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Volgende week

Agenda 16 - 22 April 2023

Dinsdag 18 April

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Nederland, Leiden - Academiegebouw Universiteit Leiden - Lezing en debat
Promotie: Maternal health in Namibia: Lessons learned from obstetric surveillance
Dinsdag 18 April 2023 16:15 - 17:00

Promovendus: S. Heemelaar. Promotor(en): Prof.dr. J.M.M. van Lith, Prof.dr. J. Stekelenburg, dr. T.H. van den Akker

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dinsdag18.04
Nederland, Leiden - Lipsius Building, Leiden University - Lezing en debat
Lecture - 18 April: African languages and literature: endangered archives and cultural practices
Dinsdag 18 April 2023 19:30 - 22:00
Speakers: Dr. Azeb Amha, Senior Researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden, Leiden University  &  Dr. Annachiara Raia, University Lecturer, Humanities, Leiden University. Contrary to the idea of restricted literacy, Africa is a continent where varied forms of literature are expressed in oral forms, a variety of scripts and many languages. In the presentation we aim to provide insights on the  broad spectrum of creativity in language use and literary practices. These themes will be discussed based on ethnographic and archival research conducted in East Africa, paying particular attention to ‘endangered archives’ and ‘endangered languages’ that have carved out complementary niches in the afrophone world. While approaches in cultural as well as postcolonial studies often relegate language and its literary form to the background and emphasize its socio-political relevance, we will highlight the important effect of language on cognition and the central role of literature in preserving essential cultural knowledge. By doing so, we will show how African languages and literatures reflect more than a vessel to transport predefined ideas.

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Donderdag 20 April

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Nederland, Leiden - ASC - Lezing en debat
ASCL Seminar: Girls’ Education, Neoliberal Subjectivity, and Sacrifice in Niger
Donderdag 20 April 2023 16:00 - 17:00

This event will be held physically in Leiden. For registrees who cannot travel to Leiden a link to an online platform will be sent one day before the start of the event. In Niger, the world’s least educated nation, girls are described as both vulnerable beings in need of protection and subjects imbued with unique potential, including the capacity to transform their country’s fortunes. To protect girls from harmful practices, such as early marriage, and, at the same time, unlock their unique capacities, parents must send daughters to school, rights activists, celebrities, and other advocates of girls’ education proclaim. While nationwide discussions highlight how boko (Western education in Hausa) has become a lightning rod for Muslim activists’ discontent with foreign intervention, adolescent schoolgirls parrot the slogans coined by non-governmental organisations and corporate responsibility projects to highlight the economic benefits of investing in girls. They cast themselves citizens of the future who, once empowered by education, will care for families, jumpstart local economies, and pull Niger out of poverty. This seminar traces a major contradiction in the vision of progressive futures peddled by development through its instrumentalisation of education in Niger: on the one hand, girls are treated as ideal neoliberal models of self-reliance and self-making; on the other, they must sacrifice themselves for the common good. Speaker: Prof. Adeline Masquelier (Tulane University, USA). Click here to register for this event

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