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A new research project by Prof. Marleen Dekker aims to investigate the social norms that guide and constrain the financial decision-making of Zambian men and women. It also aims to explore ways of incorporating knowledge about these norms into financial services, financial literacy programmes and policy design. (Photo copyright: Financial Sector Deepening Zambia). 

This workshop facilitates exchange and dialogue between 12 early career researchers working on topics of law, (human) rights and governance in Africa. We welcome researchers from a wide range of disciplines – i.e. African studies, law, anthropology, sociology, geography, political science and development studies - to apply in order to meet and exchange ideas and findings. Through adopting an interdisciplinary approach, we bring together researchers from different universities, faculties, and departments to exchange and work on new research agendas from diverse perspectives.

How do different regions in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa organise their regional collaboration? And what can be learned from these different regions to make the EU itself leaner, smarter and more legitimate? Leiden University has won a prestigious Jean Monnet grant to establish a Centre of Excellence addressing these questions. The centre, called CompaRe, will focus on comparative regional integration. Prof. Ton Dietz will participate in the centre on behalf of the ASCL.

Sean Jacobs, associate professor of international affairs at The New School and founding editor of 'Africa is a Country' will give a keynote lecture at the Annual meeting of the Leiden African Studies Assembly (LeidenASA) on 12 December. The programme also includes the award ceremony for the winner of the Africa Thesis Award 2019: Nsima Udo (University of Western Cape, South Africa), for his thesis about the history of mbopo, a form of female initiation in Southern Nigeria.