Utrecht University is looking for a Student Assistant to the Director of Research, Prof. dr. Sven Dupré, at the Department of History and Art History (0.2 fte), to start on 1 September 2020 for 6 months. The position can be prolonged depending upon positive evaluation and your continued registration as a student. You are expected…

** Application Deadline: 15 June 2020 ** How do artists master their art? Does painting in oil result in different working procedures and visual effects compared to other media? Which material and technical properties determine the creative possibilities of prints, sculptures, and applied arts? What can art historians learn from re-making art, re-working historical recipes,…

Bachelor students at Utrecht University have developed Taste of Time to discover forgotten, traditional Dutch recipes and show you how to make them. The project is part of the Living Pasts course, in which students get the opportunity to uncover the rich history of Utrecht, using raw historical data. The first video of Taste of Time…

Virtuosity. Ethics and Aesthetics of the Technical Gesture from the Middle Ages to the 19th Century International conference: 14, 15, 16 January 2021 @ the Institut national d’histoire de l’art. Deadline to submit: May 30, 2020 The ambition of this conference is to provoke the meeting and dialogue of different approaches to the technical gesture,…

Application Deadline: 24 May 2020 Position The Department of History and Art History seeks to appoint three temporary lecturers in Art History. The successful candidates are expected to contribute to the teaching, including course coordination, in the bachelor and master ‘art history’ (the language of instruction is Dutch) and/or in the courses ‘Modern Art’ and…