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On Tuesday 2 June, three subsequent PhD defences will take place at Leiden University within the same research project. All research was done in the framework of the 'Madina Project', which is part of the research programme 'Religious Matters in an Entangled World'.

Mirjam de Bruijn commented in various media outlets on the attacks by jihadists and Tuareg separatists on the military regime in Mali, and how this has an effect on the stability in the wider Sahel. Read the articles and listen to the podcast interview.

On 19 April, zoologist, writer, painter and broadcaster Desmond Morris passed away. Morris invited Professor Emeritus Wouter van Beek to his home in Ireland in April 2024, to discuss African bronzes, Dogon art, Dogon people, brass casting, and Africa more broadly. Van Beek recollects.