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PhD candidate Diego Salama: ‘UN peacekeeping operations have become increasingly important in Israel-Palestine conflict’
From 1967 to 1982, the United Nations undertook several peacekeeping operations in the Middle East. In his thesis from the Institute for History, Diego Salama examines how these operations were connected and their impact on the region.
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A new administrative culture starts with us
A new administrative culture. Renewed vigour. More transparency. Will it become reality with the new government? And how do you go about achieving it? By all of us striving to change together: not just politicians, but also stakeholders, civil servants, media, and civilians. That was the conclusion…
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Cultural Anthropology and Healthy Society
Colleagues from the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences work on a variety of topics that contribute to a healthy society. Erik Bähre, Tessa Minter and Natashe Lemos Dekker presented their work during the Healthy Society Event on 9 June 2022.
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Joe Powderly co-edits volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law
The volume, Heritage Destruction, Human Rights and International Law, co-edited by Grotius Centre, Associate Professor Joe Powderly, and Dr Amy Strecker (Associate Professor, UCD), has been published by Brill/Nijhoff.
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Programme innovation at Dutch Language and Culture
In 2018, the undergraduate programme Dutch Language and Culture embarked on sweeping programme innovations to educate its students ‘in a way that focusses more on the challenges of Dutch Studies in a 21st century society’. What does this entail and what was the approach? Esther Op de Beek, university…
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expert Gül Aktürk Hauser investigates climate change adaptation of cultural heritage
Recently, Dr Gül Aktürk Hauser took up the position as Assistant Professor at the department of Heritage and Society. Originally an architect, she got caught up in the study of historical vernacular buildings in northeastern Turkey. Now her focus lies on the impact of climate change on cultural heri…
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2022
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New members of the Cultural Anthropology Programme Committee
The new student members of the Programme Committee (OLC) are Pablo Pandocchi, Benjamin Maldonado, Emily Berube-Palsboll and Nico Lesenfants Ramos.
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Gerrit Dusseldorp
Faculteit Archeologie
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Femke Lippok
Faculteit Archeologie
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Anna Dlabacova receives ERC Starting Grant for research on late medieval prayer books
Assistant Professor Anna Dlabacova has been awarded a Starting Grant by the European Research Council. She will use this grant of around 1.5 million euros to conduct research on the Dutch vernacular ‘book of hours’.
- What's New?! Spring Lecture Series 2022
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Jesse Wichers Schreur
Faculty of Humanities
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Leiden University's world-renowned collection of Middle Eastern Manuscripts
Lecture, Studium Generale
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State Secretary Gräper visits to discuss cultural heritage and opening up collections
How should we address our colonial heritage? And how digital and accessible are our collections? Outgoing State Secretary Fleur Gräper spoke with researchers and heritage specialists about this on 25 January.
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Remembering Olivier Nieuwenhuyse with a festschrift: ‘He would have loved this book’
On November 16 a festschrift in honor of Dr Olivier Nieuwenhuyse was presented in a moving event at the Faculty of Archaeology. Professor Bleda Düring, a personal friend of Nieuwenhuyse, was one of the initiators. ‘If he had been here, he would have loved this book.’
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Bente de Leede
Faculty of Humanities
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Nicolette Mout
Faculty of Humanities
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Irene O'Daly
Faculty of Humanities
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Dilara Erzeybek
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Thijs Witty
Faculty of Humanities
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Andries Hiskes
Faculty of Humanities
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Daphne Wong-A-Foe
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Erik Kroon
Faculteit Archeologie
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Simone Casale
Gelieerde instellingen
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Olf Praamstra
Faculty of Humanities
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Nina Jaspers
Faculteit Archeologie
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Katrien Klep
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Carina van den Hoven
Faculty of Humanities
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Geert Warnar
Faculty of Humanities
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Merel Spithoven
Faculteit Archeologie
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Ernst van Alphen
Faculty of Humanities
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Daniel Turner
Faculteit Archeologie
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Michael Kerschner
Faculteit Archeologie
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Martine Bruil
Faculty of Humanities
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Roberto Valcarcel Rojas
Faculteit Archeologie
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Bruno Braak
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Miguel John Versluys
Faculteit Archeologie
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Annelou van Gijn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Dennis Braekmans
Faculteit Archeologie
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Karen Smith
Faculty of Humanities
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Tessa Verhoef
Science
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Stephen Harris
Faculty of Humanities
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Douglas Berger
Faculty of Humanities
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Alessandro Aleo
Faculteit Archeologie
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Bas van Rijn wins Fritz Stolz-Preis 2024
LUCSoR alumnus Bas van Rijn was awarded the Fritz Stolz-Preis on 7 June 2024 for his PhD Dissertation “The Experimental Culture of Afterlife Research: Attempts by Spiritual Animal Magnetizers to Prove Life after Death”.
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Summer filled with conferences in Leiden
It will be a summer filled with conferences at the Faculty of Humanities in Leiden. In the coming months, there will be something for everyone at the university, especially in the field of languages and cultures of Africa and the Middle East.
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Evelien Campfens at LeidenGlobal on cultural heritage protection
How can we best protect cultural heritage in times of war? In an interview with LeidenGlobal, cultural heritage law specialist Evelien Campfens talks about her current research project on cultural heritage protection in Ukraine for the European Parliament (EP).