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Remembrance Day: remembering forgotten victims and their stories23 April 2020Remembrance Day on 4 May may be different this year, but it will make no less of an impression. Ethan Mark, who specialises in modern Japanese history...
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Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’20 April 2020There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned profe...
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USC online sports a big success20 April 2020How can you stay fit during quarantine? The University Sports Centre may be closed, but online it's even more 'open' than usual.
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Working from home with the Classical and Mediterranean archaeologists: ‘I should have been in Rome right now’09 April 2020The archaeologists have been working from home three weeks now. Remotely, through Teams, we meet up with Miguel John Versluys’ research team, to see h...
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Raymond Corbey’s Leiden experience: Meet the ‘embedded philosopher’06 April 2020Raymond Corbey holds a chair in both Philosophy of Science and Anthropology at the Faculty of Archaeology, to which he has been attached since 1993. T...
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Hunt for archaeological remains without leaving your home03 April 2020The Heritage Quest project begins on Monday 6 April. Heritage Quest is the first large-scale citizen science archaeology project in the Netherlands: a...
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Moving to virtual collaboration with Marike van Aerde and her team: ‘There is real team spirit in our WhatsApp group’02 April 2020Marike van Aerde was at the brink of traveling to India for fieldwork when that country closed its borders, three weeks ago. Only a few days later, Le...
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Working from home as an Archaeologist: 'As far as I know, no one has ever explored my living room for lost cities'01 April 2020At first glance, archaeology seems like a job that is hard to take home. Nothing could be further from the truth though! Our archaeologists are curren...
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Professor Corrie Bakels receives 50th Analecta26 March 2020Corrie Bakels would have given this year's Kroon lecture on Friday March 20, but the event was canceled due to the coronavirus outbreak. Her colleague...
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Rachel Schats is preparing an archaeology course from home: ‘Do what you can and don’t make it yourself too difficult’26 March 2020As a lecturer of a block 4 course, osteoarchaeologist Dr Rachel Schats is preparing to give her education remotely. For this she uses Kaltura, Leiden ...
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Videoconferencing with the Rural Riches group: ‘The most important thing is to develop some discipline’26 March 2020The Rural Riches research group convenes for coffee on a daily basis. Remotely, that is, to prevent the spread of coronavirus. It is the perfect way t...
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Archaeology in ninth position worldwide in QS World University Rankings 202012 March 2020It is the fourth year in a row that the Faculty of Archaeology is placed in the top ten of archaeological institutes worldwide. The QS World Universit...
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The future of experiencing the past11 March 2020The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. ...
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Mike Field’s Leiden Experience: ‘I try to make research teaching and teaching research.’11 March 2020Mike Field has been at the Faculty of Archaeology since 2008. As a driven archaeobotanist, he is consistantly contributing to the study of plant fossi...
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Approaching ancient Assyria through archaeology leads to new insights11 March 2020Dr Bleda Düring deemed it was time for an archaeological approach on the imperialisation of Assyria. ‘While there are lot of archaeological studies of...