1,171 search results for “material culture” in the Public website
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Bernhard Steubing
Science
b.r.p.steubing@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1495
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Maarten Koese
Science
j.m.koese@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Stefano Merciai
Science
s.merciai@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Pablo Ilgemann
Science
p.m.ilgemann@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Janneke van Oorschot
Science
j.van.oorschot@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7461
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Arturo García De León
Faculteit Archeologie
a.j.garcia.de.leon@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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KORWAR – Northwest New Guinea ritual art according to missionary sources
Protestant missionaries have provided the earliest and most detailed sources regarding the ritual art of the Papuan peoples of the Geelvink Bay.
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Globalisation and the Roman world
World history, connectivity and material culture, edited by Martin Pitts and Miguel John Versluys. From Cambridge University Press.
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Knowledge of worldwide cultures
Leiden has an international reputation as a stronghold of knowledge about cultures worldwide. Under the umbrella name of LeidenGlobal, Leiden University, the National Museum of Antiquities, the Natioial Museum of Ethnology and five research institutes are working together to disseminate this knowledge…
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More than the Story
Considering Mesoamerican Precolonial books as material objects
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Education
The programme’s courses deal with current approaches in material culture theory, analytical methods and techniques employed in artefact studies, and experimental archaeology.
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The island of Skyros from Late Roman to Early Modern times
ASLU 28 Michalis Karambinis (2015)
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E-workshops Multilingual Literary Cultures
The NWO-funded research project ‘The Multilingual Dynamics of the Literary Culture of Medieval Flanders, c. 1200- c. 1500’ is hosting a series of e-workshops on the topic of ‘Multilingual Literary Cultures in the Middle Ages’. The program is now available online.
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How cuteness dominates Japanese culture
Modern Japanese culture can best be described in one word: cute. Hello Kitty, the most important symbol of cuteness, can be found in all layers of society. Leiden Japanologists Ivo Smits and Kasia Cwiertka put together a volume of articles on this curious phenomenon.
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LeidenGlobal connects research and culture
On 27 November the official opening of LeidenGlobal will be celebrated in the Rijksmuseum Volkenkunde/National Museum of Ethnology. LeidenGlobal is a platform for global expertise that responds to the call from Minister of Education and Culture Jet Bussemakers that academic and cultural institutions…
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Nature provides more to people than material benefits
The role of culture and diverse knowledge systems needs to be recognized when assessing nature’s contributions to people, a new policy forum paper in Science states. Alexander van Oudenhoven and thirty global experts present a new approach that will increase the effectiveness and legitimacy of policies…
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The Workshop and Cultural Production
Anja Groten contributes the essay 'The Workshop and Cultural Production' to Amsterdam-based publication platform 'Open!'
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Liesbet Nyssen
Faculty of Humanities
e.a.nyssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Save the date! MAKING MATTERS Symposium 2020: Collective Material Practices in Critical Times
Join us at the second edition of the Making Matters symposium, which will take place on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 November 2020 at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and online.
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On the Aesthetic Regime of Kurdish Cinema: The Making of Kurdishness
Bahar Şimşek defended her thesis on 4 May 2021.
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Building materials drive carbon emissions, and they’re set to grow
A new study from Leiden researchers shows that the carbon emissions of building materials are set to grow if we do not act rapidly. Even with known interventions implemented in concert, these emissions are much larger than the remaining 1.5 degree budget for building materials at today’s share, the…
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Classics (800 BCE−600 CE)
This research cluster aims to analyse and interpret the formation and transmission of Graeco-Roman culture by exploring the relationships between cultural products (texts, objects, practices) and their societal and historical contexts.
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Oscar Gobée
Faculteit Geneeskunde
o.p.gobee@lumc.nl | +31 71 526 6673
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Shivant Jhagroe
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
s.s.jhagroe@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | +31 70 800 9904
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Md Faysal Tareq
Science
m.f.tareq@cml.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Heritage in the Making: Dealing with the Legacies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany
The fifth volume of Ex Novo has the pleasure to host Flaminia Bartolini as guest editor for the special issue titled Heritage in the Making. Dealing with Legacies of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. This collection of peer-reviewed papers stems in part from the successful workshop held at McDonald Institute…
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Remembering Dissent and Disillusion in the Arab World
This project investigates generational dialogues about the legacies and memories of labour, student and communist movements in the Arab world. The research focuses in particular on video and installation art by young makers born in the 1980s that address the generation of their parents and the events…
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Single life and the city
Ariadne Schmidt, Isabelle Devos and Julie de Groot provide you with refreshing insights concerning the study on urban singles in the period between 1200 and 1900.
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On colonial grounds
A comparative study of colonialism and rural settlement in first millennium BC west central Sardinia
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Jeu d'argile: céramique, indentité culturelle, créolisation
Une étude archéo-anthropologique de la céramique des sociétés caribéennes multiculturelles de la période précoloniale à nos jours
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Una Isla, Dos Mundos
The arrival of Columbus to the Caribbean in 1492 marked a milestone in world history. In both the European and the indigenous world, a set of economic, political and hierarchical networks and relations were defined, structured and changed. These changes affected the indigenous population at different…
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Pepita Hesselberth
Faculty of Humanities
p.hesselberth@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2202
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Paolo Sartori will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in April 2018
Paolo Sartori is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna. In Leiden he will deliver one guest lecture on Twilight of the Persianate: The Vernacularization of Central Asia (18th - early 20th Centuries) on 12 April and a masterclass on How can we…
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ACPA research honored for NWO Smart Culture
Seven research projects have been honored in the unique researchprogramme Smart Culture - Arts and Culture. The successful research projects have one purpose, which is proving the connection between innovative artistic and cultural practices, scientific and social issues.
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Of Islanders and Foreigners? Tracing local identities and cultural encounters in the Gulf of Fonseca, Central America (AD 400-1521)
How did local lifeways and crafting practices persist and develop in the diverse environments of the increasingly interconnected Gulf of Fonseca (AD 400-1521)?
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Popular Music in Southeast Asia
From the 1920s on, popular music in Southeast Asia was a mass-audience phenomenon that drew new connections between indigenous musical styles and contemporary genres from elsewhere to create new, hybrid forms. This book presents a cultural history of modern Southeast Asia from the vantage point of popular…
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Podcast: How open is our governance culture?
A ‘new governance culture’ – a hot topic for a number of years now. What kind of culture of public administration do we have in the Netherlands and how do you change it? This question is the focus of the podcast Het Spel & De Macht (the Game & the Power). Each episode considers one theme related to…
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Making and creating with ages-old knowledge
The ability to create objects and structures with our hands has been essential to human development. This ability is something modern society is at risk of losing. Leiden archaeologists gather knowledge about ancient processes of ‘making and creating’ over the centuries, knowledge that helps our current…
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The Sung home : narrative, morality, and the Kurdish nation
This dissertation gives an ethnographic account of Kurdish dengbêj narrative from a theorethical perspective.
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Heritage, landscape and spatial justice: new legal perspectives on heritage protection in the Lesser Antilles
This dissertation presents a legal geographical analysis of the heritage laws of the independent English-speaking islands of the Lesser Antilles.
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Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures - Call
Jessica Barr and Barbara Zimbalist invite essays that examine any aspect of race and religion in medieval culture and society for a special issue on race and religion in the Middle Ages. Deadline for submission: 1 February 2021.
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Protecting cultural heritage in conflict situations
Violent conflicts all over the world pose a great threat. Not only to the region’s inhabitants, but also to the cultural heritage in the area. This is the subject of the Europe Lecture in The Hague on 13 June.
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Rethinking Javanese Religion: The Prospect of New Descriptions of Javanese Traditions
This study describes religion in Java.
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Heritage and Climate Governance: Potentials and Pitfalls
This pilot project will initiate research on how heritage has been and can be mobilized to address climate change governance in Himalayan Asia. Climate adaptation strategies frequently include the sourcing of heritage, encompassing landscapes, built environments 4 and cultural practices. However, effective…
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Towards a Sustainable and Circular Metals Economy
In-use stocks of products can be considered as intermediaries between human needs and the physical world.
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Nubian Voices II
New Texts and Studies on Christian Nubian Culture
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Tracing interactions in the indigenous Caribbean through a biographical approach
Much attention has been paid to the exchange of objects, ideas, and people in the Caribbean. Networks of interaction connected local communities across pan-regional scales, shaping indigenous socio-political integrations and their responses in colonial situations. This work examines the poorly understood…