Humanities Faculty Symposium

Today is the day! 🥳 Will we see you at the Humanities Faculty Symposium?

The world is transitioning out of a global pandemic, extreme weather conditions are becoming common as the world warms and a brutal war has erupted on the European continent, while long-lasting armed conflicts rage on elsewhere. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬?

The 2022 Faculty Symposium will serve as an illustration of the non-negligible importance of reflection from the viewpoint of 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬.

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Vandaag is het zover! 🥳 Zien we jou bij het Faculteitssymposium Geesteswetenschappen?

De wereld krabbelt langzaam maar zeker overeind na een pandemie, weersomstandigheden worden alsmaar extremer en een afschuwelijke oorlog is uitgebroken op het Europese continent, terwijl langdurige gewapende conflicten elders voortduren. 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐤𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐣?

Het Faculteitssymposium 2022 zal een illustratie zijn van het niet te verwaarlozen belang van reflectie vanuit de geesteswetenschappen in crises.

Here it is: the full programme for the 2022 Humanities Faculty Symposium: ‘Humanities in Crises’ 👆🏼

Stay tuned for more info on the lectures and speakers ❗️

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Daar is het dan: het volledige programma van het Faculteitssymposium 2022: ‘Humanities in Crises’ 👆🏼

Stay tuned voor meer informatie over de lezingen en sprekers ❗️

Writer and Journalist Bart Ledegang will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2022 Faculty Symposium next friday. Drop by to hear his infinitely impressive story!
(The Keynote lecture will be in Dutch)

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Schrijver en journalist Bart Ledegang is de Keynote Speaker van het Faculteitssymposium 2022 aanstaande vrijdag. Kom langs en hoor zijn ongekend indrukwekkende verhaal!

Like all other narrative art forms, film can entertain us and inspire us, but also educate us, warn us, mirror and question our most fundamental beliefs.

High time for film to play a prominent role in the Humanities Faculty Symposium!

Will you be there? Have you already seen Children of Men? Let us know in the comments!

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Zoals alle andere verhalende kunstvormen kan film ons vermaken en inspireren, maar ook informeren, waarschuwen, onze meest fundamentele overtuigingen weerspiegelen en bevragen.

Hoog tijd dat de film een prominente plaats krijgt in het Faculteitssymposium Geesteswetenschappen!

Ben jij erbij? Heb je Children of Men al gezien? Laat het weten in de comments!

On 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟕𝐭𝐡 we are once again hosting a Faculty Symposium! 🔥 The world is transitioning out of a global pandemic, extreme weather conditions are becoming common as the world warms and a brutal war has erupted on the European continent, while long-lasting armed conflicts rage on elsewhere. 𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐝𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬?

The 2022 Faculty Symposium will serve as an illustration of the non-negligible importance of reflection from the viewpoint of 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐬.

The speakers and schedule will be announced soon — so stay tuned!

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Op 𝐯𝐫𝐢𝐣𝐝𝐚𝐠 𝟏𝟕 𝐣𝐮𝐧𝐢 is er wederom een Faculteitssymposium! 🔥 De wereld krabbelt langzaam maar zeker overeind na de pandemie, weersomstandigheden worden alsmaar extremer en een afschuwelijke oorlog is uitgebroken op het Europese continent, terwijl langdurige gewapende conflicten elders voortduren. 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐤𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐥 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧 𝐝𝐞 𝐠𝐞𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐰𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐣?

Het Faculteitssymposium 2022 zal een illustratie zijn van het niet te verwaarlozen belang van reflectie vanuit de geesteswetenschappen in crises.

De sprekers en het programma worden binnenkort bekendgemaakt — dus stay tuned!

Without further ado, we present to you the full schedule for the next two days! Two evenings packed with interesting discussions and lectures about music in its broadest sense. Take a look and decide for yourself what you’d like to join!

The first mail with information has been sent to our applicants, so check your spam folder if it did not arrive. Another email will be sent tomorrow to all of you who apply between now and Tuesday 15:00 CEST And for those who still can’t find it, or did not have the chance to apply, not to worry! The links are added down below:

Kaltura channel 1:
https://smart.newrow.com/ #/room/frx-905

Kaltura channel 2:
https://smart.newrow.com/ #/room/zmn-571

The evening will kick off at 19:45, and this will happen in channel 1. After which the other speaker will switch to room 2. Each lecture will last approximately forty minutes, with ten minutes afterwards for any questions!

In case of a Kaltura failure, there is a back up platform on Microsoft Teams which we will switch to if necessary. The link of which is posted down below.

Teams platform:
https://teams.microsoft.com/l/channel/19%3a630a83e42db2401aa2f93918ec361261%40thread.tacv2/Algemeen?groupId=214f0871-5f3d-46a6-9b76-3a15f12c8492&tenantId=ca2a7f76-dbd7-4ec0-9108-6b3d524fb7c8.

We all hope to see you there!

Humanities Faculty Symposium updated their website address.

Humanities Faculty Symposium updated their info in the about section.

And our last speaker on the 12th of May will be Eveline de Bruin! Drs. de Bruin will be giving a lecture on song lyrics and what makes good song lyrics! Her lecture will begin at 21:00 in room 2 on our Kaltura platform, of which the links will be mailed through the sign-up! The language of this lecture will be primarily Dutch. The full schedule will be posted tomorrow, so stay tuned!

You can join us from 19:30, and the lecture will begin at 20:00. Sign up now for free using the link in the bio! Very soon we will send the information email with the link of our Kaltura platform to those who have signed up, so in case you have not done that yet, now is your chance! And if you do not see an email, check your spam folder!
Eveline de Bruin studied Dutch language and literature at the University of Leiden (1992-1997) and songwriting at the conservatory of Tilburg (2003-2009). She has done two masters and is currently the owner of Avelyn’s Art, Language & Music based in Rotterdam.
“Can you put a poem to music? What requirements do good song lyrics have to meet? At the conservatory, little attention is paid to writing good song lyrics. Musicians often don’t really listen to the lyrics. Most Dutch students in music courses write in English. This includes myself during my time at the university. Still, as a nederlandica, I managed to write in my native language. In this lecture I am going to illustrate this on the basis of a few live-played fragments. “

Only three more days until the start of the symposium! For preparation, we asked both our speakers as well as our participants to provide us with their favourite song, which have been added to our public playlist on Spotify! Curious to find out what our speakers listen to in their free time? Check it out now! The playlist is called ‘Faculty Symposium: Music’.

The second-to-last speaker of the evening on the 12th of May will be drs. Flora Smit! Drs. Smit will be talking about the modern musical behemoth that is K-pop! Her lecture will begin at 21:00 in room 1 on our Kaltura platform, of which the links will be mailed through the sign-up! The language of this lecture will be English. Stay tuned to find out who our last speaker will be!

You can join us from 19:30, and the lecture will begin at 20:00. Sign up now for free using the link in the bio!

“I did a BA in Korea studies, then went to South Korea to do my MA International Relations and Diplomacy at Seoul National University and am currently a PhD candidate at Leiden University. I am (both previously and now with my research) concerned with popular culture, post-modern societies and, as a specialisation, the K-pop industry (both idols, agencies and fandom). My dissertation will be about the triangular relationship between idols, agencies and fandom and how this relationship can give a new notion about our concept of ‘surveillance’ in modern society. My association with music is that I am fascinated by the fact that popular music can be a powerful way of soft-power and nation-branding, but also that the (mainly) capitalist approach of popular music can go beyond glitter and glamor, and how both consumers and artists also buy or sell a kind of fantasy.”

The first speaker of the second evening on the 12th of May will be drs. Anne Marieke van der Wal Rémy! Drs. Van der Wal Rémy will be giving a lecture on african musical culture, and specifically on "the soundtrack of protest at the Cape" ('KÔ, LAT ONS SING')! Her lecture will begin at 20:00 in room 1 on our Kaltura platform, of which the links will be mailed through the sign-up! The language of this lecture will be English. Stay tuned to find out who our speakers on the 12th of May will be!

You can join us from 19:30, and the lecture will begin at 20:00. Sign up now for free using the link in the bio!

Anne Marieke van der Wal Rémy is Assistant Professor African History & International Studies at Leiden University with a main interest in the history of South Africa, Indian Ocean Slavery & Slave Trade, and Memory & Subaltern history. She has worked mainly on memory & slavery studies, postcolonial critique and modernity/counter-modernity.

The last speaker of the evening on the 11th of May will be dr. Frans-Willem Korsten! Dr. Korsten will talk about songs in its connection to revolution! His lecture will begin at 21:00 in room 2 on our Kaltura platform, of which the links will be mailed through the sign-up! The language of this lecture will be English. Stay tuned to find out who our speakers on the 12th of May will be!

You can join us from 19:30, and the lecture will begin at 20:00. Sign up now for free using the link in the bio!

Frans-Willem Korsten is professor by special appointment ‘Literature and Society’ at the Erasmus School of Philosophy and connected to the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society. He published on baroque theatricality and sovereignty, including his latest publication “A Dutch Republican Baroque” (2017) and co-sponsored an English-language standard work on Vondel that opened up his work for and in international debates. He has previously contributed to a more international image of the study of Dutch literature (via the Journal of English literature). In the last decade he focused on the field of ‘Literature and Law’, which resulted in a series of articles, a special issue of Law and Literature on “Legal Bodies” and a study in which art and literature are seen as mediators for legal problems or unresolved issues of justice: Art as an interface of Law and Justice: Affirmation, Disturbance, Disruption (Hart Publishers, 2021).

Our first speaker of the second timeslot on the 11th of May will be drs. Aafje de Roest! She will be talking about the Dutch hip hop culture and its role in cultural identity forming! Her lecture will begin at 21:00 in room 1 on our Kaltura platform, of which the links will be mailed through the sign-up! The language of this lecture will be Dutch. Not a native speaker? There will be a second lecturer in the same timeslot who will be giving a lecture in English. Stay tuned to find out who our other speakers will be!

You can join us from 19:30, and the lecture will begin at 20:00. Sign up now for free using the link in the bio!

Aafje de Roest (1993) is nederlandica and literary. In 2017 she completed the Research master Dutch literature at the University of Utrecht cm laude with her graduation research “buurtvaders” (neighbourhood fathers), on the hip hop phenomenon represent: the performance of repeatedly telling about life in the street and in the neighbourhood, by four dutch hip hop artists. The research has been awarded with the Vliegenhart Scriptieprijs 2017 from the University of Utrecht and the prize for best master thesis 2016-2017 from the society of dutch literature. Now de Roest is graduating at the University of Leiden on cultural identity forming among Dutch young people, via contemporary Dutch hip hop. The project is financed from the NWO-fund “promoties in de Geesteswetenschappen 2019”. From 2020 she is one of the Faces of Science, a cooperation of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science and NEMO. The theme of the Faculty Symposium sounds like music to her ears. De Roest is a hip hop fan and academic who transformed her passion for music into her work. About this, and the latest developments in her research on this popular music culture, she is excited to speak on the symposium in an interview with one of her students!

Joining dr. Tim Vergeer on the 11th of May in the same timeslot will be drs. Jingjing Li! Who will speak about the role of music in East Asian Philosophy! Her lecture will begin at 20:00 in room 2 on our Kaltura platform, of which the links will be mailed through the sign-up! The language of this lecture will be English. Stay tuned to find out who our other speakers will be!

You can join us from 19:30, and the lecture will begin at 20:00. Sign up now for free using the link in the bio!

Jingjing Li is a university lecture at Leiden University’s Institute for Philosophy. She works on theories of consciousness, body, and gender preserved in East Asian philosophical traditions. In this talk, she will focus on the understanding of music in East Asian thinking where music is described as a bodily performance of cultivation (in Confucianism) and contemplation (in Buddhism).

On Tuesday the 11th and 12th of May, we're hosting the Faculty Symposium! 🎼 Last year's symposium was sadly cancelled due to COVID, but now we're back! This year's theme is "Discovering Music", and during the symposium, a variety of speakers will tell you all about music in their field of research. Music is something we all share in our lives and which connects us all; shaping groups, cultures, and societies.

The first evening on the 11th of May will be kicked off by Tim Vergeer, who will do a joint lecture together with Margot Kalse on our Kaltura platform. The language of this lecture will be Dutch. Are you not a native speaker, not to worry! At same time another speaker will be giving a lecture in English. Curious to find out who? Stay tuned for more info in the following days!

You can join us from 19:30, and the lecture will begin at 20:00. Sign up now for free using the link in the bio!

Tim Vergeer is a nederlandicus and PhD candidate connected to the University of Leiden. In his research Vergeer occupies himself with popular culture from the seventeenth century, particularly with seventeenth century theatre. Within this characters often bring aloud love songs and lamentations on well-known melodies from popular songbooks.

Margot Kalse is a nederlandicus and singer, specialized in ancient literature and old music. She studied solo singing at the royal conservatory and specialized herself at the Fontys conservatory in Tilburg in early volcal music. Kalse sings, as a solist, classical, romantic and modern reportoires.