791 search results for “middle arts” in the Staff website
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New Cluster Zuid building is taking shape
A lot has happened at Cluster Zuid since the highest point of the building was reached in December. See the photo report below.
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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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Arthur CrucqFaculty of Humanities
a.k.c.crucq@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5276275
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Sai EnglertFaculty of Humanities
s.p.englert@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2738
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Lucas da Costa MacielFaculty of Archaeology
l.da.costa.maciel@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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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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Clay tablets dating back thousands of years moved: ‘From receipts to the oldest literary works’
How do you move 3,000 fragile clay tablets that date back thousands of years? This was the challenge faced by staff from the Netherlands Institute for the Near East (NINO). After years of preparation, the Liagre Böhl collection has been moved on trolleys to its new home.
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Guide dogs: anything but a modern invention
For a long time, even many researchers thought that guide dogs were a relatively modern invention. An accidental encounter with archival material showed university lecturer Krista Milne that guide dogs helped their blind owners as far back as the Middle Ages. Milne now has received an NWO XS grant to…
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Professor by special appointment Mariken Teeuwen: ‘There are so many new possibilities in research on medieval manuscripts’
Mariken Teeuwen started at the Institute for History as a professor by special appointment of Script Culture of the Middle Ages on 1 March. ‘I’m looking forward to doing research together with students.’
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NIAS grant for Robert Stein: Where do receipts come from?
Nowadays they can cause the fall of ministers, but once upon a time receipts were a new phenomenon. Associate Professor Robert Stein is to receive a grant from NIAS to map their origins.
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Online Experience Leiden University College The Hague
Study information, Online Experience
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Historiography and Palaeography of Sasanian Middle Persian Inscriptions
PhD defence
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Henk BorgdorffFaculty of Humanities
h.a.borgdorff@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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The Art of Belonging
Inaugural 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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Sense Embodied: Cloves and Olfactory Transitions in Middle Period China
Lecture
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Kitty ZijlmansFaculty of Humanities
c.j.m.zijlmans@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
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Robert ZwijnenbergFaculty of Humanities
r.zwijnenberg@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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These students studied Byzantine Rome... in Rome: ‘It was an immersive experience’
Professor Joanita Vroom, together with the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offered the course Byzantine Rome in September 2023. The course, co-taught by Vroom, Letty ten Harkel and various guest lecturers, investigated the transition of the city of Rome from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages,…
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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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David Pieter SchaperFaculty of Archaeology
d.p.schaper@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 06 12754061
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Ashleigh Morris
Faculty of Archaeology
a.j.b.morris@arch.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Coming this fall: Al-Babtain visiting professor Hugh Kennedy
This fall, LUCIS will have the pleasure of welcoming Professor Hugh Kennedy from SOAS University of London to Leiden. He is the fourth Abdulaziz Saud Al-Babtain Cultural Foundation Visiting Professor in Arabic Culture at Leiden University.
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Marie SoressiFaculty of Archaeology
m.a.soressi@arch.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 5355
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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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Sigrid van Roode: ‘Zār jewellery reveals the world of unseen Egyptians’
Zār jewellery from Egypt can be found in many museums and private collections in the West, but for a long time very little was known about it, except that it was used in rituals to protect against spirit possession. PhD candidate Sigrid van Roode has explored its history and discovered that the jewellery…
- Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics in the Low Countries (SOEMEHL)
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NWO grant for research on Aramaic inscriptions: 'Palmyra is more than blown-up tombs'
Two thousand years ago, the Middle East found itself caught between the rise of the Roman Empire in the west and the Parthian Empire in the east. PhD candidate Nolke Tasma has been awarded an NWO grant to investigate how local inhabitants experienced these changes.
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Palestinian-Israeli Coexistence in the Middle East
Debate
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Indonesian Art Historiography: National and Transnational Perspectives
PhD defence
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Nike van HeldenFaculty of Humanities
n.van.helden@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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YAL and JUL Science meets Art Exposition
Exhibition
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Absence as Artistic Strategy in Contemporary Art
Conference
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47th Symposium on Old English, Middle English and Historical Linguistics (#SOEMEHL47)
Conference
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Laura BertensFaculty of Humanities
l.m.f.bertens@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272154
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Elizabeth den HartogFaculty of Humanities
e.den.hartog@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2686
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Notes on the contemporary Art Novel
Lecture, Seminar
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Dan XuFaculty of Science
d.xu@liacs.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5277061
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Svetlana KharchenkovaFaculty of Humanities
s.s.kharchenkova@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 1180
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Museum Talk: Art amid the Ruins
Lecture
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Leiden Reflections: Art, Creativity and AI
Alumni event, Lezing
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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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Environmental Humanities: Science, Art, and Activism
Lecture
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Vici for Petra Sijpesteijn: 'Islamic Empire rapidly became unified'
After the death of the Prophet Muhammad, the Islamic Empire expanded at a tremendous pace. Within a hundred years, it stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian subcontinent. How did such a rapidly conquered territory become one empire? Professor Petra Sijpesteijn has been awarded a Vici grant…
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EAMENA (Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa): One database to rule them all?
Lecture
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Céline ZaepffelFaculty of Humanities
c.v.zaepffel@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Stone Age Chronicles: The Middle to Later Stone Age Transition in Southern Africa
Conference
- Workshop: Wisdom literature in the Islamicate Middle Ages
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Lingyun Lai
Faculty of Humanities
l.lai@hum.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727
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Dettje BakkerFaculty of Humanities
d.j.bakker.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl | 071 5272727