82 search results for “aesthetics” in the Staff website
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Lisanne Jansen
Faculty of Humanities
l.jansen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Janneke Wesseling
Faculty of Humanities
j.c.wesseling@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
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Andries Hiskes
Faculty of Humanities
a.r.hiskes@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Robert Zwijnenberg
Faculty of Humanities
r.zwijnenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Herman Siemens
Faculty of Humanities
h.w.siemens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 7040
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Anders Ottosson
Faculty of Humanities
b.a.ottosson@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2166
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Marcos Neto de Cordova
Faculty of Humanities
m.neto.de.cordova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Ali Shobeiri
Faculty of Humanities
s.a.shobeiri@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2752
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AI & Art: Aesthetics and Politics of Artificial Neural Networks
Arts and culture, Artist Lecture & Workshop
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Nidesh Lawtoo
Faculty of Humanities
n.lawtoo@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2644
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Ksenia Fedorova
Faculty of Humanities
k.fedorova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2952
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LUCAS “Role of Experience in Arts of Criticism, Rhetoric, and Aesthetics” Research Presentations
Exhibition
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Van de Waal Lecture 2022: Futurism and Europe: The aesthetics of a new world
Alumni event, Lecture
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Tracing Shumi: Politics and Aesthetics in Modern Japanese Literary Discourse and Fiction
PhD defence
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Francesco Ragazzi (ReCNTR), Artistic Research and the Techno-aesthetics of Infrastructure
Lecture, Conversation
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Antje Wessels
Faculty of Humanities
a.b.wessels@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2681
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Yasco Horsman
Faculty of Humanities
y.horsman@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2777
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Pepita Hesselberth
Faculty of Humanities
p.hesselberth@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2202
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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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Theopolitical Patchworks: Rule and Material Religion in Rio de Janeiro
Lecture, Research Seminar
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Sustainability in and around the Herta Mohr Building: Explore the interactive infographic
The Herta Mohr Building is leading the way in sustainable innovations, for both Leiden University buildings and beyond. It is the university’s first fully gas-free building and the new Thermal Energy Storage system alone will cut carbon emissions by 150,000 kg per year. The building has an ‘Excellent’…
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Liesbet Nyssen
Faculty of Humanities
e.a.nyssen@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2171
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Meet Dr. Kathyrn Brackney, LJSA Member
Dr. Brackney is a modern European intellectual and cultural historian with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Before coming to Leiden, she held postdoctoral teaching posts in the History & Literature program at Harvard University and the Pozen Center for Human Rights at the University of Chicago.
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Physics in the picture: cancer cells as an explosion of fireworks
When you think of physics, do you think only of complicated formulas? You’re not the only one. Therefore, every year, the Leiden Insitute of Physics organises the LION Image Award to show another side of physics: beautiful images about intriguing science. The winner of the 2022 photo competition captured…
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Student team wins Minecraft programming challenge
A programming competition in Minecraft? It really exists! And even better news: this time LIACS’ student team Mike's Angels achieved the first place! The team has been rewarded $500.
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(Call for Papers) Classics Colloquium: Migrants and Membership Regimes in the Ancient Greek World
Research
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Read the three most downloaded papers by CADS researchers
Three of our researchers have been awarded a certificate for receiving enough downloads to be in the top 10% of papers in 2022
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Vietnam on Dutch maps
In 2023, it will be fifty years since Vietnam and the Netherlands established diplomatic relations. This will be commemorated in both countries. At the beginning of November, outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte visited Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. On that occasion Leiden University Libraries will launch…
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Exhibition Maps: navigation and manipulation
Are maps objective or do they convey hidden messages that you would miss at first glance? A map is always a simplification of reality. Mapmakers reduce, distort and select. This allows the reader to be guided literally and figuratively. Leiden University Libraries (UBL) and the Museum Volkenkunde jointly…
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Leiden students offer ideas on restoring an antique ship
How do you go about the sustainable restoration of a nineteenth-century ship without affecting its historical worth? Leiden University students from the master’s programme in Industrial Ecology spent six months working on this question. We spoke to Hidde Boom (25) and Tycho Jongenelen (25), two of the…
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Why have murals been used in social and political movements?
Take a walk through any city, and you are likely to come across a brightly coloured mural. Although these paintings often seem to serve solely as a backdrop for Instagram snapshots, art history professor Minna Valjakka says there are rich traditions and intricate histories that uncover more critical…
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A dead language comes to life: Early medieval Old English in the 21st century
From films, video games and historical novels to Nordic folk bands, Old English from the early Middle Ages is experiencing a revival in the 21st century. Together with international colleagues, university lecturer Thijs Porck (LUCAS) made a book about the 'resurrection' of this dead language.
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Exhibition of sound installation 'Bird language' by Helena Nikonole
Exhibition, Exhibition
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Zheng Bo's drawing class: Chinese botanicals in the Hortus Botanicus
Lecture, Workshop
- 5th Meeting reading group 'The Role of Experience'
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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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Translating Jurjani: Why read an eleventh-century text about Arabic poetics?
Lecture, Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language & Culture
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Disentangling citizenship from nationality and inclusion from belonging in Chile
VVI Research Meetings 2023-2024
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Immersion without Mimesis: Song-Dynasty Cybernetics, the Game of Go, and Autopoeisis in Premodern Chinese Literature
Lecture, China Seminar
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Vidi grants for 12 researchers from Leiden University
An impressive 12 researchers from Leiden University have been awarded an 800,000-euro grant by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). This will enable them to develop their own line of research over the next five years.
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Mapping the universe with a NWO grant of 3.1 million
With the new Euclid satellite, scientists are going to map a large part of the sky. The satellite ofthe European Space Agency (ESA) will soon give them a better view of the galaxies and matter in the universe. Professor of Galactic Astronomy Koen Kuijken and a team of Dutch scientists are receiving…
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Black Hole Images as Artifacts of Human Choice | Rijksmuseum Boerhaave Exhibition
Delve into the depths of black hole imaging as anthropologist Rodrigo Ochigame unveils the human decisions shaping its portrayal. Explore four alternative color choices at the 'Towards the Black Hole' exhibit, now showing at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, Leiden.
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Beatrice Gründler: ‘Literary text can help us understand Europe better’
'Consider languages in their shared context.' That is the message of Professor and Arabist Beatrice Gründler, who will receive an honorary doctorate from Leiden University on 8 February. ‘I would like people to learn that Arabic history has a close connection with Europe.’
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Octogenarian underground poets, political language turned on its head, and more: unofficial poetry from China in Digital Collections
Over 30.000 pages of new material have been added to the online collection of unofficial poetry publications from China in the Leiden Digital Collections. Produced outside the system, these journals and books are hugely influential yet very hard to find. To address this paradox, Leiden University Libraries…
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Alex Geurds receives NWO Vici grant for investigating human-environmental engagement across Central America & Colombia
During pre-Columbian times, the Central American isthmus was marked by dynamic exchange and human mobility. Despite this, indigenous communities were archaeologically stable between AD 300 and the 16th-century Spanish colonisation, contrasting with the cycles of florescence and decline of neighbouring…
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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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‘Searching for Justice’ at 2024 EPFR Research Day
On Friday 22 March, the Effective Protection of Fundamental Rights research programme held a successful Annual Research Day (Toogdag) in Gravensteen building. This year’s theme was ‘The Concept of Justice in a War Era: The Cases of Gaza, South Sudan and Bosnia and Herzegovina’.
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How touchscreens and eye trackers can tell us something about the dating life of orangutans
Aesthetic attraction plays a big role in orangutans’ mate choice, behavioural biologist and PhD candidate Tom Roth has observed. But to discover just how big that role is, more research is needed into the emotions of the great apes.