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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
20 June 2023
Harry Wels has been appointed Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. Harry's research is about organisational structures of cooperation in the context of nature conservation, touching on broader issues in Human-Animal studies.
20 June 2023
Starting in September 2022, Lidewyde Berckmoes was invited for a three-month Embassy Science Fellowship at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Jakarta. She was asked to contribute ‘to structurally strengthen Indonesian knowledge of Africa’ and relations with African countries’ research institutions.
19 June 2023
On 20 June 1962, Tanzanian poet, author, and essayist, Shaaban bin Robert, died in Dar es Salam at the age of 53. Robert is celebrated as one of the greatest Tanzanian Swahili thinkers, intellectuals and writers in East Africa and has been called "poet laureate of Swahili" and is also known as the "Father of Swahili."
19 June 2023
Azeb Amha and a group of scholars from various universities have won the 2nd and 3rd prize of the Grotevragenprijs competition of the Landelijke Onderzoekschool Taalwetenschap (National Research School of Linguistics, LOT). They have won the prize for an essay on language and interactions with non-human animals.
13 June 2023
On 7 July, His Excellency Kgalema Motlanthe, former President of South Africa, will give a public lecture at Leiden University in The Hague. The title of the lecture is: Africa’s development: Transformation through industrialization.
12 June 2023
On 18 June 2019, Nigerian poet, critic, editor, feminist and activist Omolara Ogundipe-Leslie, also known as Molara Ogundipe, died at the age of 78 in Ijebu Igbo. Considered one of the foremost writers on African feminism, gender studies and literary theory, she was a social critic who came to be recognised as a viable authority on African women among black feminists and feminists in general.
12 June 2023
Karin Nijenhuis has been awarded a Comenius Senior Fellowship. The Comenius programme contributes to innovation and improvement of higher education in the Netherlands. Karin Nijenhuis receives the Senior Fellowship for the project 'Feel connected! The integration of dialogue as a teaching method in higher education to improve student well-being'.