until 11 October 2018
The LeidenGlobal Photo Exhibition ‘Heritage on the Move’ is extended with 6 photographs. The new photographs are shown for the first time from August 11th at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. | full story
deadline 6 September 2018
The LeidenGlobal Course ‘Discipline and Place' for ResMA and PhD students highlights the interaction of the disciplinary theory and the method with realities, representations, and issues of place, with lectures by fourteen LeidenGlobal experts. | Register now! | full story
Until 2019
View the LeidenGlobal Photo Exhibition online! Heritage on the Move is an exhibition of photographs provided by scholars of the LeidenGlobal partners, reflecting their vision on the theme ‘Heritage on the Move’. The exhibition itself is on the move but can also be viewed online. | full story
Until 25 August 2018
The latest edition of World Press Photo will be at Museum Volkenkunde from 5 July - 25 August. The museum will be showing over 160 winning photos by 42 press photographers from 22 countries. The categories are sports, people, nature, long-term projects, general news, environment and contemporary issues. | full story
16 augustus 2018
KITLV directeur en hoogleraar koloniale en postkoloniale geschiedenis Gert Oostindie, tevens voorzitter van LeidenGlobal, sprak in het NPO radioprogramma ‘Met het Oog op Morgen’ over het aangekondigde nationale debat in Cuba over grondwetshervormingen. | full story
t/m 2 september 2018
De grote overzichtstentoonstelling van tweehonderd jaar geschiedenis van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden is nog een paar weken te zien! In deze jubileumexpositie wandelt u door twee eeuwen museumgeschiedenis, hoort u verrassende verhalen en ziet u ruim tweehonderd objecten die een opvallende rol in de museumgeschiedenis hebben gespeeld. | full story
t/m 28 oktober 2018
Vanaf 7 juni is op de Nabije Oosten afdeling de kleine tentoonstelling Scannen voor Syrië te zien. Het Syrische erfgoed heeft de laatste jaren sterk geleden onder de burgeroorlog. Vindplaatsen zijn zwaar beschadigd en archeologische objecten van de aardbodem verdwenen. De tentoonstelling presenteert onder meer reconstructies van vondsten uit Tell Sabi Abyad, een Syrische vindplaats waar Leidse archeologen tot 2010 opgroeven. Veel van de originele vondsten zijn recentelijk verdwenen. | full story
19-21 September 2018
This conference organised by VVI at Museum Volkenkunde brings together researchers from the Global South and North with interests in Law and Development. The conference aims in particular to look at the role of law in addressing problems of development and governance. The conference is meant to inspire, meet, discuss and develop research and solutions. | full story
15 September 2018
This year LeidenGlobal for the first time will participate in the Scientific and Cultural festival of South Holland: Night of Discoveries (former Night of Art & Knowledge) in Leiden on Saturday September 15th | full story
24 July 2018
Andrew Gawthorpe, lecturer in history and international studies at Leiden University, wrote a piece in The Guardian on how according to him the intelligence agencies are essential to protecting the USA from a rogue president. | full story
deadline 15 september 2018
In October, LUCIS and NIMAR will host a two-day workshop in honor of the 50th anniversary of Islam Observed, Clifford Geertz' comparative study of Islam in Morocco and Indonesia. Send in your proposal before 15 September and get a chance to share your work in Rabat this fall. | full story
20 July 2018
Professor Rob de Wijk (International Relations) monitored Donald Trump's recent visit to Europe. He discussed the outcomes of the different summits and concludes that ‘This visit delivered exactly what I predicted: nothing!' | full story
23 juli 2018
Mirjam de Bruijn, hoogleraar Afrikanistiek, was in maart nog in Kameroen. Ze omschreef de sfeer als bedompt en onderdrukkend. De mensen daar durven zich niet meer uit te spreken. Ze vertelt er over bij de NOS. | full story
05 sept - 31 okt 2018
There are many conceptions and misconceptions about the position of women in Iran. In four nights and four films you are invited to contemplate the position of women in Iran from very different angles. Each film screening starts with a short lecture, and afterwards there is a discussion moderated by Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Senior Lecturer Persian Studies at Leiden University. | full story
07 August 2018
The African Studies Centre Leiden has been working on the project African Postal Heritage. Postage stamps, postcards, and other forms of postal heritage are miniature communication tools and tell stories about places, routes, and times. Also for Africa they are part of material heritage, that can be made visible online, thanks to the improving open access possibilities. You can now also contribute to this series. | full story
14 September 2018
Leiden University will organize the annual Asia Day - Indonesia to mark the one year opening of the Asian Library. On this day several speakers will talk about Indonesia. The day will start with an interview with Gert Oostindie (KITLV/LeidenGlobal Chairman) on the colonial war. Registration is required. | full story
Until 30 September 2018
The new exhibition in celebration of Nelson Mandela's centenary, shows portraits of 100 African legacy makers, who embody the three key principles of Nelson Mandela, and 100 artworks from across the motherland, made by artists from all over Africa. | full story
16 August 2018
KITLV directeur en hoogleraar koloniale en postkoloniale geschiedenis Gert Oostindie sprak in Café Weltschmerz naar aanleiding van zijn Daendelslezing ‘Postkoloniale beeldenstorm’. | full story
15 August 2018
Would you like to have a job or internship at one of the LeidenGlobal partner organizations? Or do you know anyone that might be interested? Now is the time to apply! Several LeidenGlobal partners offer jobs and internships for the upcoming period. | full story
10 July 2018
Leo Lucassen is Professor of Global Labour and Migration History and director of the International Institute of Social History (IISH). The last couple of weeks he has been in the news quite frequently due to the many discussions on the migration crisis in the EU. | full story
16 July 2018
Leiden University has been awarded with a research grant from ERC Marie Curie ITN for the project Mediating Islam in the Digital Age (MIDA). Petra de Bruijn of Middle Eastern Studies and Laurents Sesink and Fieke Schoots of the Centre for Digital Scholarship at Leiden University Libraries participate in the project. | full story
23 juli 2018
KITLV onderzoeker Sanne Rotmeijer vertelde 20 juli jl. over de Nederlands-Franse grens op Sint Maarten in het radioprogramma “Met het oog op morgen”. Beluister het fragment hier. | full story
t/m 07 juli 2019
Tentoonstelling over het 17e-eeuwse manuscript van Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala dat nu nog steeds actueel is en dat behalve als unieke geschiedschrijving ook als aanklacht tegen de koloniale overheersers beschouwd wordt. | full story
16 August 2018
Edited by Rosemarijn Hoefte and Peter Meel, this volume traces the different ways in which Javanese migrants and migrant communities are connected to their host society and with Java as a real or imagined authoritative source of norms, values and loyalties. | full story
16 August 2018
In this article, published in The Jakarta Post, Henk Schulte Nordhold reacts to a seminar held at August 1. He speaks out against a statement made at the seminar, stating that the conveners are afraid that a Dutch research project is supported by the Dutch government to cover up Dutch war crimes in Indonesia. | full story
20 April 2018
Are you interested in the projects and activities of LeidenGlobal? In the 2017 annual report you will find a brief overview of the activities of the past year. | full story
t/m 21 januari 2019
Museum Volkenkunde wijdt aan de hand van de museumverzameling een kleine expositie aan een bijzonder Koreaans gebied: de Diamanten Bergen. Historische prenten, foto’s en voorwerpen bieden bezoekers een beeld van deze bijzondere plek op aarde en schetsen de betekenis ervan in de loop van de tijd. | full story
Until March 2019
The small exhibition provides an overview of the collecting history of the Ancient Europe collection. This 'forgotten' museum collection consists of objects that come from all parts of Europe and that date from prehistoric times, Roman times, and the Middle Ages. | full story
