1,103 search results for “museum collecties and society” in the Staff website
-
Museumnacht Boerhaave - Adventerous Microbiology
Festival
-
Descolonizando Tiempo, Espacio y Conocimiento
PhD defence
-
Lorentz Center Lecture: 'Do People Get Radicalized on the Internet?'
Lecture
-
Exhibition 'Hora est!'
Exhibition
-
Anthropology of health and care in Indonesia
Debate, Roundtable
-
‘We have to stay alert and keep on feeling the past’
Space for open dialogue on historical slavery was created at the Keti Koti Table at Museum De Lakenhal, organised by Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden. There, just metres away from 17th-century paintings, Leideners shared a ritual meal and spoke about the effects of slavery and our colonial…
-
Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022!
On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
-
In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
-
In memoriam: dr. Karin Willemse (1962-2023)
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of our former colleague dr. Karin Willemse, who passed away on Saturday 18 March 2023.
-
Archaeology brings 3D scanning into the classroom
In the course 'From Ceramics to Plastics: The Mediterranean in 12 objects' students were taught to work with 3D scanning technologies. One of the underlying reasons to introduce students to this technology was to teach them to reproduce objects. ‘More and more archaeological information is stored in…
-
Introducing: Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou
Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate and postdoc in the framework of the 'Anchoring Innovation' program. Below, they introduce themselves!
-
CfP: Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
We are pleased to invite submissions for a conference exploring how heritage and memory practices, alongside the legacies of climate coloniality, shape contemporary understandings and mobilisations of reparations. This event will examine how historical and political dynamics influence reparative justice…
-
Warm welkom voor nieuwe studenten tijdens EL CID
On a sunny Lammermarkt, thousands of new students gathered to kick off their student life in Leiden at the 56th edition of EL CID.
-
Introducing: Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette
Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the NWO Vidi-funded project "American foreign policy and liberalism", led by Andrew Gawthorpe. Below they introduce themselves.
-
Executive Board Vice President Timo Kos ‘Now’s the time to step up’
Timo Kos has been Vice President of Leiden University’s Executive Board since 1 March. Who is he and how have his first weeks been? ‘Higher education is under threat; we’re under fire.’
-
Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project within their own teaching. They have been awarded three grants of 100,000 euros within the Senior Fellows programme and four grants of 50,000 euros within…
-
‘We moeten diversiteit minder vieren, het moet vanzelfsprekend zijn’
Op welke manieren kan inclusieve communicatie ervoor zorgen dat mensen zich welkom voelen? Hierover ging het D&I-symposium van Universiteit Leiden.
-
Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
-
Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana at the Rapenburg in Leiden, kept in the Leiden University Library, Rotterdam researcher Erik-Jan Bos discovered a hitherto unknown…
-
“Anthropological perspectives on silence and care at the end of life”
Debate, Roundtable Conversation
-
Why Poetry? A Sufi Response
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
-
Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event (LANCE)
Career Event
-
Tradition and Transformation: Japanese Woodblock Prints from Meiji to 20th Century mokuhanga
Lecture
- Responsible Extended Reality (XR) Workshop
-
Drawing with diverse techniques and materials
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
-
Kaiser Spring Lectures: Planetary exploration and the search for life in our Solar System
Lecture
-
Concert and book launch "The Oud: An Illustrated History"
Arts and culture
-
Tracing the Early History of Yoga
Lecture, VVIK lecture
-
Unveiling Media Accessibility: From Research to Practice and Back
Lecture, Leiden Translation Talks
-
Indistinguishable Likeness
PhD defence
-
Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
Satellite conference
-
Taiwanese Literature in Dutch: the Voice of the Translators
Lecture
-
Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event (LANCE)
Career Event
-
Leiden-Paris-Cambridge Seminar on the Interior as a Space of Display
Lecture
-
Kaiser Spring Lectures: How photonics and sub-wavelength optics are shaping next-generation telescopes
Lecture
-
Kaiser Spring Lectures: De geologie van het zonnestelsel: de prachtige planetaire paralellen van tastbare gesteenten en inspirerende landschappen
Lecture
-
The neuroscience of the psychedelic experience
Lecture
-
Image - Infrastructure. A visual ethnography of the Port of Suape (Brazil)
Lecture
-
Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
-
Motherhood and Unfreedom in the Islamicate World
Conference, workshop
-
Genuine or fake? Authentication of Gandhara sculptures
VVIK Lecture
-
Portrait/Figure drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
-
Public lecture 'Climate Confessional: how can we talk differently about the climate crisis?'
Lecture
-
Double Lecture on Ecocritical Perspectives in Japanese Art
Lecture
-
Manuscript and Early Book Destruction
Conference
-
Augmented Realities: Japanese Literati Painting, Circa 1700–1800
Lecture
-
Enhancing Human creativity and innovation with the Integration of Digital and AI Partners into the Contemporary Art Sector: Exploring China as
Lecture, China Seminar
-
Warrior Women, Gender-bending Plots, Perfect Masculinity: Paradigms of gender in Javanese Amir Hamza narratives
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
-
The China Pavilion (chīnīkhāna) of Ulugh Beg in Samarqand
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
-
Introducing the Tapestry Project with Bob Stein
Workshop