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Meet our new colleague Letty ten Harkel: ‘I am interested in what happens when different cultures come together’
In August 2022 we welcome our new colleague Dr Letty ten Harkel as Assistant Professor in Roman and Post-Roman Archaeology. For the past ten years she has built up an impressive track record in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Read the interview about her background and research…
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Evelien Campfens in the New York Times on looted art in museums
In an article by the New York Times, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens discusses the difficulties surrounding the ownership of looted art.
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Remke KrukFaculty of Humanities
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Ans de Rooij-van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Care and the Jewish Experience
Conference, Second Conference of the Leiden Jewish Studies Network
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Ōtsuka Kusuoko (1875-1910) in the Meiji Literary Field: Models of Authorship between keishū sakka and the "New Woman"
Lecture
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Andreas HofmannFaculty of Humanities
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Ellen RavenFaculty of Humanities
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Zhaole YangFaculty of Humanities
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Nicole van OsFaculty of Humanities
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play
A team of Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage.
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What the spider tales of Indians in the Caribbean reveal about our fragility and powers of endurance
Last week, Ajay Gandhi, Assistant Professor at the Leiden University College, wrote an article about how spider's webs can explain the dynamics of social beings.
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Seventeenth-century Dutch were masters in fake news
LUC historian Jacqueline Hylkema unmasks forgeries from the early modern Dutch Republic in the research project "Mapping the Fake Republic".
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Jonathan SilkFaculty of Humanities
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life
Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren on reconstructing cultural heritage in the popular video game Minecraft. The result: one virtual 14th-century city gate – and 20 teens with a greater appreciation…
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The protagonist of horror is the ghost of modern consumer society
Who doesn't love to turn on a horror film on a rainy evening? Fortunately, it is only fiction - or is it? According to university lecturer Evert Jan van Leeuwen, modern horror says more about our society than we think. He has been nominated for the Klokhuis Science Prize for his research into addiction…
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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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Keuzegids consumer guide: six top programmes at Leiden University
Leiden University has six top bachelor’s programmes, according to Keuzegids universiteiten 2024 consumer guide to universities published on 30 November 2023. This once again puts the university in third place among broad universities ranked according to top programmes.
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Unveiling the Written Heritage of the Siak Sultanate: An Ethnographic Study on the Access and Interpretation of the Archives of Sultan Syarif Kasim
Lecture
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Archaeologists bring experts on human evolution together with Kiem grant
Leiden University's Kiem grants aim to help develop new interdisciplinary and interfaculty collaborations and encounters. In the first round, a Kiem grant was awarded to a group of researchers from the Faculty of Archaeology, the Faculty of Social Sciences, and the LUMC for the organisation of a symposium…
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How can we make better use of natural resources?
Mining for natural resources harms the environment. But we desperately need them, for both the development of countries and the transition to a sustainable energy system. Professor of Sustainable Resource Use Ester van der Voet researches how we can reduce the environmental impact of natural resources…
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Shakespeare, Renan and Weber: an interdisciplinary study of the violence paradigm and what it means to law and the nation-state
PhD defence
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Debtors in Possession: A Legal Comparative Study of the Role of Debtors in US, EU and Dutch Restructuring and Insolvency Law
PhD defence
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Ronald KonFaculty of Humanities
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Herman TiekenFaculty of Humanities
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Ying ZhangFaculty of Humanities
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Florence BellemontLeiden University Libraries
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Irena ZagarFaculty of Humanities
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Eric Mulder -
Hualin CaoFaculty of Humanities
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Lun Jing
Faculty of Humanities
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Nils MartinFaculty of Humanities
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Ying-ting WangFaculty of Humanities
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Bonnie TillandFaculty of Humanities
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Mathijs PetersFaculty of Humanities
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Daniel Lee
Faculty of Humanities
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Joren Pronk
Faculty of Humanities
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Jessie Morgan-OwensFaculty of Humanities
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Vera VinckFaculty of Humanities
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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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Belarus is the only Russian ally left in Europe: what is in it for them?
While all European nations have condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there is one country Russia can still count on: Belarus. Russia even used its territory as a stepping stone for the invasion. We spoke with Matthew Frear, Assistant Professor and expert on contemporary Belarus, to shed light…
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Whitney de HaanFaculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
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Jori SnelsFaculty of Humanities
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Tim LamérisFaculty of Humanities
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Studieavond ‘Internationale Politiesamenwerking’
Lecture
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Rogier CreemersFaculty of Humanities
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Gabrielle van den BergFaculty of Humanities
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Hegemonic Memory Culture and Postmigration: How to Remember the Past in Diverse Societies?
Lecture, Conversation
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Pragmaticalization or grammaticalization? A multidimensional model of the evolution of pragmatic markers
Lecture, Sociolinguistics & Discourse Studies Series
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Corey WilliamsFaculty of Humanities