Leiden Arts in Society Blog

Classics and Classical Civilisation

Ships and Shipwrecks: What an Ancient Latin Poem Can Tell Us about Meloni’s Immigration Policies

A Latin poem by one of Catullus’ fellow poets and the immigration policies adopted by Italy’s far-right-led government share a similar perspective on non-European people. In this blog post, Francesco Busti reflects on Europe’s millennia-old exploitative attitudes towards the rest of the world.

Francesco Busti • 25-03-2024

Modern and Contemporary Studies

Extinction rebellion, the struggle for law, and the role of the arts – or scholars

In this entry, Professor of Literature, Culture and Law, Frans-Willem Korsten reflects upon the struggle for law and the role of the arts in the midst of the current Extinction Rebellion protest at the A12 motorway in The Hague, September 2023.

Frans-Willem Korsten • 15-09-2023

Classics and Classical Civilisation

It’s all fun and games until Diogenes shows up: wit, Homeric quotations, and death-images in the anecdotes regarding our most favourite Cynic

Can Homeric parody be a means of criticizing society? In this blog post Giorgia Garuti, PhD candidate at the University of Pisa and visiting researcher at LUCAS until last May, explores the function of Homeric quotations in two anecdotes regarding Diogenes of Sinope.

Giorgia Garuti • 19-06-2023

Modern and Contemporary Studies

The History of VR – An Ancient Pursuit

When did humanity first begin to create the sensation of being in VR? Miguel Mira reflects on the history of the medium, considering Oliver Grau’s theory on the immersive qualities of the Villa dei Misteri all the way to Morton Heilig’s Sensorama machine.

Miguel Mira • 09-06-2023

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

“I’ve got a blank space, baby”: Untangling Organizational Strategies in Early Modern Manuscript Compilations

How do you organize the texts you copy into blank notebooks? In this blog, Holly Riach reflects on the manuscripts she consulted at the Huntington Library, California, and explores what a blank page can tell us about the production and organization of textual collections in early modern England.

Holly Riach • 25-05-2023

Classics and Classical Civilisation

Accius in Leiden

How did the work done, sometimes in extraordinary circumstances, by a few seventeenth-century Dutch scholars connected with Leiden University contribute to shaping the way in which we experience the fragments of the Roman poet Accius today? That is a story I propose to investigate in this blog post.

Basil L. P. Nelis • 11-05-2023

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Ships and Shipwrecks: What an Ancient Latin Poem Can Tell Us about Meloni’s Immigration Policies

Extinction rebellion, the struggle for law, and the role of the arts – or scholars

It’s all fun and games until Diogenes shows up: wit, Homeric quotations, and death-images in the anecdotes regarding our most favourite Cynic

The History of VR – An Ancient Pursuit

“I’ve got a blank space, baby”: Untangling Organizational Strategies in Early Modern Manuscript Compilations

Accius in Leiden