Art

Modern and Contemporary Studies

LUCAS Explains #6: Why would you rather see a 3D printed copy of the Goldfinch than the original?

Being in (partial) lockdown since March, it has become hard if not impossible to bathe in the ‘aura’ that original artworks radiate. Liselore Tissen explains how a 3D printed copy of the Goldfinch can bring you even closer to your beloved authentic artwork than ever before.

Modern and Contemporary Studies

LUCAS Graduate Conference - Animals: Theory, Practice, Representation

On 4 and 5 April, young scholars from a diverse array of research institutions across Europe, America, and Asia gathered together in Leiden for the LUCAS Graduate Conference 2019 under the theme of "Animals: Theory, Practice, Representation".

Modern and Contemporary Studies

MOM 2: Art and the Maternal

23 to 31 March is the Dutch National Week of the Book. The month March will be devoted to this year's theme ‘de moeder de vrouw’, as the Month of the Mother (MOM). This week: how art contemplates experiences of childbirth and postpartum trauma.

Modern and Contemporary Studies

History, Gender, and Power at the Auckland Art Gallery

Two artists featured at the Auckland Art Gallery in New Zealand, Pati Solomona Tyrell and Jasmine Togo-Brisby, invite and challenge visitors to engage with diversity of gender expression and the problematic history of slavery in the South Pacific.

LUCAS 2019 Graduate Conference - Animals: Theory, Practice, Representation

On April 4th and 5th, 2019, Leiden University Centre for Arts in Society (LUCAS) will be hosting a conference called Animals: Theory, Practice, and Representation.

Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Dolls for Adults

Dolls as devotional aids, liturgical props and objects of desire: on the various ways medieval adults interacted with dolls and lifelike sculptures.

Classics and Classical Civilisation · Medieval and Early Modern Studies · Modern and Contemporary Studies

Landscape: The LUCAS Graduate Conference

Some reflections on last week's LUCAS Graduate Conference on 'Landscape'