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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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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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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Patricio SilvaFaculty of Humanities
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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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Francianne Dos Santos VelhoFaculty of Humanities
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Irina ZudinaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Christoph PieperFaculty of Humanities
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Daniela Vicherat MattarFaculteit Governance and Global Affairs
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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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Nike van HeldenFaculty of Humanities
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Paz Gonzalez GonzalezFaculty of Humanities
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Timo McGregorFaculty of Humanities
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Manuel Cabal LopezFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Celebrating 40 Years of the Latin American Studies Program at Leiden
Alumni event, Lustrum
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Erik BähreFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Karla Paola Cabrera AcuñaFaculty of Humanities
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Randal SheppardFaculty of Humanities
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Juan Masullo JimenezFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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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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Latin America Community Meet-up and Christmas Borrel
Meet-up and drinks
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A Donroe Doctrine? Latin America Confronts a New Global Reality
Debate, Academic Roundtable
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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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Tim SandersFaculty of Humanities
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Extra information faculties on OER
The faculties Humanities and Science have made a page with extra information on OER.
- Language Policy and Practices Series
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Esther EdelmannFaculty of Humanities
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Nanne TimmerFaculty of Humanities
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Maria Gabriela Palacio LudeñaFaculty of Humanities
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Thesis assessment
Thesis assessment is carried out according to faculty standards with associated assessment forms and manuals.
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Willem AdelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Eduardo Alves VieiraFaculty of Humanities
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MEPs’ visit highlights importance of knowledge about Global South
Two MEPs visited Leiden University on Friday 30 January. Their visit underscored the vital importance of the university’s expertise on Africa, Asia and Latin America in a rapidly changing geopolitical landscape.
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Maria del Carmen Parafita CoutoFaculty of Humanities
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Macarena Alegria GarciaFaculty of Humanities
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Six top-rated programmes at Humanities
Six programmes in the Faculty of Humanities have been awarded the designation 'top programme' by the Keuzegids. These are the bachelor’s in German Language and Culture, Greek and Latin Language and Culture, Latin American Studies, Ancient Near East Studies, Religious Studies and Russian Studies.
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Academic impact
If you wish to increase your academic impact and your interaction with your field, the University can support your efforts in a number of ways: from help in organising events to advice on international collaboration. We have listed the possibilities below.
- Nominate a student for the ECHO Award 2026
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LeidenGlobal Dialogues - Indigo: Threads of Trade, Culture & Change
Lecture
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Introducing: María Gabriela Palacio Ludeña
María Gabriela Palacio recently joined the Latin American Studies programme at the Institute for History as University Lecturer in Modern Latin American History. Below, she introduces herself.
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Carla Cisternas Guasch receives research grant of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation
Carla Cisternas Guasch, PhD candidate at the Leiden Institute for History, is one of the winners of the 2023 call of the Slicher van Bath de Jong Foundation for the advancement of study and research on the history of Latin America. She receives a research grant of €10.000 (max).
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana at the Rapenburg in Leiden, kept in the Leiden University Library, Rotterdam researcher Erik-Jan Bos discovered a hitherto unknown…
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Ana Cardozo de SouzaFaculty of Humanities
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
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Felipe Colla De AmorimFaculty of Humanities
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European Day of Languages - Evening of Languages
Festival
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Opposing the French participle clause
The Dutch phrase ‘ijs en weder dienende’ (literally, ‘ice and weather serving’) is a good example of what is known as a participle clause and is perhaps one of the most unfathomable grammatical constructions in Dutch. For what (or who) is serving whom (or what)? It actually means ‘ice and weather permitting’.…
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COIL: virtual exchange between Leiden and Santiago (Chili)
From the first semester of 2026, Leiden University and Universidad Diego Portales (Santiago, Chile) will launch three online virtual exchange programmes. The themes are: political analysis, tensions surrounding Indigenous peoples in Latin America, and the securitisation of borders.