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Platform Thingsthattalk brings together historical objects
Using the motto 'Exploring humanities through the life of objects' the Thingsthattalk platform gives a voice to historical objects that are usually kept behind closed doors. Objects from various Leiden collections are going to be made public and placed within a historical and user context.
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Angels for sale: retrieving looted cultural property
The illicit trade in stolen cultural property is booming. Countless works of art and antiquities will be lost if we don’t do more to stop this. This is what experts warned at a Leiden Global congress at the National Museum of Antiquities.
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Heritage institutions for everyone
How can heritage institutions make their organisations, collections and exhibitions more inclusive and accessible? University lecturer Eliza Steinbock will investigate this using a NWO Smart Culture grant.
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Combining classic and novel tools in the study of Historical Collections of Chinese Materia Medica in the Netherlands
PhD defence
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Leiden archaeologists uncover earliest evidence of plant food processing
A new study carried out by Leiden archaeologists Hadar Ahituv and Amanda Henry, together with international colleagues, reports the identification and analysis of 650 starch grains preserved on basalt percussive tools (anvils and hammerstones) found at an early Middle Pleistocene site in Israel. These…
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Homo erectus from the seabed, new archaeological discoveries in Indonesia
Archaeological finds off the coast of Java, Indonesia provide insight into the world of Homo erectus, 140,000 years ago. Skull fragments and other fossil remains provide a unique picture of how and where these early humans lived, says Leiden archaeologist Harold Berghuis.
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Honours Class makes cultural heritage tangible: ‘You are dealing with people’
An Honours Class about the ostensibly unrecognisable worlds of insular Southeast Asia teaches students a fundamental piece of wisdom:
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Employees in stronger position to negotiate terms of employment
Employees are now in a better position to negotiate the terms and conditions of their employment. This is mainly visible in wage increases and fringe benefits. Olaf van Vliet, Professor of Economics at Leiden University, spoke to NU.nl about workers' improved negotiating position.
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What does ‘human’ really mean? When Philosophy and archaeology join forces
Archaeology is the only science that allows us to study the material traces left by most of human evolution. But what happens when we bring philosophy into the picture? A new series of papers demonstrates how philosophical reflection can enrich archaeological research - especially when grappling with…
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Jan KolenFaculty of Archaeology
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Andrew SorensenFaculty of Archaeology
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Vincent NiochetFaculty of Archaeology
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Marie SoressiFaculty of Archaeology
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Gerrit DusseldorpFaculty of Archaeology
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’
Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rivers Museum, one of the four museums of the University of Oxford.
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Christofer TalvitieSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Kiara Thais Castaman DiazSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Alexandros Ntaflos
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Sarah StevensSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Maartje van Diest
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Cyan BaeSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Martijn MosSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Yuan Yi ZhuSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Jonathan PhillipsSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Stefan Cetkovic
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Frits Meijerink
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Alessia AspideSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Ruben van de VenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Faizal RiantoSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Emmanuel Ogwuche OkpeSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Ivan DunduroSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Samten YeshiFaculty of Humanities
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Nika Kratsashvili
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Maximilian Wachter
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Carina van de Wetering
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Marco VerschoorSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Rebecca PloofSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Manuel Cabal LopezSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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NWO grant Yra van Dijk for international Holocaust research
Yra van Dijk obtained a NWO 'Internationalisation in the Humanities' grant. Together with Ernst van Alphen she will collaborate with 8 European and Israelian partners in researching 'Digital Memory of the Holocaust'.
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Neanderthals ran ‘fat factories’ 125,000 years ago
Fat is a very valuable food component, packed with calories, especially important when other resources might be scarce. Our earliest ancestors in Africa already cracked open bones to extract the fatty marrow from bone cavities. But now a new study published in Science Advances demonstrates that our…
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Museum Talk: Art amid the Ruins
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Museum Talk: Maps, Navigating and Manipulating
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Public Key Note of Mari Hvattum on the impact of style
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‘We died the day we left the forests’: Documenting the collective memories of the lost heritage of the Basua of Bundibugyo
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CANCELLED - Museum Talk: Negotiating museums and their digital interfaces
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Laurie Cosmo: ‘Dutch museums have a very contemporary exhibition practice’
University lecturer Laurie Cosmo, having grown up in New York, came to the Hague from Rome, Italy, where she fell under the spell of the Kunstmuseum. ‘I loved the building even before I worked at Leiden University.’
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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art?
Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the debate on art and collectors’ items from a loaded past. Inaugural speech on 2 December.
- OSCoffee: Close the Black hole - a quick scan of possible academic heritage
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Jason LaffoonFaculty of Archaeology
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Rachel SchatsFaculty of Archaeology