1,291 search results for “creative arts” in the Public website
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P.J. Veth Building (completed)
The refurbished P.J. Veth Building - the first completed sub-project in the Humanities Campus project - was officially opened in the summer of 2017. The Faculty of Humanities moved in straight away. . The building was meticulously transformed into a modern teaching building with attractive areas for…
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IncLUsion
Are you a refugee with an academic background and have you recently arrived in The Netherlands? Would you like to get to know Leiden University? You’re in the right place. The IncLUsion initiative makes it possible for refugees who are not (yet) able to register as students to follow courses at Leiden…
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Mathematics (BSc)
As a Mathematics student, you will learn to solve complex problems in creative ways using logical thinking and mathematical structures. A Mathematics degree will open many doors for you in society.
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Volume 2 (2020)
Issue 1
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Le roi sublime. Overwhelming Politics and Performance under Louis XIV
This project will clarify how these concepts operated in theoretical writings on performance ,this broadened conceptual framework will not only give us a clear view on how sublime effects in performance were theorized, it will also provide us a concrete apparatus to understand the cultural and political…
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LKV's Art Auction
Festival
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Ritualization of concert practice in Russian post-minimalist music
This research is driven by the necessity to investigate the subject of performing instrumental works by Russian post-minimalist composers, and to explore possibilities of incorporating the spiritual ideas that informed those works in a concert practice.
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Metropolis M in conversation with ACPA alumna Anja Groten
Contemporary art magazine Metropolis M talks with ACPA alumna Anja Groten about her dissertation and corresponding book she self-published with the Hackers & Designers collective.
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Alumni
Since 2009, at ACPA, 84 candidates received their PhD in Creative and Performing Arts. On this page you will find an overview of ACPA's alumni.
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Telders International Law Moot Court Competition
The main objective of the Telders International Law Moot Court Competition is to challenge students to excel in international law, consequently testing their creativity and powers of persuasion in a friendly competition. Students and academic staff throughout Europe consider participation to be a great…
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Making Sense of Illustrated Handwritten Archives
Many handwritten and illustrated archives contain a wealth of information, but are largely underexplored because they are complex and difficult for computers to decipher. The aim of this project is to develop a digital environment that resolves this challenge and connects heterogeneous archival content…
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Spiritual Corporeality: Towards Embodied Gnosis through a Dancing Language
Very generally speaking, this study aims at questioning and re-defining the mind-body epistemic problem within contemporary dance and art culture.
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Moving Early Music: Improvisation and the Work-Concept in Seventeenth- Century French Keyboard Performance
How can historically-informed performers step outside the confines of the work-concept?
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Career prospects
Open up a world of opportunities with your master's degree in Archaeology from Leiden University!
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Career prospects
Open up a world of opportunities with your master's degree in Archaeology from Leiden University!
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Career prospects
Open up a world of opportunities with your master's degree in Archaeology from Leiden University!
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Materialization of fixed media music- Towards performance/interpretation of fixed media electroacoustic music
What are the critical elements in sonic materialization of fixed media electroacoustic music and how can these parameters be classified? How would interpretation be defined in performing fixed media music? What are the creative and new ways of presenting fixed media music by incorporating all the presentation…
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MENA Cultures and Global Aesthetics
Aesthetic formations and cultural repertoires give meaning to our reality in ways that are never neutral. Focusing on the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its global interlocutors, this project brings together a team of scholars from Leiden University who bring in inter-disciplinary, inter-area…
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Court as a theatre: ‘There are great similarities between drama as an art form and the legal world’
The Lucia de Berk case or the suicide of Slobodan Praljak at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: certain trials keep popping up in media. In her dissertation, Tessa de Zeeuw examines the cultural appeal of such cases and analyses artistic responses. ‘Artworks sometimes have…
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The poetics of negativity in sound based artistic practice
This research proposal focuses on the investigation of the poetic potentials of negativity through the exploitation of failure in sound based artistic practices - a context that has not been extensively addressed.
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Publication prof.dr. Janneke Wesseling
Of Sponge, Stone and the Intertwinement with the Here and Now. A Methodology of Artistic Research
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Ann Bessemans sets world record: 606 words on one postage stamp
Ann Bessemans, who received her PhD degree from the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts Leiden University in 2012, has set a world record for the biggest number of words on a postage stamp.
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Lecture: Rediscovering an Indian musical tradition- a journey from melody of the present to notation of the past
On April 19th, well-known Indian singer and scholar Sumithra Vasudev will give a unique lecture and singing performance at the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Antiquities Museum) in Leiden.
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Reinbert de Leeuw receives Lifetime Achievement Award Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds
The Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Award this year goes to musician, conductor and composer Reinbert de Leeuw, because of his great merit for contemporary music within The Netherlands and abroad.
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Writing Performance
PhD candidate Lilo Nein investigates relations between texts and performances from the perspective of visual art.
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Anne Gerritsen
Faculty of Humanities
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Janneke Wesseling gives Keynote presentation at Symposium in Porto
On November 6th PhDArts Co-Director Dr. Janneke Wesseling has given a keynote presentation, entitled “On Methodology”, at the Symposium Conversations on Artistic Research in Porto (PRT).
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Career prospects
Graduates of the master's specialisation in Sociology of Policy in Practice are proficient in analysing and reporting global vulnerabilities and local forms of resilience.
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The Trio: masters of creation
The Trio, a people living in Suriname and Brazil, are ‘masters of creation’. Their immense knowledge of nature and materials enables them to live in the jungle. Archaeologist Jimmy Mans follows the Trio.
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To Research or Not To Research in the Post-disciplinary Academy?
On Saturday 16 October the Interdisciplinary Research Group ACPA/KABK/KC* gives a performative talk at the Vilnius Academy of Arts in Lithuania as part of the congress 'X-Disciplinarity in Artistic Research and Related Matters'.
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Two new English-taught bachelor’s programmes
An English-taught bachelor’s programme is a perfect way to prepare for the international job market! Starting in September 2017, two new English-taught bachelor’s programmes addressing topical issues, each from its own perspective, will be offered by Leiden University’s Faculty of Humanities.
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Automated Design and Analysis of Algorithms
The Automated Design and Analysis of Algorithms (ADA) research group pursues the development of Artificial Intelligence techniques that complement, rather than replace, human intelligence.
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Locations
Most degree programmes at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences are based in the Pieter de la Court building on the Wassenaarseweg in Leiden. Besides this location, some degree programmes are based in The Hague, at Campus The Hague’s Wijnhaven building.
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Celebrating our 444th anniversary
A faculty like ours is a treasure chest of and for languages, culture, and society. In the coming year, we will be making sure these treasures get extra attention, both internally and externally, during Leiden University’s 444th anniversary.
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Playing with light and shadow
Depictions of Rembrandt, Michelangelo and many other artists are given a new dimension in an exhibition in the hall of the Oude UB at Leiden University. The exhibition - 'Multiple Images' - opens officially on 15 February. Artist Rudi Struik has given the slides of Leiden art historian Henri van de…
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About the programme
To maximise your personal development, we ensure tutorials are small-scale and staff members extremely accessible. In year one, you’ll have an average of 12 contact hours, half of which comprise lectures (in English) and the remainder tutorials (optionally Dutch or English).
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Theatre & Presentation
The Leiden Academic Course Center offers various theater and presentation courses. For the performing arts courses it is possible to participate in the final presentations at the end of the semester to experience what it is like to be on stage. The presentation courses are very suitable for students…
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The idea of the primitive hut
Subproject of
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Leiden researchers work on exhibition about growth addiction
Museum De Lakenhal issued an open call for creative solutions to the problem of growth addiction. From over 500 submissions, they selected 15 artworks for the exhibition 'If things grow wrong'. These include the creations of Leiden researchers Peter van der Putten and Evert Jan van Leeuwen.
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Programme
Everyone is welcome at the Leiden Science Family Day. We have set up a programme with a variety of activities for children, teenagers and adults.
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Call for Applications PhDArts
PhD programme PhDArts is looking for new applicants!
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Leiden Translation Talk 24 May: Creativity in different translation modalities and its reception by readers
Lecture
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Defence Joost Grootens
It is a pleasure to announce that graphic designer Joost Grootens successfully defended his dissertation on April 23 to obtain the doctoral degree at Leiden University. Due to the coronavirus measures, it was not possible to organize a public defence.
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Sybille Lammes new professor of New Media and Digital Culture
Sybille Lammes is leaving Warwick University in Britain to research digital culture in daily life at Leiden University. She will start as professor New Media and Digital Culture on September 1st 2017
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Learning labs in conservatoire education
Music profession requires strong reflective, collaborative, creative and improvisational skills, yet prevailing one-to-one tuition in conservatoire education focuses mainly on transmission of craft skills. Examining effects of students' collaborative and experiential learning, as in learning labs, creates…
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The Reflections of Memory
An account of a cognitive approach to historically informed staging.
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Talks
Five talks will be given during the Leiden Science Family Day: two children's lectures and three lectures for adults. Will you be there ?
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Poiesis and the Performance Practice of Physically Polyphonic Notations
This research revolves around the philosophical and linguistic elements that naturally belong to the process of learning music scores, including complex contemporary repertoire distinguished by physically decoupled notations or physical polyphonic notations.
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Career prospects
Open up a world of opportunities with your master's degree in Archaeology from Leiden University!