Past events

25 April 2023
Studium Generale: Movie with introduction: The Wound - Inxeba

20 April 2023
20 April: Africa Thesis Award ceremony

20 April 2023
ASCL Seminar: Girls’ Education, Neoliberal Subjectivity, and Sacrifice in Niger
Speaker: Prof. Adeline Masquelier (Tulane University)

18 April 2023
Studium Generale: African Languages and Literature: endangered archives and cultural practices
Speaker: Annachiara Raia,
Speaker: Azeb Amha

11 April 2023
Studium Generale: Islam in Afrika: diversiteit, wereldwijde verbindingen - en wat heeft de Koran ermee te maken?
Speaker: Mayke Kaag,
Speaker: Gerard van de Bruinhorst

06 April 2023
Opening library exhibition: security and crime in Lusophone Africa

04 April 2023
Studium Generale: Afrika's internationale migratie
Speaker: Ton Dietz,
Speaker: Akinyinka Akinyoade

30 March 2023
ASCL Seminar: Border closures in East and Central Africa: asymmetry, severance, and disruption
Speaker: Dr Hugh Lamarque (The University of Edinburgh)

22 March 2023
CRG Seminar: lecture and documentary screening on mining in the DRC and Ghana

23 February 2023
ASCL Seminar: Ancestral livelihoods and moral universalism - Evidence from transhumant pastoralist societies
Speaker: Dr Etienne le Rossignol (University of Namur)

14 February 2023
Community Country Meeting Nigeria: Elections panel discussion

11 January 2023
Ustadh Mau Digital Archive (UMADA) Project Launch

01 December 2022
Stephen Ellis Annual Lecture by Megan Vaughan: Africa in the time of Coronavirus - Biology, history and politics
Speaker: Prof. Megan Vaughan (University College London)

17 November 2022
CANCELLED: ASCL Seminar: Limits to Transnational Security Governance in the Sahel
Speaker: Dr Signe Marie Cold-Ravnkilde (Danish Institute for International Studies)

10 November 2022
Online Master's Open Day African Studies

03 November 2022
CANCELLED: ASCL Seminar: The UN, Women’s Movements, and the Post-Conflict Response to Sexual Violence
Speaker: Dr Peace Medie (University of Bristol)

02 November 2022
Graduation ceremony Master and Research Master students African Studies

09 October 2022
Leidse Wereldwandeling: Sporen van Afrika in Leiden

06 October 2022
Kick-off iAfrica Film Festival 2022 - 'Kumbuka' (DRC)

05 October 2022
Inaugural Lecture Mayke Kaag

14 September 2022
Séminaire : Repenser l’informel en Afrique à partir de ses relations avec le domaine politique : quelles implications pour les agences et partenaires au développement ?

13 September 2022
PhD Defence Kassim Assouma: Les acteurs de l’économie informelle dans l’arène politique : L’utilisation stratégique de l’espace politique par les taxis-motos au Bénin
Speaker: Kassim Assouma

11 September 2022
Leidse Wereldwandeling: Sporen van Afrika in Leiden

31 August 2022
Submit your thesis for the Africa Thesis Award 2022!

14 July 2022
Séminaire : Commerce informel et contrebande de carburant. Dynamiques et logiques des acteurs dans l’espace frontalier de Bittou (Burkina Faso)
Speaker: Dr Yacouba Cissao

29 June 2022
CRG masterclasses at the ASCL: Sexual polemics in Africa: Public contestations around comprehensive sexuality education

23 June 2022
Seminar: “The vast Empire of the grandfather”. Claiming to be the grandson of the king of the Congo (1856-1912)
Speaker: Dr Juliette Ruaud

16 June 2022
ASCL Seminar: Religion and economic policy in sub-Saharan Africa
Speaker: Dr Amma Panin

09 June 2022
Seminar: Rituals, Festivals and Claims to Urban Spaces in Nigeria
Speaker: Dr Onyekachi Nnabuihe

09 June 2022
Roundtable: Writing a General Labour History of Africa from the 16th to the 19th centuries