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Margot Leegwater will defend her PhD thesis 'Sharing Scarcity: Land Access and Social Relations in Southeast Rwanda' at the VU University Amsterdam on 16 September in the afternoon. Her study examines the effects of land policies on local community relations, including ethnicity, and land conflicts in post-conflict rural Rwanda. Promotor: Prof. Jan Abbink. In the morning, Leegwater will organize a seminar, also at the VU, where internationally renowned scholars will discuss post-genocide recovery, social relations, transitional justice, land scarcity, and violence in Rwanda.

Information Specialist Heleen Smits (ASC Library) gave a lecture at the Faculty of Arts, University of Khartoum (Sudan). The subject was in line with the research she conducts on the grammar of the Lumun language, which is her PhD subject at Leiden University. Heleen also purchased some 25 books at the Khartoum university's bookshop for the ASC Library.