Huizinga Lecture
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The Huizinga Lecture is a prestigious annual lecture in the Netherlands about a subject in the domains of cultural history or philosophy. The lecture is in honour of Johan Huizinga
, a distinguished Dutch historian (1872–1945) who worked in the first half of the 20th century. The Lecture is organized by NRC Handelsblad
, the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University
, and the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (Society of Dutch Literature). Attendance of the lecture is free of charge for subscribers to NRC Handelsblad, members of the Faculty of Letters, and members of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. The lecture is held alternately by a Dutch and a non-Dutch intellectual
.
The Huizinga Lecture started in 1972 and is held annually in December in the Pieterskerk
in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Johan Huizinga
Johan Huizinga , was a Dutch historian and one of the founders of modern cultural history.-Life:Born in Groningen as the son of Dirk Huizinga, a professor of physiology, and Jacoba Tonkens, who died two years after his birth, he started out as a student of Indo-Germanic languages, earning his...
, a distinguished Dutch historian (1872–1945) who worked in the first half of the 20th century. The Lecture is organized by NRC Handelsblad
NRC Handelsblad
NRC Handelsblad, often abbreviated to NRC, is a daily evening newspaper published in the Netherlands by NRC Media. The newspaper was created on October 1, 1970, from merger of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant and Algemeen Handelsblad . In 2006 a morning newspaper, nrc•next, was launched...
, the Faculty of Humanities of Leiden University
Leiden University
Leiden University , located in the city of Leiden, is the oldest university in the Netherlands. The university was founded in 1575 by William, Prince of Orange, leader of the Dutch Revolt in the Eighty Years' War. The royal Dutch House of Orange-Nassau and Leiden University still have a close...
, and the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde (Society of Dutch Literature). Attendance of the lecture is free of charge for subscribers to NRC Handelsblad, members of the Faculty of Letters, and members of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. The lecture is held alternately by a Dutch and a non-Dutch intellectual
Intellectual
An intellectual is a person who uses intelligence and critical or analytical reasoning in either a professional or a personal capacity.- Terminology and endeavours :"Intellectual" can denote four types of persons:...
.
The Huizinga Lecture started in 1972 and is held annually in December in the Pieterskerk
Pieterskerk, Leiden
The Pieterskerk is a late-Gothic church in Leiden dedicated to Saint Peter. It is best known today as the church of the Pilgrim Fathers where John Robinson was buried.-History:...
in Leiden, The Netherlands.
Lectures
This is a complete list of the Huizinga Lectures from the beginning in 1972 to the present date.- 1972: Rudy KousbroekRudy KousbroekHerman Rudolf Kousbroek was a Dutch poet, translator, writer and first of all essayist. He was a prominent figure in Dutch cultural life between 1950 and 2010 and one of the most outspoken atheists in the Netherlands. In 1975 he was awarded the P.C...
– Ethologie en cultuurfilosofie (Ethology and cultural philosophy) - 1973: Mary McCarthyMary McCarthy (author)Mary Therese McCarthy was an American author, critic and political activist.- Early life :Born in Seattle, Washington, to Roy Winfield McCarthy and his wife, the former Therese Preston, McCarthy was orphaned at the age of six when both her parents died in the great flu epidemic of 1918...
– Can There Be a Gothic Literature? - 1974: Jan Pen – De cultuur, het geld en de mensen (Civilization, money and the people)
- 1975: Jean-François RevelJean-François RevelJean-François Revel was a French politician, journalist, author, prolific philosopher and member of the Académie française from June 1998...
– La tentation totalitaire (The totalitarian temptation) - 1976: Arthur LehningArthur LehningPaul Arthur Müller-Lehning was a Dutch author, historian and anarchist.Arthur Lehning wrote noted French translations of Mikhail Bakunin. In 1992 he won the Gouden Ganzenveer, and in 1999 the P. C. Hooft Award...
– Over vrijheid en gelijkheid (On liberty and equality) - 1977: Noam ChomskyNoam ChomskyAvram Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, and activist. He is an Institute Professor and Professor in the Department of Linguistics & Philosophy at MIT, where he has worked for over 50 years. Chomsky has been described as the "father of modern linguistics" and...
– Intellectuals and the State - 1978: Karel van het ReveKarel van het ReveKarel van het Reve was a Dutch writer, translator and literary historian, teaching and writing on Russian literature....
– Literatuurwetenschap: het raadsel der onleesbaarheid (Literary studies. The enigma of unreadability) - 1979: Golo MannGolo MannGolo Mann , born Angelus Gottfried Thomas Mann, was a popular German historian, essayist and writer. He was the third child of the novelist Thomas Mann and his wife Katia Mann.-Life:...
– 1914-1980: Ein Ueberblick (1914–1980, In vogelvlucht) (The period 1914-1980 seen with a birds-eye view) - 1980: Ernst KossmannErnst KossmannErnst Heinrich Kossmann was a Dutch historian. He was professor of Modern History at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. His magnum opus is The Low Countries. History of the Southern and Northern Netherlands....
– Over conservatisme (On Conservatism) - 1981: Stefan ThemersonStefan ThemersonStefan Themerson was a Polish, later British poet, novelist, film-maker, composer and philosopher.-Early life:Stefan Themerson was born in Płock in what was then the Russian Empire on 25 January 1910 and died in London on 6 September 1988....
– A Chair of Decency - 1982: Renate RubinsteinRenate RubinsteinRenate Ida Rubinstein was a German-Dutch writer, journalist and columnist.- Biography :Rubinstein was born in Berlin, Germany, to a Jewish father and non-Jewish mother...
– Links en rechts in de politiek en in het leven (Left and right in politics and life) - 1983: Robert DarntonRobert DarntonRobert Darnton is an American cultural historian, recognized as a leading expert on 18th-century France.-Life:He graduated from Harvard University in 1960, attended Oxford University on a Rhodes scholarship, and earned a Ph.D. in history from Oxford in 1964, where he studied with Richard Cobb,...
– The Meaning of Mother Goose - 1984: Harry MulischHarry MulischHarry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch author. He wrote more than 80 novels, plays, essays, poems and philosophical reflections. These have been translated into more than 20 languages....
– Het Ene (The unifying principle) - 1985: Michael HowardMichael Howard (historian)Sir Michael Eliot Howard, OM, CH, CBE, MC, FBA is a British military historian, formerly Chichele Professor of the History of War and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford University, and Robert A...
– 1945: End of an Era? - 1986: Huib DrionHuib DrionHuib Drion was a Dutch Supreme Court judge and professor of civil law who became famous for proposing a suicide pill, which was later called Drion's pill after him....
– Eliteproblemen (Elite problems) - 1987: George SteinerGeorge SteinerFrancis George Steiner, FBA , is an influential European-born American literary critic, essayist, philosopher, novelist, translator, and educator. He has written extensively about the relationship between language, literature and society, and the impact of the Holocaust...
– Through a Glass Darkly - 1988: Peter SchatPeter SchatPeter Schat was a Dutch composer.Schat studied composition with Kees van Baaren at the conservatories in Utrecht and The Hague from 1952 until 1958, and then went on to study in London with Mátyás Seiber in 1959 and with Pierre Boulez in Basle in 1960–61...
– Adem, een vergelijking (Breath, a metaphor) - 1989: Susan SontagSusan SontagSusan Sontag was an American author, literary theorist, feminist and political activist whose works include On Photography and Against Interpretation.-Life:...
– Traditions of the New or: Must We Be Modern? - 1990: Gerrit KomrijGerrit KomrijGerrit Jan Komrij is a Dutch poet, novelist, translator, critic, polemic journalist and playwright. From 2000 to 2004 he was the Dutch Dichter des Vaderlands .-Biography:...
– Over de noodzaak van tuinieren (On the necessity of gardening) - 1991: Joseph BrodskyJoseph BrodskyIosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky , was a Russian poet and essayist.In 1964, 23-year-old Brodsky was arrested and charged with the crime of "social parasitism" He was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972 and settled in America with the help of W. H. Auden and other supporters...
– In Praise of Clio - 1992: E. de Jongh – Kunst en het vruchtbare misverstand (Art and the fruitful misunderstanding)
- 1993: Christian von Krockow – Schwierige Nähe. Zur Geschichte und Zukunft der Deutsch-Niederländischen Beziehungen (Hard neighborship: On the history and future of Dutch-German relations)
- 1994: A.Th. van DeursenArie van DeursenArie Theodorus van Deursen was a Dutch historian whose focus was the early modern period. He was Professor Emeritus of History at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He was a specialist in Dutch history of the 16th and 17th century.- Career:Arie van Deursen was born at Groningen. He was a...
– Huizinga en de geest der eeuw (Huizinga and the spirit of the age) - 1995: Nadine GordimerNadine GordimerNadine Gordimer is a South African writer and political activist. She was awarded the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature when she was recognised as a woman "who through her magnificent epic writing has – in the words of Alfred Nobel – been of very great benefit to humanity".Her writing has long dealt...
– Our Century - 1996: Henk WesselingHenk WesselingHenk Wesseling was born in 1937 in The Hague, the Netherlands. He is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at Leiden University, and was former Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study between 1995 and 2002.-Bibliography:...
– Zoekt Prof. Huizinga eigenlijk niet zichzelf? Huizinga en de geest van de jaren dertig (Is prof. Huizinga as a matter of fact in search of his own self? Huizinga and the spirit of the thirties) - 1997: Richard HolmesRichard Holmes (biographer)Richard Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.-Biography:...
– Biography and Death - 1998: Louise FrescoLouise FrescoLouise O. Fresco is a Dutch scientist, director and writer.-Current academic positions:...
– Schaduwdenkers en Lichtzoekers (Shadow thinkers and Light seekers) - 1999: Jorge SemprunJorge SemprúnJorge Semprún Maura was a Spanish writer and politician who lived in France most of his life and wrote primarily in French. From 1953 to 1962, during the era of Francisco Franco, Semprún lived clandestinely in Spain working as an organizer for the exiled Communist Party of Spain, but was expelled...
– Einde van de eeuw, begin van een millennium (End of a century. Beginning of a millennium) - 2000: Ian BurumaIan BurumaBuruma is a nephew of the English film director John Schlesinger, a series of interviews with whom he published in book form.-Works:*The Japanese Tattoo with Donald Richie ISBN 978-0-8348-0228-5...
– De neo-romantiek van schrijvers in exil (Neoromanticism of writers in exile) - 2001: Wendy DonigerWendy DonigerWendy Doniger is an American Indologist and Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the Committee on Social Thought...
– Homo Ludens and Gallows Humor about the Holocaust and Terrorism - 2002: Benno Barnard – Tegen de draad van de tijd: over de ware aard van Europa (Against the thread of the times. On the true nature of Europe)
- 2003: Abram de SwaanAbram de SwaanAbram de Swaan is a Dutch essayist, sociologist and professor emeritus from the University of Amsterdam. He received the P. C...
– Moord en de Staat (Murder and the State) - 2004: A.S. Byatt – From Soul to Heart to Psyche to Personality
- 2005: Elmer Schönberger – Het grote luisteren (The big listening)
- 2006: Carlos FuentesCarlos FuentesCarlos Fuentes Macías is a Mexican writer and one of the best-known living novelists and essayists in the Spanish-speaking world. He has influenced contemporary Latin American literature, and his works have been widely translated into English and other languages.-Biography:Fuentes was born in...
– The Two Traditions: La Mancha and Waterloo - 2007: Tijs GoldschmidtTijs GoldschmidtPaul-Tijs Goldschmidt is a Dutch writer and evolutionary biologist.Goldschmidt lived in Tanzania from 1981 to 1986, where he studied cichlids in Lake Victoria as a researcher from Leiden University...
– Doen alsof je doet alsof (Pretending to be pretending) - 2008: Christopher Bayly – The Age of Revolution in the Wider World, 1780–1830, and Its Heritage
- 2009: Marita MathijsenMarita MathijsenMarita Theodora Catharina Mathijsen-Verkooijen is professor of modern Dutch literature at the University of Amsterdam, with her speciality as the literature of the nineteenth century in the Netherlands....
- Historische sensatiezucht. Over de moraal van de geschiedenis (Historical sensation seeking. On the moral of history.) - 2010: Lisa JardineLisa JardineLisa Anne Jardine CBE , née Lisa Anne Bronowski, is a British historian of the early modern period. She is professor of Renaissance Studies and Director of the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters at Queen Mary, University of London, and is Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority...
- The Aftermath of Homo Ludens: From Huizinga to Zemon Davis and beyond
Sources
- Homepage Huizinga Lecture Leiden University
- Alle cultuur is streven. De verzamelde Huizinga-lezingen 1972-1986 (All culture is aspiration. The collected Huizinga Lectures 1972-1986) (with an introduction by H.L. WesselingHenk WesselingHenk Wesseling was born in 1937 in The Hague, the Netherlands. He is Professor Emeritus of Contemporary History at Leiden University, and was former Rector of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study between 1995 and 2002.-Bibliography:...
), Amsterdam: Bert Bakker 1987 ISBN 9035105672