2,395 search results for “art history” in the Public website
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Bridging Art, Design and Technology through Critical Making
How can the concept of Critical Making be expanded into a general approach that ties the critical methodology of artistic research, and the established concepts of artistic autonomy, together with contemporary creative-technological development?
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The House of Orange-Nassau and Colonial History
At the initiative and expense of His Royal Highness King Willem-Alexander, Leiden University will be conducting a study of the role of the House of Orange-Nassau in Dutch colonial history. The project will run from 2023 to 2026.
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Institute for History
The motto of the Institute for History is: ‘Global questions, local sources.’ Its researchers use local sources to find answers to major historical questions. Without historical analysis, it is impossible to understand and explain the issues in society today. Leiden itself has a rich history, with big…
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In the Making - afternoon sessions on research in the arts
The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) of Leiden University and art institute West Den Haag are pleased to announce their close collaboration in the new public series In the Making. In six public sessions they will present to the public different practices of research in the arts.
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The magic of projection : augmentation and immersion in media art
Sophie Ernst’s doctoral thesis is an artist’s contribution to media art theory.
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Luuk de Ligt
Faculty of Humanities
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Marlou Schrover
Faculty of Humanities
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Ariadne Schmidt
Faculty of Humanities
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Tracing plant histories
Linking botanical collections, peoples, and illustrations in seventeenth century Dutch Brazil
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Ruurd Halbertsma
Faculty of Humanities
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KORWAR – Northwest New Guinea ritual art according to missionary sources
Protestant missionaries have provided the earliest and most detailed sources regarding the ritual art of the Papuan peoples of the Geelvink Bay.
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Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society
The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) is one of the few research institutes in the world in which researchers in the field of literature, art, architecture, design and media studies come together to conduct research into the cultural production of the western world, from classical…
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Get to know Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges
How do countries collaborate to impact climate change? How does inequality affect life expectancy? How can diplomacy help reduce international conflict? These are the types of questions you get to explore in the Liberal Arts & Sciences programme at Leiden University College through the central theme…
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Get to know Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges
How do countries collaborate to impact climate change? How does inequality affect life expectancy? How can diplomacy help reduce international conflict? These are the types of questions you get to explore in the Liberal Arts & Sciences programme at Leiden University College through the central theme…
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Plant ageing, rejuvenation and life history strategy
What are key regulators of plant ageing that can reverse ageing in plants (rejuvenation), and how can we use this knowledge to improve crop plants?
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Tactics of Interfacing Encoding Affect in Art and Technology
How digital technologies affect the way we conceive of the self and its relation to the world, considered through the lens of media art practices.
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Labor. Essays in Honor of Jan Lucassen | Studies in Global Social History, Volume: 9
This collection of seventeen essays takes its inspiration from the scholarly achievements of the Dutch historian Jan Lucassen. They reflect a central theme in his research: the history of labor.
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History of Leiden University
Read on these pages all about the history of Leiden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands. The Academia Lugduna Batava was founded in 1575 and its motto is: Libertatis Praesidium ('Bastion of Freedom').
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Global History in the 2020s
The International Summer School ‘Global History in the 2020s’ (27-29 June 2023) for PhD candidates, is looking for applicants. The summer school is organized by the European Network in Universal and Global History (ENIUGH), and precedes the 7th European Congress on World and Global History (29 June…
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Writing the History of Nationalism
What is nationalism and how can we study it from a historical perspective? Writing the History of Nationalism answers this question by examining eleven historical approaches to nationalism studies in theory and practice.
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Return to the Interactive Past. The Interplay of Video Games and Histories
A defining fixture of our contemporary world, video games offer a rich spectrum of engagements with the past.
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History of Cultures, Knowledge and Ideas
It is integral to many cluster members’ research to use Medieval and Early Modern Arts as a lens for studying the medieval and early modern periods at large:
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Fleeing tapestry makers picked up the thread again in Gouda
In the sixteenth century, many Protestants fled to the Northern Netherlands to avoid Spanish oppression in the south. This exodus included tapestry makers from Oudenaarde who eventually settled in Gouda. Professor by Special Appointment Yvonne Bleyerveld and researcher Jos Beerens have been awarded…
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PhDArts
Research in and through art is an inseparable part of the artistic or design practice of the researcher. Consequently, research-in-art (as opposed to research-about-art, such as art history) does not have a set goal or expected result, nor are there predetermined general procedures. The outcome of the…
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Colonial and Global History (research) (MA)
The Colonial and Global History (research) programme at Leiden University offers the most in-depth and comprehensive programme of European expansion and globalisation currently available in Europe.
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Rethinking African history
This Collaborative Research Group acts primarily as a platform for discussion of historical issues related to the African continent, its place in the world and in African Studies.
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“The Binnenhof” a contested court. History, housing and politics in The Hague, 1813-2013
This project examines the meaning of this historical place, and the way it has been used by the political institutions that have had their seat there.
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Anais van Ertvelde
Faculty of Humanities
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Anne-Isabelle Richard
Faculty of Humanities
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Questions of Justice in Law, Literature and the Arts
Questions of justice are not only the concern of legal professionals, politicians and activists, they also permeate culture at large. Literature, Cinema, Music and Artworks often revolve around questions about rights, justice and fairness, raising a wide range of issues, such as: how do we understand…
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Randal Sheppard
Faculty of Humanities
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World History For International Studies
Studying change in the course of human history, in different places, through the lens of a diverse set of core themes; World History for International Studies offers readers a set of windows into different debates historians have been conducting.
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History: Europe 1000-1800
Are you thinking about studying History: Europe 1000-1800? Learn more and watch the programme presentation.
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Children pay more attention to art when descriptions are playful and interactive
The description of a painting directly affects how children look at that artwork. This was discovered by psychologist Francesco Walker in the Rijksmuseum. Another finding presented in his article in Nature - Scientific Reports is that giving children information intended for adults has the same effect…
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Classics (800 BCE−600 CE)
This research cluster aims to analyse and interpret the formation and transmission of Graeco-Roman culture by exploring the relationships between cultural products (texts, objects, practices) and their societal and historical contexts.
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Valorization of Scientific Knowledge: Philosophy, History and Policy
This project aims to situate the current policy concept of ‘valorization of scientific knowledge’ in historical and epistemological perspectives. Conceptual understanding of the utility of scientific practices is developed in dialogue with historical analyses of the politics of knowledge in European…
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LUC 101: Get to know our Liberal Arts & Sciences Programme!
Study information, LUC 101 | Information Session
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Tiffany Bousard
Faculty of Humanities
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Henk Kern
Faculty of Humanities
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Willem Otterspeer
Faculty of Humanities
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The Dark Middle Ages: Language of Vice in Histories of Science, 1700-1900
In comparing a selection of 18th-century histories to a representative sample of 19th-century histories of science, this project inquires: Which early modern vices persisted into the 19th century and to what extent were those vices embodied in anecdotes, conveyed through commonplaces, or symbolically…
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Anatomical Collections as Public History
The third project, worked on by dr. Rina Knoeff, is a synthesising project directed at studying the Leiden anatomical collections as important parts of ‘public history’. It will use the results of the other projects in order to analyse anatomical collections (their focus, significant silences, audiences,…
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Research Assessment 2018
To safeguard the quality of research within Leiden University, a committee of external experts evaluates the University’s institutes once every six years according to the Standard Evaluation Protocol which is drawn up by the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU), The Royal Netherlands…
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Speech levels and Verbal Art in languages of Indonesia
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Speech levels and Verbal Art in languages of Indonesia
Lecture, Descriptive Linguistics Seminars
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Femme Gaastra
Faculty of Humanities
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Wim Boot
Faculty of Humanities
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Ben Schoenmaker
Faculty of Humanities
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Islam and history
Understanding the history of Islam and Muslim societies sheds a clear light on the complex and changing social structures of the Middle East, including the current trouble spots whose effect spreads all the way to Western Europe.
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A Cultural History of Thunderstorms
How did the invention and implementation of the lightning rod change the perception of thunderstorms on a scientific, technical, religious and artistic level, in the Netherlands and beyond, during the period 1752-1830?