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Veiled references to the Armenian genocide09 May 2016No criticism is allowed in Turkey of the mass murder of Armenians that took place a century ago. PhD candidate Alaettin Carikci examined how contempor...
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MUS writes biography of The Hague resistance heroine01 March 2016Professor Wim Willems of the Centre for Modern Urban Studies (MUS), together with Anne van Mourik, is researching the life of Ru Paré, the woman who s...
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Start of reconstruction indigenous village in St. Vincent25 January 2016In 2010, the remnants of a 16th century indigenous village were discovered in St. Vincent, on the construction terrain of the new International Argyl...
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Memorial volume for prof. Willem Willems19 January 2016On December 16th, almost exactly one year after we had to say goodbye to our colleague prof. dr. Willem Willems (1950-2014), a symposium was held in h...
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The buried ‘towers’ of Angkor Wat09 December 2015Just behind the entry gate of Angkor Wat, known as Gopura 4 West, through which every year millions of tourists enter the most iconic temple of the UN...
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Leiden University partner in research on handwriting and image recognition20 October 2015The Leiden Centre of Data Science and the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science are part of a consortium that will carry out research on makin...
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LDE Centre for Global Heritage and Development receives funding for a MOOC on “Heritage under Threat”08 October 2015
The Centre for Global Heritage and Development has been successful in applying for a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) on the topic of threatened heri...
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ERC grant for Maarten Jansen23 November 2011
The European Research Council has awarded an Advanced Grant to Prof. dr. Maarten E.R.G.N. Jansen for the research project "Time in Intercultural Conte...