602 search results for “culture identities” in the Student website
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Financial matters
What are the costs involved in studying abroad and how can you finance your stay? Avoid unexpected expenses by researching financial matters thoroughly in advance.
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Joanita VroomFaculty of Archaeology
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Erik de MaakerFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ann BrysbaertFaculty of Archaeology
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Cleveringa Professor: Holocaust remembrance has led to very different political lessons
From memorials to the armed forces to memory stones for individual victims. It was only later that the Holocaust took a central role in Western remembrance culture, Cleveringa Professor Frank van Vree notes. ‘Nationalists and human rights activists both invoke the experience of the Holocaust.’
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Lego Lost at Sea: an archaeological and environmental exhibition at the Van Steenis
At the entrance of the Van Steenis building you may now visit an exhibition on material culture. Unexpectedly, it does not display pottery or tools, but building materials. And recent ones at that! Check out the exhibition on Legos lost at sea, conceived and assembled by PhD candidate Maia Casna. ‘These…
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Remembering Olivier Nieuwenhuyse with a festschrift: ‘He would have loved this book’
On November 16 a festschrift in honor of Dr Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was presented in a moving event at the Faculty of Archaeology. Professor Bleda Düring, a personal friend of Nieuwenhuyse, was one of the initiators. ‘If he had been here, he would have loved this book.’
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Student associations
Leiden University is well known for its student associations, which provide a great way for you to get to know your fellow students. As well as parties and social events, student associations also offer excellent sporting and cultural opportunities.
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Mink van IJzendoorn investigates the end of amphorae with a PhD in the Humanities grant
This year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant went to Mink van IJzendoorn, enabling him to investigate the disappearance of amphorae. ‘We take means of packaging and shipment for granted, but they are deeply ingrained in our daily lives; they are crucial.’
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Archaeologist at Binnenhof: ‘Even the staff ate heron’
An Iron Age skull, a unicorn for cleaning your ear and thousands of beer jugs. Alumnus and archaeologist Chris Muysson has made remarkable discoveries at the Binnenhof government complex in The Hague. ‘Each puzzle piece tells us more about its history.’
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How can the Netherlands form a stable government?
Dutch politics is becoming increasingly polarised, and forming stable governments seems more difficult than ever. In the heat of the election race, a psychologist and a historian offer cool-headed advice.
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Leiden archaeologists discover an early form of money from Prehistoric Central Europe
People in the Early Bonze Age used bronze artefacts as a means of payment. This is the conclusion reached by archaeologists Maikel Kuijpers and Catalin Popa in a PLOS ONE article published on 20 January.
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Student exhibition: unearthing the story of the VOC ship Amsterdam
A new student-curated exhibition in the F1-corridor of the Van Steenis building brings history to life through remarkable finds from the Amsterdam, a merchant vessel of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) that met an untimely end in 1749. 'The story of the Amsterdam is truly unique, especially considering…
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Archaeology Inter-Section journal offers students the chance to publish: ‘I learned a lot during the process’
The Faculty of Archaeology's own home-grown journal Inter-Section has released a new volume. Inter-Section offers students and PhD candidates the unique chance to publish in a peer-reviewed journal. The new volume focuses on the materials that shape our world.
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Grant enables archaeologists to study origins of museum artefacts
Two researchers from the Faculty of Archaeology have received a grant from the Museums, Collections and Society (MSC) interdisciplinary programme. This grant is for collection-based research. Jason Laffoon is using his grant for research into the origins of Central American turquoise, while Dr Marike…
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Exhibition on 50 years of archaeological fieldwork in Oss celebrates an archaeological 'Walhalla'
In 1974 Professor Modderman (founder of the Institute for Prehistory Leiden; predecessor of the present Faculty of Archaeology) executed a small excavation in the city of Oss. The Middle Iron Age cemetery, built over by Roman Period farmhouses, proved to be the start of a unique archaeological regional…
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Yenching Academy of Peking University
Bachelor, Master
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
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Mink van IJzendoornFaculty of Archaeology
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Jenny AudringFaculty of Humanities
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Pieter ter KeursFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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Ernst van AlphenFaculty of Humanities
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Shekhar KolipakaFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Miriam WaltzFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Yasco HorsmanFaculty of Humanities
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Maarten van LeeuwenFaculty of Humanities
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Vincent WalstraFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Janet GrijzenhoutFaculty of Humanities
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Bruno AllahissemFaculty of Humanities
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Costanza FranceschiniFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Tim SandersFaculty of Humanities
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Hester GrootFaculty of Humanities
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Cristiana StravaFaculty of Humanities
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Tanja AhlinFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Bert BotmaFaculty of Humanities
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Kamila Krakowska RodriguesFaculty of Humanities
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Jan Wim BuismanFaculty of Humanities
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Marika KeblusekFaculty of Humanities
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Aslihan ÖztürkFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Ronny BoogaartFaculty of Humanities
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Esther de VrindICLON
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John-Harmen ValkFaculty of Humanities
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Rik LettanyFaculty of Archaeology
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Sjef BarbiersFaculty of Humanities
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Hanna StalenhoefFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Irene MorettiFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Casper de JongeFaculty of Humanities
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Yoonai HanFaculty of Humanities
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Jenny DoetjesFaculty of Humanities