Experciences of a Human Rights Defender

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Interactive talk
Naythan, Kenyan Human Rights Defender

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'UNU Jargon Buster': Valorisation Session

What happens when researchers from different backgrounds and disciplines work together for the first time? Do scholars and politicians use similar concepts in different ways? Do YOU know your PoCs from your POCs?

UNU MERIT Jargon Buster

Experience Day European Studies

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An Experience Day allows you to experience what it is like to be an European Studies student. You will attend a lecture and participate in a tutorial group.

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*CANCELLED* Experience Day Arts and Culture 18 March 2020

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An Experience Day allows you to experience what it is like to be an Arts & Culture student. You will attend a lecture and participate in a tutorial group.

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Workshop Approaches to Arts, Conservation and Cultural Heritage

The aim of this workshop was to further discuss parallel and intersecting areas of research and common grounds in the research that is currently conducted in this field. Over 20 participants presented their research in domains ranging from conservation of monuments, contemporary art, home videos, to language cultures, and nature sites.

Approaches to Art

Whose Culture is it? On cultures of authenticity and ownership in art and cultural heritage

On the 23rd and 24th of March 2014, convened towards the end of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) the conference ‘Whose Culture is it? On cultures of authenticity and ownership in art and cultural heritage’ took place in Maastricht. Organized by the Faculties of Law, Arts and Social Sciences, the University College, and the School of Business and Economics, the purpose of this conference was to explore the diversity of cultures of authenticity and ownership in the fields of art and cultural heritage, today.

Whose culture is it

Changing Platforms of Memory Practices

The conference, which took place at the historical building of the Van Swinderenhuys in Groningen, aimed to grasp the technical, social and cultural dimensions and changes in the use of technologies of memory, such as home movies, home videos, sound recording and digital media.

Changing platforms conference

Maastricht Symposium on the Creative Economy

The Maastricht Symposium on the Creative Economy, which took place on 21 September 2015, was the first official meeting of minds in light of the Made2Measure (M2M) research project.

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Cultural dynamics of former mining regions: perspectives for the 2020s

Since the 1960s, Europe is shifting from the use of coal as a main energy source to that of gas and oil. Consequently, a successive closure of mines is taking place in Europe. The moments of closure vary per country.

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SYMPOSIUM: The Many Faces of UNESCO (1945-2015)

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has many faces.

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