399 search results for “indigenous artefact in museum collective” in the Student website
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Wat is er te doen op de Leidse Museumnacht?
Op zaterdag 3 juni vindt de Museumnacht Leiden plaats. Ook dit jaar zijn Leidse wetenschappers en studenten onderdeel van de programmering.
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Gaza, Palestine, Israel – the collective failure: how did we get here and what next?
Lecture
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Leiden researchers organise first Week of Ancient Writing
This month marks the two-hundredth anniversary of the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. NINO, the Language Museum, Things that Talk and the National Museum of Antiquities are seizing the opportunity to organise the first Week of Ancient Writing.
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Alexander Dencher: ‘I want to give new elan to the study of applied arts’
A successful series of lectures on interior design, a symposium on four-poster beds and a new series of study afternoons on the horizon. University lecturer Alexander Dencher knows how to hold the attention of a growing audience. How does he do it? And what makes the history of interior design so fa…
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Kate BellamyFaculty of Humanities
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Birds of God - The journey of the birds of paradise
Environmental Humanities LU Talk
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Announcement new name Cluster Zuid
Today, Leiden University announces who the new Cluster Zuid on the Witte Singel will be named after. Summer 2023, a ballot determined the name of the complex on the former Van Wijkplaats/Van Eyckhof, which is expected to be completed in March. It was already established that the complex would be named…
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Lotte Sophie Groenendijk speaks about her presentation and experience of the "Care and the Jewish Experience" Conference
In September 2025 Leiden University hosted a greatly successful academic conference "Care and the Jewish Experience" organized by the Leiden Jewish Studies Network. Among our guests and presenters were academics from many universities, many disciplines and at different stages of their academic caree…
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Symposium about Rein Dool painting and University exhibition policy
At a symposium on 26 May, experts, staff and students from Leiden University will discuss what should happen with Rein Dool’s painting in the Academy Building and what the guidelines for the University’s exhibition policy should be. These issues will be explored from diverse perspectives during the…
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Jason LaffoonFaculty of Archaeology
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Rachel SchatsFaculty of Archaeology
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Sarah SchraderFaculty of Archaeology
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Tullio AbruzzeseFaculty of Archaeology
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Gerrit DusseldorpFaculty of Archaeology
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Wei ChuFaculty of Archaeology
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Marie SoressiFaculty of Archaeology
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Four Vici grants for Leiden University researchers
Four researchers from Leiden University have been awarded prestigious Vici grants the Dutch Research Council (NWO) has announced. The honoured applications are from researchers at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden Observatory, the LUMC and the Faculty of Archaeology.
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Gorillas abducting women leads to new art history
Two statues of gorillas abducting women: they were what led PhD candidate Dick van Broekhuizen to write a new type of history of nineteenth-century sculpture. ‘If you view nineteenth-century art history from a less narrow perspective, the narrative changes completely.’ PhD ceremony on 21 June.
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The surprising tradition of fables in French education: 'It builds bridges between generations'
In the Netherlands, people probably grew up with De Fabeltjeskrant (a children’s show, ed.), but in France an introduction to fables plays a much more important role in a child's upbringing. PhD candidate Céline Zaepffel studied the role of fables in French education and teaching methods. It turns out…
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Bridging Disciplines: A Dead Sea Scrolls Study Day with Mladen Popović
When asked about the mission of the Leiden Jewish Studies network, Jürgen Zangenberg, Professor of Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity at Leiden University, and one of the organizers of the event says: “We try to keep the network as broad as possible, and to attract as many people from the outside…
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The ancient Egyptians were just like us
The people who lived in Saqqara, City of the Dead in Egypt, died thousands of years ago, but they are not all that different from us. This is what a study by the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, The Netherlands concludes. If you wanted to prove that you had good taste in ancient Egypt then…
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Marian Klamer on Science: 'Language is regularly used to legitimize a shared cultural history'
A newly opened museum in China appears to be devoted to the origins of the Austronesian-speaking peoples, who some 5000 years ago spread from East Asia across the Pacific, seeding it with a distinctive culture and some 1200 languages. But those displays are also a statement in the long-running dispute…
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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…
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Hanna StalenhoefSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Vincent WalstraSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Claire VergerioSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Valentina CarraroFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Anahita ArianSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Christoph Niessen
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Aleksandra Khokhlova
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Elina ZorinaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Frank de Zwart
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Hans Oversloot
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Kathleen Brown
Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Matthew di Giuseppe
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Josette DaemenFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Alyssa Akkerman
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Paul Nieuwenburg
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Karolina PomorskaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Cynthia van Vonno
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Anouk van Vliet
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Rick van Well
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Joop van Holsteijn
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Simon Otjes
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Tim MicklerSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Raafat Shamieh
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Roos van der Haer
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Matthew LongoSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Babak Rezaeedaryakenari
Social & Behavioural Sciences
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Denny van der Vlist
Social & Behavioural Sciences