Course | Workshop
Workshop: The Stories Toolkit: Digital Storytelling for Teaching and Research in the Humanities
- Enrico Joaquin Lapuz and Aarti Kawlra
- Date
- Thursday 4 June 2026
- Time
- Explanation
- Registration required
- Address
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Herta Mohr
Witte Singel 27A
2311 BG Leiden - Room
- 0.31 (African Studies Centre)
The Expertise Center for Education and Learning (ECOLe) of the Faculty of Humanities and the Humanities Across Borders (HAB) team of the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS) invite academic staff from within the Faculty of Humanities to a training workshop for their innovative teaching and learning tool: the Stories Toolkit - a digital platform and lived experience repository.
All staff from the Faculty of Humanities are welcome. Registration is required due to limited seating.
Registration
You can sign up for the workshop on the IIAS website via the button below:
Register hereThe Stories Toolkit enables students to engage with course themes through multimedia objects (photos, video, audio, and text) and to create short pieces of narrative descriptions and critical reflections. These pieces, referred to as 'Accession Cards', when tagged, become part of a larger digital repository of stories which can later be accessed. They are also part of a closed virtual classroom environment enabling instructor and peer feedback for collaborative learning.
This platform has already been piloted at Leiden University College (LUC) for the course 'Social Determinants of Health', which was conducted in a Shared Classroom context with students in Myanmar and Gaza.
We are now looking to expand its use within the LU Faculty of Humanities, opening up opportunities for collaboration for academic staff interested in integrating the toolkit with the wider IIAS network of institutions in the Global North and South.
Instructors who adopt the Stories Toolkit will receive technical support from the IIAS team, as well as access to HAB's dynamic lived experience repository. The Accession Cards emphasize personal reflection and media-engaged learning, which are less easily replicated by AI tools and may offer opportunities for collaboration with students in other regions.
About the Facilitors
Enrico Joaquin Lapuz is the Web Content Coordinator of the Humanities Across Borders (HAB) educational research program at the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Leiden University. An early career historian from the Philippines, his research interests focus on reexamining narratives around Indigenous Filipinos through exhibition photography.
Dr. Aarti Kawlra is Academic Director of IIAS’s Humanities Across Borders (HAB) programme. As anthropologist, she examines colonial and global discourses through oral history, geography, and cultural studies, with a focus on artisanship and makers’ lived experiences. She has also conducted research on indigo, the production, traditions and itineraries.
