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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
16 January 2025
16 January 2025
Bij het Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden (ASCL), Universiteit Leiden, is een vacature voor een Student-assistent secretariaat voor ongeveer 16 uur per week, met ingang van 3 maart 2025.
15 January 2025
15 January 2025
The ASCL is proud to have acquired the photo exhibition 'Traces'. The photos will be on permanent display in the ASCL hallways. TRACES is a photo-ethnographic project by researcher Lidewyde Berckmoes and photographer Marieke Maagdenberg that investigates how violent conflict reverberates across borders and generations.
Preserving reason: a rationalist defense of the ‘Western telos’ in social science and the humanities
15 January 2025
15 January 2025
To start off the New Year the African Library has selected some great new books. Common thread: these books and writers offer new perspectives on Africa, from an African point-of-view. Check out the library picks from recent months!
13 January 2025
The ASCL is deeply saddened by the news that its former colleague Melle Leenstra passed away in The Hague on 8 January. Melle was seconded to the ASCL during his PhD project on the Zambian health sector from a political science perspective. He worked tirelessly on forging equitable relations between the Netherlands and Africa.
10 January 2025
On Wednesday 5 March at 16:00 CET, Loes Oudenhuijsen will defend her dissertation Situating “wicked” women: Gender panic and savoir vivre in urban Senegal. This thesis analyses women’s gender and sexual dissidence in relation to social transformations in Senegal.