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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...
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Maritime archaeologist Martijn Manders appointed as Professor of Underwater Archaeology in Leiden20 July 2022Maritime archaeologist Martijn Manders has been appointed professor of Underwater Archaeology and Maritime Cultural Heritage Management at Leiden Univ...
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Research into grave goods sheds new light on traditional roles28 June 2022New archaeological research into grave goods and skeletal material from the oldest grave field in the Netherlands shows that male-female roles 7,000 w...
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Contested heritage in The Hague: what to do with the remains of the Atlantik Wall?28 June 2022During World War II, the Nazi’s ordered a coastal defensive line to be built from the south of France to Norway. This Atlantik Wall aimed to defend th...
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Seed Grant for De Maaker and Gupta for research on heritage and climate governance31 May 2022Erik de Maaker and Radhika Gupta have received a Seed Grant to initiate research on how heritage has been and can be mobilised to address climate chan...
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Alumnus Adrian Young gives lecture on cultural heritage to AHK students19 May 2022On Monday 9 May, IIASL alumnus Adrian Young gave a very satisfying cross-disciplinary session between law and the arts, on the preservation of heritag...
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Heritage expert Ian Lilley holds commemoration speech at Netherlands-Australia War Memorial16 May 2022Professor Ian Lilley, the Faculty of Archaeology’s Willem Willems Chair in Archaeological Heritage, was invited by Her Excellency Mrs. Marion Derckx, ...