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.

Annabel Kanaar • March 14, 2019

MOM 1: In Love with Your Stepmother

23 to 31 March is the Dutch National Week of the Book. For this reason, the month March will be devoted to this year's theme ‘de moeder de vrouw’, as the Month of the Mother (MOM). This week's blog explores a son's problematic love for his stepmother.

Tim Vergeer • March 07, 2019

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.

Layla Seale • February 28, 2019

It’s a Small World: The Dollhouse in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

A small corpus of extant seventeenth-century Dutch dollhouses shares traits with other contemporary collecting practices, but demonstrates different potentials for microcosmic thinking.

Jun Nakamura • February 21, 2019

How to Share Your Research with the World

On blogs and other platforms to share academic research and what universities and funding organizations can do to help.

Lieke Smits • February 14, 2019

Every citizen needs a father (or mother) (I)

A famous, age-old motive in politics is that of the citizen parent. The late mayor of Amsterdam, Eberhard van der Laan, performed the role of father quite masterfully; his success could inspire statesmen both ancient and modern.

Leanne Jansen • February 07, 2019

A taste of the Early Modern period. Cooking and eating sixteenth and seventeenth century recipes.

What happens when Early Modernists get together for drinks and snacks? Modern beverages and food just won’t do…

Sophia Hendrikx and Tim Vergeer • January 17, 2019

Switching the academy for the Academy

How can academics benefit from listening to artists and professionals? Matthew writes about attending an intersectoral conference.

Matthew Payne • January 10, 2019 • 1 comment

Dutch Christmas: Morbid & Melancholic Music

In this blog post, Tim prepares for Christmas Eve in his own special way by listening to the Christmas Carol 'O Kerstnacht, schooner dan de dagen', written by Joost van den Vondel in 1637.

Tim Vergeer • December 21, 2018