Welcome to the ASC!

The African Studies Centre in Leiden is the only multidisciplinary academic research institute in the Netherlands devoted entirely to the study of Africa. It welcomes African scholars through its visiting fellowship programme, has a monthly seminar programme and an extensive library that is open to the general public. Learn more about the ASC’s research programme.

What's new

ASC in the Media ANC is jarig. Ineke van Kessel over het ANC toen en nu		New exhibition Paintings by Jon Eiselin (South Africa)
16 February 2012 Seminar: A Reinterpretation of the ANC and Popular Movements in Urban Struggles in South Africa		New publication Institutionalizing Elites
65 years of expertise and knowledge about Africa The ASC is celebrating its 65th anniversary this year		Radio Nederland Wereldomroep Nouvelles de l'Afrique News from Africa - English
8 March 2012 Seminar: Socialist Modernities and Discourses of Development: The Drive-in Cinema in Dar es Salaam		VICI awarded to prof. Mirjam de Bruijn Understanding Communication and Conflict in Middle Africa’s Mobile Margins
5 April 2012 Seminar: The Origins and Spread of Dry Laid, Stone-Walled Architecture in Pre-Colonial South Africa		19 April 2012 Seminar: Violence, Urbanization and Rationalization in Cape Town's Taxi Industry (1990-2010)

ASC calendar  

16 February 2012
Seminar: Places of Resistance and Quiescence

8 March 2012
Seminar: Socialist Modernities and Discourses of Development

14 March 2012
PhD defense Melle Leenstra (16.15 hrs, Groot Auditorium)

5 April 2012
Seminar: Origins of Dry Laid, Stone-Walled Architecture

12 April 2012
Conf: Rethinking Africa's Transcontinental Continuities

19 April 2012
Seminar: Violence, Urbanization and Rationalization

Research Masters Apply for the Research Masters African Studies Overview of all theses

Visiting Fellowship Apply for the programme