Leiden Arts in Society Blog

Classics and Classical Civilisation

Curse and Comfort: Classics and the First World War

Can ancient texts be relatable to those who have just gone through the traumatic experience of armed combat? Well, according to some of the poets who composed their works during the First World War they can – while others suggest that they really can’t.

Renske Janssen • 30-01-2020

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

A Theatrical Whodunit II: Was this Sherlock mistaken?

In the second instalment in the hunt for the source of the Dutch translation of Calderón’s ‘La vida es sueño’, I will consider an alternative source that might have been used by Schouwenbergh for his Dutch translation made in Brussels in 1647.

Tim Vergeer • 23-01-2020

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

A Theatrical Whodunit

How did Calderón’s popular play 'La vida es sueño' come to the Low Countries? It seems that the Flemish-Portuguese printer Paulo Craesbeeck is responsible for this. In 1647, he published an anthology of Spanish plays, including Calderón's masterpiece.

Tim Vergeer • 09-01-2020

Modern and Contemporary Studies

Rumor or Reality? Moscow Conceptualism as a Challenge for our Contemporary Art Canon

What is Moscow Conceptualism? A late Soviet art movement that is part of our contemporary art canon or a rumor? Cultural historian Dorine Schellens sheds light on this question by looking at the interconnection between academic and artistic worlds.

Dorine Schellens • 05-12-2019

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

“Whatever Will Be Will Be” in Spanish Plays

When you are fluent in a language, you can still make mistakes. This is what happened to the Dutch playwright Theodore Rodenburgh when he adopted his life’s motto “Chi sara sara”.

Tim Vergeer • 28-11-2019

Modern and Contemporary Studies

Drawn to deviance: the deformed body exhibited

How and why is a body we see as ‘deformed’ able to arouse strong affective and aesthetic responses? Andries Hiskes explores how, where, and when a body is presented to us matters in how we experience it through a discussion of the film The Elephant Man.

Andries Hiskes • 21-11-2019

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Curse and Comfort: Classics and the First World War

A Theatrical Whodunit II: Was this Sherlock mistaken?

A Theatrical Whodunit

Rumor or Reality? Moscow Conceptualism as a Challenge for our Contemporary Art Canon

“Whatever Will Be Will Be” in Spanish Plays

Drawn to deviance: the deformed body exhibited