The Descent into Darkness Discovering the Deep-Sea Fauna (1800–1930) Until the nineteenth century encounters with deep-sea fishes were more or less accidental, but by the beginning of that century naturalists developped an acute awareness that deeper waters house strange creatures... Robbert Striekwold • September 28, 2018
Fish out of Water: Collecting Aquatic Animals in the Early Modern Period Day 6 of the Fish & Fiction week: fish out of water, on how fish became fashionable collectables in Early Modern cabinets Marlise Rijks • September 25, 2018
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. Sophia Hendrikx • September 13, 2018 • 1 comment
A Gold road paved with good intentions? What Plan S implies for Humanities OA book publishing Eleven European countries, the Netherlands among them, have formulated a plan to enforce Open Access for all research publications by 2020, and so curb Big Publishing’s profits. It risks crushing smaller initiatives in Humanities monographs in its march... Fleur Praal • September 06, 2018 • 1 comment
The Green Academic Plastic cups and bags, air travel, and conference goodies: some ethical dilemmas for researchers (and everybody else). Andrea Reyes Elizondo • August 30, 2018
Medieval Literature as Young Adult Fiction? Can medieval literature still be fun for high school students? And which medieval character is a classic YA-hero? Lieke Smits • August 23, 2018
Horace’s Ars poetica in Children’s Literature: from advising poets to the Reader’s bill of Rights Around 19 BC, Horace advised poets both to instruct and delight their readers, in order to write proper poetry. This piece of advice is still well-known nowadays, especially in pedagogy. But isn’t it a bit restrictive for children? Céline Zaepffel • July 12, 2018
The Afterlife of a Shipwreck? How does a shipwreck live on after its excavation? Leonor Veiga interviews Natali Pearson about her PhD dissertation on the afterlife of the Belitung shipwreck. Leonor Veiga • June 15, 2018
A Painter, a Collector, and a Horseshoe Crab On full moon nights this time of the year, an extraordinary sight can be witnessed on beaches all over the U.S. East Coast. Thousands of horseshoe crabs come ashore to mate and lay eggs. Marlise Rijks • June 07, 2018
