15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
In 1679, Prince Johan Maurits of Nassau-Siegen (1604-1679), former governor-general of Dutch Brazil, presented Louis XIV with a lavish gift that included eight tapestry cartoons, which—he effused—would enable the ...
16:00 - 17:00 | Event
Op 25 september 2018 wordt het eerste exemplaar van 'The Cambridge Companion to the Dutch Golden Age', onder redactie van Helmer J. Helmers & Geert H. Janssen, gepresenteerd en aangeboden aan Henk van Nierop.
16:00 - 18:00 | Event
Op dinsdag 11 september vindt in de Bijzondere Collecties van de Universiteit van Amsterdam de boekpresentatie plaats van 'The Life of Romeyn de Hooghe: Prints, Pamphlets, and Politics in the Dutch Golden Age' door ...
00:00 - 00:00 | Exhibition
23 augustus 2018 is het 400 jaar geleden dat de dichter en toneelschrijver Gerbrand Adriaensz. Bredero overleed. Een populaire Amsterdammer die zijn publiek recht bij het hart wist te pakken. Hij schreef in razend ...
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Our rediscovery of a seventeenth-century postmasters’ trunk in the Museum voor Communicatie in The Hague, containing some twenty-six hundred undelivered letters mostly sent from France, offers the opportunity to ...
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Often considered a nineteenth-century historiographical invention, the Dutch notion of «golden age» (gouden or gulden eeuw) was actually constructed at the end of the sixteenth century.
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Through an analysis of the writings of the Dutch lawyer, poet, translator, and novelist Johan van Heemskerk (1597-1645), the lecture will challenge the traditional nationalistic, monolingual approach to early modern ...
11:00 - 14:30 | Event
In this masterclass Prof. Parente will speak about Transnational Literary History in a Multilingual Age. After general discussion and a lunch break participants can discuss their own themes with professor Parente. ...
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
This lecture will discuss the nature of the 17th-century literary public spheres in different places, and their mutual relationships. Did the cities of Holland, especially Amsterdam, enjoy a different quality of ...
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Focussing on the Westphalian Peace Congress, the lecture invites all those interested in historical press studies to take an active part in that Pleasure of Reading Diplomatic Correspondence that Gordon A. Craig, in ...
15:30 - 16:30 | Symposium
Op 11 en 12 mei vindt in de Doelenzaal van de UB Amsterdam het symposium The Newspaper in the Golden Age plaats. Het symposium begint donderdag 11 mei, om 16.00 u., met de presentatie van Arthur der Weduwens ...
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Op 14 maart 2017 spreken drie onderzoekers uit het VIDI project ‘The Chinese Impact: Images and Ideas of China in the Dutch Golden Age’ van prof. dr. Thijs Weststeijn (UU). Dit project bestudeert onder andere de ...
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
De Synode van Dordrecht (1618-1619) betekende een politieke en kerkelijke doorbraak in de maatschappelijke twisten tijdens het Twaalfjarig Bestand. Als gebeurtenis was het een soort Europese topconferentie, waarbij ...
10:30 - 17:30 | Conference
Naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling Eindelijk! De Lairesse in het Rijkmuseum Twenthe Enschede, organiseert het RKD in samenwerking met het museum op 16 en 17 januari 2017 een internationaal congres over Gerard de ...
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Rembrandt's Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of his most studied paintings. Starting with Herbert von Einem in 1956, to Jonathan Bikker in the catalogue of the recent ...
15:30 - 17:00 | Lecture
Whereas recent scholarship has analyzed and theorized the practice of public diplomacy in modern international relations, early modern diplomacy is still often thought of in terms of peer-to-peer interaction and secrecy.
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