In line with university measures, ASCL staff will work from home and can be reached by email. The Secretariat can be reached by email (asc@asc.leidenuniv.nl) or phone (+31 (0)71 527 3372). The library is open (reservation compulsory).
After an impressive start, early December, the Africa Knows! conference about knowledge production in and on Africa will resume on 18 January. With fascinating panels on decolonising knowledge, films screened every evening, a conference magazine and a special blog by Prof. Jonathan Jansen of Stellenbosch University. The conference will last until 24 February. Registration is still possible!
Leiden University will confer an honorary doctorate on human rights and child rights activist Graça Machel on its Founcation Day, 8 February 2021. Ms Machel will receive the honorary doctorate for having committed herself to the rights of children all her life. The ceremony can be watched via livestream.
Prof. Marleen Dekker has been appointed a member of the Development Cooperation Committee of the Advisory Council on International Affairs. The Advisory Council on International Affairs (AIV) is an independent body which advises the Dutch government and parliament on foreign policy. Marleen Dekker is Professor of Inclusive Development in Africa at Leiden University.
The African Studies Centre Leiden is delighted to announce the ASCL Seminar Series speakers for 2021. The ASCL Seminars are invited (online) lectures given by some of the most prominent researchers in the field of African Studies. Dr Jennifer Chansa, University of the Free State, will kick off the series with a lecture on regulating copper mining and the history of environmental management in Zambia.
Jan Abbink has been interviewed by newspapers, websites and radio stations in several countries, such as Deutsche Welle, Knack, Trouw and NOS. The interviews deal with the conflict between the Tigray region armed forces and the Ethiopian federal army, provoked by an assault of the Tigray army on two federal military bases (near Dansha town and near Meqele in Tigray) in the early hours of 4 November 2020. His blog 'Hopes dashed: sabotage and mayhem in Ethiopia' is very enlightening too.
