413 search results for “historic landscapes” in the Staff website
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Paul Hudson
Faculty Governance and Global Affairs
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The first LDE Professional Training Landscape Biography: a Retrospect
The first professional training organised by the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus Centre for Global Heritage and Development has finished. The participants work for municipalities, provinces, universities or are independent researchers or consultants in the Heritage Sector. During three intensive days in September…
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Landscaping
The Landscaping department manages, cares for and maintains all green spaces, road surfaces, waterways and ponds located on University grounds. The Landscaping department also performs work on request.
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Archaeologist Anastasia Nikulina worked on long-term landscape MOOC: ‘Everyone can learn something new from this course’
As part of the TerraNova project, a European research initiative on the study of landscape histories and futures, a Massive Online Open Course (MOOC) was developed. Anastasia Nikulina was one of the main chapter coordinators who worked on this course, and she worked on the part about modelling in landscape…
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Academic Historical Museum
The University’s historical collection is housed in the Academic Historical Museum. The museum is situated in the Academy Building.
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Roeland Emaus
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ang Li
Faculteit Archeologie
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Laura Llorente Rodriguez
Faculteit Archeologie
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Eva Putri
Science
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Brenda Assendelft
Faculty of Humanities
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Marijke van der Wal
Faculty of Humanities
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
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Sony Jean
Gelieerde instellingen
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46th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL46)
Conference
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Historian Ronald Kroeze: 'We must view political integrity from a historical perspective'
The democratic rule of law is under pressure due to a series of scandals and integrity issues, as seen in the recent parliamentary inquiries. Professor Ronald Kroeze explains: 'Public office holders are expected to show complete dedication, but that norm is quite absolute, and what we mean by it is…
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Dita Auzina
Faculteit Archeologie
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research indicates Hunter-Gatherer impact on prehistoric European landscapes
The starting point of human-induced landscape changes has been under permanent debate. It is widely accepted that the emergence of agriculture strongly increased human impact on their environments. However, foragers can and do actively transform land cover and ecosystems. Ethnographic observations,…
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Marijn van Putten
Faculty of Humanities
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Amos van Baalen
Faculty of Humanities
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Benjamin Suchard
Faculty of Humanities
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Arend Quak
Faculty of Humanities
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Olga Lundysheva
Faculty of Humanities
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Roos van Oosten
Faculteit Archeologie
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Joran Lammers
Science
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Buzzing decline: Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants
The Netherlands is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analysing 87 years of measurements from over 365,000 plots. The news is alarming for our biodiversity and food security. ‘75 per cent of our crops and 90% of…
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Book Landscapes of Survival sheds new light on the habitation of the Jordan deserts
December 2020 saw the crowning publication of the Landscapes of Survival project by Professor Peter Akkermans. Its main topic is human habitation in marginal environments like the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula. ‘The people living here built their own society, and they would not have viewed it as…
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Ship channels and their landscapes require radical reconsideration
Han Meyer, Carola Hein, Paul van de Laar and Sabine Luning, argue that in the current moment of major crises these ship channels necessitate radical reconsideration.
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Getting students away from screens... and into the landscape
Leiden University's International Honours College, Leiden University College The Hague (LUC) experienced empty halls and empty classrooms this past year on the residential campus on the Anna van Buerenplein in The Hague due to the global pandemic. Dr Paul Hudson designed a Covid-proof course that enabled…
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Merel Brüning
Faculteit Archeologie
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Stefan van der Vorm
Science
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Maaike de Waal
Faculteit Archeologie
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Tuna Kalaycı
Faculteit Archeologie
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Hans Mol
Faculty of Humanities
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Starting grant for the investigation of the forgotten landscapes of World War II
PhD candidate Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart has received the Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds grant from the Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF) to work on a research project focusing on the landscapes of the Second World War. ‘We will combine citizen science with deep learning to uncover traces of the c…
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Online platform Historical Maps of Southeast Asia launched
On August 30, the online platform Historical Maps of Southeast Asia was launched. The platform provides access to over 1,400 digitised maps of Southeast Asia from the collections of the National Library Board Singapore (307 maps), Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Yale University (150 maps),…
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Historical research helps biodiversity in Leiden city centre
The Leiden municipality wants to make the city centre climate-proof and combat heat stress by greening it. But they want to do this in a way that does justice to the city’s heritage. Researcher Fenna IJtsma delves into historical greenery to offer inspiration.
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Sasha Lubotsky
Faculty of Humanities
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Large-format landscapes: why Northern-Netherlandish artists drew on extra-large paper outdoors
In the 16th and 17th centuries, many Northern-Netherlandish artists drew outdoors to train their hands and eyes, and to record landscapes and nature. In her inaugural lecture on 21 March 2022, Yvonne Bleyerveld, Professor by Special Appointment of Art on Paper and Parchment, draws our attention to a…
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Tinde van Andel
Science
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Ton Koopman
Faculty of Humanities
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Leonid Kulikov
Faculty of Humanities
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Carmen Sylvia Spiers
Faculty of Humanities
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Evelien Walhout
Faculty of Humanities
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Roosje Peeters
Faculty of Humanities
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Jos Schaeken
Faculty of Humanities
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Thijs Porck elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
Thijs Porck, university lecturer of medieval English at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS).
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Gül Aktürk Hauser
Faculteit Archeologie
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Oda Nuij
Faculteit Archeologie
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Arjan Louwen
Faculteit Archeologie
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Roberto Arciero
Faculteit Archeologie