199 search results for “colonialism imperialisme and heritage” in the Library website
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Nira WickramasingheFaculty of Humanities
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UNESCO World Heritage
The UBL holds five sets of manuscripts recognised by UNESCO as documents of universal value and exceptional significance to the world. They are included in UNESCO's International World Heritage list of documents (Memory of the World Register).
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Aya EzawaFaculty of Humanities
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Ethan MarkFaculty of Humanities
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Monique van den DriesFaculteit Archeologie
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
The IFLA-Section Rare Books and Special Collections committee and the Indigenous Matters Section, in collaboration with Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organize a satellite conference in Leiden – Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th – prior to the IFLA World Library and Information Congress…
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Rick HoningsFaculty of Humanities
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Alexander van der MeerFaculty of Humanities
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Mara de GrootFaculteit Archeologie
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Márcia GonçalvesFaculty of Humanities
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Chi ZhangFaculteit Archeologie
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Alicia SchrikkerFaculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen JacobsonFaculty of Humanities
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Willemijn WaalFaculty of Humanities
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Who is the rightful owner of colonial art?
Colonial art and artefacts were not necessarily looted. Pieter ter Keurs, Professor of Museums, Collections and Society, calls for more nuance in the debate on art and collectors’ items from a loaded past. Inaugural speech on 2 December.
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Rients de BoerFaculteit Archeologie
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Berthe JansenFaculty of Humanities
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Miyuki KerkhofHonours Academy
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Catia AntunesFaculty of Humanities
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Sophie StarrenburgFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marcel CobussenFaculty of Humanities
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Martin BergerFaculteit Archeologie
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Sybille LammesFaculty of Humanities
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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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‘The university has many roots in the colonial past. How deep and wide were they?’
Historians recently started preliminary research on Leiden University’s role in colonialism and historical slavery. Our knowledge about this is too limited and fragmented. They are looking with fresh eyes at Leiden’s archives and collections. An interview with historians Alicia Schrikker and Ligia G…
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Jessica RoitmanFaculty of Humanities
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Seed Grant for De Maaker and Gupta for research on heritage and climate governance
Erik de Maaker and Radhika Gupta received a Seed Grant to initiate research on how heritage has been and can be mobilised to address climate change governance in Himalayan Asia. This project will address a significant knowledge gap on the potentials and pitfalls of climate governance, with an initial…
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Critical Caribbean Thought on Colonial Legacies
The Caribbean as we know it today is fundamentally a product of colonial activity and globalisation. Practically everyone that inhabits the Caribbean has ancestors from different continents due to colonial activity, which profoundly affects the area to this day. Caribbean writers, both in the Caribbean…
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Esther ZwinkelsFaculty of Humanities
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Wim WillemsFaculty of Humanities
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Anita van DisselFaculty of Humanities
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UBL signs Digital Heritage Network Manifesto
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) signed the manifesto of the Dutch Digital Heritage Network (NDE) this November, during Digital Heritage Month, thereby joining the network. The manifesto calls on archives, libraries, museums, and other cultural institutions to make their digital collections more visible,…
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Gül Aktürk HauserFaculteit Archeologie
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Martijn MandersFaculteit Archeologie
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Wim van den DoelCollege van Bestuur
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Siyun WuFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Aris PolitopoulosFaculteit Archeologie
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La Galigo manuscript - UNESCO heritage – digitally available
The La Galigo manuscript at Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been digitized. The manuscript, which was inscribed in 2011 on UNESCO's ‘Memory of the World’ Register, is now freely available online and can be used for teaching and research. La Galigo is the world's longest epic, written in the Buginese…
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Elena PaskalevaFaculty of Humanities
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Mariana De Campos FrancozoFaculteit Archeologie
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Gert OostindieFaculty of Humanities
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Satellite conference IFLA 2023 - Empire, Indigeneity, and colonial heritage collections: confronting difficult pasts, enabling just futures
Satellite conference
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Lennart BesFaculty of Humanities
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Robert RossFaculty of Humanities
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Geke BurgerFaculty of Humanities
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Leiden Chinese heritage collections digitised in Pagode-Europeana-China project
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) recently participated in the Pagode-Europeana-China project as an associated partner. As a result, almost two hundred items related to China from the UBL Special Collections are now available via the Europeana website. The UBL was the only library to participate in…
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Stijn BusselsFaculty of Humanities
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Maps and Atlases
The collection of maps and atlases consists of approximately 100,000 map sheets (including c. 3,000 manuscript maps), 3,500 atlases and 25,000 topographical prints and drawings.
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Leonor Faber-JonkerAfrika-Studiecentrum
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Marcella SchuteFaculty of Humanities