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‘A reproduction can make the original important again’01 October 2024For her research, PhD candidate Liselore Tissen put one famous painting after another through a 3D scanner. The resulting reproductions were indisting...
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Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’25 June 2024Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except ...
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The dark side of protecting cultural heritage30 April 2024World Heritage status comes at a cost to the local population’s human rights. PhD Candidate Sophie Starrenburg explains the drawbacks of poetic terms ...
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‘American’ Black Power movement was also active in the Kingdom of the Netherlands24 April 2024When you hear ‘Black Power’, you probably think of the United States. But in the 60s and 70s, Black Power groups were also active in the Kingdom of th...
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Sophie Starrenburg organises workshop on climate change and cultural heritage16 April 2024On 11 April 2024, Sophie Starrenburg, Assistant Professor at the Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, organised a workshop on ‘Climate Chan...
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play05 March 2024A team with Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage. They are resea...
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections26 January 2024How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with rese...
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Looted art returned to Sri Lanka: ‘It was a job tracing what came from where'18 January 2024A cannon, a sabre, guns: these Sri Lankan objects had been in the Rijksmuseum for centuries. In early December, they were returned to Sri Lanka. Assoc...
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Minecraft in Morocco: virtual building blocks bring the past to life05 December 2023Getting young people excited about history is quite possible without books. Researchers from Leiden travelled to Morocco to work with schoolchildren o...
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Heritage expert Gül Aktürk Hauser investigates climate change adaptation of cultural heritage03 November 2023Recently, Dr Gül Aktürk Hauser took up the position as Assistant Professor at the department of Heritage and Society. Originally an architect, she got...
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Archaeological Heritage Value Mapping in Trinidad and Tobago28 August 2023Trinidad and Tobago, a twin-island nation, has over 300 identified archaeological sites that testify to its diverse history, covering pre-colonial, co...
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Archaeology students play important role in visit indigenous Ka’apor people27 June 2023As part of Mariana Françozo’s BRASILAE project, a group of representatives of the Ka’apor people was invited to visit Leiden. The Ka’apor, an indigeno...
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Exhibition: The untold Caribbean story13 March 2023The Caribbean Ties exhibition at Oude UB aims to reveal the many unwritten stories of indigenous cultures and peoples of the Caribbean. It rewrites th...
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Falling bombs and looting soldiers: how to protect Ukraine’s cultural heritage?23 January 2023The war in Ukraine is leading not only to human suffering. Ukraine's cultural heritage is also experiencing the consequences of the war: museums are b...
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Maaike de Waal interviewed on new publication Living (World) Heritage Cities23 December 2022The LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development has interviewed Dr Maaike de Waal about the new publication of which she is one of the editors. 'Li...