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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
28 November 2013
De 'Wikipedian-in-special-residence' bij het Afrika-Studiecentrum, Hans Muller, geeft op woensdag 11 december van 14:00-16:00 een korte cursus Inleiding Wikipedia. Wat zijn de regels voor het plaatsen van artikelen op Wikipedia? Hoe kunnen we Wikipedia verbeteren met correcties en aanvullingen? Experts, liefhebbers en geïnteresseerden op het gebied van Afrika en meer zijn van harte uitgenodigd voor deze bijeenkomst.
21 November 2013
On Wednesday 27 November, the launch of LeidenGlobal will be celebrated in the Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde. LeidenGlobal is a platform for global expertise. Partners are: the African Studies Centre, the International Institute for Asian Studies, KITLV, the Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Roosevelt Study Centre and Leiden University.
20 November 2013
Due to unforseen circumstances, the seminar on 3 December has been cancelled. The invited speaker, Dr. Abamfo Ofori Atiemo of the University of Ghana, will however be giving a presentation at Wednesday's (4 December) workshop: Modern State Administration and African Religious Cosmologies. The ASC apologizes for the inconvenience.
18 November 2013
Doris Lessing, Nobel-prize winning author, died on 17 November aged 94. Lessing was born in Kermanshah, Iran, then called Persia, on 22 October 1919. In 1925, the family moved to the British colony of Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Her first novel, The Grass is Singing (1950), takes place in Southern Rhodesia during the 1940s and deals with the racial politics between whites and blacks in that country (which was then a British colony). The novel created a sensation when it was first published and became an instant success in Europe and the United States.
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