Human remains are a part of physical anthropological and archaeological collections worldwide. Engaging with the current debates on the colonial origins of…
Text: Mauro Smit // ErfgoedinZicht “Historical green structures are all around us. It is living heritage, mostly built by human hands. Examples are country…
Next month (18-21 May) our Centre organises another Student Hub in collaboration with Leiden University, TUDelft, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and Wageningen…
Germany is the first European country to permanently return colonial looted art. This increases the pressure on other countries to follow suit. Pieter ter Keurs…
Text: Mauro Smit // Erfgoed in Zicht Documenting heritage has long been an important activity for scientists and artists of all times. From the first scientific…
With an ever growing realization of the merits of interdisciplinary research, the Centre for Global Heritage and Development and the Lorentz Centre organized…
Heritage—natural and cultural, material and immaterial—plays a key role in the development of sustainable cities and communities. The International LDE Heritage…
Being the home of over half the World’s population and the host of millions of tourists yearly, cities are ever more being forced to direct their efforts…
Over 6000 Dutch national heritage sites are already at risk of flooding as thousands others are affected by subsidence due to lowering ground water levels…
Stiftung Preuzischer Kulturbesitz Berlin (represented by B. Helwing, director of the Berlin Vorderasiatisches Museum) together with the Centre for Global…