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The first LDE Professional Training Landscape Biography: a Retrospect20 October 2021The first professional training organised by the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development has finished. The participants work f...
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Maia Casna investigates respiratory disease in the past with an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant05 October 2021Every year, an NWO PhD in the Humanities grant is awarded to a prospective PhD candidate at the Faculty of Archaeology. This year, the grant went to M...
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3 October University: from Russian DNA to drug-related violence04 October 2021In prehistoric times there was a huge wave of migration, from the steppes in Russia and Ukraine to West Europe. The newcomers’ genes began to dominate...
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From excavation to public outreach: our bachelor's students experienced the full cycle of archaeology27 September 2021In May and June of 2021, Bachelor 1 and 2 students of the Faculty of Archaeology joined in the excavation at Oss. After the fieldwork itself, a second...
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Rachel Schats joins Leiden Teachers Academy: ‘I am always trying to look for ways to make teaching stick better'24 September 2021The Leiden Teachers Academy (LTA) was founded to help collaboration between excellent teachers. Osteoarchaeologist Dr Rachel Schats has been one of th...
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David Fontijn was nominated for University Teaching Prize: ‘I cut my online lectures in manageable chunks’22 September 2021Archaeologist David Fontijn was nominated for the University Teaching Prize. His students nominated him for this award for his innovative ways of onli...
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Asteroid named after Emeritus Professor Corrie Bakels: 'I revolve around the sun in 5.5 years'22 September 2021Corrie Bakels is known as one of the founders of bio-archaeology in the Netherlands. One of her former students, Dr Marco Langbroek, active in astrono...
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New courses on 'Violence'01 September 2021In the academic year 2021-2022 the Social Resilience and Security interdisciplinary programme will offer two courses for interested students who are e...
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Nominees announced for LUS Teaching Prize30 August 2021Els de Busser (Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs), Ayo Adedokun (LUC The Hague) and David Fontijn (Faculty of Archaeology) have been nominated ...
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Investigating health equality in the past with a VIDI grant: ‘We will look for indications of stress’17 August 2021Dr Sarah Schrader, an expert in the study of human remains, received a VIDI grant for a research project on health and inequality. In present day peop...
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EL CID 2021: a great start in a friendly city16 August 2021‘Leiden is small, friendly and welcoming,’ says new first-year student Ayla Russel. Strong wind and heavy showers were forecast for the first in-perso...
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Cairo Institute Director: ‘I’m keeping the ship afloat’06 August 2021In March 2020, the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo suddenly had to repatriate 57 students to the Netherlands and Flanders. Director and Arabic ...
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Data Management Internships for students: Future learning and sustainable preservation of archaeology26 July 2021Whilst the world is opening up, the teaching will continue in a hybrid form next academic year. During the past year, when all of us were bound to our...
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Widespread cultural diffusion of knowledge started 400,000 years ago20 July 2021Different groups of hominins probably learned from one another much earlier than was previously thought, and that knowledge was also distributed much ...
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‘Prehistory holds up a challenging mirror to us’15 July 2021Leiden alumnus Luc Amkreutz is a curator at the National Museum of Antiquities. His exhibition about the submerged landscape of Doggerland highlights ...