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1,169 search results for “material culture” in the Public website

• Material Culture Studies

  Material Culture Studies revolves around the analysis of the cultural biographies of all sorts of material objects from flint axes, to pottery, to houses and monumental structures.

• Museums, Heritage and Material Culture Research project

  Research on the global field of museums, heritage, commemoration, consumption and material culture

• Material culture of Roman republican colonization Research project

  This project looks at material culture to better understand the character and organization of Roman colonial society in the Republican period, with a focus on the colony of Aesernia (founded 263 BC) in Samnium (modern-day Molise, Italy). What impact did the foundation of the colony have on precolonial…

• Material Culture, Consumption and Social Change Research project

  New Approaches to Understanding the Eastern Mediterranean during Byzantine and Ottoman Times

• Data Atlas of Byzantine and Ottoman Material Culture Research project

  Archiving Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeological Fieldwork Data from the Eastern Mediterranean (600-2000)

• Storytelling and material culture around the Peace Palace in The Hague Research project

  Perception of material culture, design and digital knowledge applications

• Embracing the Provinces: Society and Material Culture of the Roman Frontier Regions Research output

  Embracing the Provinces is a collection of essays focused on people and their daily lives living in the Roman provinces, c. 27 BC-AD 476. It offers an overview of current research on Roman provinces and frontiers, deconstructing some long-held preconceptions and providing refreshing insights into unexplored…

• Postdoctoral Position on Material/Visual Cultures of Southeast Asia Vacancy

  Humanities, Institute for Area Studies

• Material Continuities, Renewals and Cultural Transformation Research project

  This subproject, carried out by post-doctoral researcher Dr. O. Nieuwenhuyse, investigates changes and continuities in the functional, social and symbolic uses of the material culture, c. 6800-5800 BC. A contextually oriented approach is adopted, which pays attention to the local socio-economic and…

• melting pot: research into Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Islamic material culture at Gortyn, Greece Research project

  What does the excavated material tell us about the continuation and/or change of urban life during the transitional phrases from Antiquity to the Middle Ages on Crete and in the eastern Mediterranean more generally?

• Things Change: Black Material Culture and the Development of a Consumer Society in South Africa, 1800-2020 Research output

  This book is the first systematic analysis of the changes in the use of goods and services by households of Black South Africans since the early nineteenth century.

• Squaramide-based supramolecular materials for 3D cell culture applications Research output

  A new type of tripodal squaramide-based supramolecular hydrogels is developed and studied.

• Cultural Production Research project

  This research network aims to create a shared platform for debate and dialogue on the broader theme of cultural production and exchange across different area specializations and historical periods.

• When Art Isn’t Real Research output

  How an initially valueless object becomes worth hundreds of millions. And vice versa.

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  René van Walsem Guest employee

  Faculty of Humanities

• Egypt beyond representation Research output

  This research develops and applies a new approach to study Aegyptiaca Romana from a bottom-up, Roman perspective.

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  Ellen Raven Guest Assistant Professor

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Leonardo Carmignani Guest/postdoc

  Faculteit Archeologie

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  Hans Janssen Professor emeritus History, in particular castles

  Faculty of Humanities

• Beyond Egyptomania: Objects, Style and Agency Research output

  The material and intellectual presence of Egypt is at the heart of Western culture, religion and art from Antiquity to the present. This volume aims to provide a long term and interdisciplinary perspective on Egypt and its mnemohistory, taking theories on objects and their agency as its main point of…

• Reconstructing adhesives Research output

  An experimental approach to organic palaeolithic technology

• Paul Kozowyk (Material Culture Studies) wins 2nd/3rd prize Leiden University Thesis Awards News - 13 February 2016

  Leiden University 2016 thesis awards were awarded to Kaspar Pucek (History), Mariska Meijer (Bio Medical Sciences) and Paul Kozowyk (Archaeology).

• Material Culture (5 ECTS) Course
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• Material Culture (5 ECTS) Course
• Material Culture (5 ECTS) Course
• Material Culture (5 ECTS) Course
• Material Culture - Session 5 Event - 13 May 2020
• Material Culture - Session 2 Event - 24 April 2020
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• Material Culture - Session 1 Event - 16 April 2020
• Funnelbeaker Material Practices Research project

  Ongoing microwear analysis of the flint artefacts from the Funnelbeaker period suggests that flint had a pivotal role in the representation and structuration of the cosmological order of Funnelbeaker society.

• CERA - Certification of Raw Materials Research project

  CERA (CErtification of RAw Materials) is a four-year project that will develop a standardized certification scheme ensuring environmental, social and economic sustainability in extraction, processing, trading and manufacturing of all mineral raw materials. It will guarantee traceability of certified…

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  Geke Burger PhD candidate

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Robert Ross Professor emeritus of African Studies

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Areti Leventi PhD candidate

  Faculteit Archeologie

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  Elizabeth Cecil Visiting researcher

  Faculty of Humanities

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  Floris Keehnen Researcher/Guest Steaff Member

  Faculteit Archeologie

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  Nicky Schreuder PhD candidate

  Faculteit Archeologie

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  Leonor Faber-Jonker PhD candidate / self funded

  Afrika-Studiecentrum

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  Andrea Ragragio

  Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen

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  Patrick Degryse Professor Archeometry

  Faculteit Archeologie

• Introducing: Carolyn Nakamura News - 3 February 2011

  Carolyn Nakamura works as a postdoctoral researcher on the profile area Global Interactions.

• Garbage matters: A comparative history of waste in East Asia Research project

  Cwiertka wants to investigate how waste is produced and disposed of in modern East Asian society. With her research group she will be carrying out a comparative analysis on two levels: the international level (between China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan) and the inter-regional level (between East Asia…

• Photographic Traditions in South African Popular Modernities Research project

  In the South African context, certain iconic images have been a dominant source for public understandings of historical events. The emphasis given these images tends to overshadow the historical value of other more personal photographic sources – like studio or amateur photography. This project looks…

• Style and Society in the Prehistory of West Asia Research output

  Essays in Honour of Olivier P. Nieuwenhuyse

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  Dennis Braekmans Assistant Professor

  Faculteit Archeologie

• Digital Materials Research project

  The project “Digital Materials” is about the conception, exploration and analysis of possibilities to make digital processes directly operative and tangible in physical materials and examines how the fiction of these “Digital Materials” could affect on figures of interaction between human subjects and…

• Egypt and the Augustan Cultural Revolution Research output

  As part of the VIDI 'Cultural innovation in a globalising society: Egypt in the Roman world', this research explores manifestations of Egypt in the material culture of Augustan Rome. This period was a crucial turning point for the urban landscape of Rome, which was characterised by cultural diversit…