985 search results for “museum 2c collections and society” in the Staff website
-
A New industry in an Ancient Land: Archaeology and Tourism at the crossroads
Conference, Public event
-
Introductie webinar cyber security
Study information
-
White Balls on Walls
Filmvertoning
-
AI versus the fire
Festival
-
Maori Day
Festival
-
Why good friends are essential for your health
Laughing, crying or even having a moan together: close friends are worth their weight in gold in good and bad times. Researcher Lisa Schreuders explains the effects on body and mind. Can we give that magical click a helping hand? And what advice does she have for first-years in their new city?
- Best practices
-
Van de Waallezing 2023: Maarten van Heemskerck, Rome and classical mythology
Alumni event, Lezing
-
European Music Meets Japanese Culture: a Lecture on the Essence of the Funeral Culture in Japan
Lecture
-
13th International Congress of Egyptologists, 2023
Conference
-
The Ten Kings of Earth Prisons: Theatricality of Death in Late Imperial China
Lecture, China Seminar
-
Secular Law, Christian Ambivalence, and Jewish Difference
VVI Research Talks
-
SAILS Lunch Time Seminar
Lecture, Seminar
-
Gerbrands Lecture – Keywords: Conspiracy, Race, Love
Lecture, Gerbrands Lecture
-
Beyond the Canvas: Exploring Art-Science Collaborations
Conference
-
Celebration 50 years of the University Council
Conference
-
'Translating Food Sovereignty' by Matthew Canfield
Book Launch
-
WINNER 2022: Week of Indonesia Netherlands Education and Research
Event
-
Alumni from Brussels: ‘Leiden University has a fantastic reputation here’
They dreamed of Brussels, worked hard and finally succeeded: working for Europe. The list of Leiden University alumni in Brussels is long. A few days before the European elections, Julia Gencheva and Vincent Miča talk about how they ended up in Brussels and what their jobs entail.
-
‘When I'm in the Hortus, it feels like I'm walking through the print’
Four prints, ten years of research. Not that she got bored of them, on the contrary. Corrie van Maris, who receives her PhD this week, has always remained fascinated by her 17th-century series, for which she feels so much love. ‘I kept seeing different, new things.’
-
Two psychologists on a date with the Rector
Rector Magnificus Carel Stolker will retire on 8 February. If there’s one theme running through his career, it’s the links between the University and society. In this series of pre-retirement discussions, Stolker will talk one last time to people from within and without the University. In this edition…
-
Jebel Aruda: an Uruk Period Temple and Settlement in Syria
Book Presentation
-
CANCELLED: The Power of Apology (Graduate workshop)
Workshop
-
Summer meeting LUMC Alumni Association
Alumni event
-
D&I Symposium 2023
Conference, D&I Symposium
-
Archaeozoology is essential to modern environmental management
Lecture
-
Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture by Jason De León
Lecture, Adriaan Gerbrands Lecture
-
Byblos Workshop
Conference
-
The study of ancient cities provides us with new urban ideas
Lecture
-
Access to Justice in Today’s Libya
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
-
China Fashion Power - Fashioning Power through South-South Interaction: Rethinking Creativity, Authenticity, Cultural Mediation and Consumer
Lecture, China Seminar
-
The Intuitive Body
Lecture, Studium Generale
- KAS Symposiaserie
-
Employability enhancement
How do we prepare our students for a future labour market in which flexibility, resilience and adaptability are essential?
- IBL Symposium 2022
-
The Answer to Inequality is in the Past
Lecture
-
Colonialism and the Age of Revolutions (1780-1830)
Conference
- Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
-
Vidi grants for 12 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 12 researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an 800,000-euro grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will enable them to develop their own line of research over the next five years.
-
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…
-
Ethical guidelines to better regulate DNA research on human remains
Rapid developments in DNA techniques allow researchers to find out more and more about human genetics. An international group of scientists has drawn up five ethical guidelines to ensure that this DNA research is better regulated. Leiden archaeologist Marie Soressi – one of the signatories - explains…
-
How does the ethics committee work? Suzan Verberne gives an insight
How ethical is research involving humans and robots? And can research on artificial intelligence cause problems when it ends up in the wrong hands? In any research involving humans or their data, the ethics committee assesses where the issues are. Associate professor at LIACS Suzan Verberne chairs the…
-
Jasper's Day
On January 1st Jasper Knoester started as our new dean. How is he finding it? What kinds of things is he doing and what does his day look like? In each newsletter, Jasper gives a peek into his life as dean.
-
A new environment boosts your memory (but not for everyone)
However tempting it may be to lock yourself in your room or in favourite library nook in the days running up to an important exam, it's not a very wise choice, stresses neuroscientist Judith Schomaker.
-
Very successful conference marks end of Integrated Project for students Security Studies
Last week, third-year students of the Bachelor Security Studies concluded a seven-week intensive programme with a two-day conference. They presented their findings in front of a full lecture hall and in the presence of the client for whom they worked on a complex security issue. Tutor Saskia Postema:…
-
Digital skills at History
In her teaching, University Lecturer of Ancient History Liesbeth Claes uses various digital tools. Using that experience and interest she started an innovation project in order to research which digital skills history alumni need on the labour market and how these skills can be implemented in the cu…
-
From flag to gift: upcycling project in The Hague South-West
Inspired by a gift she received at a conference abroad, Laura Kamsma, coordinator of the FGGA International Office, went looking for new promotional goodies to hand out to the representatives of international exchange programmes at Leiden University - Campus The Hague. The gifts had to meet three requirements:…
-
They came, they saw, they left: on the first humans in the Low Countries
Over hundreds of thousands of years, our region witnessed the comings and goings of various types of hominin. This depended on the temperature as ice ages alternated with warmer periods. In ‘De eerste mensen in de Lage Landen’ (‘The First Humans in the Low Countries’) Leiden archaeologists Yannick Raczynski-Henk…
-
Archaeologist Lennart Kruijer's year: a Cum Laude dissertation, a grant, a fellowship
In May 2022 Lennart Kruijer succesfully defended his PhD, which he wrote as a member of the VICI Project ‘Innovating Objects’, led by prof. Miguel John Versluys. So succesfully, in fact, that he was awarded the Cum Laude honors. Just a short time later he was awarded a grant and a fellowship to further…
-
Digitised Chinese mega-maps now available in Open Access
Three enormous maps of China, created during the reign of three different emperors of the Qing dynasty, have now been made available in open access and are downloadable via Leiden University Libraries’ (UBL) Digital Collections. The rich maps are an early example of academic collaboration between the…