997 search results for “indigenous artefacts in museum collections” in the Staff website
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
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Anastasia NikulinaFaculty of Archaeology
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Maarten Jansen compares ancient Mexican writing systems as Distinguished Emeritus Professor in Bonn
Maarten Jansen, professor emeritus at the Faculty of Archaeology, was appointed as Distinguished Emeritus Professor for two years at the University of Bonn. In this position, Jansen, a world-renowned specialist on ancient Mexican pictorial manuscripts, will further expand upon the long-standing collaboration…
- Worlds to Discover: Manuscripts from the Muslim World
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ReuvensReuvensplaats 2-4, Leiden
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Meet the Societal Advisory Board
The Faculty of Humanities wants to take a stand in the middle of society with its research and education. That’s why last year, in the middle of a pandemic, the Societal Advisory Board was founded. What are the members’ plans?
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‘Dear Aunt Olga’ exhibition on the ties between Suriname and the Netherlands
The Surinamese-Dutch language, Parbo Beer and, of course, football. The ‘Dear Aunt Olga’ (‘Lieve tante Olga’) exhibition focuses on the shared Surinamese-Dutch culture. Full of cheer and with life experience to spare, ‘icon’ Aunt Olga (95) leads visitors through a shared history and does not shy away…
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Sara BrandelleroFaculty of Humanities
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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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How Indonesian communities organise their own social security
Many poor people in Indonesia mainly rely on their family members, neighbours and the local community as a social safety net. One of the forms of aid from the community is called ‘jimpitan’ in Central Java. PhD candidate Ayu Swaningrum researched how this social security system works.
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Ewine van Dishoeck goes stargazing
From the birth of the universe to the molecules in a planet's atmosphere. The first five pictures from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) show the enormous range in which the space telescope can operate. Ewine van Dishoeck, professor of molecular astrophysics, took a look at the first images Tuesday…
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How can local policies contribute to global sustainability goals?
The challenges of building a sustainable society are unprecedented. But the Dutch municipalities cannot be faulted for their commitment. They are working hard, conclude Professor Eefje Cuppen and Lian Merkx, programme manager for energy at the Association of Netherlands Municipalities (VNG). To exchange…
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Researcher develops Google for archaeologists
An incredible quantity of archaeological reports are stored in digital archives. If you want to search for information in them, you have to do this manually. And that is a real chore. Archaeologist Alex Brandsen has now used deep learning, a form of artificial intelligence, to develop a search engine…
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Visualizer training: using the overhead Visualizer and special collections during your lectures
Training session
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DAG Lecture: A Semantic ETL Pipeline for Large-Scale Provenance Research
Lecture
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CINETS 2026: Crimmigration in an Age of Authoritarian Drift
Conference
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Arie BoomertFaculty of Archaeology
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Willem AdelaarFaculty of Humanities
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Soledad Valdivia RiveraFaculty of Humanities
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Monique van den DriesFaculty of Archaeology
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Marie KolbenstetterFaculty of Archaeology
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Introducing: Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou
Manon Post and Efstathia Dionysopoulou recently joined the Institute for History as a PhD candidate and postdoc in the framework of the 'Anchoring Innovation' program. Below, they introduce themselves!
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Andrew Gawthorpe on The Conversation: 'Trump's Greenland plan ignores a history of segregation'
University Lecturer Andrew Gawthorpe discusses on The Conversation how Trump's Greenland proposal overlooks the historical discrimination faced by Indigenous Alaskans.
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The Chinese Queer Collection - A Workshop for Activists, Archivists and Academics at Leiden University
Workshop
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Leiden University's world-renowned collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Workshop Early Photography of the Middle East - In Contact with Collections
Workshop
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transformation’: trust, participation, and new socialities around collective food procurement networks in Gdańsk
PhD defence
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Archaeologists in action: stories from the field
During the summer, staff and students of the Faculty of Archaeology travel to all parts of the world, initiating or joining fieldwork projects. Read some of our students' stories here!
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High media coverage of innovative research presenting a new method for recovering ancient human DNA
Since the publication of the article in the interdisciplinary journal Nature, over 200 news outlets have showcased the pioneering research.
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Temporary replacement Gül Aktürk by Yvonne Lammers-Keijsers
Education
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Archaeologist Martin Berger works on online FIFA exposition about origins of football
Martin Berger was asked by the FIFA Museum in Zürich to help develop an exposition on the origins of football. In line with his expertise, he worked on the part of the online exposition that was about the Mesoamerican ballgame.
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
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Vincent NiochetFaculty of Archaeology
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Jan KolenFaculty of Archaeology
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Andrew SorensenFaculty of Archaeology
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PhD workshop for cultural heritage researchers: apply by 8 February
Organisation, Research
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find-funding
To find funding, you first need to define your goal. Do you need to fund your own salary? Go abroad? Start up a collaboration? Buy equipment or do field work? Develop a company based on an invention that came out of the research? Next, find a match between your goal and the many funding opportunitie…
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Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine
Conference
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Social life and settling in
When you decide to move to the Netherlands and bring along your family there is a great deal that needs to be taken care of. We will provide some information on schools, childcare and learning Dutch to help you settle in in the Netherlands.
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Drawing and Painting
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Model painting with diverse techniques
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Exploring the Extra-Religious Zaydi Literary Canon through Manuscript Collections of Yemeni Origin
Lecture, Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Five activities to look forward to this semester
A fresh semester means a fresh faculty calendar. There is plenty to do at the faculty again in the coming months. Five interesting activities are listed below.
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Exhibition Books that made history
From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had extraordinary historical impact, in some cases even to this day. Leiden University Libraries and the National Museum of Antiquities jointly present the…
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Open-L grant for research on environment as heritage in the Himalayas
How can initiatives aimed at environmental conservation and climate change mitigation in the eastern Himalayas proceed from the cultural expectations of its indigenous ethno-linguistic minorities? Enabled by an NWO Open L grant, the research project 'Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation…
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Solving the Pachakutik party puzzle
The Ecuadorian Pachakutik party is one of the oldest indigenous political movements in Latin America. Despite not being very successful at the polls and hardly having organisational resources at its disposal, Pachakutik is still part of Ecuador’s political landscape. In her dissertation, Political Scientist…
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These were Leiden University’s interdisciplinary milestones of 2024
Connecting scientific fields, enhancing research and teaching, and providing innovative solutions to complex social issues: that is the idea behind interdisciplinary research. What did the university achieve in 2024? A small sample.
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More Is Alive: Emergent Multi-Scale Order & Collective Flows In Tissues
PhD defence
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in Interethnic Relations: Implications for Intergroup Attitudes, Collective Action, and Stress
PhD defence
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Collective Human Rights as an (Onto)Logical Solution to Climate Change
PhD defence