4,139 search results for “arts studies” in the Public website
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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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Hans TheunissenFaculty of Humanities
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The poet as pop star. Literary celebrity in the Netherlands 1780-1900
In which way was literary celebrity constructed in the nineteenth century and what forms of fandom were there?
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What do children see in art? Psychologists are studying this at the Rijksmuseum
From games to scavenger hunts: museums already do all sorts of things for children. But how do children really look at art? Do paintings affect them more if they receive information that is specially tailored to young visitors? Join psychologist Francesco Walker at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and see…
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Arts as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption
On 25 Februarry 2021 Hart Bloomsbury brings out a monograph by Frans-Willem Korsten: Arts as an Interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption. Its working title was 'Annoyance' but that did not sell. A sign in itself; most struggles for justice have been considered as annoying.
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Rajat Ravi RaoFaculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
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The Animated Image. Roman Theory on Naturalism, Vividness and Divine Power
The Animated Image addresses the entire range of contexts in which images were described by Roman authors as being animated, as well as the accounts that Roman writers produced to explain the animation of inanimate matter.
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Fan LinFaculty of Humanities
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Auto/Immunity – Art Strategies Against a Military Sense of Self
To what extent and in what manner can experimental video be used to reclaim the capacity for telling one’s own story, on one's own terms, speaking in tongues outside the linguistic framework of immune system discourse?
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The Future of the Dutch Colonial Past: Curating Heritage, Art and Activism
This book provides an overview of critical scholarly reflections on the history of Dutch slavery and colonization, as well as how this translates into critical cultural practices.
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Between Canon and Coincidence: using data-driven approaches to understand Art Worlds (BECACO)
Indigenous Latin American artifacts have attracted the interest of Europeans since the earliest moment of contact between Europeans and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. The ERC-funded BECACO project uses an innovative multidisciplinary framework to investigate the provenance of ethnographic and…
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Philomeen DolFaculty of Humanities
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Yujing TanFaculty of Humanities
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Nico KapteinFaculty of Humanities
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Boudewijn WalravenFaculty of Humanities
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Haneen OmariFaculty of Humanities
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Shirley AlexanderFaculty of Humanities
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Amirardalan EmamiFaculty of Humanities
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Crewe Williams
Faculty of Humanities
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Xiao Luo
Faculty of Humanities
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Francesca Rosati
Faculty of Humanities
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Steven Hagers
Faculty of Humanities
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Xiong Xiong
Faculty of Humanities
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Geoffrey Cain
Faculty of Humanities
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Peter VerhagenFaculty of Humanities
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Dick van BroekhuizenFaculty of Humanities
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Culture, History and Society (BA Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
Today, globalization makes us all aware of how closely we are connected to, and often dependent upon, the actions of people who are distant from us. Human migration and economic liberalization have confronted local communities with changes happening on a global level. How can we devise ways to share…
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Ab de JongFaculty of Humanities
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Maghiel van CrevelFaculty of Humanities
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Living Presence and Persuasion in Roman Rhetoric, Literature, Visual Art and Theatre
Subproject of
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Ruurd HalbertsmaFaculty of Humanities
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Henk Schulte NordholtFaculty of Humanities
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Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature and the Arts Vol. 1
The first of the two volumes of this co-authored study has just been published by Metzler. The study explores the history of the concept ‘barbarism’ from the 18th century to the present and illuminates its foundational role in modern European and Western identity.
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Hybrid art in the former Dutch East Indies: the Iko ‘oeuvre’ as shared cultural heritage
This project involves research into the oeuvre of the Sundanese sculptor Iko, who has worked for the Catholic mission in Java and has carved sculptures for a chapel and church in Ganjuran. The images were designed by the Catholic layman Jos Schmutzer and are characterized by a fusion in style and symbolism…
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Memorable Arts: The Mnemonics of Painting and Calligraphy in Late Imperial China
This project investigates memorisation strategies that were employed in the fields of painting and calligraphy in imperial China, with a focus on the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.
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Laurie CosmoFaculty of Humanities
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Maaike Smit-BeemsterboerFaculty Governance and Global Affairs
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Somaliland Rock Art- Laas Geel, Dhagah Kureh and Dhagah Nabi Gelay
Digitally Preserving Heritage at Risk
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Governance, Economics and Development (BSc Major of Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges)
Wrenching poverty, global inequality, violent political and ethnic strife, deadlocked, unresponsive or even collapsing governments, growing dissatisfaction with democracy and missed opportunities for innovation – these are merely some of the challenges of governance and development with which our programme…
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Five stars once again for the LUC bachelor Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges: ‘Incredibly proud’
For the twelfth consecutive year, Leiden University College The Hague has been awarded the 'Top Programme' quality label by the Keuzegids Universiteiten 2025. With an impressive overall score of 89 out of 100 points, the Liberal Arts and Sciences: Global Challenges (BA/BSc) programme has earned five…
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Edegar Da Conceição SavioFaculty of Humanities
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Arfi ArfiansyahFaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid
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Caroline Fernandes CaromanoFaculty of Humanities
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WORD AND WHETSTONE: PERSPECTIVES ON WRITING AT THE INTERSECTION OF ART AND ACADEMIA
To what extent can literary strategies deepen and enhance research in and through the visual and performing arts, as well as for research in academia?
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The Arts of Memory. The Remembrance of the Armenians in Turkey.
This study is an attempt to reconstruct the muted violent past by breaking the monopoly of the Turkish state over the memory of the Armenian genocide.
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Modern and Contemporary (1800−Present)
This research cluster centres on regional, national, and global intersections and interactions between a variety of artistic expressions and society. It focuses not only on objects (artistic, literary, cinematic, and medial), but also on practices (aesthetic, political, and cultural).
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Hyojin PakFaculty of Humanities
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May Shaddel Basir
Faculty of Humanities
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Die heilige Poesie: toward a practical account of the Hegelian art of sublimity
This dissertation deals with Hegel’s theory of the sublime (das Erhabene). I focus specifically on die heilige Poesie (sacred poetry), a form of art that he identifies with the Judaic Psalms and which I claim to be the core of Hegel’s approach to sublimity. I claim that Hegel’s apparent lack of interest…