193 search results for “colonialism imperialism and heritage” in the Library website
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty of Humanities
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Aya Ezawa
Bestuursbureau
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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UNESCO World Heritage
The UBL holds five sets of manuscripts recognised by UNESCO as documents of universal value and exceptional significance to the world. They are included in UNESCO's International World Heritage list of documents (Memory of the World Register).
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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art?
Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the debate on art and collectors’ items from a loaded past. Inaugural speech on 2 December.
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Philip Post
Faculty of Humanities
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
The IFLA-Section Rare Books and Special Collections committee and the Indigenous Matters Section, in collaboration with Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organize a satellite conference in Leiden – Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th – prior to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress…
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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Jiayi Xin
Faculty of Humanities
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Revival of Imperial Prague in Leiden
Leiden University Libraries revives Imperial Prague in Leiden with the exhibition Prague around 1600: Art and science at the court of Rudolf II. The exhibition can be seen from the 29th of September 2016 to the 10th of January 2017, in the exhibition hall of the Leiden University Library at the Witte…
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty of Humanities
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Alexander van der Meer
Faculty of Humanities
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Mara de Groot
Faculteit Archeologie
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
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Monique van den Dries
Faculteit Archeologie
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections
How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.
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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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Leiden University Libraries acquires 16th-century Chinese imperial edict from Robert van Gulik’s collection
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an extraordinary Chinese manuscript at auction in Hong Kong. It concerns an Imperial Edict (dated 1582) from the Ming dynasty period, at one time part of the former collection of well-known sinologist and author of detective-novels Robert van…
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Miyuki Kerkhof
Honours Academy
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Rients de Boer
Faculteit Archeologie
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Limin Teh
Faculty of Humanities
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Carolien Stolte
Faculty of Humanities
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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Seed Grant for De Maaker and Gupta for research on heritage and climate governance
Erik de Maaker and Radhika Gupta received a Seed Grant to initiate research on how heritage has been and can be mobilised to address climate change governance in Himalayan Asia. This project will address a significant knowledge gap on the potentials and pitfalls of climate governance, with an initial…
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UBL signs Digital Heritage Network Manifesto
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) signed the manifesto of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE) this November, during Digital Heritage Month, thereby joining the network. The manifesto calls on archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions to make their digital collections more visible,…
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Jessica Roitman
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Gül Aktürk Hauser
Faculteit Archeologie
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
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La Galigo manuscript - UNESCO heritage – digitally available
The La Galigo manuscript at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been digitized. The manuscript, which was inscribed in 2011 on UNESCO's ‘Memory of the World’ Register, is now freely available online and can be used for teaching and research. La Galigo is the world's longest epic, written in the Buginese…
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Carola Hein
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Siyun Wu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Lennart Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
Satellite conference
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Elena Paskaleva
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden Chinese heritage collections digitised in Pagode-Europeana-China project
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundred items related to China from the UBL Special Collections are now available via the Europeana website. The UBL was the only library to participate in…
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
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Geke Burger
Faculty of Humanities
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlieke Ernst
Faculty of Humanities