News & Events

This month's Library Highlight showcases the first film made by a Mauritian filmmaker acquired by the ASCL Library. Simin Zetwal (Gazing at the stars) is a feature film by David Constantin with Edeen Bhugeloo, Sharonne Gah-Roussety, and Jérôme Boulle (2022).

In a context of increasingly restrictive mobility regimes, how do migrants imagine their mobility, life and future? In this seminar on 10 October, Dr Nauja Kleist (DIIS) argues that hope constitutes a productive analytical framework for studies of migration, drawing on a case study of involuntary return to Ghana.

The ASCL has moved from the Pieter de la Court building, to the Herta Mohr Building in Leiden in the last week of May. We are now located at the former P.N. van Eyckhof-Van Wijkplaats, Witte Singel 27a in Leiden. You are very welcome to come and visit us!