698 search results for “museum collecties and society” in the Student website
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An inspired museum director: student Anne Kremers
Anne Kremers (1989) still has to complete her thesis in Art History, but she is already director of a museum. After following an internship at Villa Mondriaan, in September 2013 she took over the position of the oldest museum director of the Netherlands, becoming in the process the youngest museum director…
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Museum Talk: Maps, Navigating and Manipulating
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Museum Talk: Art amid the Ruins
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Jan JansenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Alumnus Shivan Shazad: 'I would like to have been a member of a diversity and inclusion committee'
It was his thesis supervisor during his master's in Film and Photographic Studies who encouraged Shivan Shazad to pursue a second master's in diversity policy at Ghent. He is now Manager of Diversity and Inclusion at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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Nathal DessingFaculty of Humanities
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Museum Talk: The Future Museum: Digital Replicas, Virtual Reality and Storytelling for a New Audience
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Advice to EU on looted art claims: ‘An agency could bring order to the legal chaos’
What practical steps can we take to resolve cross-border claims to looted art and prevent illicit trafficking in cultural goods? That's what the European Parliament asked Leiden legal scholar Evelien Campfens. Her advice: develop a registration system, issue art with a ‘passport’ and set up a European…
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Professor Pieter ter Keurs: 'People collect to function'
Professor Pieter ter Keurs has spent his entire career studying collecting. Now, he is retiring. ‘I hope the focus on collections will carry on.’
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receives Comenius grant: 'We must bridge the gap between education and society'
In academia, the mention of Wikipedia might be met with suspicion. However, for Tsolin Nalbantian, university lecturer Modern Middle Eastern Studies, the encyclopedia is an opportunity to broaden the skills of her students and to increase public knowledge. She received a Teaching Comenius Fellowship…
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Interdisciplinary symposium on restitution policies seeks more diverse perspectives
Taking responsibility concerning colonial heritage and restitution is a pressing issue for countries and museums worldwide. On 23 and 24 May, a Leiden University interdisciplinary symposium will explore new perspectives as a basis for policies. Organising professors Carsten Stahn and Pieter ter Keurs…
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Jan SleutelsFaculty of Humanities
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Jan-Bart GewaldAfrican Studies Centre
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Discover 450 years of parades at Museum De Lakenhal
The exhibition Leiden celebrates – 450 years of parades at Museum De Lakenhal shows how parades and society have changed through the centuries. Alumnus and historian Danielle van Goethem worked on the exhibition. She gives a preview.
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Wilco van DijkSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Liselore TissenFaculty of Humanities
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D&I Symposium 2024: What have we achieved with a decade of diversity policy?
How has progress been made on diversity and inclusion at Leiden University over the past decade? Attendees reflected on this at the D&I Symposium 2024: Untold Stories. And in the workshops, students and staff discussed the next steps toward a more inclusive community.
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Jos van den BroekFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Inge van der WeijdenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Nisida GjoksiFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long while because of the lockdown. Visitor numbers picked up again from September, but it the next few weeks will be tense now the hospitals are full again. Halbertsma:…
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Nico ArtsFaculty of Archaeology
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Sharon van GeldereFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Ludo WaltmanSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Maurits BergerFaculty of Humanities
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Digital Humanities Winter School 2026
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Crystal EnnisFaculty of Humanities
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From decorative arts student in Leiden to curator at the biggest museum in New York
How does a Leiden alumnus end up working at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)? In the case of Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, it was partly down to chance, luck, fate. But that was preceded by a unique degree in decorative arts in Leiden.
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A blue or gold background? NICAS grant awarded for research on restoration
Should the background of the painting remain blue or be restored to its original gold colour? PhD candidate Liselore Tissen will be using 3D prints and eye-tracking software to answer this question. NICAS is giving her a grant of 18,000 euros to accomplish this.
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Renée JoosseFaculty of Humanities
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Wouter WagemakersFaculty of Humanities
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Janine UbinkFaculty of Law
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Santy KouwagamFaculty of Law
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Merlijn VeltmanFaculty of Archaeology
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Michiel WestenbergSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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David van BodegomFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Tineke AbmaFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Marieke DrostFaculty of Science
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Petra SijpesteijnFaculty of Humanities
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Ian SimpsonFaculty of Archaeology
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Anne-Laura van HarmelenSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Tsolin NalbantianFaculty of Humanities
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Saskia Cohen-WillnerFaculty of Humanities
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Richard Barrett: 'To me, music is a way of understanding the world'
A new chair has been added to the partnership between Leiden University and the Royal Conservatoire The Hague. Richard Barrett has been appointed Professor of Research in Creative Music (ACPA) as of 1 December 2020. 'For me it is important that music and academia are not placed in an ivory tower.'
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Public Key Note of Mari Hvattum on the impact of style
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Rachel PlakSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Wilco AchterbergFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Bas HeijmansFaculteit Geneeskunde
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Jon ChaseFaculty of Science