Research events

Can exhibitions be qualified as research-in-itself? If they can, then how? Which criteria should be the basis of evaluating and verify research exhibitions? The aim of the PhD course is to build a solid knowledge-base for understanding the relationship between exhibitions and research in the past and today, in order to collectively explore potentials and challenges for what can be called research-by-display.

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Japanese Studies Ben Grafstrom. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Assistant Professor of ethnography and performing arts of Japan, Andrea Giolai (Leiden University).

Master Laura Juliana Osorio Iregui at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages and the Museum of Cultural History will defend her dissertation Weaving Wounaan identity in an age of migration. A study of Wounaan basketry for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).

Master Lu Chen at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages and the Museum of Cultural History will defend her dissertation Environmental and Climate Engagement and Disengagement in China: Case studies of State-led Governance and Local Responses for the degree doctor philosophiae (PhD).