News & Events

The ASC Annual Public Event, a performance by poet Phillippa Yaa de Villiers from South Africa, was a big success. Phillippa Yaa de Villiers is the Commonwealth poet 2014. For the ASC Annual Event she performed Shades, in which she explores race, identity and politics in South Africa. After the performance she was recognized as 'ASC honorary artist', a special membership of the ASC Community. The event took place on 8 December at the Hogeschool Leiden. Have a look at the pictures!

Two new books out by ASC senior researcher Walter van Beek: Contes Kapsiki du Cameroun (Kapsiki Stories from Cameroon) and Sacred Spaces and Contested Identities: Space and Ritual Dynamics in Europe and Africa. For the first book, Van Beek and Henry Tourneux collected and edited stories from the Kapsiki in Cameroon. Animals, human beings and supernatural beings are the main characters. The second book, edited by Van Beek, Paul Post and Philip Nel, is a volume on the position of sacred space, within the broader context of ritual and religious dynamics. Both books can be borrowed from the Library!