1,007 search results for “historicising art and literature” in the Public website
-
Aestheticized politics : the workings of North Korean art
This dissertation is a study of North Korean art as a site where politics, history, and culture meet.
-
Art, Agency, and Living Presence in Early Modern Italy
This programme adopts a new approach based on the paradoxical nature of these responses in early modern Italy: it draws on rhetorical discussions of lifelikeness and living presence, and it uses the anthropological theory of art as agency developed by Alfred Gell.
-
Verbal art of the Fon (Benin)
This publication aims at the analysis of the performance of a corpus of Fongbe stories that I collected in three villages in the south of Benin in 1976 and 1977. The corpus consists of 37 stories (57.000 words). The stories aim at children’s education.
-
Vital Art: Transgender Portraiture as Visual Activism
In what ways can visual art play a vital role in countering the discriminating stigma experienced by transgender communities?
-
Unearthing Literature: The Case of Hussein Barghouti
Haneen Omari defended her thesis on 29 October 2019
-
Raja Ampat Ritual Art
Spirit priests and ancestor cults in new guinea's far west
- Teaching Art History and Cultural and Art Education (MA)
-
Reasoning through Art
Inaugural lecture, delivered upon acceptance of the Chair in Theory of Research in the Arts, at the Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University, on 10 February 2017, by Professor H.A. (Henk) Borgdorff.
-
GIG-ARTS Conference
On 3 and 4 June 2024, GTGC acted as the host for the Eighth GIG-ARTS Conference. This edition had the theme ‘Thirty Years of Multistakeholderism in Internet Governance: Assessments and Prospects'.
-
Get to know Art History
The MA programme in Art History is unique in upholding a critical approach to the visual arts, decorative arts and architecture, directly connected to diverse cultures of collecting and presenting art. Our teaching and research are enhanced by collaborative partnerships with museums, heritage institutions…
-
Get to know Art History
The MA programme in Art History is unique in upholding a critical approach to the visual arts, decorative arts and architecture, directly connected to diverse cultures of collecting and presenting art. Our teaching and research are enhanced by collaborative partnerships with museums, heritage institutions…
-
Arts and culture
Visit an exhibition, a concert or learn to paint.
-
Nadine Akkerman
Faculty of Humanities
n.n.w.akkerman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2065
-
Elevated minds: The Sublime in the public arts in 17th-century Paris and Amsterdam
The aim of this project is to study the influence of Longinus’s treatise ‘On the sublime’ on practice and theory of architecture and theatre in seventeenth-century Paris and Amsterdam.
-
What is Liberal Arts and Sciences?
Perhaps you are completely new to the concept of Liberal Arts and Sciences, or perhaps you are familiar with the Liberal Arts colleges of the United States. So, what actually is Liberal Arts & Sciences, and why has it become so popular in the Netherlands in recent years?
-
GIG-ARTS Conference Recordings
Here you can find the recordings of the Eighth Global Internet Governance (GIG-ARTS) Conference. Hosted in 2024 by GTGC.
-
Tingting Hui
Faculty of Humanities
t.hui@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7225
-
Mobility of Ideas and Transmission of Texts. Vernacular Literature and Learning in the Rhineland and the Low Countries (ca. 1300-1550)
The programme focuses on the medieval dynamics of intellectual life in the Rhineland and the Low countries, nowadays divided over five countries (Switzerland, France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands) but one cultural region in the later Middle Ages.
-
Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries
Literature, Language, and Multiculturalism in Scandinavia and the Low Countries presents a ground-breaking comparative approach to the study of multicultural literature.
-
Vacancy: Full Professor of History of Art and Architecture 500-1500 (RU)
The History of Art section at Radboud University is looking for a Full Professor of History of Art and Architecture between 500-1500 CE (1,0 FTE). Apply before: May 2, 2023.
- Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges
-
The Idea of Italian Beauty in Literature and Language
Beauty is a central concept in the Italian cultural imagination throughout its history and in virtually all its manifestations. It particularly permeates the domains that have governed the construction of Italian identity: literature and language.
-
Art of Captivity Online exhibition by Benjamin Fogarty-Art Valenzuela
The online exhibition 'Art of Captivity' corresponds with the publication of anthropologists Kevin Lewis O'Neill and Benjamin Fogarty-Art Valenzuela's book the Art ofCaptivity (University of Toronto Press 2020).
-
Literary Studies: Literature and Society. Europe and Beyond
Are you thinking about studying Literature and Society. Europe and Beyond? Learn more and watch the introduction video.
-
When Art Isn’t Real
How an initially valueless object becomes worth hundreds of millions. And vice versa.
-
Francophone Literature in the Low Countries (1200-1600)
In late medieval and early modern times, books, as well as the people who produced and read (or listened to) them, moved between regions, social circles, and languages with relative ease. Yet, in the multilingual Low Countries, francophone literature was both internationally mobile and firmly rooted…
-
Making a field of interpretation for biosolar cells
This project investigates the role of art in the public and academic debate on biosolar energy
-
The Turn of the Soul
The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature
-
Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
How would you like to combine your studies at Leiden University with high-level education in the arts? The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts will give you a unique opportunity to develop your academic and artistic talents.
-
Skin Deep? Reading the Surfaces of the Body in Ancient Greek Literature and Science
The skin has recently gained attention within body studies for its many specific cultural and social associations, in addition to its biology. This project aims to examine the different layers of meaning and the functions invested in the skin in ancient Greece: how did ancient Greek literary and medical…
-
ACPA - Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
At ACPA, the collaboration between Leiden University and the University of the Arts The Hague, artistry and academia meet at the highest level.
-
Online Experience Arts, Media and Society
Study information, Online Experience
-
LEiden university NexuS of Arts | Media | Politics
The purpose of LENS is to foster, coordinate and support research of visual media of analog and digital photography, film, and video, and the visual arts.
-
Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
The arts and science: for years, they were seen as opposite extremes. One calls on emotion and the other on reason. The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) proves that nothing could be further from the truth. ACPA is where the knowledge and expertise of Leiden University and the University…
-
Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS)
Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) is dedicated to ground-breaking and interdisciplinary research dealing with the relations between culture and society.
-
Marijke Klokke
Faculty of Humanities
m.j.klokke@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2417
-
Ivo Smits
Faculty of Humanities
i.b.smits@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2545
-
Fiscale geheimhoudingsplicht: art. 67 AWR ontrafeld
On 14 September 2021, Bram van der Sar defended his thesis 'Fiscale geheimhoudingsplicht: art. 67 AWR ontrafeld'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. J.P. Boer and Prof. A.O. Lubbers.
-
Caroline van Eck
Faculty of Humanities
c.a.van.eck@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
-
Juliette Roding
Faculty of Humanities
j.g.roding@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
-
Doreen Müller
Faculty of Humanities
d.mueller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4954
-
Guy Livingston
Faculty of Humanities
g.p.livingston@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
-
Stijn Bussels
Faculty of Humanities
s.p.m.bussels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2693
-
Dorine Schellens
Faculty of Humanities
d.e.a.schellens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 6553
-
Otto Boele
Faculty of Humanities
o.f.boele@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2085
-
Greek criticism and Latin literature. Classicism and cultural interaction in the late republican and early imperial Rome
This project examines the intriguing relationship between Greek literary criticism and Latin literature in Rome (first centuries BC and AD).
-
Blood, Tears and Samurai Love: A Tragic Tale from Eighteenth-Century Japan
Leiden-Yale collaboration uncovers a tale of samurai same-sex love in a library manuscript.
-
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer wins Libris Literature Prize
Classics alumnus Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has won the Libris Literature Prize this year with his book La Superba. The Libris Literature Prize is one of the most prestigious awards in Dutch literature.
-
Vacancies: PhD positions Art History/French Literature (Université de Lausanne)
The University of Lausanne is hiring 2 PhD's in the domain of art history and French literature. Projects have a specific focus on North West Europe. Candidates should apply before May 1st, 2024.
-
Esther Op de Beek
Faculty of Humanities
e.a.op.de.beek@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4381