Het ASCL heeft een vacature voor een Hoofd afdeling Bibliotheek, Documentatie en Informatie (BDI) voor 5 dagen per week. Als hoofd van de afdeling BDI versterk je de verbondenheid tussen de collectie, het onderzoek en het onderwijs van het ASCL.

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.

Prof. Jan-Bart Gewald receives an NWO Open Competition grant to conduct research on mining history in Southern Africa. The project will investigate the environmental history of three industrial mining centres in southern Africa. It will describe and analyse the long-term impact of mining in southern Africa on more than humans alone.

The ASCL Annual Report for 2023 is out now! Read all about our publications, collaborations with African studies colleagues around the world, the INCLUDE Platform's new research agenda, and the ASCL Library achievements, including their partnership in the ERC project on African Literary Metadata (ALMEDA).

Are you interested in Africa and is your master's thesis on a related subject? If so, the African Studies Centre Leiden is offering you the chance to win € 500,-. Moreover, your thesis will be published in the ASCL's African Studies Collection. Master students who have completed their thesis at a university on the African continent or in the Netherlands can apply.

Last May we bid farewell to our colleague Ella Verkaik-Steenvoorden. She had worked at the Library of the ASCL for more than 40 years, and went into early retirement as she was moving to the eastern part of the Netherlands. Sadly, life took a different turn. Ella passed away in her new house in Delden, on 14 July.