476 search results for “constructie heritage” in the Student website
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Fenna IJtsmaLeiden University Libraries
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Eden Dijkstra and Rosemary Selth winners of first H.S. Versnel Prize
Master's students Eden Dijkstra and Rosemary Snelth are the first winners of the H.S. Versnel Prize for best master's or research master's thesis in the field of ancient religion. According to the jury, their theses were so original, well-written and of such high quality that both deserved first pla…
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Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’
Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except that it was used in rituals to protect against spirit possession. PhD candidate Sigrid van Roode has explored its history and discovered that the jewellery…
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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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Andrew LittlejohnFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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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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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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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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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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Liesbet NyssenFaculty of Humanities
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Pieter ter KeursFaculty of Humanities
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Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Eduardo Alves VieiraFaculty of Humanities
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Naomi TruanFaculty of Humanities
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Gabriel Spautz VieiraFaculty of Archaeology
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Jelle WoutersFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Simay CetinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Sam de RuiterFaculty of Archaeology
- Interiors for Display: The art of the eighteenth-century interior in the Dutch Republic and Europe
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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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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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Alicia Schrikker appointed Professor History of The Netherlands in the world
The Executive Board of Leiden University has appointed Dr Alicia Schrikker as Professor History of The Netherlands in the world, effective 1 January 2026. The chair is based at the Institute for History at the Faculty of Humanities.
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52nd Flemish-Dutch Egyptology Day
Lecture
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Ann BrysbaertFaculty of Archaeology
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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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Grotius Dialogue: The U.S. - China Competition and the Law of the Sea
Grotius Dialogue
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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70,000 year old secrets revealed: Umhlatuzana Rock shelter, | A talk by Gerrit Dusseldorp
On February 18th Dr Gerrit Dusseldorp gave a talk about the Umhlatuzana Rock shelter in Kloof (South Africa). This site has preserved some of the earliest traces of Modern Humans and helps us understand how people in deep prehistory lived, survived and adapted. The talk was streamed by Arise creative…
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Radhika GuptaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Maria del Carmen Parafita CoutoFaculty of Humanities
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Anna NotsuFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Hannah De MulderFaculty of Humanities
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Roeland EmausFaculty of Archaeology
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Maaike de WaalFaculty of Archaeology
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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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Equative Interpretation in Mandarin Copular Clauses: The Syntax and Semantics of jiù shì 就是
Lecture, CHiLL series
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Alex Geurds' first months as Dean: ‘It is important to be an organization without pain or scruples’
Since January 2026, Alex Geurds has been the new Dean of the Faculty of Archaeology. His start was calmer than many expected, but behind that calm lies a period of exploration, listening, and strategic forward thinking.
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Elizabeth Rodriguez EstradaFaculty of Archaeology
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Arjan LouwenFaculty of Archaeology
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Willem van WijkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Joanne MolFaculty of Archaeology
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Yasmin Saghafi AmeriFaculty of Humanities
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Marieke BloembergenFaculty of Humanities
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Quentin BourgeoisFaculty of Archaeology
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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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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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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.