1,578 search results for “colonialism imperialism and heritage” in the Public website
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Brimstone, sea and sand
The historical archaeology of the Port of Sandy Point and its anchorage, St. Kitts, West Indies
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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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Contested landscapes in the age of encounter
Amerindian settlement patterns and early colonial cartography in Northern Hispaniola
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La Galigo manuscript - UNESCO heritage – digitally available
The La Galigo manuscript at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been digitized. The manuscript, which was inscribed in 2011 on UNESCO's ‘Memory of the World’ Register, is now freely available online and can be used for teaching and research. La Galigo is the world's longest epic, written in the Buginese…
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Vietnam: Exploring the deep determinants of learning
Vietnam’s record of expanding access to education, and especially its performance on international assessments such as PISA, has raised questions about what Vietnam got right, how, and why and what insights Vietnam’s experiences might offer for efforts at improving the performance of education systems…
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The Anti-Politics of UNESCO World Heritage
We deeply cherish our natural and cultural World Heritage, so it seems; when historical monuments and sites are destroyed by war or natural disaster, we are mourning collectively. But what if this World Heritage status is not just a preservation label, but a smokescreen for social and political conflicts…
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Somaliland Rock Art- Laas Geel, Dhagah Kureh and Dhagah Nabi Gelay
Digitally Preserving Heritage at Risk
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
c.m.stolte@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7308
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The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial empires.
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Landscape Protection in International Law
Amy Strecker assesses the institutional framework for landscape protection, analyses the interplay between landscape and human rights, and links the etymology and theory of landscape with its articulation in law.
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Veluwe
In 2019 citizen scientists inspected elevation maps of the Veluwe region and discovered several thousand potential new archaeological structures. The project started as exploration into the potential of citizen science in Dutch archaeology, but developed into a fully flexed project in which citizen…
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De postkoloniale spiegel. De Nederlands-Indische letteren herlezen
The Dutch colonial past in Indonesia has had a major influence on literature.
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Inventory of emerging professions in the heritage sector
PLATO in co-operation with Panteia and Ockham IPS upon invitation of the European Commission composed an article including an inventory of emerging professions in the heritage sector and the related needs for skills, training and knowledge transfer.
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
g.j.oostindie@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Material culture of Roman republican colonization
This project looks at material culture to better understand the character and organization of Roman colonial society in the Republican period, with a focus on the colony of Aesernia (founded 263 BC) in Samnium (modern-day Molise, Italy). What impact did the foundation of the colony have on precolonial…
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About Museums, Collections & Society
The Museums, Collections & Society research programme is led by the Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Archaeology and aims to promote collection-based research, stimulate Leiden education in this field, and raise ethical questions regarding the collections’ origins.
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About
The purpose of the initiative is to establish Central Asian Studies at Leiden University. Central Asia is a region with fluid borders stretching into present-day Afghanistan, Russia, China, Mongolia, Iran and the Caucasus; a premodern highway of global interaction and today increasingly important as…
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Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history
It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural lecture on 24 November. ‘As a university community, we must dare to hold up a mirror to ourselves and, where possible and necessary, also take concrete…
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Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines
Legibility in the Age of Signs and Machines offers a compelling reflection on what the notion of legibility entails in a machinic world in which any form of cultural expression – from literary texts, films, artworks and museum exhibits to archives, laws, computer programs and algorithms – necessarily…
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Opportunities with LUCDH or Partners
Check back regularly on this page for research opportunities of interest to Humanities staff and students employing digital tools and methodology.
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
l.p.j.bes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2768
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Island Networks
The focus of this programme is the inter-community social relationships and transformations of island networks in the Lesser Antilles across the historical divide.
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
r.j.ross@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
g.burger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2339
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Partners
Links to related organisations, institutes, journals and archives.
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Discover our Perspectives on the Past
The Faculty of Archaeology proudly presents the research brochure Perspectives on the Past, featuring passionate, dedicated researchers introducing a dazzling scala of research topics: from present-day traditional knowledge in Africa to the power of glue in Palaeolithic Europe. In addition to these…
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Archaeology of the Near East
In the master’s programme in Archaeology, you can follow courses on the archaeology of the Near East, deepening your understanding of this region’s fascinating past.
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Sophie Starrenburg
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
s.h.starrenburg@law.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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The Future is Elsewhere: Towards a Comparative History of the Futurities of the Digital (R)evolution
How did digital intermediality symbolise and facilitate the transfer of content from popular culture into policy statements and vice versa in the period between 1945 and the new millenium?
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About the programme
The one-year master's in History, Arts and Culture, a specialisation of Leiden University’s MA in Asian Studies, allows you to focus on one or more countries or regions of pre-modern, modern or contemporary Asia.
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Unlawful appropriation of territory
Leiden archaeologists reveal the function of specific locations and buildings in order to protect indigenous heritage and lifestyle.
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The reconstruction of the codex Añute palimpsest using hyperspectral imaging data
A technique originally developed for satellite imaging can now be used to recover pictographic texts from underneath the surface of a five hundred year old Mexican manuscript.
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Leiden Chinese heritage collections digitised in Pagode-Europeana-China project
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundred items related to China from the UBL Special Collections are now available via the Europeana website. The UBL was the only library to participate in…
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Roman Republican Colonization
New perspectives from archaeology and ancient history
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The Lives Of Cold War Afro-Asianism
The Afro-Asianism of the early Cold War has long remained buried under the narrative of Bandung, homogenising and subverting the different visions of post-colonial worldmaking that co-existed alongside the Bandung project.
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India’s First Diplomat: V.S. Srinivasa Sastri and the Making of Liberal Internationalism
V.S. Srinivasa Sastri was a celebrated Indian politician and diplomat in the early twentieth century. Despite being hailed as the ‘very voice of international conscience’, he is now a largely forgotten figure.
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Correlates of Complexity
Essays in Archaeology and Assyriology Dedicated to Diederik J.W. Meijer in Honour of his 65th Birthday
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Elena Paskaleva
Faculty of Humanities
e.g.paskaleva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1692
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Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives
Many handwritten and illustrated archives contain a wealth of information, but are largely underexplored because they are complex and difficult for computers to decipher. The aim of this project is to develop a digital environment that resolves this challenge and connects heterogeneous archival content…
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The Qasr Bshir Conservation Project
The project aims to conserve and consolidate the entrance gate to the Roman Desert Frontier Fort Qasr Bshir.
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Soulmates in Empire? Van Vollenhoven and the Colonial Contradictions of Grotius
On Thursday 14 October, Dr Martine van Ittersum gave the first lecture of the Van Vollenhoven Institute’s year-long workshop 'Reconsidering the Socio-Legal Gaze'. Attended by over 40 people, her lecture, entitled 'Van Vollenhoven and Grotius: Soulmates in Empire' examined Grotius’ influence on Cornelis…
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Institute of Public Law
The Institute of Public Law comprises all areas of public law, with the exception of criminal law, and including labour law.
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BRASILIAE. Indigenous Knowledge in the Making of Science: Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (1648).
Investigating the intercultural connections that shaped practices of knowledge production in colonial Dutch Brazil.
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Impact
With our research and teaching, we help make the world a better place. We join in the academic and public debate, and seek answers to economic and social issues – not just at the local and regional level but at the global one too.
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From closed museum spaces to inclusive cultural meeting points
As museums face more scrutiny and are being demanded to decolonize, there are opportunities for Dominican museums to adopt a critical perspective and turn their collections and exhibitions into connections to our cultural past, present, and future.
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Claiming Ancient Rome’s Heritage: Translatio imperii as an Anchoring Device in the Neo-Latin Poetry of Florence in the Age of Lorenzo de’ Medici
In Renaissance Florence, humanists wrote Latin poems fashioning their city as the new Rome, and members of the Medici family as Roman rulers. How can we explain this practice?
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Over lokalisme, liefdewerk en lonkend perspectief: Verkenning naar participatie en burgerinitiatief in de Nederlandse archeologie.
Dit rapport maakt deel uit van het project Receptenboek burgerparticipatie in opdracht van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed (RCE) en met steun van het Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie.
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Tell Balata Archaeological Park
The project aims at contributing to the safeguarding of Palestinian cultural heritage and the enhancement of economic situation through tourism development, by presenting and managing one of the most important archaeological resources, the archaeological site of Tell Balata.
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Grotius Centre
Leiden University has a long and outstanding tradition in the field of public international law.
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Archaeology of the Americas
North, Middle and South America together constitute the single largest area in World Archaeology that is taught as a single focus. It is also the only major world area that saw societies develop from hunter-gatherers to early empires entirely independent from developments in Eurasia & Africa. It is,…