PhDArts

PhDArts offers an international, high-level doctorate in art and design. The PhDArts research trajectory consists of two elements: individual research and participation in the doctoral study programme. An appropriate team of supervisors is sought for each doctoral student. The doctoral study programme, which consists of lectures, seminars, trainings, and workshops, is an essential part of the research environment in which the student undertakes his or her research.

News

All news

1. Celebrating 10 years PhDArts
2. How do we establish, sustain and nourish a vital research culture in the arts?
  
  The Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) of Leiden University is organizing a conference on October 18th and 19th 2018 to address the current status and possibilities for the development of a nation-wide research culture in the arts.
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1. Public Defense Jonas Staal
2. The public defense of the research project entitled Propaganda Art from the 20th to the 21st Century by visual artist Jonas Staal takes place in two stages. On Thursday 25 January at 13.00 Staal will publicly elucidate a selection of artistic work made within the framework of his PhD research. At 15.00 Staal will defend his dissertation in the Great Auditorium at Leiden University.
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1. Kickoff Critical Making research project
2. The newly launched NWO funded research project ‘Bridging art, design and technology through Critical Making’ aims to interrogate Critical Making by experimentally applying it to a broad range of artistic practices.
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Programme

1. PHDARTS SPRING PROGRAMME 2018
2. 18 January – 22 June 2018
3. 1. This semester, the PhDArts doctoral study programme will consist of lectures and workshops by PhDArts staff and invited guests, as well as presentations by doctoral students of their individual research projects. Among the guest speakers are: Erik Viskil, researcher, writer and advisor to cultural institutions; Frans-Willem Korsten, professor in Literature and Society at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication and associate professor in Film and Literary Studies at Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
    Only for PhDArts students.
  2. Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (NL)

Dissertations
All dissertations

An archive of dissertations and artistic outcomes of PhD projects and interviews with PhDArts doctors.

Individual projects

All individual projects

1. Co-creating the City
2. 31 August 2018
3. Andrea Stultiens presents the paper entitled 'Co-creating the City' at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society at Cardiff University.
4. Cardiff University, Cardiff (UK)
5. conference.rgs.org
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1. The King has been Pictured
2. 29 August 2018
3. 1. Andrea Stultiens presents the paper entitled 'The King has been Pictured' at the Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society at Cardiff University.
4. Cardiff University, Cardiff (UK)
5. conference.rgs.org
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1. Ebifananyi
2. 1 – 23 August 2018
3. Andrea Stultiens presents the solo exhibition 'Ebifananyi' at the Uganda Museum. She exhibits photography collections and visual material upon which the eight publications entitled ‘Ebifananyi’ are based. The publications form the core of her PhD research project.
4. Uganda Museum, Kampala (UG)
5. https:
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1. Guava
2. 7 June – 29 September 2018
3. "Guava" (2013), the first film by Thalia Hoffman in the film series of the "Guava Platform" will be exhibited in Israel and in France as part of a video collection curated by Hadas Maor.
4. Museum of Art, Petach Tikva (IL), Musée de la chasse et de la nature, Paris (FR)
5. www.petachtikvamuseum.com
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Admission

The yearly application deadlines for PhDArts are 1 April and 1 October. Accepted applicants can join the programme in September or January of each year.

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