58 search results for “constructing heritage” in the Student 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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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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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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Verena MeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Luc AmkreutzFaculty of Archaeology
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Angus MolFaculty of Humanities
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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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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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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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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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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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(CANCELLED) Incorporating Scientific Materialism in an Islamic Worldview: The Perspective of Abdullah Cevdet
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Research offers surprising insights into historical crime in The Hague
Theft, prostitution, fortune-telling or murder. Historian Manon van der Heijden and a group of students are researching court records from The Hague from 1600 to 1800. They are tracing crimes and offenders and shedding new light on The Hague’s Gevangenpoort (or Prison Gate). Among their many discoveries…
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ERC grant for Nathalie Brusgaard's investigation into complex relationship early farmers and wild animals
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded a prestigious Starting Grant to Leiden archaeologist Dr Nathalie Brusgaard. With this €1.5 million grant, Brusgaard will investigate how the transition to farming in Western Europe affected the relationship between humans and wild animals. A theme that,…
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'Language is part of your identity’
Rik van Gijn was appointed professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality and Diversity in the World from 1 December 2024. He is keen to use the position to set up research on language vitality. ‘People almost never give up their mother tongue entirely voluntarily.’
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Laurie Cosmo: ‘Dutch museums have a very contemporary exhibition practice’
University lecturer Laurie Cosmo, having grown up in New York, came to the Hague from Rome, Italy, where she fell under the spell of the Kunstmuseum. ‘I loved the building even before I worked at Leiden University.’
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From decorative arts student in Leiden to curator at the biggest museum in New York
How does a Leiden alumnus end up working at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)? In the case of Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, it was partly down to chance, luck, fate. But that was preceded by a unique degree in decorative arts in Leiden.
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Rethinking the Wereldmuseum Leiden through Indigeneity and Contemporary Art
Course
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Collecting sustainability and climate change for Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
Course