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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
01 December 2014
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of the University of Amsterdam and the African Studies Center in Leiden are organizing the lecture series And Now Africa for students and professionals who are interested in understanding more about the continent. The course will provide a sense of context: Africa is rising, but for whom? Where and how does economic growth take place and can it be seen as real transformation? What about the rapid population growth and urbanization?
24 November 2014
After almost 30 years of dedicated work, Katrien Polman is retiring from the ASC’s Library, Documentation and Information Department this month. Katrien started working at the African Studies Centre in 1986. She was part of the driving force behind some very succesful library services: abstracts, web dossiers (she even became known as ‘Ms Web Dossier’), the African Studies Thesaurus and the indexing of books and journal articles. The ASC is grateful for Katrien’s many contributions and will miss her as a colleague!
20 November 2014
The ASC is saddened by the news that Professor Geertje Lycklama à Nijeholt died in the early hours of Tuesday 18 November 2014. Geertje was a member of the ASC Board of Governors from May 1997 – April 2005. Her commitment to women and gender equality was reflected in her professional career, through which she made a major contribution to women’s work, feminist organizations, gender policies and the institutional strengthening of research and teaching in women and gender studies.
17 November 2014
This week, the sixth European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) will take place in Paris (8-10 July). The principal theme is Collective Mobilisations in Africa: Contestation, Resistance, Revolt. Many ASC researchers will host or contribute to a panel. Several books written by ASC researchers or published by the ASC are to be presented at the conference. Alongside ECAS, the weeklong cultural event AFRICA ACTS, dedicated to the arts of performance in Africa and the Diaspora, will take place.
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