1,576 search results for “ancient technology” in the Public website
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Innovation and Tradition: The Odd Couple
Debate
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Forum Antiquum: Carole Newlands
Lecture
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Constructing Heritage in Early Soviet Central Asia
Lecture
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What Cards and Coins Reveal: Divinatory Techniques in the Netherlands
Conference
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On not seeing like a state: How archaeology can inform critiques of the inevitability of hierarchy, dispossession, and disconnection of the human
Lecture, Faculty Lecture
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Exchanges on the Middle East: Heritage for Citizenship in Times of Conflict
Public Lecture and Debate
- China Seminar
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Josephus Scaliger: famous scholar and grouch
Josephus Justus Scaliger was one of the most famous scholars of his time and yet today his name is likely to be met with blank looks. His correspondence shows that this Leiden professor was also irritable to say the least. Kasper van Ommen will defend his PhD thesis on Scaliger’s legacy on 2 July. Find…
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Thijs Porck is the winner of the second LUCAS Public Prize!
Thijs Porck, expert in medieval English, has won the LUCAS Public Prize because he has made his research and education visible to a wider audience. Thijs has reached the national media, secondary schools and a lot of views with his blogs and videos. The prize consists of a certificate, trophy, 1000…
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University strengthens ties with Indonesia
The climate crisis, the return of TB and the digitisation of cultural heritage. The Netherlands and Indonesia face many of the same challenges. A visit by a delegation from Leiden University to Indonesia at the end of June highlighted the benefits of cooperation.
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Beyond urbanization: the organization of early complex societies
Conference
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Valedictory symposium in honor of Thijs van Kolfschoten
Conference, Symposium
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From Stone Age to Space Age
Conference
- Open Day 2018
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The Iseum Campense from the Roman Empire to the Modern Age:
International conference
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Multilingualism in Egypt: Comparative Perspectives on Language Choice in Documentary Papyri
Conference, Workshop (online)
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Patching Poetry’s Cloak: the Poet’s Historical Sense in Modern Arabic and Dutch Poetry
Poetry Recital | Al-Babtain Poetry Series
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Centre for Digital Heritage meeting 2017
Annual meeting
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In Memoriam: Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck (May 20, 1947 – October 31, 2020)
An age-old expression in Classical Chinese is yǔ zhòng bù tóng 與眾不同, meaning ‘out of the ordinary.’ It could have been the motto of Burchard J. Mansvelt Beck, who taught that language for decades at Leiden University. What was different about him? He was extraordinarily gifted, helpful, and above all…
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Global Flows, local Agencies, significant Pasts: Perspectives in Museum History and contemporary Art
Faculty Roundtable
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Interpreting Rituals: Historiographical Perspectives and Pluralistic Contexts
Conference
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Sponsored Research
Global Interactions sponsors a number of research projects of Leiden University researchers.
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Well-Being Days FGGA: Feeling good on the inside
Well-being
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Friends and family day at the Faculty of Humanities
Festival
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LCCP Symposium Memory for the Future: Thinking with Bernard Stiegler
Conference, Symposium
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis