493 search results for “constructie heritage” in the Student website
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Evelien Campfens in the New York Times on looted art in museums
In an article by the New York Times, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens discusses the difficulties surrounding the ownership of looted art.
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Towards a community-based heritage in the Caribbean: Challenges and practices
Symposium
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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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Minors
A minor allows you to develop your knowledge beyond the boundaries of your study programme, or to specialise further in your own field of study. You can follow a minor in Leiden and also in Delft or Rotterdam.
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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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Investigating the Europe-wide connections of early medieval commoners with an ERC Synergy Grant
A large research group involving Leiden University as corresponding Host Institution has been awarded a major European grant, the ERC Synergy Grant. This for research on how Europe developed after the fall of the Roman Empire with special attention to the yet underexplored but undoubtedly important…
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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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Intelligence Playing Ancient Games: Computational Techniques for Board Games Heritage
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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Roeland EmausFaculty of Archaeology
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Leiden researchers receive KIEM grant to explore materiality in ancient religions
A KIEM grant was recently awarded to a diverse group of Leiden researchers, aiming to organise an interdisciplinary conference with the title ‘Ancient Religions and the Materiality of Danger’ in 2026. The topic of the conference marks a shift towards the study of the role of objects.
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Municipality of Leiden apologises for role in slavery and announces further research
On 2 December, the Municipality of Leiden will apologise for the role previous administrations played in colonialism and slavery. A further study will be carried out.
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52nd Flemish-Dutch Egyptology Day
Lecture
- Interiors for Display: The art of the eighteenth-century interior in the Dutch Republic and Europe
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Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities
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Women in early modern courtrooms: 'A cross-section of society'
In early modern England, courts of law were working overtime. University lecturer Lotte Fikkers delved into the records of centuries-old court cases involving women. In Early Modern Women's Life-Writing and English Law, she reconstructs how the story they told in court differs from the one they wrote…
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Ann BrysbaertFaculty of Archaeology
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Gabriel Spautz VieiraFaculty of Archaeology
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Jelle WoutersSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Kerstin WinkingFaculty of Humanities
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Naomi TruanFaculty of Humanities
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Maaike de WaalFaculty of Archaeology
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Pieter ter KeursFaculty of Humanities
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Call for submissions: The fifth edition of the national Historians’ Days will take place in Leiden
Education, Research
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‘A reproduction can make the original important again’
For her research, PhD candidate Liselore Tissen put one famous painting after another through a 3D scanner. The resulting reproductions were indistinguishable from the originals. But what does this mean for our interpretation of art?
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Unveiling the Written Heritage of the Siak Sultanate: An Ethnographic Study on the Access and Interpretation of the Archives of Sultan Syarif
Lecture
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Delicate Repertoires- Buddhist Creativity, Commodification, and Digitalization in Xi’s China
Lecture, China Seminar
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Podcasts for the holidays
Long evenings and closed university buildings make a perfect combination for listening to podcasts. Over the past six months, staff, students and alumni of the Faculty of Humanities have once again produced some great work.
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'
A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Associate Professor of Colonial History Alicia Schrikker led the research that formed the basis for the restitution and published a volume on the findings…
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Maria del Carmen Parafita CoutoFaculty of Humanities
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Anna NotsuSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Radhika GuptaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Two NWO Mosaic 2.0 grants awarded to cultural anthropology PhDs
Dilara Erzeybek and Oumaima Hajri, two PhD students in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology received a Mosaic 2.0 grant last week. This NWO programme supports PhD students with a non-western migration background - an underrepresented group within science - in order to foster diversity in…
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Citizen scientists discover more than 1,000 new burial mounds
Over the past few years, citizen scientists from the Heritage Quest project have scoured the entire Veluwe and Utrechtse Heuvelrug areas for unknown archaeological heritage. One of the results of this research is that the number of known burial mounds in this area has doubled.
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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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Fenno NoijFaculty of Archaeology
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Arjan LouwenFaculty of Archaeology
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Marieke BloembergenFaculty of Humanities
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Joanne MolFaculty of Archaeology
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Louie Buana
Faculty of Humanities
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Elizabeth Rodriguez EstradaFaculty of Archaeology
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Ajeng Arainikasih
Faculty of Humanities
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What and why?
Exchange: What and why?
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Bachelor specialisations Archaeology united per September 2026
Education
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The first LDE Professional Training Landscape Biography: a Retrospect
The first professional training organised by the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development has finished. The participants work for municipalities, provinces, universities or are independent researchers or consultants in the Heritage Sector. During three intensive days in September…
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‘American’ Black Power movement was also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
In the 60s and 70s, Black Power groups were also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. This is what PhD candidate Debby Esmeé de Vlugt has discovered.
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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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Internships and research in the Netherlands
How can you find an internship or research project and what arrangements do you need to make?