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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
08 March 2018
Elvire Eijkman and Heleen Smits of the ASCL Library visited the annual book fair SIEL in Casablanca together with Marjan Nijborg of the Netherlands Institute in Morocco (NIMAR) and Tijmen Baarda, subject librarian for Middle Eastern Studies and the Islamic world at the Leiden University Libraries. Some 200 books from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt were bought.
08 March 2018
On the occasion of the international conference ‘Destination Africa’, organized by the ASCL’s and AEGIS collaborative research groups ‘Africa in the World’ in Leiden on 22 and 23 March 2018, the ASCL Library has compiled a web dossier on this theme. The dossier starts with an introduction to the subject by ASCL researcher Mayke Kaag. It consists of selected items from the ASCL Library Catalogue, published in the last ten years, extended with online sources available through the UBL Catalogue, and a few open access sources. Read the web dossier!
06 March 2018
The Anthropology department of the University of N’Djamena in Chad has had to close its doors after a decision by the Rector. In the four years of its existence, this young department has shown remarkable results. A small team of professors has implemented a programme that has taught young students to have a view on development and that has provided them with the necessary tools to do research. With this statement we would like to support our colleagues in Chad in their attempts to understand the situation and to renegotiate the recent decision. (Continuer à lire la version française).
02 March 2018
Final-year students who have completed their master's thesis at a university in Africa or the Netherlands on an Africa-related topic: apply for the Africa Thesis Award 2018! You must have graduated with distinction, i.e. 80% or higher, or a Dutch rating of at least an 8. The thesis must be based on independent empirical research. Deadline: 8 July 2018.
26 February 2018
This book is based on Leonor Faber-Jonker’s research master's thesis, runner-up for the 2016 Africa Thesis Award. In September 2011 twenty Namibian skulls were repatriated from the collection of the Charité university hospital in Berlin. The remains had been in Germany for more than a hundred years: they belonged to victims of the 'German-Herero war' (1904-1908) in German South-West Africa. Faber-Jonker analyses how these human remains became war trophies, anthropological specimens, and, finally, evidence, symbols, and relics.
23 February 2018
Are you exploring your options for a master’s programme, and are you interested in Africa? Join us for the presentations on African Studies during the Master's Open Day on 16 March at Leiden University. Presentations on the African Studies master's as well as the research master's programmes will be given, and the differences between the two courses will be clarified. Meanwhile, read more about the motivations of two of our current research master's students, Mariam de Haan and Felix Kram!
22 February 2018
The African Studies Centre Leiden has started a new blog: the ASCL Africanist Blog. The ASCL Professors, members of the Collaborative Research Groups and project researchers will blog about their research, fieldwork, new publications, conferences and teaching experiences. They may also share their view on a development in society from an Africanist perspective. Prof. Jan-Bart Gewald, director of the ASCL and Professor of African History, kicks off the blog: Paper libraries in the digital age?
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