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Book about villa in Bandung shows links between the Netherlands and Indonesia 25 November 2022
A new book about Villa Isola in Indonesia reveals some of the shared history of the Netherlands and Indonesia. The book was presented on Thursday to A...
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Book publication - The Partimenti of Giovanni Paisiello. Pedagogy and Practice 10 November 2022
This book, by ACPA alumna Nicoleta Paraschivescu, is the first study to address Giovanni Paisiello's (1740-1816) work as a teacher of composition and ...
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Doesn’t Play Well with Others: Performance and Embodiment in Brahms’s Chamber Music with Piano 08 November 2022
Anna Scott (ACPA) contributed to the book Rethinking Brahms, edited by Nicole Brahms and Reuben Philips, with a chapter about performance and embodime...
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Letters of Johan de Witt give a glimpse behind the scenes at the Disaster Year 1672 31 October 2022
The government, the people and the country were in desperate straits. This about sums up the state of affairs in the Disaster Year of 1672. It was 350...
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Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana 21 October 2022
Over 600 manuscripts and early prints have been made digitally available by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) via the Europeana platform. In the proje...
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Exhibition Maps: navigation and manipulation 20 October 2022
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 reduc...
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Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Annie Ernaux - a reading list 06 October 2022
The 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded to French writer Annie Ernaux (1940). In an explanation, the Swedish Academy praises Ernaux 'for t...
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When you know how your brain works, you better understand who you are 04 October 2022
On Sept. 29, Lara Wierenga, together with graphic designer Dirma Janse, presented their new book Atlas of our Brain. In the presence of fellow scienti...
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Two new publications by Sven Lütticken 27 September 2022
In September Lütticken released two new publications: 'Objections- Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1' and 'Art and Autonomy: A Critical Reader'.
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Recently the book “Privaatrecht 2050. De weg naar ecologische duurzaamheid” is published 23 September 2022
Recently the book “Privaatrecht 2050. De weg naar ecologische duurzaamheid” is published.
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'AI for Healthcare Robotics'. New book by Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and Hadassah Drukarch 20 September 2022
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga and Hadassah Drukarch from eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, recently published the book ‘AI for Healthcare Robo...
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A preposterous mix? Willem Otterspeer covers the University’s history one more time 20 September 2022
The biographer of Leiden University, Willem Otterspeer, has a new book out. In ‘De stad, de dood en de dichters’ (The City, Death and the Poets) he co...
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Sound Practices in the Global South: Co-listening to Resounding Plurilogues 19 September 2022
ACPA alumnus Budhaditya Chattopadhyay explores sound practices across South Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America in his new publication 'S...
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European Drama and Performance Studies 2022 – 2, n° 19 - Historical Acting Techniques and the 21st-Century Body 19 September 2022
In the journal series European Drama and Performance Studies, Jed Wentz has edited issue n° 19 - Historical Acting Techniques and the 21st-Century Body.
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eLaw publishes a new book on Law and AI 29 August 2022
From deepfakes and disinformation to killer robots, surgical robots and AI lawmaking: AI (Artificial Intelligence) is changing our world. That raises ...