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Starting grant for the investigation of the forgotten landscapes of World War II 25 May 2021PhD candidate Wouter Verschoof-van der Vaart has received the Stichting Elise Mathilde Fonds grant from the Leids Universiteits Fonds (LUF) to work on...
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Caribbean archaeology in times of corona: ‘Instead of fieldwork, our students worked on an online exhibition’ 25 May 2021Recently, in the midst of coronavirus situation, Professor Corinne Hofman and her team became part of the NWO project Island(er)s at the Helm. Both th...
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First generation of students graduate from Applied Archaeology: ‘It is a peculiar and wonderful specialisation.’ 09 April 2021In 2019, Federico Cappadona was one of the first students to enroll in the new master’s specialisation Applied Archaeology. He recently graduated and ...
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Archaeology students make museum exhibition on Sugar: ‘Before this I had no idea how sugar was produced’ 01 February 2021When following a course on archaeology of the Crusaders, five archaeology students were presented the unique opportunity to create a small exhibition ...
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Academia in motion: a different form of recognition and reward 18 January 2021A better balance between teaching and research duties, greater recognition of team performances and the elimination of simplistic assessment criteria....
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Hello Leiden. How’s it going? Minister Van Engelshoven pays online working visit to Leiden University 13 October 2020Teaching during the corona crisis, the high workload and the challenges faced by the Faculty of humanities. In an online working visit to Leiden Unive...
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Archaeozoological Lab reorganised and renewed: 'We can now study most of the fauna in Europe' 01 October 2020The Laboratory for Archaeozoological Studies underwent a big reorganization and received a great donation from the Institute of Biology this summer. L...
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Meet the student mentors of Archaeology: ‘I like this opportunity to meet new people’ 16 September 2020All first-year bachelor’s and master’s students at the Faculty of Archaeology have been assigned a student as a mentor to help them find their way aro...
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Aris Politopoulos: ‘I use games as a teaching method' 19 August 2020In his lectures Aris Politopoulos combines archaeology with video games. He is one of the three nominees for the 2020 LUS Teaching Prize. 'A good teac...
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Electives of Ancient Near Eastern Studies: ‘You can really get a closer look at the subject matter’ 03 August 2020Are you interested in ancient Egypt, the rich cultural heritage of Mesopotamia or bliblical Hebrew and Aramaic? Students of all faculties can follow e...
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Working in the archaeological ceramic lab in times of corona 15 July 2020BA 3 student Dasha Derzhavets is one of the first students to be back in the lab at the Faculty of Archaeology. She is conducting experiments in the c...
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Archaeology student Grace left a lockdowned Leiden for her home country: ‘We jumped on one of the last remaining tickets’ 08 June 2020International Archaeology student Grace Alonzo went back to her home country when the coronavirus situation developed. Now she is living at her parent...
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Aris Politopoulos lectures like an Assyrian king: ‘Video lectures need to be ten times more engaging’ 20 April 2020There are some lecturers who are better equipped to provide remote education than others. And then there is Aris Politopoulos, who already owned profe...
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Rachel Schats is preparing an archaeology course from home: ‘Do what you can and don’t make it yourself too difficult’ 26 March 2020As a lecturer of a block 4 course, osteoarchaeologist Dr Rachel Schats is preparing to give her education remotely. For this she uses Kaltura, Leiden ...
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The future of experiencing the past 11 March 2020The Faculty of Archaeology experiments with innovating their teaching methods, using 3D scans and visualisation technology to enable active learning. ...