When it’s on the net, it’s real. As announced on the website of Tilburg University, in exactly a week from today, on September 12, I will be publicly defending my PhD dissertation. It’s titled “Making Sense …
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PhD: Public Defense Dissertation
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MARGINALIA REVIEW: Everything You Own in a Box to the Left: Reclaiming the Potential of the Sacred in Music
For the website Marginalia | LA Review of Books, I wrote a review about Christopher Partridge’s The Lyre of Orpheus: Popular Music, the Sacred, and the Profane (OUP 2013). It was published online on June 9, 2015. In the …
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Paper presentation: Religion, Art & Conflict
Next week (on Dec. 5-6) a conference titled Religion, Art & Conflict: Disputes, Destruction and Creation will take place at the wonderful Courtauld Institute of Art in London. During this conference, I will be speaking about one …
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Sociale vraagstukken: Wetenschap is meer dan feiten
Naar aanleiding van recente discussies over feiten, meningen en interpretaties in de wetenschap, schreef ik een reactie. Deze werd geplaatst op de website van Sociale Vraagstukken. Is wetenschap slechts een mening? Het grote publiek …
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Column VNK: Het Feestje van Dumas
Deze column schreef ik voor de website van de Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici. Het Feestje van Dumas Al zou je willen, er was geen ontkomen aan. Vorige week opende in het Stedelijk Museum de grote …
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Op-Ed Trouw: Rijksmuseum collection is not a toolbox
This is a translation of an op-ed that was featured April 30, 2014 in Dutch newspaper Trouw Rijksmuseum collection is not a toolbox Photo: Olivier Middendorp The Dutch Rijksmuseum invited the philosopher Alain de Botton …
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Academic Article: Religious Rituals as Festival Performances
The end of 2013 saw the publication of the 29th edition of the Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies. This is a joint publication by the University of Groningen and Tilburg University. It features the …
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n.paradoxa article: The Last Supper of Dumas, Edelson & Ohlson Wallin
January 2014 saw the publication of a new issue of n.paradoxa, the international feminist art journal. For this theme issue on Religion, I wrote an article about the role of gender in the use of …
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De kracht van muziek
A blog post from September 27, 2013 · Deze blog is een bewerkte versie van een presentatie tijdens de bijeenkomst van De Vrienden van Musica Sacra Maastricht bij de festivaleditie van 2013. Naast dat het …
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Performance takes time
A blog post from August 14, 2013 · Marina with Study Model © OMA Visits to contemporary art museums demonstrate one thing above all: it is next to impossible to preserve and present performance art …
