News
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Publication - Bridging Distance: Artistic Research During a Pandemic 05 July 2022
Bridging Distance presents the outcome of the Research Group (2020) of the KABK Lectorate Art Theory & Practice.
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ACPA alumnus Clarence Charles on functions of calypso music as a cultural expression 04 July 2022
Charles wrote an article 'Assimilating Afro Caribbean Carnivalesque Culture' for the publication 'Understanding América. The essential contribution of...
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Publication: Making Matters - A Vocabulary for Collective Arts 07 June 2022
The publication Making Matters - A Vocabulary for Collective Arts marks the end of the NWO project 'Bridging art, design and technology through Critic...
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Book launch ‘The promise of music’ 21 April 2022
Over the past year, the lectorate ‘Music, Education & Society’ has worked on a publication with contributions from students and staff from the KC call...
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dis/cord : Thinking Sound through Agential Realism 14 April 2022
ACPA alumnus Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn has just published a new book at Punctum Books - dis/cord: Thinking Sound through Agential Realism.
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Dissertation Joost Grootens awarded as one the Best Dutch Book Designs 2021. 21 March 2022
PhDArts alumnus Joost Grootens’ book 'Blind Maps and Blue Dots: The Blurring of the Producer-User Divide in the Production of Visual Information’ has ...
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards 17 February 2022
Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independe...
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Curator Ruurd Halbertsma: ‘Surely we can’t just sweep away antiquity?’ 06 December 2021
Like many others, Ruurd Halbertsma has had a rollercoaster of a year. His museum, the National Museum of Antiquities (RMO), was closed for a long whil...
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Podcast: students decipher a rare Chinese document 13 September 2021
Last February, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) acquired a rare Chinese manuscript dating back to the Ming Dynasty. Three Chinese Studies students go...
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Podcast: Urban Life in Catalonia in the 14th Century with Jeff Fynn-Paul 06 September 2021
Most of us know that Venice, Genoa, and Florence were major Mediterranean powers during the Renaissance. But did you know that in terms of trade and s...
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Master’s students create Graduate Journal: ‘It represents the development we’ve achieved’ 28 June 2021
A celebration was held in the Tabú restaurant: Mark Rutgers, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, was presented with the first copy of LEAP, a journal w...
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The Netherlands enthralled by Spanish theatre 07 June 2021
Joost van den Vondel is considered to be the greatest Dutch poet and playwright of his time, but he certainly wasn’t the most popular. The 17th- and 1...
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“The Silence of the Monks - The Ethics of Everyday Sounds” by Marcel Cobussen in Ethics and Christian Musicking 01 June 2021
Point of departure of this meditation on the ethical role of sounds and silences within Christian rites and other religious practices is the documenta...
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Marcel Cobussen on 'Listening as a Multisensorial Experience' in The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy 01 June 2021
Marcel Cobussen wrote the essay “Listening as a Multisensorial Experience” for The Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy.
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The Skandapurāṇa Volume V published 17 May 2021
Skandapurāṇa V presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 92-112 from the Skandapurāṇa, with an introduction and annotated English synopsis.