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Minor Violence Studies: interesting encounters and flying wooden blocks 21 March 2024The English taught interdisciplinary minor Violence Studies looks into various facets of interpersonal violence. Is this minor for all Leiden students...
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Workshop ‘Caribbean World Heritage Sites in the light of today’s global challenges: the case of Historic Bridgetown and Its Garrison' 14 March 2024Last month (February 5-8 2024), the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, hosted a workshop entitled ‘Caribbean World Heritage Si...
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International Women's Day: the visibility of women in archaeology 08 March 2024On 8 March, International Women’s Day, equal opportunities for women worldwide, empowerment, and gender equality take centre stage. For years, the rol...
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Ammodo Science Award to bring cultural heritage to life through play 05 March 2024A team with Leiden researchers has won the Ammodo Science Award for innovative humanities research on perceptions of cultural heritage. They are resea...
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In memoriam: Dr Andrzej Antczak (1956-2024) 05 March 2024On February 28th of this year Dr. Andrzej Tadeusz Antczak died of cancer after a long battle. Until his retirement in 2023 Andrzej was attached to the...
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Why take the AI & Society minor? These students explain 05 March 2024The interdisciplinary AI & Society minor of Leiden University brings together students and lecturers from a wide range of disciplines. Together they l...
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Archaeology students make documentary on the Cypriot past 29 February 2024The Leiden Archaeology social media team presents its first documentary on one of our faculty's research projects. A team led by Bleda Düring, Victor ...
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Shaping the future with stories from the past 27 February 2024You can see an archaeologist as a modern-day shaman, someone who builds bridges to the past and can offer profound insights. This is the unexpected co...
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‘We even found a diaper’: mapping Leiden through a different lens 19 February 2024Getting up at 5 AM, strolling through rain and looking at a dirty diaper: students of the Honours College Archaeology endured it all. For their class ...
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Archaeology student Anne Wagemakers wins LISF prize for report on research in Spain 14 February 2024With the help of a LUF grant, archaeology student Anne Wagemakers investigated an archaeological assemblage in Spain. Now her research report has won ...
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Looking for the earliest European home with an ERC Consolidator Grant 14 February 2024During the Late Pleistocene, Europe was a cold and unforgiving place to live. Even so, groups of early modern humans roamed around, just like their Ne...
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Karsten Lambers appointed as Professor of Digital and Computational Archaeology 12 February 2024In January, Dr Karsten Lambers was appointed as Professor of Digital and Computational Archaeology at Leiden University's Faculty of Archaeology. With...
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Exhibition on 50 years of archaeological fieldwork in Oss celebrates an archaeological 'Walhalla' 01 February 2024In 1974 Professor Modderman (founder of the Institute for Prehistory Leiden; predecessor of the present Faculty of Archaeology) executed a small excav...
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Developing methods on remote sensing detection of archaeological features in Colombia with LDE grant 18 January 2024A Leiden-Delft-Erasmus research team has been awarded a LDE Global Support Grant to develop reusable algorithms in the remote detection of non-orthogo...
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D&I Symposium 2024: What have we achieved with a decade of diversity policy? 15 January 2024How has progress been made on diversity and inclusion at Leiden University over the past decade? Attendees reflected on this at the D&I Symposium 2024...