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Modern and Contemporary Studies

How would Jane Austen celebrate Christmas?

With Christmas just around the corner, LUCAS PhD candidate Fernanda Korovsky Moura looks back to holiday festivities in the Georgian era, and explores how Jane Austen (1775-1817) experienced and celebrated Christmas.

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Mocking the Monarch: What Do Memes About Queen Elizabeth II Have In Common With Unruly Spectators of Renaissance Spectacle?

Modern and Contemporary Studies

“My hobby is Netflix, so what?” – Stranger Things and platformized fandom

You might have seen it around on someone’s Tinder profile or overheard it in a nearby train conversation: “My hobby is Netflix.” Does being active on a streaming platform count as an actual hobby now? Mitchell van Vuren argues that it is – most of us might have already become a ‘Netflix fan.’

Modern and Contemporary Studies

Georges Perec and his Sites of Memory

Lieux, by the 20th-century French author Georges Perec, is an experimental collection of texts and photographs describing the author’s sites of memory. In this blog, Annelies Schulte Nordholt introduces you to Perec’s and to her own book Georges Perec et ses lieux de mémoire (Brill, Leiden, 2022).

Modern and Contemporary Studies

The Evolving Videogame Input – Motion as Means of Interaction

Videogames dominate the entertainment industry because they necessitate interaction, transforming spectators into players. This interaction has assumed multiple forms. Miguel Mira explores how motion as a means of interaction seems to have found a home as an integral part of virtual reality.

Classics and Classical Civilisation

Off-Beat: Did Galen Really Pioneer Diagnostic Use of the Pulse?

The internet presents a maelstrom of misinformation when it comes to ancient medicine. In this blog, Glyn debunks a claim about an important ancient medical author: Galen. He examines several older biological texts to refute that Galen was the first to use examination of the pulse in diagnosis.