1,185 search results for “museum collecties and society” in the Staff website
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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Kick-off Meeting: The Hague Southwest Thesis Project
After a first successful pilot of the The Hague Southwest Thesis Project a second cohort of students will start this year. The kick-off meeting for this takes place on Thursday 24 March from 15:00-17:00, STEK Shalom Kerk, Vrederustlaan 96, Den Haag.
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GPS blunders and security risks: why do we blindly follow technology?
Computer says no: end of story. Twenty years ago, a hilarious line in the British TV series Little Britain, now a reality. We all blindly follow technology at times, with varying consequences. For ISGA lecturer and researcher Daan Weggemans, it's a subject worthy of a PhD.
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Tatiana Vargas OrtizFaculty of Humanities
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Manfred HorstmanshoffFaculty of Humanities
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Marcel CobussenFaculty of Humanities
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Saniye InceFaculty of Humanities
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Stéphanie NoachFaculty of Humanities
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Jaap GoedegebuureFaculty of Humanities
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Matthew PayneFaculty of Humanities
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Ton Anbeek van der MeydenFaculty of Humanities
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Mike SchrauwenFaculty of Humanities
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Mineke Schipper-de LeeuwFaculty of Humanities
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Janessa Leeuwis-Vleghert
Faculty of Humanities
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Janric van RookhuijzenFaculty of Humanities
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Roelien van der WelFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Hugo KoningFaculty of Humanities
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Zeynep Balcioglu TasmaFaculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Rosanne van der VoetFaculty of Humanities
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Chiara RavinettoFaculty of Humanities
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Marjolein Corjanus
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden University Network Meeting on Aging & Society
Network meeting
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Archaeologist Martin Berger works on online FIFA exposition about origins of football
Martin Berger was asked by the FIFA Museum in Zürich to help develop an exposition on the origins of football. In line with his expertise, he worked on the part of the online exposition that was about the Mesoamerican ballgame.
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Annual Oriental Numismatic Society Meeting in Leiden
Conference
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Leiden University transfers unique collection of historical objects over to Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
Lenses from Christiaan Huygens’ telescope, instruments used to demonstrate Newton’s laws, and equipment that led to the discovery of superconductivity—around 3,000 scientific instruments from the Faculty of Science at Leiden University are now officially part of the Rijksmuseum Boerhaave collection.…
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PhD workshop for cultural heritage researchers: apply by 8 February
Organisation, Research
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Social life and settling in
When you decide to move to the Netherlands and bring along your family there is a great deal that needs to be taken care of. We will provide some information on schools, childcare and learning Dutch to help you settle in in the Netherlands.
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find-funding
To find funding, you first need to define your goal. Do you need to fund your own salary? Go abroad? Start up a collaboration? Buy equipment or do field work? Develop a company based on an invention that came out of the research? Next, find a match between your goal and the many funding opportunitie…
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Drawing and Painting
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Digital Humanities Winter School
Workshops
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Exhibition Books that made history
From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had extraordinary historical impact, in some cases even to this day. Leiden University Libraries and the National Museum of Antiquities jointly present the…
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Five activities to look forward to this semester
A fresh semester means a fresh faculty calendar. There is plenty to do at the faculty again in the coming months. Five interesting activities are listed below.
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Digital Humanities Pilot Research Projects and COIn Infrastructure Symposium 2026
Symposium
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Cultural Anthropologist Peter Pels part of research team into colonial collections
Peter Pels, affiliated with the Institute of Cultural Anthropology of Leiden University, is one of the researchers. Together with Birgit Meyer (UU), he will lead the work package 'Heritage and the Question of Conversion'.
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‘We want to ensure that literature is once again voiced by its own society and resonates beyond it’
For decades, the trade in pocketbooks prescribing how to be a good Muslim flourished in East Africa, but in recent years the number of books in circulation has been declining. University lecturer Annachiara Raia is the recipient of an Impact Explorer grant to revive this tradition, in cooperation with…
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The ties that bound early Islamicate society
Middle East Studies Lecture
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A podium for science
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. This edition…
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Escaping from a sarcophagus: students from the Living Education Lab minor create an educational tool
How do students start asking more questions on a museum visit? Let them free an Egyptian princess from a sarcophagus! In the minor Living Education Lab, students from TU Delft, Leiden University and Erasmus University Rotterdam designed an escaperoom.
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The forgotten world of Surinamese cloths and the Leiden Cotton Company
For her internship at the Textile Museum, master's student Evi van Stiphout researched the Surinamese cloths of the Leiden Cotton Company. Leiden and Suriname have a closer relationship than many people think. ‘Not much is written about Suriname’.
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Francesco Walker in The Conversation on how children look at art
Adults and children view art in completely different ways, Cognitive psychologist Francesco Walker discovered at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. 'In a recent study at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, I used eye-tracking technology.' Walker talks about his research on media platform ‘The Conversation’.
- Municipal elections: vote at the university on 18 March
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Bram IevenFaculty of Humanities
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Michael NewtonFaculty of Humanities
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Fanny Wonu Veys: ‘I want to introduce students to the art history of Oceania’
Fanny Wonu Veys was appointed Professor of Art and Material Culture of Oceania on 1 August. Time for an introduction.
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Wat is er te doen op de Leidse Museumnacht?
Op zaterdag 3 juni vindt de Museumnacht Leiden plaats. Ook dit jaar zijn Leidse wetenschappers en studenten onderdeel van de programmering.
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Physicists from Leiden help create world’s smallest Rembrandt
Museum De Lakenhal is displaying the smallest work of art in the world: a 3D-printed statue of Rembrandt van Rijn, made by sculptor Jeroen Spijker and researchers from Leiden University.
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Bo WangFaculty of Humanities
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Judith BosnakFaculty of Humanities
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Roosmarijn HompeFaculty of Humanities
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Dick van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities