196 search results for “colonialism imperialisme and heritage” in the Library website
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Nira Wickramasinghe
Faculty 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 Ezawa
Faculty of Humanities
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Ethan Mark
Faculty of Humanities
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Monique van den Dries
Faculteit 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 Honings
Faculty of Humanities
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Alexander van der Meer
Faculty of Humanities
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Mara de Groot
Faculteit Archeologie
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Márcia Gonçalves
Faculty of Humanities
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Chi Zhang
Faculteit Archeologie
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Alicia Schrikker
Faculty of Humanities
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Liesbeth Rosen Jacobson
Faculty of Humanities
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Willemijn Waal
Faculty of Humanities
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Rients de Boer
Faculteit Archeologie
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Miyuki Kerkhof
Honours Academy
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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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Catia Antunes
Faculty of Humanities
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Sophie Starrenburg
Faculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Marcel Cobussen
Faculty of Humanities
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Sybille Lammes
Faculty of Humanities
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Martin Berger
Faculteit Archeologie
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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 Roitman
Faculty 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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Esther Zwinkels
Faculty of Humanities
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Anita van Dissel
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Willems
Faculty of Humanities
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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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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 Hauser
Faculteit Archeologie
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Martijn Manders
Faculteit Archeologie
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Wim van den Doel
College van Bestuur
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Siyun Wu
Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Aris Politopoulos
Faculteit 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 Paskaleva
Faculty of Humanities
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Mariana De Campos Francozo
Faculteit Archeologie
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Gert Oostindie
Faculty 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 Bes
Faculty of Humanities
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Robert Ross
Faculty of Humanities
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Geke Burger
Faculty 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 Bussels
Faculty 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-Jonker
Afrika-Studiecentrum
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Marcella Schute
Faculty of Humanities
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Tristan Mostert
Faculty of Humanities