This December I am keeping an advent calendar. Advent is traditionally the period during which the celebration of the birth of Christ is anticipated. During my travels over the past few weeks, I have seen …
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ART ADVENT: week 1
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PhD: Public Defense Dissertation
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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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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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 …
