66 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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Decolonizing Archaeological Epistemologies
Conference
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Bound for Devotion: The Prayer Book as Object and Practice, 1300–1800
Conference
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52nd Flemish-Dutch Egyptology Day
Lecture
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Berthe JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Monique van den DriesFaculty of Archaeology
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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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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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Verena MeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Luc AmkreutzFaculty of Archaeology
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Angus MolFaculty 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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Michiel van GroesenFaculty of Humanities
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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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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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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The Palestinian Condition, Academic Freedom, and the Production of History
Lecture, LUCIS Keynote
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Martine BruilFaculty of Humanities
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Thijs PorckFaculty of Humanities
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Fenneke SyslingFaculty of Humanities
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Collecting Global Heritage
Conference
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Marian KlamerFaculty of Humanities
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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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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
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Millions in grant funding for research on traumascapes: sites of pain and loss
A consortium led by Leiden University has been awarded 6.75 million euros to research traumascapes: physical places associated with collective trauma and loss. The research team aims to make these places more visible, accessible and inclusive.
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Student exhibition: unearthing the story of the VOC ship Amsterdam
A new student-curated exhibition in the F1-corridor of the Van Steenis building brings history to life through remarkable finds from the Amsterdam, a merchant vessel of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) that met an untimely end in 1749. 'The story of the Amsterdam is truly unique, especially considering…
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Where Are You Going? Composing Novel Oceanic Art Histories
Inaugural lecture
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Constructing Colonial Legitimacy in the Moluccas, 1750-1870
PhD defence
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(CANCELLED) Incorporating Scientific Materialism in an Islamic Worldview: The Perspective of Abdullah Cevdet
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Indonesian Art Historiography: National and Transnational Perspectives
PhD defence