Dinsdag 02 Juni 2026
Unbearable Lightness of Agency: Eritrean Unaccompanied Refugee Minors from Flight to Arrival in the Netherlands
Dinsdag 02 Juni 2026 09:45 - 11:15
This dissertation seeks to explore how Eritrean unaccompanied refugee minors (URMs) are, on the one hand, perceived as a nuisance in the host society and, on the other hand, framed as victims of the Eritrean regime.
Dutch Colonial History and It's Afterlives in South Africa
Dinsdag 02 Juni 2026 13:00 - 14:30
Tijdens dit seminar van de afdeling Cultuurgeschiedenis bespreken Carine Zaayman (Research Centre for Material Culture) en Jody Metcalfe (Universiteit Utrecht) hoe de Nederlandse koloniale geschiedenis zichtbaar is in het hedendaagse Zuid-Afrika.
Three PhD defences in research project 'Religious matters'
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, lead by Prof. Birgit Meyer at Utrecht University. In addition to Prof. Meyer, Prof. Rijk van Dijk is co-supervisor of all three PhD candidates.