4,624 search results for “collective” in the Public website
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Evelien Campfens in the New York Times on looted art in museums
In an article by the New York Times, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens discusses the difficulties surrounding the ownership of looted art.
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PhD candidate Marie Kolbenstetter helps repatriate Honduran heritage
In a significant step toward restoring cultural heritage, PhD candidate Marie Kolbenstetter has played a pivotal role in repatriating a collection of 133 archaeological artefacts from the prestigious Musée du quai Branly in Paris back to their place of origin in southern Honduras. Her efforts underscore…
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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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Marco VerschoorFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
m.verschoor@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276778
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Yuan Yi ZhuFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
y.y.zhu@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512
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Jonathan PhillipsFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
j.p.phillips@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Benjamin Kester
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
b.a.n.kester@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Lieske HuitsFaculty of Humanities
e.j.g.m.huits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272648
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Maria Amjad
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
m.amjad@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Duygu Uysal DincolFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
d.m.uysal.dincol@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Vishwesh SundarFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
v.sundar@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512
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Eleftherios KarchimakisFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
e.karchimakis@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512
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Sebastian David Pantoja BarriosFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
s.d.pantoja.barrios@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Frits Meijerink
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
meijerink@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Bernardo Reis dos SantosFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
b.reis.dos.santos@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Stefan Cetkovic
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
s.cetkovic@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Helena Landwehr
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
h.l.landwehr@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Amber Lauwers
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
a.r.lauwers@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512
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Alexandros Ntaflos
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
a.ntaflos@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512
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Manuel Cabal LopezFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
m.a.cabal.lopez@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009500
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Maartje van Diest
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
m.l.van.diest@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Samten YeshiFaculty of Humanities
s.yeshi@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277326
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Jan Meijer
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
j.d.meijer@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009512
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Max Joosten
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Emmanuel Ogwuche Okpe -
Maximilian Wachter
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Rosalba Icaza GarzaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
r.icaza@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Jelke BethlehemFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
j.g.bethlehem@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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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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The Political Economy of Welfare State Reform: a collection of essays on human mobility and social protection
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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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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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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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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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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Tullio Abruzzeset.abruzzese@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Rachel Schatsr.schats@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271925
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Wei Chuw.chu@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Gerrit Dusseldorpg.l.dusseldorp@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272428
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Jason Laffoonj.e.laffoon@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272646
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Marie Soressim.a.soressi@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5275355
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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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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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‘We died the day we left the forests’: Documenting the collective memories of the lost heritage of the Basua of Bundibugyo
Lecture
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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.