Die Angst vor den Bomben, eine Kindheit im Krieg - damit beginnen Helmut Lethens Erinnerungen. Er berichtet in seiner Autobiografie von politischen und denkerischen Experimenten, von Weggefährten und Ideengebern wie Adorno und Enzensberger. Ein Entwicklungsroman der Bundesrepublik - wie ihn nur noch wenige Intellektuelle zu erzählen vermögen“ (Platz 8 der Sachbuch-Bestenliste für Oktober 2020)

Als het over de islam gaat, dan gaat het al snel over radicalisme en geweld. Ali Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, universitair hoofddocent Perzische en Iraanse studies in Leiden en sinds kort ook hoogleraar in Utrecht, wil de andere kant laten zien: 'Die heel vroom is, en zelfkritisch, met aandacht voor kunst, cultuur en schoonheid.

Hein Boeken - P.C. Boutens - Carry van Bruggen - Louis Couperus - Reinier van Genderen Stort - mej. E.C. Knappert - J.H. Leopold- Johan de Meeste r- Top Naeff- het echtpaar Simons-Mees - Nico van Suchtelen- prof. Vogelsang en Het Congres.

The optical lantern was the central medium through which Art History professor Willem Vogelsang (1875-1954) taught his students ‘how to see’. As the first ordinarius in Art History in the Netherlands, Vogelsang focused on creating the right educational setting to turn his students into professional art historians. In his lectures the optical lantern and its projected images functioned as a didactic instrument to make his students (visually) understand compositional and stylistic differences and similarities within and between artworks. The lantern allowed Vogelsang to visually open up the world of art history to a whole new generation of art historians.

Musicology became a fully-fledged academic study in the Netherlands in 1930 when both the Chair in Musicology and the Institute for Music History were founded at Utrecht University. Using sources such as archives, newspapers, personal memories of old studies in letters, and a talk on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the institute, this article describes the history of musicology Utrecht, its curriculum and what the first professor in musicology Albert Smijers expected of his students in the first decade of the institute’s existence.