79 search results for “constructing heritage” in the Staff website
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Jan KolenFaculty of Archaeology
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Willemijn WaalFaculty of Humanities
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Legacies: Why Museum Histories Matter
Conference
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Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800
Conference
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Berthe JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Monique van den DriesFaculty of Archaeology
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New history of Leiden presented to the mayor: ‘Always been an incredibly diverse city’
Professor Ariadne Schmidt and Associate Professor Arie van Steensel (University of Groningen) have produced A Companion to Medieval and Early Modern Leiden, the first English-language history of Leiden. Mayor Peter Heijkoop received the first copy.
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Marcel CobussenFaculty of Humanities
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Martin BergerFaculty of Archaeology
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Michael HerzfeldSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Student conference full of new perspectives on inequality
What role did inequality play in the past? On Friday 5 December, Master's students in history presented their answers at a conference they organised themselves.
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Sophie StarrenburgFaculty of Law
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Growing the Leiden Heritage community: Archaeology hosts 2nd Heritage Open Mic
Are you an interdisciplinary researcher working on or with heritage? Do you struggle with faculty fragmentation and finding relevant colleagues to collaborate with? How can we at Leiden facilitate interfaculty knowledge exchange? These were some of the questions which inspired eight Leiden University…
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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Mariana De Campos FrancozoFaculty of Archaeology
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Laurie Kalb CosmoFaculty of Humanities
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Erik de MaakerSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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World Heritage Status for Letters from Indonesian Women's Rights Advocate Kartini
UNESCO has recognized a large collection of handwritten letters and the archive of Raden Ajeng Kartini (1879-1904) as documentary world heritage. Kartini opposed gender inequality in feudal Javanese society, including forced marriages, polygamy and lack of education for women.
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van Engelenhoven and Yanise Zijlstra make short film: 'Intangible heritage you can't put into words'
University lecturer Gerlov van Engelenhoven was to be a guest in one podcast by culture maker and anthropologist Yanise Zijlstra on intangible heritage. The collaboration went so well that they are now making a short film together for young people.
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Verena MeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Luc AmkreutzFaculty of Archaeology
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke Sysling in National Geographic on the Java Man: ‘Scientific proof for Indonesia’s greatness’
Assistant professor Fenneke Sysling spoke in National Geographic about the return of the ‘Java Man’ to Indonesia.
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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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Keyhole surgery on old books leads to discovery of medieval fragments
An endoscopic camera was used to record images of reused medieval fragments on the inside of book bindings from the 16th and 17th centuries. The unique images were made as part of the project ‘FragmEndoscopy: An Innovative Way to Discover Hidden Heritage inside Early Modern Book Bindings’, funded by…
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'The Pieterskerk has always defined Leiden's identity'
Ward Hoskens started ten years ago as an intern at one of Leiden's most iconic buildings: the Pieterskerk. Now he is doing his PhD on the question of how the function of this 'church that is no longer a church' changed over recent centuries.
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Aya Ezawa honoured for volunteer work with Japanese-Indonesian war children: 'Recognition of the importance of reconciliation'
University lecturer Aya Ezawa has received a Certificate of Commendation from the Japanese Embassy in the Netherlands for her efforts to promote reconciliation between the Netherlands and Japan, in particular by supporting Japanese-Indonesian war children. As a member of the Foundation for War Victims…
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Ariadne SchmidtFaculty of Humanities
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First joint meeting 'Collecting Global Heritage' in Leiden
On Thursday 26 June 2025, the Pavilion of the Wereldmuseum Leiden featured the first joint meeting of Leiden University and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam around the shared research theme Collecting Global Heritage. Some 50 researchers, students and collection managers came together to share knowledge,…
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archaeologists play a role in repatriating Central and South American heritage
On 3 September 2025, more than 30 archaeological objects were returned to Peru, Panama and Costa Rica. The objects come from a private collection belonging to the descendants of physician and amateur archaeologist Dr Hans Feriz. In her will, his daughter stipulated that the objects collected by her…
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Fenna IJtsma delved into four centuries of Leiden greenery: 'Leiden people have always sought out greenery'
Over the past year, historian Fenna IJtsma delved into 'four centuries of historical greenery'. As part of the Heritage Deal, with input from biologists at Naturalis and others, she looked for inspiration and examples from the past to contribute to a future climate-proof city centre.
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Wreck in the Wadden Sea: ‘Objects tell the story’
More than 40 years ago, a wrecked merchant ship was found in the Wadden Sea. PhD student Geke Burger looked at this archaeological find from a historical perspective.
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Marian KlamerFaculty of Humanities
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Skeletons and beer at ArcheoHotspot
How can you figure out if a skeleton is male or female? How did they brew beer in the distant past? Visitors to ArcheoHotspot could examine archaeological finds and taste prehistoric drinks at the Faculty of Archaeology.
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Collecting Global Heritage
Conference
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Karel Berkhoff appointed professor by special appointment: ‘Focus on Ukrainian history a milestone’
As of 1 September , Karel Berkhoff has been appointed professor by special appointment in Ukrainian History. In this position, made possible in part by the KNAW, he will focus primarily on dark moments in recent Ukrainian history: the persecutions that have taken place in the first half of the twentieth…
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Spanish village full of Leiden residents: dozens of textile workers once migrated to Guadalajara
In the Spanish town of Guadalajara, there is a street named ‘Burgemeester Fluiterstraat’, named after a descendant of Leiden migrants who had done well in the South. He was not the only Guadalajara resident with Leiden roots: at the beginning of the eighteenth century, a stream of Dutch textile workers…
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Building Future Heritage
Conference
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Remembering through museums, objects, art and more: The heritage of psychiatric institutions and their patients
Faculty Lecture
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Ice age architecture: how mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity
What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some 18,000 years ago, the answer was simple: mammoth bones.
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Van de Waal Lecture 2025: Shared heritage or cultural appropriation? The Iko-Schmutzer sculptures
Alumni event, Lezing
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Caroline WaerzeggersFaculty of Humanities
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Open Mic: Pitch your Heritage related research
Conference