1,573 search results for “material cultural” in the Public website
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Leiden strengthens ties with Latin America and Caribbean
Astronomical observations in Chile, research into native heritage or the treatment of eye diseases in Brazil - Leiden is researching a large number and a wide variety of different topics in Latin America and the Caribbean. Researchers and representatives from 20 countries met on 11 May in Leiden to…
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Perspectives on Lived Religion Practices Transmission Landscape
Religion in the ancient world, and ancient Egyptian religion in particular, is often perceived as static, hierarchically organised, and centred on priests, tombs, and temples. Engagement with archaeological and textual evidence dispels these beguiling if superficial narratives, however. Individuals…
- CADS Research Seminars
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Gender, Sexuality and Identity in Contemporary Sinophone Cinema
This doctoral project, entitled Sinophone as Method: Reimaging Chinese Cinema in the Global Era, aims to explore the intricacies of knowledges and practices with regard to notions of China, Chinese, and Chineseness.
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Symposium Transformations of the Audible / 16-18 May 2019
Sonorous phenomena are always on the verge of becoming something else. As it unfolds, sound constitutes spaces, mediates presence, articulates time. Furthermore, it may prompt emotions, generate awareness, organise patterns of behaviour or trigger a sense of belonging. As sound becomes audible, it is…
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Environmental Humanities
Environmental Humanities is one of the LUCAS research themes, bringing together members of the three LUCAS clusters.
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Dutch Excavations in the Eastern Nile Delta
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Modes of Human Becoming: Towards a Process Archaeology of Mind
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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UCMS Yearly Seminar (Utrecht)
This year’s UCMS Seminar, on 14 October 2022, will be devoted to the connections between reading cultures and the transforming material features of the medieval book: from scroll to codex, from parchment to paper, from manuscript to print, and recently from printed to digital facsimiles.
- Volume 16 (2021)
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Gerbrands Lecture – Keywords: Conspiracy, Race, Love
Lecture, Gerbrands Lecture
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The history of the Perzian Book of Kings
Lecture, Studium Generale
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Faculty of Archaeology launches dinosaur-focused research
Many an archaeologist, at some point in their career, is asked what type of dinosaur they discovered. Instead of once again patiently explaining that we do not do dinosaurs, the Faculty Board has now decided to listen to society’s call. ‘It is clear that the general public feels that dinosaurs are relevant…
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Book Launch: Provocative Images in Contemporary Islam
Lecture
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Late Ottoman Istanbul Meets Cinema: Social Impacts of the First Encounter
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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POSTPONED - Gastro-Politics & Gastro-Ethics of Diversity: Negotiating Islam in an Entangled World
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Faculty of Archaeology contributes to 'Heritage on the Move' Overview Exhibition
The Faculty of Archaeology, in the persons of Marlena Antczak and Lennart Kruijer, had three pictures included in the exhibition 'Heritage on the Move'. The whole collection of 18 pictures can be seen from 3 December 2018 until 7 January 2019 at the Oude UB Building, Rapenburg 70, Leiden.
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ERC Starting Grant for Roxanne Kieltyka: stem cells in gels
Chemist Roxanne Kieltyka has received an ERC Starting Grant of 2 million euros. In her lab, she creates gels that mimic the instructive material that supports cells in our body. With the grant, she aims to make these gels stiff and tough, and to create a bio-printed miniature heart ventricle.
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‘Heritage is never neutral. It is always interpreted’
As of 1 September 2019, Prof. Pieter ter Keurs will assume the position of Scientific Director at the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development as well as that of Professor of Museums, Collections and Society at the Faculties of Humanities and Archaeology at Leiden University.…
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‘We moeten diversiteit minder vieren, het moet vanzelfsprekend zijn’
Op welke manieren kan inclusieve communicatie ervoor zorgen dat mensen zich welkom voelen? Hierover ging het D&I-symposium van Universiteit Leiden.
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In memoriam: Prof. dr. J.T.P. de Bruijn (1931-2023)
On Monday 23 January 2023 J.T.P. (Hans) de Bruijn passed away at the age of 91. Until 1995 he held the Chair of New Persian Language and Culture at Leiden University.
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Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos are the winners of the fourth LUCAS Public Prize 2022!
On Tuesday 12 April Angus Mol and Aris Politopoulos have been awarded the fourth LUCAS Publieksprijs.
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The Significance of Style
From September 20 to 23, an international Summer School was hosted by the Museums, Collections & Society research programme. PhD candidate in Archaeology Nicky Schreuder attended the Summer School.
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Ñii Ñu’u - Sacred Skin
Film screening and Q&A
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Exhibition: Silk Road Cities
Arts and culture, LUCIS exhibition opening | Islam in Central Asia
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Seminar: Fleeting Commitments or Can the Museum be Decolonised?
Lecture
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What Constitutes Being Muslim in Indonesia: Islamic Expressions, Politics of Contestation and Accommodation in Bima
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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A Social History of Elephant Watching and Elephant Keepers in Early Modern China
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
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Opening exhibition: Silk Road Cities
Exhibition
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The BuddhistRoad Project: Research Agenda and Recent Results
Lecture
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Longing to the Gray: Nostalgia, Nationalism and Social Media
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Sufis in Afghanistan: Contemporary Navigations of Religious Authority across Political Changes
Lecture, LUCIS What's New?! Series
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Korean Studies (MA) (120EC)
The Master’s in Korean Studies at Leiden University offers specialised, in-depth study of the cultural and societal issues of pre-modern and modern Korea.
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GI grants awarded to Mariana Francozo, Sabine Luning and Wayne Modest
Global Interactions is pleased to announce that we have awarded a GI Advanced Seminar grant to Dr. Mariana Francozo (Archaeology) for 'Historia Naturalis Brasiliae' and a Breed Grant for 'Global Earth Matters' to Dr. Sabine Luning (CA-DS) and Dr. Wayne Modest (RCMC)
- Summer School: "Manuscript Studies: Codicology and Digital Techniques" (5 ECTS)
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Knowledge Networks and Craft Traditions in the Ancient World
Material Crossovers
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Online documentation Symposium Transformations of the Audible
The video registration is now available on our Projects and Events page.
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Festival showcases anthropology students’ work: scope of visual ethnography is widening
Visual ethnography has become an integral part of anthropology in Leiden. The students from the master’s specialisation will present their work at the LUVE festival on 8, 9 and 10 October. ‘For a film you have to negotiate with your research participants.’
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LUCIP International Workshop “Re-staging the Periphery as the Center: Women Communities in East Asian Religions”
Conference
- Medieval Middle East Meeting (1ECTS)
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Visual Construction of the Dutch: From the Perspective of the “Tōjin”
Lecture
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The China Pavilion (chīnīkhāna) of Ulugh Beg in Samarqand
Lecture, LIAS Lunch Talk Series
- Global Asia Scholar Series (GLASS)
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Tales of the Revolt. Memory, Oblivion and Identity in the Low Countries, 1566-1700
This research project, that started in September 2008, aims to explore how personal and public memories of the Dutch Revolt in the seventeenth century evolved and interacted to create new political and cultural identities for the societies that eventually were to become the kingdoms of the Netherlands…
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Self-Steering Committees
Within Una Europa, academic collaboration takes place in interdisciplinary Self Steering Committees (SSCs)
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Research per university
What follows is a survey of existing programs and current projects for each of the participating universities.
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Our Hirāk: The Tishreen Revolution
Lecture, LUCIS Meets
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The transformative power of food
Creating a good life and new work values through foodwork?
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Lecture series Treasures from the Middle Eastern Manuscript Collections and their Wealth of Knowledge
Persian stories with beautiful miniatures, letters on papyrus from Egyptian traders and medicinal manuscripts translated from Greek and edited in Arabic. Studium Generale organizes a lecture series on the world-famous manuscripts from the Middle East collection of Leiden University Libraries (UBL).…
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022