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Digital archaeologist Alex Brandsen featured in Artificial Intelligence dossier10 September 2020Apps that can precisely identify shards, coins or heel bones: archaeology has embraced artificial intelligence. Alex Brandsen is working on a search e...
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ERC Creative Europe Culture grant for Alexandria: (re)activating common urban imaginaries09 September 2020From 2020 to 2023, Professor Miguel John Versluys and his research group will participate in an international consortium co-funded by the Creative Eur...
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Dr. Niels Laurens as new Executive Director at FGGA and FdA08 September 2020
On Tuesday September 8th, the Executive Board of Leiden University appointed Dr. Niels Laurens as Executive Director at the faculties of Governance an...
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How sustainable does the University want to be by 2030?07 September 2020Leiden University has become more sustainable in the past few years, but it could do better, particularly in the area of teaching and research. A stud...
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Introducing the new Chair for L.A.S. Terra: Iqra Amer02 September 2020The start of this new study year is not like any other year. Covid-19 changed the way L.A.S. Terra introduces itself to the new students and how activ...
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Introducing our new LUS representative Myrthe Sassen27 August 2020The Leiden University Student Platform (LUS) advises the Executive Board on matters of education and student affairs. The platform is also responsible...
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Introducing our new Student Assessor Zoë van Litsenburg26 August 2020Starting on the 1st of September is our new Student Assessor Zoë van Litsenburg, current Research Master's student at our Faculty. Zoë will succeed Ro...
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Introducing our new Student Ambassador Vera van Heel26 August 2020Starting on the 1st of September is our new Student Ambassador Vera van Heel, current Bachelor's student at our Faculty. Vera will succeed Jan Dekker ...
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Archaeological fieldwork in corona times: professor Marie Soressi's story26 August 2020From July 25th till August 7th, a team led by Professor Marie Soressi went to France and worked at La Grande Roche de Quinçay, a cave site located in ...
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method'19 August 2020In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teac...
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Archaeological fieldwork in corona times: bachelor's student Jeroen Huizer's story19 August 2020Second year BA Archaeology student Jeroen Huizer decided to participate in an excavation this summer, and he is giving us a peek in doing fieldwork un...
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Marie Kolbenstetter will explore the archaeology of southern Honduras with a NWO subsidy19 August 2020Our master’s alumna Marie Kolbenstetter was recently awarded a NWO subsidy for a PhD in the Humanities. With this funding she will be able to continue...
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Electives of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: ‘You can really get a closer look at the subject matter’03 August 2020Are you interested in ancient Egypt, the rich cultural heritage of Mesopotamia or bliblical Hebrew and Aramaic? Students of all faculties can follow e...
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The ecological footprint of European colonization at the doorway to the Americas16 July 2020Historical figures such as Columbus have returned to the centre of public debate. Much remains to be discovered about his legacy and current impact on...
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Working in the archaeological ceramic lab in times of corona15 July 2020BA 3 student Dasha Derzhavets is one of the first students to be back in the lab at the Faculty of Archaeology. She is conducting experiments in the c...