STUDIUM GENERALE: FALL 2010 PROGRAMME

Last Friday of the month, 14.00 – 17.00 hrs

The Vrije Academie’s Studium Generale programme includes lectures, discussions and presentations about science, the arts and culture. It strives to tackle a great diversity of subjects in its programming.

First and foremost, the Studium Generale is meant for Vrije Academie participants, but anyone else interested is more than welcome to attend. The lectures, discussions and presentations are generally in Dutch.

Programme maker and co-ordinator: Felix Villanueva

Admission free

FRIDAY 24 SEPEMBER, 14.00 – 17.00 hrs

BETWEEN ART AND SCIENCE – ABOUT GENETOLOGY

With the Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde and Petran Kockelkoren, extraordinary professor of Art and Technology at the Philosophy and Social Sciences department of the Universities Twenty and lecturer of Art and Technology at ArtEz Art College. 

FRIDAY 29 OCTOBER, 14.00 – 17.00 hrs  

CONTRE L’ORDRE – THE SUBVERSIVE IMAGINATION OF GUY DEBORD AND ROBERT JASPER GROOTVELD

With lectures by art historian Huub Mous and philosopher/sociologist Eric Duivenvoorden and a screening of the British director Michael Apted’s short documentary It's a happening (1966) about the Dutch, counterculture Provo movement.

FRIDAY 26 NOVEMBER, 14.00 – 17.00 hrs

BOREDOM

The philosopher Awee Prins, lecturer at the Philosophy department of the Erasmus Universiteit in Rotterdam, will give a lecture about ‘boredom'. After that, the Belgian artist Ruben Kindermans, whose art is inspired by the basic principle of 'boredom', will give a presentation of his work.

 

DECEMBER 2010

THE NEIGHBOURHOOD – a Studium Generale special programme

In December a special Studium Generale programme with lectures, presentations and public discussions will be devoted to the past, present and future of The Neighbourhood that is home to the Vrije Academie. Before World War II, most of the The Hague's Jewish population lived in this area of the city. Since the 1980’s the neighbourhood has been known as The Hague’s Chinatown, a district with Chinese restaurants and shops. Its high street, the Wagenstraat, is marked on both ends by two authentic, Chinese dragon gates.

Lectures will be given, in Dutch, by historians Annemarie Cottaar (about the origins of the Chinese community in Chinatown) and Steven van Schuppen (about the consequences evacuations and waves of migration have had on the perception of public space in The Hague). The Swedish/German artist Jarg Geismar will be invited to the Vrije Academie for a number of weeks to work on a cartographical project related to people’s perception of The Neighbourhood.