958 search results for “museum collecties and society” in the Student website
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Johannes MüllerFaculty of Humanities
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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livelihoods and moral universalism - Evidence from transhumant pastoralist societies
Lecture
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Marian Klamer on Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history'
A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…
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Leiden archaeologists contribute to unique Iron Age exhibition in Oss
Museum Jan Cunen in Oss presents the very first retrospective exhibition of the richest graves from the early Iron Age (800-500 BC), including the one of the iconic Lord of Oss. Leiden archaeologist Richard Jansen was guest curator and the exhibition tells the story of the funeral rituals of the local…
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Liselore Tissen in Leiden Global on ‘bridging the gap between technology and the humanities’
External PhD Candidate Liselore Tissen was interviewed by Leiden Global about her work, in which she uses 3D printing. Recently she made a copy of a decorative human skill this way.
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Save the date! The 2024 Congress of the RCRF will be held in Leiden
Organisation
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Social
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AI and emotion recognition: ‘It could disrupt social interactions’
Just imagine new AI technology is able to read human emotions flawlessly. How would that affect us as humans? That is the question PhD candidate Alexandra Prégent is exploring.
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Kyra AlbertsFaculty of Humanities
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Cas BotmanFaculty of Humanities
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Célestin Leba
Faculty of Humanities
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Erik Koopman
Faculty of Humanities
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Joanna Greenland
Faculty of Humanities
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Joe FortinFaculty of Humanities
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Nicolas TurnerFaculty of Humanities
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Irene Urrutia Schroeder
Faculty of Humanities
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Karla Paola Cabrera AcuñaFaculty of Humanities
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Keerthi Sridharan VaidehiFaculty of Humanities
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Rachel FletcherFaculty of Humanities
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Bert FraussenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Emma de VriesFaculty of Humanities
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Gislene Da Silva Trindade
Faculty of Humanities
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Dettje BakkerFaculty of Humanities
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Georgios-Evgenios DouliakasFaculty of Humanities
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Irene O'DalyFaculty of Humanities
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Cornelis van TilburgFaculty of Humanities
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Alexandre AfonsoFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Nienke van Leverink
Faculty of Humanities
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Roosmarijn HompeFaculty of Humanities
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Dimitris Kentrotis ZinelisFaculty of Humanities
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Jacqueline HylkemaFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Coen van 't VeerFaculty of Humanities
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Jonathan PowellFaculty of Humanities
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Robin OomkesFaculty of Humanities
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Alan Palacios
Faculty of Humanities
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Daný van DamFaculty of Humanities
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Jose Hopkins BrocqFaculty of Humanities
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Leonie HenkesFaculty of Humanities
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Ineke SluiterFaculty of Humanities
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Manon Portos Minetti-Faculty of Humanities
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Róisín LambertFaculty of Humanities
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Kirsty RolfeFaculty of Humanities
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Goran Bouaziz
Faculty of Humanities
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Studenten onderzoeken maatschappelijke Leidse vraagstukken
Studenten onderzochten maatschappelijke vraagstukken voor het project Leren met de Stad en presenteerden hun resultaten tijdens een informatiemarkt.
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Om te beginnen met gezond gedrag moeten vaak eerst problemen als schimmel op de muren of financiële sores worden aangepakt
Medici kunnen veel repareren, maar ziekte voorkomen of uitstellen is beter. Daarvoor is vaak leefstijlverandering nodig en dat blijkt lastig. Gezondheidswetenschappers Sandra van Dijk (Universiteit Leiden) en Valentijn Visch (TU Delft) doen onderzoek naar de vraag hoe je mensen kunt helpen met gedragsverandering…
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In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…
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Driving Gigs in Oman: Women and Techno-Fixes in the Platform Economy
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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The Leiden students who sailed to England during the Second World War
In a sailboat, a canoe or stowed away on a ship: during the Second World War, many Leiden students tried to cross the sea to join the Allies in Britain. ‘Soldier of Orange’ is the most famous, but who were the other ‘England voyagers’ or Engelandvaarders as they are known?
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‘You feel connected to the people of a bygone era’
Documenting and preserving rock art in the Pakistani Himalayas; this was the aim of the ‘Karakorum Rescue Project’ to which students at the Honours College Archaeology contributed. A Leiden exhibition visualises the project: ‘There is something magical about it.’