News
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‘Heritage decisions limit our ability to imagine alternative forms of society’ 19 March 2019
It is difficult to imagine a society other than a hierarchical nation-state. This is in part because we neglect alternative forms from the past, argue...
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Master’s Open Day: ‘I’ve mainly come to ask a lot of questions’ 18 March 2019
It was a soggy Friday, but the visitors to the Master's Open Day were made of sterner stuff. Bachelor's students from all around the world defied the ...
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Genner Llanes-Ortiz’s Leiden Experience: ‘Indigenous stories contain knowledge from deep past’ 14 March 2019
Back in 2016, Genner Llanes-Ortiz joined the Faculty of Archaeology as an assistant professor in the Heritage of Indigenous Peoples research group. Ge...
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Neolithic house goes up in flames 12 March 2019
Leiden archaeologists have set fire to a reconstructed Neolithic house in Horsterwold: all in the name of science. Studying the remains will help them...
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Erasmus+ grant for project on heritage as bridge between Academy and Society 07 March 2019
Together with four European partner universities heritage specialist Dr Monique van den Dries has been granted an Erasmus+ project (EU-CUL) by the Eur...
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Record number of visitors to Bachelor's Open Day: ‘My mum misses me already’ 25 February 2019
What can you expect from studying in Leiden or The Hague? Which programme should you choose? Should you join a student association and will you need t...
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New documentary “The Future is Handmade” reflects on value of craft 22 February 2019
The documentary invites us to consider the question of what we consider valuable knowledge. “We need to realise that doing and thinking are intertwine...
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Building an excavation report search engine with a Digital Humanities grant 21 February 2019
PhD candidate Alex Brandsen, working in the Digital Archaeology research group has recently received a grant from the Leiden University Centre for Dig...
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Laura van Broekhoven: ‘For me, it’s about the stories and who’s telling them’ 20 February 2019
Laura van Broekhoven always knew she wanted to study archaeology, and that’s exactly what she did. Now this Leiden alumna is director of the Pitt Rive...
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Archaeologist helps develop board game on European prehistory 15 February 2019
In the new board game Epoch – Early Inventors you explore the prehistoric landscape. You gather food and raw material to develop tools and skills, and...
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Dr Andrew Sorensen wins Tübingen Prize for Older Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology 12 February 2019
Andrew Sorensen received the award for his work on the origins of fire-making, especially for his dissertation "Beyond Prometheus: Pursuing the origin...
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Wanted: research questions for citizen science 11 February 2019
How many species of butterfly are living in my garden? Do I recognise the Leiden dialect? What is the air quality like in my area? Do you have a quest...
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Giacomo Fontana wins thesis prize with 'Seeking tombs from space' 11 February 2019
The Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO) annually awards the best theses on the Ancient Near East. The 2018 award went to archaeology studen...
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Leiden University celebrates 444th birthday with residents of Leiden and The Hague 08 February 2019
Leiden University celebrated its 444th anniversary with a historical procession on 8 February. It celebrated this year’s Dies Natalis in time-honoured...
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A real professor in front of the class 08 February 2019
A lesson about aerodynamics from Vice-Rector Hester Bijl, about child rights by UNICEF professor Ton Liefaard, or about muscles by LUMC professor Ann...