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1,820 search results for “material culture” in the Public website

• Material Culture Studies

  Material Culture Studies revolves around the analysis of the cultural biographies of all sorts of material objects from flint axes, to pottery, to houses and monumental structures.

• Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Research project

  Research on the global field of museums, heritage, commemoration, consumption and material culture

• Material culture of Roman republican colonization Research project

  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…

• Material Culture, Consumption and Social Change Research project

  New Approaches to Understanding the Eastern Mediterranean during Byzantine and Ottoman Times

• Material Culture, Art, and Architecture of Pre-Safavid Shīʿism Event
• Data Atlas of Byzantine and Ottoman Material Culture Research project

  Archiving Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Fieldwork Data from the Eastern Mediterranean (600-2000)

• Storytelling and material culture around the Peace Palace in The Hague Research project

  Perception of material culture, design and digital knowledge applications

• Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions Research output

  Embracing the Provinces is a collection of essays focused on people and their daily lives living in the Roman provinces, c. 27 BC-AD 476. It offers an overview of current research on Roman provinces and frontiers, deconstructing some long-held preconceptions and providing refreshing insights into unexplored…

• Material Continuities, Renewals and Cultural Transformation Research project

  This subproject, carried out by post-doctoral researcher Dr. O. Nieuwenhuyse, investigates changes and continuities in the functional, social and symbolic uses of the material culture, c. 6800-5800 BC. A contextually oriented approach is adopted, which pays attention to the local socio-economic and…

• melting pot: research into Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Islamic material culture at Gortyn, Greece Research project

  What does the excavated material tell us about the continuation and/or change of urban life during the transitional phrases from Antiquity to the Middle Ages on Crete and in the eastern Mediterranean more generally?

• Things Change: Black Material Culture and the Development of a Consumer Society in South Africa, 1800-2020 Research output

  This book is the first systematic analysis of the changes in the use of goods and services by households of Black South Africans since the early nineteenth century.

• Squaramide-based supramolecular materials for 3D cell culture applications Research output

  A new type of tripodal squaramide-based supramolecular hydrogels is developed and studied.

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  René van Walsem Guest employee

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.van.walsem@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• When Art Isn’t Real Research output

  How an initially valueless object becomes worth hundreds of millions. And vice versa.

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  Erika Riccobon PhD candidate / contract

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.riccobon@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274203

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  Ellen Raven Guest Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  e.m.raven@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Nicky Schreuder PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  n.a.l.schreuder@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Andrea Ragragio

  Social & Behavioural Sciences

  a.m.m.ragragio@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3451

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  Leonor Faber-Jonker PhD candidate / self funded

  African Studies Centre

  l.a.faber@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Funnelbeaker Material Practices Research project

  Ongoing microwear analysis of the flint artefacts from the Funnelbeaker period suggests that flint had a pivotal role in the representation and structuration of the cosmological order of Funnelbeaker society.

• Paul Kozowyk (Material Culture Studies) wins 2nd/3rd prize Leiden University Thesis Awards News - 13 February 2016

  Leiden University 2016 thesis awards were awarded to Kaspar Pucek (History), Mariska Meijer (Bio Medical Sciences) and Paul Kozowyk (Archaeology).

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  Patrick Degryse Guest researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

  p.a.i.h.degryse@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Egypt beyond representation Research output

  This research develops and applies a new approach to study Aegyptiaca Romana from a bottom-up, Roman perspective.

• Reconstructing adhesives Research output

  An experimental approach to organic palaeolithic technology

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  Areti Leventi PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  a.leventi@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

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  Dennis Braekmans Associate professor

  Faculty of Archaeology

  d.j.g.braekmans@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Beyond Egyptomania: Objects, Style and Agency Research output

  The material and intellectual presence of Egypt is at the heart of Western culture, religion and art from Antiquity to the present. This volume aims to provide a long term and interdisciplinary perspective on Egypt and its mnemohistory, taking theories on objects and their agency as its main point of…

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  Floris Keehnen Researcher/Guest Steaff Member

  Faculty of Archaeology

  f.w.m.keehnen@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

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  Max Willem Lenssen PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

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  Geke Burger Guest researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

  g.burger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272339

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus of African Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

  r.j.ross@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1646

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  Ali Shobeiri Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

  s.a.shobeiri@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2752

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  Merel Spithoven PhD candidate / Guest

  Faculty of Archaeology

  m.spithoven@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727

• Material Culture (5 ECTS) Course
• Material Culture (5 ECTS) Course
• Material Culture (5 ECTS) Course
• Material Culture (5 ECTS) Course
• Material Culture (5 ECTS) Course
• Material Culture (5 ECTS) Course
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  Bernhard Rieger Professor of European History

  Faculty of Humanities

  b.rieger@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1290

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  Lydia van de Fliert PhD candidate

  Faculty of Archaeology

  l.l.van.de.fliert@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Material Culture - Session 5 Event - 13 May 2020
• Material Culture - Session 2 Event - 24 April 2020
• Material Culture - Session 1 Event - 16 April 2020
• Material Culture - Session 4 Event - 8 May 2020
• Material Culture - Session 3 Event - 1 May 2020
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  Alessandro Aleo Guest researcher

  Faculty of Archaeology

  a.aleo@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727

• Materials-GRoWL: Gauging the Rest-of-the-World’s Lifecycles of Construction Materials Research project

  What types of construction materials are used in the Global South, where are they, and what levels of societal services do they support? How will material use evolve under different development pathways and paradigms? What are these materials' environmental and societal impacts now and in the future,…

• Photographic Traditions in South African Popular Modernities Research project

  In the South African context, certain iconic images have been a dominant source for public understandings of historical events. The emphasis given these images tends to overshadow the historical value of other more personal photographic sources – like studio or amateur photography. This project looks…

• Style and Society in the Prehistory of West Asia Research output

  Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse