745 search results for “lion ter preservation” in the Staff website
-
Still Lives: Jewish Photography in Nazi Germany
Debate, Book Launch
-
RMO avond: Echoes of the Nile
Festival
-
Artificial Intelligence Playing Ancient Games: Computational Techniques for Board Games Heritage
Digital methods are at the forefront of a renaissance of scientific research on ancient games. The Digital Ludeme Project has pioneered the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to study ancient games, developing the use of AI simulated play to answer archaeological research questions. The Ludii General…
-
Casimir Colloquium: Modular interventions in childhood
Lecture
-
Writing your Datamanagement Plan
Leiden University and most research funders require a data management plan (DMP) before the start of a new research project. The aim of this session is to help you write your DMP. It is particularly tailored to PhD’s from the Humanities, and will be taught by staff from the library together with staff…
-
Old signs & current signs in LSF (French Sign Language)
Lecture, Sign Language & Deaf People
-
New archaeological perspectives on an Arabian oasis in Islamic periods
Khaybar, one of the largest and best watered oases in the Arabian Peninsula preserves a rich and little-known archaeological landscape. Probably the “Khibrā” of the Harran inscription of the last neo-Babylonian ruler Nabonidus, referring to his time in Arabia in the 6th century BCE, it is renowned in…
-
The future of the past is enough to make you feel down
The slogan of the Faculty of Archaeology, ‘The Future of the Past starts at Leiden University’, might sound like empty marketing speak. But there is something to it. The past can teach us a lot about climate change and that could make us fear the worst for our future. Archaeologist Gerrit Dusseldorp…
-
Leiden Science rings in 2025 with inspiring speeches and happy winners
An impressive speech by Dean Jasper Knoester, a lecture by top researcher Mario van der Stelt about brain messengers, and the presentation of the faculty awards. 2025 begins on a hopeful and festive note, with a toast to a year of fruitful collaboration within and beyond the faculty.
-
IPBES: Positive outcomes for people and nature are feasible, but we must act now
Changes to halt further biodiversity loss are more urgent than ever and feasible, says IPBES, the United Nations biodiversity panel. In two reports released this week, the panel calls on governments worldwide to develop coherent policies that address biodiversity, climate change, water, food and health.…
-
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…
-
Introducing: Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou
Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate and postdoc in the framework of the 'Anchoring Innovation' program. Below, they introduce themselves!
-
New Professor Hanneke Hulst is a team player
Hanneke Hulst has held the new Leiden chair in Neuropsychology in Health and Disease since 1 September. From 1 January she will also be chair of the Health, Medical and Neuropsychology (HMN) unit. ‘HMN is my new base. I’m curious to find out about the people who work here, what they do and what motivates…
-
Archaeologist at Binnenhof: ‘Even the staff ate heron’
An Iron Age skull, a unicorn for cleaning your ear and thousands of beer jugs. Alumnus and archaeologist Chris Muysson has made remarkable discoveries at the Binnenhof government complex in The Hague. ‘Each puzzle piece tells us more about its history.’
-
In pictures: animal mummies in a scanner
The story of Tutankhamun, the Egyptian pharaoh, is world famous. But did you know that the Ancient Egyptians mummified not only people but animals too? The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden recently put a bunch of animal mummies through a CT scanner. This was in collaboration with Canon Netherlands…
-
Ten Leiden researchers awarded a Veni grant
Ten Leiden researchers will receive funding of up to 280,000 euros from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). They will use this grant to develop their research ideas in the coming three years.
-
Chemistry as the key to medical innovation
Is it a coincidence that three chemists from the same department have each independently received a ZonMw grant? 'No,' the researchers agree in unison. 'The role of chemistry in medical biology is becoming increasingly important, and we’ve worked hard to make this happen.'
-
Study of a Russian doctor and innovator in troubled times
Ambroise Paré, Thomas Sydenham and Herman Boerhaave: all were great medical innovators in their time. We know far less about the 19th-century Russian physician and scientist Nikolay Ivanovich Pirogov. PhD candidate Inge Hendriks researched him in Dutch and Russian archives and collections. She discovered…
-
De schaduwzijde van erfgoedbescherming
World Heritage status comes at a cost to the local population’s human rights. PhD Candidate Sophie Starrenburg explains the drawbacks of poetic terms such as ‘the cultural heritage of mankind’.
-
Expanding Social Sciences & Humanities in African Global Health Discourse
LUNHA strives to redefine global health by prioritizing justice, fairness, and inclusion in Africa. Through collaboration with diverse stakeholders, LUNHA aims to reshape global health research and foster a broader engagement with social sciences and humanities.
-
Postdoc Adam Benfer stewards big data in the study of Central America
In the spring of 2024 the Faculty of Archaeology welcomed a new postdoc. Dr Adam Benfer, originally from the United States, occupies a double position as a researcher in the project of Alex Geurds and as the Faculty’s Data Steward. ‘It is pretty much what the title says: I steward data. Essentially,…
-
Office for International Education and internationalisation
Internationalisation is an important pillar of the Strategic Plan of Leiden University and Leiden Law School. The driving force behind internationalisation at our faculty is the Office for International Education (known as BIO). The Head of BIO is Anette van Sandwijk. Now the current political climate…
-
Banned almost–prime minister of Thailand: ‘Politics must be moral and realistic’
Pita Limjaroenrat (45) was set to become Thailand’s next prime minister, but in 2024 the Thai Constitutional Court dissolved his progressive Move Forward Party and banned him from politics. He now reflects publicly on the policy values that brought the party to prominence.
-
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.
-
Voorrang bij verhaal
Prof.mr. W.H. van Boom Prof.mr. E. Koops
-
The Hebrew Bible / Old Testament and Scribal Scholarship in Antiquity on the Occasion of the Eightieth Birthday of Arie van der Kooij
Symposium
-
Quantum Meets Leiden: IBM lecture & mini-symposium
Quantum Meets 2023 Leiden event and symposium. Quantum Meets the Visionaries lecture in Leiden.
-
The Loyalty Trap: Federal Civil Servants Under Trump
Lecture, Event
-
The Role of Efficient Causation in Aristotle’s Philosophy: Ensuring the Continuity and Coherence of the Cosmos within a Teleological Framework
PhD defence
-
Film screening & panel: The Great Book Robbery
The Great Book Robbery is a powerful and poignant chronicle of cultural destruction. The documentary tells the story of the 70,000 Palestinian books that were looted by the newly formed State of Israel in 1948. After the screening there will be a panel on book ownership, the role of books as cultural…
-
Tradition and Transformation: Japanese Woodblock Prints from Meiji to 20th Century mokuhanga
Lecture
-
The study of ancient cities provides us with new urban ideas
Leiden is the city of archeology par excellence. The very first Professor in Archaeology, Caspar Reuvens, was from Leiden! And now, 200 years later, Leiden is home to both the internationally leading Faculty of Archeology and the renowned National Museum of Antiquities. Following the success of the…
-
Kaiser Spring Lectures: Planetary exploration and the search for life in our Solar System
Lecture
-
Ælfric’s Afterlives: Copying, Editing, Studying, Teaching and Remembering the Most Prolific Author of Old English
Conference
-
Medieval Fragmentology and the Fragmented Old English Glossed N-Psalter
Fragmentology, the study of medieval fragments, is increasingly gaining academic attention. Inherently interdisciplinary, this scholarly field brings together experts from different backgrounds, ranging from (book) historians to palaeographers, linguists, literary scholars, philologists and experts…
-
Towards a Reconstruction of the Proto-South Omotic Suprasegmentals: Initial Findings
Lecture, This Time for Africa series
-
An Algebra for Interaction of Cyber-Physical Components
Prof.dr.ir. F. Arbab dr. C. Talcott Summary Modeling and analysis of cyber-physical systems are still challenging. One reason is that cyber-physical systems involve many different parts (cyber or physical), of different nature (discrete or continuous), and in constant interaction via sensing and actuating.…
-
Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Managing your data during and after your research project is essential. In this workshop you will learn how to write a Data Management Plan (DMP) according to the regulations of Leiden University. Planning how to deal with your data during and after your research project is considered to be essential…
-
Unde Venisti? The Prehistory of Italic through its Loanword Lexicon
Prof.dr. G. Kroonen Prof.dr. K. Kristiansen (University of Gothenburg) Summary Latin is one of the most important Indo-European languages in European history. Between the dissolution of Proto-Indo-European on the Pontic-Caspian steppe and the first attestation of written Latin on the Italian Peninsula,…
-
Connect & Deposit: discovering the Dryad data publishing platform
In this Connect & Deposit session, co-organised by CWTS and the Leiden University Research Data Management Community, Sarah Lippincott, Head of Community Engagement at Dryad, will talk about the Dryad repository: “Dryad (datadryad.org) is a non-profit data publishing platform. We provide researchers…
-
Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Managing your data during and after your research project is essential. In this workshop you will learn how to write a Data Management Plan (DMP) according to the regulations of Leiden University. Planning how to deal with your data during and after your research project is considered to be essential…
-
Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Managing your data during and after your research project is essential. In this workshop you will learn how to write a Data Management Plan (DMP) according to the regulations of Leiden University. Planning how to deal with your data during and after your research project is considered to be essential…
-
Kress Talks with Juliet Huang and Alec Aldrich
Lecture
-
Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Workshop
-
Jimpitan in Wonosobo, Central Java: An Indigenous Institution in the Context of Sustainable Socio-Economic Development in Indonesia
Prof.dr. G.R. de Snoo Prof.dr. G.A. Persoon Summary In times of hardships or crisis, local people know how to deal with it using their resourcefulness. Although efforts are sometimes made by the government to help them, they are fully aware that community support is at least equally important. moreover,…
-
Rights Denied, Heritage Stolen
Prof.dr. M.E.R.G.N. Jansen Prof.dr. E.C. Pinto Moreira (Brazilië) dr. M. Bruil Summary Indigenous Peoples have reaffirmed, in the context of the United Nations, that we are collective subjects of rights, including the right to protect, maintain and control intellectual property over our cultural and…
-
Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Workshop
-
Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Workshop
-
Images for the Music
PhD defence
-
Workshop: How to write a Data Management Plan (DMP)
Managing your data during and after your research project is essential. In this workshop you will learn how to write a Data Management Plan (DMP) according to the regulations of Leiden University. Planning how to deal with your data during and after your research project is considered to be essential…