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Discovery of unknown translation of René Descartes’ 'L’homme' in Leiden Bibliotheca Thysiana 18 August 2022
From time to time, manuscripts that have remained hidden for centuries turn up in library collections and archives. In the archives of the 17th-centur...
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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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Digitised Chinese mega-maps now available in Open Access 20 June 2022
Three enormous maps of China, created during the reign of three different emperors of the Qing dynasty, have now been made available in open access an...
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New book reflects on power and normality 10 June 2022
Who determines what is wrong with children and how they develop? Educator and sociologist Annemieke van Drenth wrote a book about this that will be re...
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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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Exhibition Books that made history 31 May 2022
From Galileo Galilei to Albert Einstein and from Anna Maria van Schurman to Anton de Kom: only a selection of the 25 authors who's books and ideas had...
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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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UBL acquires rare Chinese Miao album 28 March 2022
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has been able to acquire an exceptional two-volume Miao album. The acquisition was made possible by the Rombouts Fun...
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How to make AI systems learn better 22 March 2022
Artificial intelligence systems are smart. They can recognize patterns better than humans, for example. Yet humans are still very much needed. How can...
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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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European foreign policy after a crisis: change and continuity 16 March 2022
‘Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy.’ That is the title of Nikki Ikani’s book that was published last month. We asked the writer five ...
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Rethinking community in upland, ‘indigenous’ South Asia 09 March 2022
Indigenous communities are often perceived as intrinsically cohesive, cherishing shared values, and united by common interests. The ‘tribes’ of South ...
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Book: The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East 02 March 2022
Five questions for James Shires, assistant professor at ISGA, about his new book, The Politics of Cybersecurity in the Middle East. The book is availa...