1,047 search results for “african art” in the Public website
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Internationalisation in Fine Arts and Design Higher Education in Europe
This research intends to study the why, what, how and the possible outcome of internationalisation in higher education institutions of fine art and design.
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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?
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Arts, Literature and Media
Are you thinking about studying Arts, Literature and Media? Learn more and watch the introduction video and the programme presentation.
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Cattle-talk: the language of colour among East African pastoralists
What categories exist in the languages of pastoralists? Do these semantic concepts reflect universal or languagespecific tendencies? What (environment? culture?) governs the similarities (or the differences) attested crosslinguistically in cattle colour systems?
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Essays on African languages and linguistics : in honour of Maarten Mous
This book celebrates Maarten Mous, professor of African Linguistics at Leiden University.
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Raja Ampat Ritual Art
Spirit priests and ancestor cults in new guinea's far west
- Teaching Art History and Cultural and Art Education (MA)
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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.
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ARC (art_research_convergence)
ARC (art_research_convergence) is an outreach initiative of Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, and the University of the Arts The Hague, for the active communication of artistic research.
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Collaboration and contestation in words: Dialogues and disputes in African social realities
In African societies today, growing inequality and continued exclusion due to ethnicity, gender, religion, disability or sexual orientation give rise to both contestation and cooperation for social change. How does the written or spoken word lead to collaboration and contestation in areas of social…
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Valuing lives and deaths: an ethnography of life insurance amongst African Americans in New Orleans
Part of ‘Moralising Misfortune: A comparative anthropology of commercial insurance’, an ERC Consolidator project of Erik Bähre.
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Arts, Media and Society (BA)
Visual art today is strongly interlinked with today’s society, a connection which is reinforced and deepened by social and other media. In Arts, Media and Society, a specialisation of our Art History bachelor's programme, you will explore this relationship and analyse how it reflects and impacts the…
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Arts and culture
Visit an exhibition, a concert or learn to paint.
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Historicising Art and Literature
Historicising Art and Literature is one of the six research themes of the LUCAS Modern and Contemporary cluster.
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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?
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Interreligious Encounter in a West African City: A Study of Multiple Religious Belonging and Identity Among the Yorùbá of Ogbómòsó, Nigeria
How has interreligious encounter in Ogbómòsó created multiple religious belongings and identities among individuals and groups?
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Youth, Media and Protest: Histories of Engaging in Central African politics and social life
How do old and new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) relate to new social and political movements in Central Africa? What does this tell us about Africa and the Information Age?
- Liberal Arts & Sciences: Global Challenges
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Heleen Smits
Afrika-Studiecentrum
h.j.smits@asc.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3355
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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).
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When Art Isn’t Real
How an initially valueless object becomes worth hundreds of millions. And vice versa.
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Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration (PARC) |>/~\|≥(
The Platform for Arts Research in Collaboration (PARC) is a new online and offline platform for researchers working in and beyond the fields of Composition, Music, Art and Design to exchange knowledge, experiences and public events, stimulate collaboration and increase the visibility of their research…
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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.
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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.
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Arts, Literature and Media (research) (MA)
This interdisciplinary research master offers the best of three worlds (arts, literature and media) through a programme of well-designed courses, combining theoretical and historical training with free space for specialisation.
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Online Experience Arts, Media and Society
Study information, Online Experience
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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.
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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…
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National Culture and Africa Revisited: Ethnolinguistic Group Data From 35 African Countries
This study seeks to partially fill the knowledge gap about national culture in Africa, basing its research on data on ethnolinguistic groups (instead of administrative regions).
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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.
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Doreen Müller
Faculty of Humanities
d.mueller@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 4954
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Caroline van Eck
Faculty of Humanities
c.a.van.eck@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Juliette Roding
Faculty of Humanities
j.g.roding@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Visual arts programme: Practicum Artium (PA)
Practicum Artium (PA) is a programme specially developed for students of Leiden University with a talent for visual arts and an interest in artistic research. Art and research feed on one another and are intertwined in many ways. In Practicum Artium, you will explore artistic practices and methods,…
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Guy Livingston
Faculty of Humanities
g.p.livingston@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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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.
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The Third Avant-garde: contemporary art from Southeast Asia recalling tradition
How are contemporary art practices from Southeast Asia negotiating notions of art and tradition?
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Stefano Bellucci
Faculty of Humanities
s.bellucci@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 3473
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Places of art, traces of fire
A contextual approach to anthropomorphic figurines in the Pavlovian (Central Europe, 29-24 kyr BP) (2001)
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Paula Harvey
Faculty of Humanities
p.j.harvey.2@umail.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2727
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Centre for Art, Literature and Law (CALL)
The center studies the many ways in which issues of law and justice are dealt with in art and literature with a focus on liminal issues and cases. These are issues and cases where law comes to the limits of what it is capable of dealing with and art and literature explore the implications of what is…
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nature: the representation of post-nuclear landscapes in contemporary art and culture
How does contemporary art and culture represent nuclear contamination in post-nuclear landscapes?
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Anne van Dam
Faculty of Humanities
a.n.van.dam@hum.leidenuniv.nl | +31 71 527 2166
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Management of small-scale -African fisheries: The Case of Elephant Marsh in Malawi
How does the management of Elephant Marsh Fishery in Malawi relate to wider contexts of policies, theories and regions? And how can the current management system be adapted to achieve long-term sustainability of the fishery?
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Politics of Withdrawal Media, Arts, Theory
'Politics of Withdrawal' considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal for radical thinking today.
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Medisch beroepsgeheim en de zorgplicht van de arts bij kindermishandeling in de rechtsverhouding tussen arts, kind en ouders
On 19 February 2019, Mirjam Sombroek-van Doorm defended her thesis 'Medisch beroepsgeheim en de zorgplicht van de arts bij kindermishandeling in de rechtsverhouding tussen arts, kind en ouders'. The doctoral research was supervised by Prof. dr. A.G. Castermans en Prof. mr. C.J.J.M. Stolker.
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Propaganda Art from the 20th to the 21st Century
This study by artist Jonas Staal explores the development of propaganda art from the 20th to the 21st century.
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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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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.