courses and to facilitate communication between lecturers and students.
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Jeroen OosterbaanFaculty of Archaeology
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Ying ZhangFaculty 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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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
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Anne PorFaculty of Humanities
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Katarzyna Cwiertka on the declining popularity of kimchi in South Korea
In the Western world, kimchi is on an unstoppable rise, but in South Korea the dish is actually losing popularity. Professor Katarzyna Cwiertka explains how this is possible in the video series 'The World of the Korean Wave'.
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Jocelyn López CaihuánFaculty of Humanities
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Havar SolheimFaculty of Humanities
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Nada HeddaneFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jan JansenFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Caroline ArchambaultFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Esther van de CampFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Between Fires: Irradiated Imaginations and Anti-Nuclear Solidarities
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Peter PelsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Alain WijffelsFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Limin TehFaculty of Humanities
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Pratika DewiFaculty of Humanities
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Floris de RuiterFaculty of Humanities
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Kamila SmagulovaFaculty of Humanities
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Caroline SchepFaculty of Humanities
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Ajeng Arainikasih
Faculty of Humanities
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Cynthia VialleFaculty of Humanities
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Henk te VeldeFaculty of Humanities
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Campus: Renovation of De Vrieshof starts and changed plans Lipsius South
There are some changes in the plans for the development of the Humanities Campus. The Faculty of Humanities along with the central organisation and the Real Estate department need to save costs due to the financial challenges at the faculty and the cuts in higher education. At the same time, we still…
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Self-Determination in Very Small Places
Lecture, Peace Histories Seminar Series
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Keti Koti in Leiden: 'Here, too, slavery is all around us‘
Many traces of the city's slavery history can be found in Leiden but the public isn't always aware of them. The initiators of 'Mapping Slavery in Leiden' want to change this with guided tours and street markers. Representatives of the University and other Leiden institutions will be giving the first…
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Diego SalamaFaculty of Humanities
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to Environmental Tragedy: Grant for Research into Polluted Mines in Africa
At one time, the railway from Kimberley to Kambove in Southern Africa symbolised prosperity and progress. Today, the exhausted mining towns along its route are marked by decay and pollution. Professor Jan-Bart Gewald has been awarded an NWO L grant to investigate the long-term global consequences.
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opportunities – A wealth of learning about fair partnerships Between Leiden and Africa
A whole week was dedicated to fair partnerships and equitable exchange in Leiden-African education and research
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Eric Jorink: 'We want to map the tradition of observations'
The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research has awarded a grant of 750,000 euros to the 'Visualising the Unknown in 17th-century Science and Society' project. Researchers will reconstruct how seventeenth-century scientists recorded and shared their groundbreaking microscopic discoveries. We…
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Political elites and regime change in the Middle East and North Africa: accommodation or exclusion?
Political scientist Kevin Köhler (Leiden University) has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). This prestigious grant enables him to set up a research group in the coming five years. Köhler and his team will examine how elite conflict affects processes of regime change…
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Liesbeth KanisAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Lidewyde BerckmoesAfrika-Studiecentrum