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The African Studies Centre in Leiden
maintains strategic and institutional ties with a limited number of related
research organizations in the Netherlands, Africa and Europe. The
alphabetical list below includes only the institutions with which the ASC
has developed formal and long-standing ties through strategic alliances.
In
addition to these, the ASC has developed numerous
project-based collaborative ties with research institutions,
particularly in Africa.
ASC researchers
have external affiliations with a range of universities,
non-governmental organizations and policy-oriented institutions.
AEGIS
– The Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies
www.aegis-eu.org
AEGIS is a collaborative network of European research centres that aims to
create synergies between experts and institutions. With primary emphasis on
social sciences and the humanities, AEGIS’s main goal is to improve
understanding about contemporary African societies.
AEGIS is
registered as a foundation in the Netherlands and is governed by a
three-member board. The African Studies Centre in Leiden is a founding
member of AEGIS and its director is a member of the AEGIS board. The ASC
hosts AEGIS’s financial administration and the AEGIS website. ASC
researchers contribute to joint conferences, summer schools and other AEGIS
activities.
In 2004 the
ASC together with two AEGIS partners, the
GIGA Institute of African Affairs in
Hamburg
and the
Nordiska Afrikainstitutet in
Uppsala, started a new AEGIS publication,
The
Africa Yearbook.
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Africa in the Picture
www.africainthepicture.nl
What began in 1987 as a retrospective of African cinema has become Europe's
first African film festival. Based in Amsterdam, Africa in the Picture
focuses on the work of filmmakers from Africa and the African diaspora. The
festival shows more than 50 recent films, documentaries and shorts every
year, often in the presence of the filmmaker. During the festival and
depending on its themes and partners, not only are films screened but
debates (sometimes with Africa via live Internet connections), youth
projects and parties are also organized.
Since 1997, the festival’s film archives have been held at the library of
the African Studies Centre. All the films, which are on DVD and described in
the library’s online catalogue, are available for educational and research
purposes.
APAD
–
the Euro-African Association for the Anthropology of Social Change and
Development
www.association-apad.org
APAD is a network promoting dialogue between African and European
researchers in the social sciences as well as with developments agents.
Initially devoted to the empirical studies of interactions brought about by
development, APAD’s approach has evolved towards research regarding social
change in its broadest sense on the African continent. It has its own
bi-annual bulletin, that appears online and in printed form. It organizes
international conferences.
AISSR – Amsterdam School for Social
Research
http://www.aissr.uva.nl/aissr/home.cfm
The Amsterdam School for Social Research aims to be a focal point for social
scientists doing interdisciplinary, comparative and historical research into
the dynamics of contemporary societies. As a graduate school it offers
a
multidisciplinary programme for students studying for a PhD in sociology,
anthropology and political science.
The
African Studies Centre in Leiden and the ASSR signed an agreement of
cooperation
in 2000 to
foster collaborative research in the area of non-Western studies.
CERES – Research School for Resource
Studies for Development
ceres.fss.uu.nl
The
CERES research school was established by six Dutch academic institutions in
1992 as a coordinating body to develop research in the Netherlands and
the
training of PhD candidates.
The
African Studies Centre in Leiden and CERES signed an agreement of
association
in 1998 to cooperate in the areas of research
coordination and PhD training. ASC researchers contribute to the
coordination of the CERES Working Programmes and participate in the annual
summer schools organized by CERES.
ASC research
is currently contributing to the CERES working programme entitled ‘The
management of natural resources, human resources and social insecurity‘.
ASC researchers are collaborating with CERES members
in the project entitled ‘Failed
inclusion and human rights’.
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CODESRIA – Council for
the Development of Social Science Research in Africa
www.codesria.org
The
African Studies Centre in Leiden and the Council
for the
Development of Social Science Research in Africa
in Dakar (Senegal)
entered into a strategic partnership in 2005. The partnership aims to
promote understanding and goodwill among scholars in general, and within
African Studies in particular, as part of a desire to strengthen scientific
ties and to broaden faculty, student and policy-makers’ experiences and
horizons.
The
partnership has identified the following areas of cooperation:
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research and
training projects;
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library,
documentation and ICT;
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publications and
information dissemination;
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awards for MA and
PhD theses in African Studies;
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conferences,
symposiums, seminars and workshops; and
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fund-raising for
joint activities.
ASC and
CODESRIA researchers have been working together in research projects in the
past. Both institutions have joined the Consortium Development Partnership (CDP)
initiative, which provides yet another framework for cooperation between
both centres.
In May 2005, the ASC and CODESRIA have
signed a Memorandum of
Understanding in Dakar, Senegal.
During the Codesria visit to the ASC in March 2011 Bernard Lututala and
Bruno Sonko had a meeting with SNV, PSO, ICCO and NIMD.
KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies
www.kitlv.nl
The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean
Studies at Leiden was founded in 1851. Its objective is the advancement of
the study of the anthropology, linguistics, social sciences, and history of
Southeast Asia, the Pacific Area, and the Caribbean. Special emphasis is
laid on the former Dutch colonies of Indonesia, Suriname, and the
Netherlands Antilles and Aruba.
ASC and KITLV jointly set up the
Tracking
Development research project on the comparative development trajectories
of Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa over the last 50 years.
Leiden University
www.leiden.edu
The African
Studies Centre in Leiden and Leiden University signed a permanent agreement
in 1990 to consolidate the close professional and administrative
relationship between both organizations. The agreement covers:
- collaboration in research on Sub-Saharan Africa;
- assigning the African Studies Centre the privilege of being
treated as part of the university organization, with due regard for the
corporate rights of the ASC Foundation and its interuniversity form of
organization; and
- the role of Leiden
University as administrative intermediary for allocating the state subsidy
to the ASC and the ensuing responsibilities of both institutions.
Research
collaboration between both organizations materialized with the partnership
between the ASC and the
CNWS
Research School,
established
in 1992, with
the aim of cooperating in areas of joint research, teaching, collection
building and publications.
The
ASC library entertains close working relations with Leiden University
library and shares automation facilities and collection access privileges.
Both libraries are collaborating in the
DARC projects and
Open Access Leiden.
NVAS
http://www.afrikastudies.nl/nvas-engels.html
The Netherlands African Studies Association was set up in 1997 to provide
a scientific forum for Africanists working in the Netherlands. It aims to
promote and coordinate the study of the social sciences on Africa by
maintaining close links with universities and research institutes. It does
not offer an educational programme. It is multidisciplinary in composition,
with the following disciplines currently being represented: cultural
anthropology, non-western sociology, archaeology, pre- and proto-history,
social geography, economics, linguistics, literature, political science,
social administration, law, environmental studies, comparative religious
studies and women's studies.
VBN - Vogelbescherming Nederland
www.vogelbescherming.nl
Vogelbescherming Nederland (VBN) is an independent, national
conservation organisation, one which is supported by 150,000 members,
corporations and institutes, among others. VBN goal is to protect wild birds
and their environment, the Netherlands and Worldwide. Together with people
who care about birds and the environment.
VBN is the Dutch partner of BirdLife International. BirdLife is a global
partnership of more than 100 national non-governmental conservation
organisations with a focus on birds. It's the world's largest partnership of
conservation organisations and strives to conserve birds, their habitats and
global biodiversity, working with people towards sustainability in the use
of natural resources.
ASC researchers are collaborating with VBN in the Living on the Edge
project. This ambitious initiative aims to improve living conditions in the
Sahel for birds and people, by working with the local to conserve and
restore the natural environment, and enhance livelihoods through a more
sustainable use of natural resources.
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