Heritage
Our contribution to society:
With knowledge of heritage we understand identity and appreciate diversity.
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Our research and teaching
Heritage is the legacy of all generations, from ancient archaeological sites, artefacts and crafts to stories, regional food and today’s allotment gardens. A better understanding of the different meanings attached to these material and immaterial traditions can help bring different social groups closer together. This is how we help resolve society’s major challenges.
Leiden conducts world-leading heritage research in centres where various academic disciplines converge. We draw on extensive knowledge and diverse research methods in our work with a wide range of partners across the Netherlands, Europe and around the globe,. Where possible, we involve the public (citizen science). We focus on the meaning and emergence of heritage as part of social diversity.
Our research includes studies of endangered languages and cultures, archaeological sites, historical museum collections, heritage communities and world heritage. This allows us to contribute to the public debate on, for example, human rights and heritage, ownership and access to colonial and/or contested heritage, landscape and climate change, heritage and well-being, and digital heritage. With the knowledge this yields, we deepen our understanding of identity and cultural diversity around the world.
Research projects
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Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation in the Eastern Himalayas -
Landscape biographies St. Eustatius and Saba -
EMERGENCE: Early Medieval English in Nineteenth-Century Europe -
Perpetuating Bhutan Highland Heritages -
COMET. Human Subject Research and Medical Ethics in Colonial Southeast Asia
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Experts
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Dilara Erzeybek Topics: cultural anthropology, digital and audiovisual methods, diversity, environment, heritage, social movements -
Aris Politopoulos Topics: aegean and east mediterranean archaeology, archaeology of play, archaeology of empires, computer games, digital heritage, heritage -
Martin Berger Topics: heritage, museums, collections and society -
Thijs Porck Topics: early middle ages, english language and literature, heritage, languages, cultures and worldviews, medieval history, old english language -
Angus Mol Topics: ai and society, cultural interaction, digital humanities, game and play studies, heritage -
Martine Bruil Topics: cultural heritage, descriptive linguistics, heritage, indigenous languages, language diversity, languages, cultures and worldviews, south-america, south-american linguistics -
Verena Meyer Topics: asia, constructing heritage, heritage, islam, islam and society, south east asia -
Thinley Dema Topics: culture, ecology, environment, heritage -
Abhimanyu Chettri Topics: diversity, environment, ethography, heritage, politics -
Janine Ubink Topics: african law and governance, customary law and traditional authorities, heritage, law and society, law, governance and development, legal anthropology, legal pluralism, transitional justice -
Jan-Bart Gewald Topics: africa, african history, biodiversity, global history, heritage, migration in africa, mining, social transitions, sustainability, technology and society -
Jan Kolen Topics: artificial intelligence, heritage -
Luc Amkreutz Topics: doggerland, european prehistory, heritage, neolithic, public archaeology -
Berthe Jansen Topics: buddhism, heritage, tibetan studies -
Annachiara Raia Topics: africa, east africa indian ocean, heritage, indian ocean, languages, cultures and worldviews, swahili literature and intellectual practices -
Elena Paskaleva Topics: architecture, central asia, critical heritage studies, heritage, islamic architecture, islamic art, material culture of central asia, timurid architecture, uzbekistan -
Sophie Starrenburg Topics: cultural heritage, heritage, human rights, public international law, unesco -
Ariadne Schmidt Topics: colonialism and slavery, early modern history, economic history, gender history, heritage, labour history, social history -
Erik de Maaker Topics: anthropology, asia, diversity, environment, ethnography, europe, heritage, sustainability -
Siyun Wu Topics: anthropology, diversity, heritage, music traditions, national identity -
Tazuko van Berkel Topics: ancient greek literature and culture, ancient mediterranean world, heritage, inequalities, languages, cultures and worldviews, social transitions -
Michiel van Groesen Topics: cartography, colonialism and slavery, dutch history, early modern dutch history, early modern history, heritage, maritime history -
Casper de Jonge Topics: ancient greek literature and culture, europe, heritage, languages, cultures and worldviews, migration -
Antje Wessels Topics: aesthetic experience, fragments, germany, greek & roman drama, heritage, history of scholarship & reception of antiquity (19th/20th century), languages, cultures and worldviews, latin literature and culture, roman republican tragedy, sound -
Christoph Pieper Topics: cicero, cicero and the ciceronian tradition, classical tradition, heritage, italy, languages, cultures and worldviews, latin oratory in the republic, latin poetry of the italian renaissance
Special collections
The latest acquisition is the oldest map of Dutch island Dejima in Japan. Houses, warehouses, wells, a mooring and even a stable. All of this can be seen on the oldest known map of the island of Dejima acquired by Leiden University Libraries (UBL). The map provides a highly detailed picture of a tiny living environment on the isolated island.
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