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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
23 April 2018
Recent travels to Chad, Cameroon and Mali confronted Prof. Mirjam de Bruijn with the conflicts in these countries as well as in the Central African Republic, and the youth’s involvement in them. How are researchers to analyse these developments? Are the protests the result of a youth that - through ICTs - is more informed about the world and its inequality - or is there more to it? Read Prof. De Bruijn's latest contribution to the ASCL Africanist Blog!
The origin of 'African Studies' at Leiden University - the archives of P.J. Idenburg made accessible
20 April 2018
The ASCL library holds the archives of legal scholar Petrus Johannes Idenburg, one of the founders of the African Studies Centre. Idenburg (1898-1989) specialized in Constitutional Law. From 1947 he taught African Studies at Leiden University. Of special interest are e.g. the material on the Mandates Commission South West Africa (1937-1940), papers on the Bukavu Conference (1955), and notes about trips to Moscow and Washington (1960-1961). The archives can be consulted in the ASCL Library.
19 April 2018
Language is uniquely human. Through language, humans express their understanding of the world. Different human groups employ linguistic and cultural practices to navigate and handle coordination problems in interaction. Language is the key to understanding human nature. It can therefore be used as a tool to address existential and sustainable human development issues. Yet, international as well as national development agendas such as the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN, or Agenda 2063 of the African Union, or the 40-year Development Plan of Ghana ignore and neglect the role of language in shaping and directing human lives. This workshop is organised in the context of a wider research agenda of making languages matter in African Studies and in the conception and implementation of strategies to eradicate inequality in all spheres of human life in Africa.
16 April 2018
All members of LeidenASA are invited for a presentation on ‘visualizing landscapes of extraction’ on April 19, 11-13 (venue to be announced). The presentation stems from a methodological experiment that was carried out as part of the collaboration around Field Research and Training in Ghana (Ghana FR&T). The Ghana FR&T was partially financed by LeidenASA.
16 April 2018
The ASCL is looking for a research assistant for the project 'Economics in Sub-Sahara Africa: Towards a meso-level perspective on (frugal) innovation for inclusive human development and environmental sustainability'. The aim of this vacancy is to develop a research project proposal. It is a joint initiative of the ASCL, the Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. Read the full text of the vacancy.
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