1,094 search results for “museum collective and society” in the Staff website
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Vidi grant for Angus Mol: ‘Historical games are like time machines’
How do games help shape our perception of the past? Associate Professor Angus Mol receives a Vidi grant to answer this question.
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They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
- KAS Symposiaserie
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Disorienting Empire
Conference, Workshop
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Herta Mohr lecture 2025: TT 217, the tomb of the sculptor Ipuy
Lecture, Herta Mohr Lecture
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Study Day “Dead Sea Scrolls”
Lecture, Workshop and Egeria Lecture
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Food for Thought lunch meeting: SSH Resilience in Youth
Lecture, Food for Thought
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Kaiser Spring Lectures: Astrochemistry
Lecture
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European Day of Languages - Taalquizine
Festival
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ASCL Seminar: Waves of Memory in the Red Sea: Unpacking Mixedness through Italo-Eritrean Livescapes
Lecture
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Liesbeth MinnaardFaculty of Humanities
e.minnaard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272358
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Joanita VroomFaculty of Archaeology
j.a.c.vroom@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276087
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Paul van TrigtFaculty of Humanities
p.w.van.trigt@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271349
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Anne-Isabelle RichardFaculty of Humanities
a.i.richard@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271399
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Hans MolFaculty of Humanities
h.mol@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5271646
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Mayke KaagAfrika-Studiecentrum
m.m.a.kaag@asc.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5273375
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Hans de VriesFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
h.r.de.vries@fgga.leidenuniv.nl | 070 8009506
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The danger of unregulated online communications
Social media gives people a voice but also fuels online hate, especially against marginalised groups. PhD candidate Eva Nave: ‘While end-to-end encryption protects activists, it also enables criminal activity, creating a more accessible version of the Darkweb.’
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In the Making #10: Sensing Otherwise; in the absence of land(scape)
Arts and culture
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Futures of Native American Studies lecture series presents: Sarah Sense
Lecture
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Silkscreening (every other week)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
- The Emamzadeh Yahya Project. Reflections on an Interdisciplinary and Independent Research Initiative and Online Exhibition
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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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OSCoffee: A bird's eye view of Open Science Developments, Challenges and Future Directions at Naturalis Biodiversity Center
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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Hollandsdenken Dekoloniseren
Lecture, Global Histories of Knowledge Seminar
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Decolonizing Archaeological Epistemologies
Conference
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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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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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‘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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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,…
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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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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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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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‘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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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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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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Interview with Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn
Professor Dr. Carsten Stahn LLM., Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the University of Leiden, completed his habilitation in July 2020 at the Humboldt-University zu Berlin and acquired the Venia for Constitutional Law, International Law and International Criminal Law. The…
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Drawing with diverse techniques and materials
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Portrait/Figure drawing
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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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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Kaiser Spring Lectures: Planetary exploration and the search for life in our Solar System
Lecture
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The Roman empire and world history
Debate
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Ideophones in Brazilian Portuguese: focusing on Afro-diasporic contexts in Brazil
Lecture, This Time for Africa! series