4,545 search results for “africa in de world” in the Public website
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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Maartje van der WoudeFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Eric StormFaculty of Humanities
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Adriaan BednerFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Felicia RosuFaculty of Humanities
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Krista A. MilneFaculty of Humanities
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Afshin EllianFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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Jeroen DuindamFaculty of Humanities
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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Judith PollmannFaculty of Humanities
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Alwin KloekhorstFaculty of Humanities
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Ton LiefaardFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Priorities of Poland's Presidency of the Council of the European Union
Lecture, European Union Seminar
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Why is the museum a topic in the current context?
Lecture
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The Western Part of the East Indies: Colonial Worldmaking and Global Knowledges at the Early Modern Cape Colony
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Radical Spotlights: Personhood, the Economy, and Values
Lecture, Radical Spotlights Seminar
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God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End
Lecture, Unfolding Finitudes
- Medieval Middle East Meeting (1ECTS)
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Becoming an inclusive university
Conference, D&I Event
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Kremlin's Control and Suppression Strategies: The evolution of the relationship between violence and disinformation between 2000 – 2021
Lecture
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‘Military strikes alone unlikely to fatally undermine Venezuelan government’
What will be the outcome of the US raid on Venezuela and capture of President Maduro? ‘History shows that people usually react to being bombed by a foreign power by rallying around the flag, not turning against their leaders’, says historian Andrew Gawthorpe in The Conversation.
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2019 Hall of fame
Over the past year, many of our staff and students have won prizes, been awarded a substantial grant or been appointed to an academic association or a position in public life. All of these are good reasons to include them in our 2019 Hall of Fame. We are proud of them all.
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Situating "Wicked" Women: Gender Panic and Savoir Vivre in Urban Senegal
PhD defence
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Colonisation and migration in New-America
Migration is nothing new. A lot of people immigrated to the United States after it was ‘rediscovered’. The Netherlands also colonised a part of the New World and gave it the name New Netherland. Pepijn Doornenbal, a master’s student History, conducts research in the United States about how different…
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and Global Imagination in the first Islamic Description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbī / History of the West Indies), 16th-20th centuries
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Leiden Anthropology Conference 2
Conference
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Li Manshan: Portrait of a Folk Daoist
Film screening
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SAILS Lunch Time Seminar: Rita Pucci
Lecture
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie: The Politics of Emotion in the Pamphlets of the De Hondt Affair During the Small Brabant Revolution (1787)
Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk
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Turning over a new leaf: Manuscript innovation in the twelfth-century renaissance
How did the medieval manuscript develop as a physical object during the Twelfth Century Renaissance and what do these changes tell us about the intellectual culture of the period?
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Splitting and clustering grammatical information
This project focuses on a striking parallelism between two macro-groups of languages: southern Italian dialects and the so-called split-ergative languages, like Basque, Georgian, Dyirbal, Hindi/Urdu.
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Tales of the Revolt. Memory, Oblivion and Identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700
This research project, that started in September 2008, aims to explore how personal and public memories of the Dutch Revolt in the seventeenth century evolved and interacted to create new political and cultural identities for the societies that eventually were to become the kingdoms of the Netherlands…
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Symposium Humanities: What does AI mean for our education?
Conference
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India - Pakistan: Een grensconflict met diepe wortels
Lecture, Leids Actualiteitencollege
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Opera Viva: Ah, l'Amor
Arts and culture, Opera lecture
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Nadine Akkerman: ‘It’s an incredible feeling, rewriting such an iconic event from a country’s history.’
Ever since Nadine Akkerman, Professor of Early Modern Literature & Culture, came across a woman spy in her research, secret agents have kept cropping up in her work. Now there’s Spycraft, a popular history book exploring the espionage techniques used by early modern spies, which she has co-written with…
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Linguistic time travel
A love of puzzles and the patience of a saint: these are two essential traits for linguists wishing to explore the Indo-European language family. Fortunately, Professor Michaël Peyrot possesses both. In his inaugural lecture he will take the audience on a voyage of discovery to the past.
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From Japan Studies to junior school: ‘I was back to square one in the classroom’
It was while wearing clogs at a Dutch theme park in Japan that Cindy Heijdra really got to know Japan. Over 20 years later, she is studying again: to be a primary school teacher.
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ERC-funded research uncovers the role of stereotypes in citizens’ support for EU policy
Two years after launching an ERC Starting Grant to investigate cultural stereotyping in European Union governance, Adina Akbik and Christina Toenshoff at Leiden University are now publishing their first major findings. Looking at public opinion across the EU, the researchers show that cultural stereotypes…
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Four years of war in Ukraine: What Europe can learn from the battlefield
Four years of war in Ukraine have transformed the nature of warfare, with drones, digital defence systems and improvised solutions shaping the battlefield. At a recent symposium, Dutch and Ukrainian experts discussed frontline conditions. What lessons do they see for Europe?
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Book talk: The Party’s Interests Come First by Joseph Torigian
Lecture, Book talk
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International Mother Language Day: Mother Languages in Motion
Festival
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Business History and Imperialism SI Workshop
Lecture, Workshop
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Snow, a mini-cortège and a new rector: a special Dies Natalis
No procession of professors, just a handful of people in the church and snowdrifts outside Leiden’s Pieterskerk: 8 February 2021 was no ordinary Dies Natalis. Carel Stolker transferred the rectorate to Hester Bijl, and Annetje Ottow became the new President of the Executive Board. With an honorary doctorate…
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Why Autocrats Kill: Elite Rivalry, Mass Killing and Genocide in Authoritarian Regimes
Book discussion
- The WPS Agenda and the Middle East: Progress or Procrastination?