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Modern and Contemporary Studies

Entering Bo Burnham’s Inside: Reframing Internet Conventions

In Inside performer Bo Burnham attempts to come to terms with performing for an audience, via the internet, alone. He intermingles multiple conventions in a singular performance that speaks volumes about our contemporary digital age. Have a look Inside: “Come on in the water is fine.”

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Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Enlightened Spaces: The eighteenth-century interior and the study of decorative arts at Leiden University

The University has long fostered the study of the decorative arts and domestic culture and has produced several notable specialists in this field. A new series of public lectures on the eighteenth-century interior organised by Alexander Dencher continues this tradition.

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

#ArchiveEmotion: my eighteenth century telenovela

In a previous post, I mentioned the slow-pace of working with archives. Reading through metres of paper is however anything but boring. Besides finding material for our research we often find extremely interesting stories. Think of it as a paper telenovela of people that lived hundreds of years ago.

Modern and Contemporary Studies

Antigone in Kinshasa

The documentary Les fantômes de Lovanium commemorates the 1969 and 1971 student revolts against Mobutu. While Congolese painter Sapin Makengele visualizes the tragedy that took place, students and other bystanders start to share their stories. Through their stories, the spirit of Antigone emerges.

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Where have all the women gone? Challenging structural patriarchy and rethinking feminist art history

Where have all the women gone? It can be difficult, sometimes, to find evidence of female participation in the arts and culture of the early modern period. Catherine Powell explores how we can locate women and their participation by asking different questions.