327 search results for “historicising art and literatuur” in the Staff website
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University College: Another quality seal for one of Europe's top liberal arts and sciences programmes
For the eleventh time in a row, Leiden University’s unique liberal arts and sciences programme has been awarded the ‘Top Rated Programme’ quality seal by Keuzegids universiteiten 2024.
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Art project has students and lecturers reflecting on pressure to succeed
What does it mean to be the ‘perfect student’? This is the focus of the Perspectify exhibition, which was opened on 16 November by President of the Executive Board Annetje Ottow.
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Digital guest lectures for high school students: ‘It is an art to appeal to them properly’
How do you make lobbying and rhetoric both challenging and understandable for high school students? Professor Jaap de Jong found the answer in climate activist Greta Thunberg. Together with his colleague Arco Timmermans, he developed a digital guest lecture on how to present a convincing story.
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YAL and JUL Science meets Art Exposition
Exhibition
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Bareez Majid
Faculty of Humanities
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Beyond the Canvas: Exploring Art-Science Collaborations
Conference
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Art Market FSW: time for new art
Arts and culture
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Organising a sustainable academic event at Archaeology: ‘You will be surprised how many people actually enjoy it’
At Leiden University many staff members and students value making sustainable and responsible choices in their personal lives. Making these choices in our professional lives may feel a bit more complicated. But is that feeling justified? Archaeologists Gerrit Dusseldorp and Roos van Oosten share their…
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An introduction to Performance art (live art)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Painting with acrylics: art inspired by art
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Dominant style stifled innovation in 19th century seascapes
Long into the 19th century, seascapes were considered an expression of patriotism. Artists who painted in a 17th century style were valued more. This tradition stifled innovation in the genre, Cécile Bosman has concluded. She will defend her PhD thesis on 13 October.
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Hollywood strike: Is AI really a threat to actors?
Better pay and new agreements with streaming platforms: the actors’ strike that brought Hollywood to a standstill a few days ago is mainly about money. But there is something else that film actors are worried about: the increasing use of Artificial Intelligence. Is this fear justified?
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Webinar: Is LUC for me?
Study information, Webinar
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Art exhibit Jeanne Viet
Arts and culture
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LKV's Art Auction
Festival
- Museum Talks at the Leiden Department of Art History
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Experience Day Leiden University College The Hague
Study information, On Campus Experience
- Art History Book Launches
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Court as a theatre: ‘There are great similarities between drama as an art form and the legal world’
The Lucia de Berk case or the suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: certain trials keep popping up in media. In her dissertation, Tessa de Zeeuw examines the cultural appeal of such cases and analyses artistic responses. ‘Artworks sometimes have…
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The Art of Belonging
Inaugural lecture
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Is it a fake or not? Time for a new kind of connoisseurship
If a forged Vermeer or Rembrandt is discovered, it is world news. Yet tracing fakes has long been a low priority in art history. University lecturer Anna Tummers will receive an ERC grant of almost two million euros to change that.
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Elena Paskaleva
Faculty of Humanities
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Steven Lauritano
Faculty of Humanities
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Book Launch Media / Art / Politics
Lecture
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Endowed Professor Tineke Abma: ‘Help older people feel like they belong’
Older people are often approached from the perspective of their limitations when there is often much they still can and want to do. According to Professor Tineke Abma, art is a good way to continue to participate.
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Stephanie Noach wins Praemium Erasmianum Foundation Dissertation Prize
Assistant professor Stephanie Noach has won the Dissertation Prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation. She is receiving this prestigious prize for her research on darkness in contemporary art from Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Finding Your Way (In and Out of the Art World): A Phenomenology of the Art Novel
Lecture
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In the Making #8: Musical Networks and Algorithmic Emergence in the Times of Artificial Intelligence
Arts and culture
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In the Making #11: Whose creativity? Explorations of interspecies being and making
Arts and culture
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In the Making #10: Sensing Otherwise; in the absence of land(scape)
Arts and culture
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In the Making #9: Eloquence of the Ineffable — The aftermath of the 2018 opera La Tragedia di Claudio M
Arts and culture
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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Performative Photography (mix of photography & art performance)
Arts and leisure, Arts and leisure
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Holding the Byvanck Chair in times of corona
Professor Caroline Vout, Cambridge University, was awarded the Leiden University Byvanck Chair in 2020. In a pre-Covid-19 world, the Byvanck Chair would stay in Leiden for seminars, lectures, and research activities. Instead, the pandemic disrupted this schedule. Last month, Vout taught her masterclass…
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Museum Talk: Art amid the Ruins
Lecture
- Leiden Yemeni Studies Lecture Series
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Nike van Helden
Faculty of Humanities
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Physicists from Leiden help create world’s smallest Rembrandt
Museum De Lakenhal is displaying the smallest work of art in the world: a 3D-printed statue of Rembrandt van Rijn, made by sculptor Jeroen Spijker and researchers from Leiden University.
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with the Integration of Digital and AI Partners into the Contemporary Art Sector: Exploring China as a Case Study
Lecture, China Seminar
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What is Liberal Arts and Sciences?
Career Building & Networking Event
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In the Making - afternoon sessions on research in the arts
Lecture, Conversation
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How do we listen? 'There is no such thing as a natural disposition'
How is our perception of sound informed by the way we participate in the world? That is the question PhD candidate Gabriel Paiuk has been pondering in recent years. 'The way we experience sound is informed by material, technical and collective conditions that influence our interaction with the envir…
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NWO grant for the Facebook of the past: ‘Circulating images aren’t new’
GIFs, memes and videos: anyone who opens a social media platform can be in no doubt that today we live in a visual culture. But the role of images in social communications isn’t new, says Associate Professor Marika Keblusek. She has been awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Open Competition (Large)…
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Double Lecture on Ecocritical Perspectives in Japanese Art
Lecture
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AI & Art: Aesthetics and Politics of Artificial Neural Networks
Arts and culture, Artist Lecture & Workshop
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Beyond science and art: The role of intuition
Course, Workshop
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Opening Humanities Hub in Huizinga
Opening
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Cultivating the art of hearing and being heard
PhD defence
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Museum Talks: ‘Our access to the past starts with in-depth knowledge of objects’
Geert-Jan Janse has always been fascinated by the way objects can bring the past closer. On 16 November, he will present a Museum Talk about his work as the director of the Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Association).
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‘A reproduction can make the original important again’
For her research, PhD candidate Liselore Tissen put one famous painting after another through a 3D scanner. The resulting reproductions were indistinguishable from the originals. But what does this mean for our interpretation of art?