954 search results for “indigenous artefact in museum collections” in the Staff website
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
PhD defence
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: Astrochemistry
Lecture
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Reading list – Culinary culture and tasty tales
Are we going vegetarian this year? Shall we keep the dessert the same? Where do I find inspiration for a festive meal during the holidays? For readers who like to postpone these questions, for those who like to tell a good story with their culinary contribution, or for those who simply want to know…
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Fourteen Leiden University researchers receive Vidi grant
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants to 14 Leiden researchers. This grant of a maximum of 850,000 euros will enable them to start a new research group and develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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Annetje Ottow back in Leiden
Annetje Ottow is the first female president of the Executive Board of Leiden University, which means a return to her Alma mater.
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independence. Historians have now shown how this could happen. ‘It was scandal management rather than prevention,’ says Leiden historian and research leader Gert…
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In the Making #10: Sensing Otherwise; in the absence of land(scape)
Arts and culture
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Online Kress Talks with Felicity Good and Alec Aldrich
Lecture
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Exposed: interdisciplinary approaches to the Greek and Roman body
Conference
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Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
Lecture
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Futures of Native American Studies lecture series presents: Sarah Sense
Lecture
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Knowledge on/in African societies: re-opening the paths
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
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Global dynamics: a very deep historical perspective on the history of Humanity
Keynote Lecture
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The Vanishing Chinese Pharmacies: The Current Landscape and Social Identity of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Taiwan
Lecture, China Seminar
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Lorentz lecture by Emine Fetvaci
Lecture
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OSCoffee: A bird's eye view of Open Science Developments, Challenges and Future Directions at Naturalis Biodiversity Center
Lecture
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Lorentz Center Lecture: 'Do People Get Radicalized on the Internet?'
Lecture
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Utagawa Hiroshige: The Landscape Artist as Pathfinder
Lecture
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Exhibition 'Hora est!'
Exhibition
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Symposium: Does Science need Heroes?
Lecture, Symposium
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Decolonizing Archaeological Epistemologies
Conference
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Museumnacht Boerhaave - Adventerous Microbiology
Festival
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BABESCH Byvanck Lecture
Conference
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Unboxing the Himalayas: On the Creation, Use, and Circulation of Sacred Things and Texts
Conference, Workshop
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The operations of multinational businesses in conflict areas - towards a conceptual operational framework, the LEIDEN Protocol
Conference
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Indian Problems, Yemeni Solutions? Legal Exchanges in the Sixteenth Century
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Temporalities of Futuring: Heritage, Custom and Tradition in the Himalayas
Workshop
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-century Bibliotheca Thysiana at the Rapenburg in Leiden, kept in the Leiden University Library, Rotterdam researcher Erik-Jan Bos discovered a hitherto unknown…
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Executive Board Vice President Timo Kos ‘Now’s the time to step up’
Timo Kos has been Vice President of Leiden University’s Executive Board since 1 March. Who is he and how have his first weeks been? ‘Higher education is under threat; we’re under fire.’
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Seven Comenius grants for Leiden lecturers
Eleven lecturers from Leiden University have been awarded Comenius grants that will allow them to work with their teams on an innovation project within their own teaching. They have been awarded three grants of 100,000 euros within the Senior Fellows programme and four grants of 50,000 euros within…
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‘We moeten diversiteit minder vieren, het moet vanzelfsprekend zijn’
Op welke manieren kan inclusieve communicatie ervoor zorgen dat mensen zich welkom voelen? Hierover ging het D&I-symposium van Universiteit Leiden.
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Archaeology brings 3D scanning into the classroom
In the course 'From Ceramics to Plastics: The Mediterranean in 12 objects' students were taught to work with 3D scanning technologies. One of the underlying reasons to introduce students to this technology was to teach them to reproduce objects. ‘More and more archaeological information is stored in…
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Warm welkom voor nieuwe studenten tijdens EL CID
On a sunny Lammermarkt, thousands of new students gathered to kick off their student life in Leiden at the 56th edition of EL CID.
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CfP: Transnational Conversations: Heritage, Memory, Climate, and Reparatory Justice in the Caribbean, Europe, and Beyond
We are pleased to invite submissions for a conference exploring how heritage and memory practices, alongside the legacies of climate coloniality, shape contemporary understandings and mobilisations of reparations. This event will examine how historical and political dynamics influence reparative justice…
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In memoriam: dr. Karin Willemse (1962-2023)
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of our former colleague dr. Karin Willemse, who passed away on Saturday 18 March 2023.
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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022!
On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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‘We have to stay alert and keep on feeling the past’
Space for open dialogue on historical slavery was created at the Keti Koti Table at Museum De Lakenhal, organised by Leiden University and the Municipality of Leiden. There, just metres away from 17th-century paintings, Leideners shared a ritual meal and spoke about the effects of slavery and our colonial…
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Introducing: Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette
Catherine Wood and Martijn van Ette recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates in the NWO Vidi-funded project "American foreign policy and liberalism", led by Andrew Gawthorpe. Below they introduce themselves.
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COIn grants awarded to improve research infrastructure
Several FGW projects have received a COIn grant. This grant, ranging from 5,000 to 30,000 euros, is intended to improve research infrastructure, for example by purchasing software licences, applications, electronics or laboratory equipment.
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The neuroscience of the psychedelic experience
Lecture
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Leiden Archaeology Network and Career Event (LANCE)
Career Event
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Rock art and wellbeing
Lecture, Workshop
- Responsible Extended Reality (XR) Workshop
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Motherhood and Unfreedom in the Islamicate World
Conference, workshop
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Tradition and Transformation: Japanese Woodblock Prints from Meiji to 20th Century mokuhanga
Lecture
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Leiden-Paris-Cambridge Seminar on the Interior as a Space of Display
Lecture
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: Planetary exploration and the search for life in our Solar System
Lecture