536 search results for “cultural anthropology” in the Student website
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‘Young people are cannon fodder in the Central African Republic’
A bloody civil war has raged for years in the Central African Republic. PhD candidate Crépin Mouguia points out a tragic pattern: young people have been recruited as fighters or soldiers for generations and thus fuel the conflicts.
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Interdisciplinary symposium on restitution policies seeks more diverse perspectives
Taking responsibility concerning colonial heritage and restitution is a pressing issue for countries and museums worldwide. On 23 and 24 May, a Leiden University interdisciplinary symposium will explore new perspectives as a basis for policies. Organising professors Carsten Stahn and Pieter ter Keurs…
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Career College: Working at an NGO
Career and apply for jobs
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Talent Boost* : Personal Development (NL/EN) Leiden
Career and apply for jobs, Study support
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Dies Natalis all about innovating and connecting
‘We could share our knowledge more with others and apply it more widely,’ said Annetje Ottow, President of the Executive Board, while presenting the new Strategic Plan on the University’s 447th Dies Natalis. The new Strategic Plan therefore focuses on innovating and connecting, among disciplines and…
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Sarah CramseyFaculty of Humanities
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Noa SchonmannFaculty of Humanities
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Dario FazziFaculty of Humanities
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Carolien RieffeFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Nanne TimmerFaculty of Humanities
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Miko FlohrFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Luuk de LigtFaculty of Humanities
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Karwan Fatah-BlackFaculty of Humanities
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Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
Conference
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Abolition of slavery Memorial Year has begun
On 1 July – Keti Koti, in the year ahead, our university community will be able to reflect extensively on the history of slavery by engaging in research, education and many other activities.
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‘Scientists should be careful when interpreting results of AI models’
Anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame studies how AI is changing the practice of scientific research. From astrophysics to mathematics to climate science, they find that the adoption of new AI models is raising questions about what counts as reliable scientific evidence.
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Pedagogies of "Con/Tact" in unsettling times
Conference, BOCA Workshop
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Museum visit: A talk with Colombian Artist Nika Sorzano
Arts and culture
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‘A country’s immigration narrative really influences the people arriving there’
Immigration and naturalisation policies are an important theme in the upcoming Dutch elections. The Netherlands should be mindful of its immigration narrative, says PhD candidate Hannah Bliersbach, as this greatly influences the relationship between ‘new’ citizens and their new home country.
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‘You can’t just go to the field and leave again with data’: meet LUCIR scholar Corinna Jentzsch
Corinna Jentzsch, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Institute of Political Science and co-convener of the Leiden University Center for International Relations (LUCIR) has conducted extensive fieldwork in Mozambique. Her resulting book, Violent Resistance: Militia Formation and Civil…
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EL CID 2021: a great start in a friendly city
‘Leiden is small, friendly and welcoming,’ says new first-year student Ayla Russel. Strong wind and heavy showers were forecast for the first in-person day of the EL CID on 16 August, which could easily have spoiled this impression. But fortunately the showers – apart from one – fell somewhere else,…
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Jeffrey Fynn-PaulFaculty of Humanities
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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Gijsbert RuttenFaculty of Humanities
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Maria BoletsiFaculty of Humanities
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Kim BeerdenFaculty of Humanities
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Giles Scott-SmithFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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‘Universities are changing, but they remain essential to society’
From academic freedom to security and medical breakthroughs: during Leiden University’s 451st Dies Natalis, the speakers reflected on the role of universities in a world of social and geopolitical tensions.
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Book Presentation of Beyond the Mulatta: Haunted Hybridity in Advertising
Book Presentation | Studium Generale Lecture
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Mark Driessen