30 search results for “heritage” in the Public website
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Perpetuating Bhutan Highland Heritages
This 4-year research project focuses on vernacular and unacknowledged heritages of the highlands of Bhutan. It seeks to make a major contribution to the preservation of these heritages, to create a cultural resource for current and future generations.
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At Home Otherwise: Rethinking Heritage through Diversity
This project investigates diversifying and democratizing heritage through practices of “home-making”. We propose to research ‘home-making’ as a non-binary practice of combining memories of roots and routes, dwelling in the present, and desires for the future.
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Water Management in Ancient Mexico: Archaeological Heritage and Sustainable Development
This project investigates ancient water management of streams, springs and runoffs on the archaeological site of Monte Albán, Mexico, as a means to contribute with different stakeholders in the development of sustainable solutions to water problems today such as floods and scarcity.
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Futuring Heritage: Indigenous Perspectives on Conservation in the Eastern Himalayas
Exploring the intersection of environmental conservation, indigenous cultural expectations, and human-nonhuman relationships in the Eastern Himalayas. Developing inclusive approaches to ecological preservation through community-centered research.
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Thinley DemaSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Transcendent Nexus: Rethinking Mediatorial Christology and the Neoplatonic Doctrine of Pure Souls in Late Antiquity
The project contends that in Late Antiquity (c. 300-500 AD) both the figure of Christ and those of Pythagoras and Socrates underwent a parallel process of metamorphosis facilitated not least through an intellectual exchange between Christian theologians and Neoplatonic philosophers. From Iamblichus…
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Abhimanyu ChettriSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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The Social Museum in the Caribbean
Grassroots heritage initiatives and community engagement
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Interfaculty cooperation at the intersection of cultural heritage and climate change
Dr Gül Aktürk Hauser (Assistant Professor, Department of Heritage and Society, Faculty of Archaeology) and Dr Sophie Starrenburg (Assistant Professor, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Leiden Law School) organised a workshop titled ‘An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations:…
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Aris PolitopoulosFaculty of Archaeology
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Verena MeyerFaculty of Humanities
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Time and persistence
Contemporary Maya Calendars
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Siyun WuSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Mari MiyamotoSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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Landscape change, community wellbeing and small island contexts
How has landscape and land use changed in these two case studies since independence? What has caused these changes, whether anthropogenic or natural? How do local communities in the areas of study perceive these changes? How can community knowledge be integrated with mapping tools (GIS) to contribute…
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Start of reconstruction indigenous village in St. Vincent
In 2010, the remnants of a 16th century indigenous village were discovered in St. Vincent, on the construction terrain of the new International Argyle Airport.
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Dilara ErzeybekSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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More than the Story
Considering Mesoamerican Precolonial books as material objects
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The Van Loon Project
The Van Loon project sets out to safeguard the archives of Dutch archaeologist Maurits van Loon (Amsterdam, September 22, 1923 - Montpellier, October 12, 2006) and make them accessible for further study.
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Sitting on the fence: Negotiating archaeology, anthropology and philosophy
Festschrift for Prof. Dr Raymond H.A. Corbey in celebration of his 70th birthday
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
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Peter PelsSocial & Behavioural Sciences
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An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Heritage Reparations: Responding to Climate Change-Induced Damages
Workshop
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In touch with the dead
A study of early medieval reopened graves
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Changing Approaches Towards Restitution and Return of Colonial Heritage: Tracing Experiences and Identifying Shared Decolonial Practices
INTERDISCIPLINARY SYMPOSIUM
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Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’
Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except that it was used in rituals to protect against spirit possession. PhD candidate Sigrid van Roode has explored its history and discovered that the jewellery…
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Het Indo-Europese landschap. Een trektocht door het verleden van de taal.
Inaugural lecture
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Marie-leen RyckaertFaculty of Governance and Global Affairs
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Svetlana Gorshenina will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar in February 2018
Svetlana Gorshenina, Associate Lecturer at Collège de France, Paris, will be the Central Asia Visiting Scholar from 17 February until 25 February 2018. Svetlana Gorshenina will deliver a guest lecture on Tuesday, 20 February and a masterclass on Friday, 23 February within the Central Asia Initiative…
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Janine UbinkFaculty of Law