204 search results for “monumental architecture” in the Staff website
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Ann BrysbaertFaculty of Archaeology
a.n.brysbaert@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
- Do Communities Build Monuments or Do Monuments Build Communities?
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
e.g.paskaleva@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271692
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Steven LauritanoFaculty of Humanities
s.m.lauritano@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276078
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Ice age architecture: how mammoth bones reveal human ingenuity
What do you build with when trees are scarce and winters are brutal? For hunter-gatherers living in current-day Ukraine some 18,000 years ago, the answer was simple: mammoth bones.
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Postdoc Dita Auzina investigates relationship between appearance of monumentality and disruptive environmental events
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dita Auzina, originally from Latvia, works as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds. ‘I have joined the project as a landscape archaeologist, but I also run my own fieldwork in Nicaragua.’
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
e.den.hartog@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272686
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Caterina SartoriFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
c.b.sartori@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273451
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Mohsen MohammadiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
m.mohammadi@fsw.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Dissertation: existence and development of the European security architecture
On Thursday 15 April, Sabine Mengelberg, associate professor at the Faculty of Military Sciences of the Netherlands Defence Academy (NLDA), will defend her thesis on changes in European security architecture. Permanent Change? The Paths of Change of the European Security Organizations is the title of…
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Exhibition on art, culture and architecture along the Silk Road
Ornately decorated head pieces and jewellery, images of imposing mosques and photos of local people. The 'Splendours of the Silk Roads' exhibition depicts life and different cultures along this important trade route.
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Wouter WagemakersFaculty of Humanities
w.a.wagemakers@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272505
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Archaeologist Natalia Donner receives an award from Panamanian Embassy
In the context of Panama’s independence month, the Panamanian Embassy in the Kingdom of The Netherlands decided to recognize Natalia Donner’s contributions to the study of Panamanian history and culture, as well as her role in a massive repatriation project.
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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
h.p.a.theunissen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276480
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Abolfazl SajadiFaculty of Science
a.sajadi@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5274799
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Alexander GeurdsFaculty of Archaeology
a.geurds@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272206
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Kamerling Onnes Building and Old Observatory open during Open Monuments Day
Open Monumentendag
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Roos StolkerFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
r.stolker@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009589
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Diederik SmitFaculty of Humanities
d.e.j.smit@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272705
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Dita AuzinaFaculty of Archaeology
d.auzina@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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The Salm story: the forgotten architects of the Netherlands
Music venue Paradiso, the Keizersgracht Church and the Artis Zoo’s aquarium: these buildings all owe their design to architects Gerlof Bartholomeus Salm and Abraham Salm. Remco van der Kuijp researched the place of father and son in architectural history. PhD defence on 25 March.
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Marie-leen Ryckaert
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
m.l.e.ryckaert@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009589
- Archaeological Forum
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Eden Dijkstra and Rosemary Selth winners of first H.S. Versnel Prize
Master's students Eden Dijkstra and Rosemary Snelth are the first winners of the H.S. Versnel Prize for best master's or research master's thesis in the field of ancient religion. According to the jury, their theses were so original, well-written and of such high quality that both deserved first pla…
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Literature and Spaces of Conflicts: The Lebanese War Novel as Urban and Architectural History
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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NEXT GEN: The Hague Security Conference
Conference
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
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Architectures of Global AI Governance: From Technological Change to Human Choice
Book talk
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Alistair KeffordFaculty of Humanities
a.kefford@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009970
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Victor KlinkenbergFaculty of Archaeology
m.v.klinkenberg.3@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Developing methods on remote sensing detection of archaeological features in Colombia with LDE grant
A Leiden-Delft-Erasmus research team has been awarded a LDE Global Support Grant to develop reusable algorithms in the remote detection of non-orthogonal architectural features, taking place in the archaeological context of the northern extremities of the Andean, part of the Istmo-Colombian Area.
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Quentin BourgeoisFaculty of Archaeology
q.p.j.bourgeois@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272453
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Herta Mohr Lecture 2026: Identity and Connectivity at the Oryx District
Lecture, Herta Mohr-lezing
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'The Pieterskerk has always defined Leiden's identity'
Ward Hoskens started ten years ago as an intern at one of Leiden's most iconic buildings: the Pieterskerk. Now he is doing his PhD on the question of how the function of this 'church that is no longer a church' changed over recent centuries.
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MCS Scholarship for collection-oriented research: 'There can be a whole story behind something unimportant'
Would you like to do collection-oriented research, but do not have sufficient resources? Every year, the Museums, Collections and Society (MCS) research group makes several research scholarships available for this purpose. Researchers Elizabeth den Hartog and Marika Keblusek previously received an MCS…
- The Emamzadeh Yahya Project. Reflections on an Interdisciplinary and Independent Research Initiative and Online Exhibition
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Lieske HuitsFaculty of Humanities
e.j.g.m.huits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272648
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Reinier BaarsenFaculty of Humanities
r.j.baarsen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Ned McGowanFaculty of Humanities
e.l.mcgowan@kunsten.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Water Legacy: Mayan world meets the Netherlands
Lecture, Faculty Lecture and Photo Exposition
- Open atelier at KOG: Artist Stefan Hoffmann to create screen print
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Iran Between War and Tyranny: What Comes Next?
Debate
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P.J. VethNonnensteeg 1-3, Leiden
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Exhibition unveils Central Asian part of Silk Road
An exhibition at Oude UB takes visitors to the historical Silk Road. Old maps, clothes and jewellery reflect the rich heritage of the cities of Central Asia and their inhabitants.
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Roman limes along the Danube and its impact on 16th-Cen. Austrian Architecture”
Lecture, Austrian Studies Fund Lunch Talk
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Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn on NPO Radio 1 about the attacks in Norway ten years ago
Jeanine de Roy van Zuijdewijn, researcher and lecturer at ISGA, was a guest on NPO Radio 1 where she discussed the attacks carried out in 2011 by Anders Breivik.
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Translating the Image: Art, Science and Global Imagination in the first Islamic Description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbī / History
Lecture, Global Questions Seminar
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Vote for Anne Meeussen as New Scientist Science Talent
Leiden physicist Anne Meeussen has been nominated for the title of New Scientist Science Talent. She will be up against 14 young scientists from other Dutch and Belgian universities. The polls are already open!
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Prof. Koen Ottenheyn (Utrecht) delivers Austrian Fund lunch talk on Roman remnants in modern central Europe
On Tuesday, December 9 2025, Prof. Koen Ottenheyn delivered the last Austria Centre lunch talk of 2025. Prof. Ottenheyn serves as a professor of architectural history at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, and is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the Academic Curatorium which advises…