4,680 search results for “collective” in the Public website
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D&I Symposium 2024: What have we achieved with a decade of diversity policy?
How has progress been made on diversity and inclusion at Leiden University over the past decade? Attendees reflected on this at the D&I Symposium 2024: Untold Stories. And in the workshops, students and staff discussed the next steps toward a more inclusive community.
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Conservation and study of the Pahari collection of drawings and paintings
Lecture, VVIK lecture
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The Chinese Queer Collection - A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University
Workshop
- Public lecture "From Collective Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence and Back Again"
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Dutch state returns stolen artefacts: ‘Make sure to tell the full story’
The Netherlands returned 478 artefacts to Indonesia and Sri Lanka this week, on the advice of a Dutch committee. Rightly so, says Leiden professor Pieter ter Keurs from the Museums, Collections and Society interdisciplinary research programme. ‘But do make it clear why you are returning something.’
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Grant enables archaeologists to study origins of museum artefacts
Two researchers from the Faculty of Archaeology have received a grant from the Museums, Collections and Society (MSC) interdisciplinary programme. This grant is for collection-based research. Jason Laffoon is using his grant for research into the origins of Central American turquoise, while Dr Marike…
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
Workshop
- International conference: Patristic Sermons in the Middle Ages: Collections, Mediators and the Practice of Compiling
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'Unions have less clout if a call to strike receives little support'
Recently more than five hundred workers at metal companies in Dutch cities Zwolle and Kampen went on strike. Their aim is better pay and the workers have now been on strike for twelve weeks. Just how effective is striking in collective bargaining?
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transformation’: trust, participation, and new socialities around collective food procurement networks in Gdańsk
PhD defence
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Leiden University's world-renowned collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Meet archaeologist Martin Berger: ‘I want to answer archaeological and heritage questions’
In the course of 2020 the Faculty of Archaeology was bolstered by some new staff members. Due to the coronavirus situation, sadly, this went for a large part unnoticed. In a series of interviews we are catching up, giving the floor to our new colleagues. We give the floor to Dr Martin Berger, who joined…
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Flexible employment benefits offered more often
In an attempt to retain employees and tackle shortages in the labour market, some employers are now prepared to go further in offering attractive employment benefits. Dutch news programme 'Nieuwsuur' has discovered that large international companies, like Uber, McKinsey, and Salesforce, are prepared…
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Lobbying the Courts workshop
On 14 and 15 September, the 'Lobbying the Courts' workshop took place in Paris. This was an interdisciplinary workshop in which researchers from different disciplines came together to brainstorm on whether, how, and when interest groups focus on the judicial process and the courts in their lobbying…
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Museum Talks: ‘Our access to the past starts with in-depth knowledge of objects’
Geert-Jan Janse has always been fascinated by the way objects can bring the past closer. On 16 November, he will present a Museum Talk about his work as the director of the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Association).
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Esra Nartok-van der KistSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Fotini Vassou
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Eldad VainstocSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Tilko Arne Swalve
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Thomas ScarffSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Aris Agoglossakis Foley
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Tim Kalkman
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Manioc and Amazonian Prehistory: Veni grant for Konrad Rybka
How did manioc, a poisonous root, become the staple of Amazonia and change the lives of prehistoric Amazonian peoples? Veni grant recipient, Konrad Rybka aims to unravel this mystery using a variety of research methods across different disciplines.
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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’
What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the European Parliament asked Leiden legal scholar Evelien Campfens. Her advice: develop a registration system, issue art with a ‘passport’ and set up a European…
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‘Heritage is never neutral. It is always interpreted’
As of 1 September 2019, Prof. Pieter ter Keurs will assume the position of Scientific Director at the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development as well as that of Professor of Museums, Collections and Society at the Faculties of Humanities and Archaeology at Leiden University.…
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competition law are often powerless in the European Union. How could collective actions enhance their position? Zygimantas Juska will defend his
Victims who claim damages from large corporations for the harm caused by an infringement of competition law are often powerless in the European Union. How could collective actions enhance their position? Zygimantas Juska will defend his doctoral thesis on 23 April.
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Interdisciplinary symposium on restitution policies seeks more diverse perspectives
Taking responsibility concerning colonial heritage and restitution is a pressing issue for countries and museums worldwide. On 23 and 24 May, a Leiden University interdisciplinary symposium will explore new perspectives as a basis for policies. Organising professors Carsten Stahn and Pieter ter Keurs…
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Theological pamphlets reveal passionate religious debate
They might not have had Twitter, but they did have brochures (pamphlets), the Roman Catholics and ‘modern’ Protestants between 1840 and 1870. In these, they launched a passionate attack on each other’s ideas. Ineke Smit has catalogued the brochures from the collection of the University Library and outlined…
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Barend Barentsen on increase in strike action
With inflation skyrocketing, more and more workers are willing to take action for better working conditions. From regional transport to municipal officials, and from healthcare staff to pharmacy workers, it’s one strike after another in the Netherlands.
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Exhibition Herstory: Leiden's Leading Ladies in the Oude UB
In all the 444 years since Leiden University was founded, almost nothing has been written about women at the University. That's why a group of 25 female students have prepared the exhibition Herstory: Leiden's Leading Ladies. University history through women's eyes. Now open to the public in the Oude…
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Barend Barentsen on strikes in regional public transport
For one week, regional public transport drivers will go on strike. At least, that is what Dutch trade unions FNV and CNV are calling for. According to the employers’ association WVOV, half the busses will still be running.
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More Is Alive: Emergent Multi-Scale Order & Collective Flows In Tissues
PhD defence
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Gaza, Palestine, Israel – the collective failure: how did we get here and what next?
Lecture
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Exploring the Extra-Religious Zaydi Literary Canon through Manuscript Collections of Yemeni Origin
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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in Interethnic Relations: Implications for Intergroup Attitudes, Collective Action, and Stress
PhD defence
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Collective Human Rights as an (Onto)Logical Solution to Climate Change
PhD defence
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Mediterranean hunter gatherers navigated long-distance sea journeys well before the first farmers
Small, remote islands were long thought to have been the last frontiers of pristine natural systems. Humans are not thought to have been able to reach or inhabit these environments prior to the dawn of agriculture, and the technological shift that accompanied this transition. A paper recently published…
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Claire Perrette
Faculty of Archaeology
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Justin SpruitSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Anja GrotenFaculty of Humanities
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Tenzin TsepakFaculty of Humanities
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Rosalba Icaza GarzaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Amber Lauwers
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Sebastian David Pantoja BarriosSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Max Joosten
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Peter Castenmiller
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Maria Amjad
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Mira Burmeister-Rudolph
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Gul-i-Hina van der Zwan
International Institute Asian Studies
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Vishwesh SundarSocial & Behavioural Sciences