We are very excited that to announce that applications for the 31st board of Etcetera have opened! If you are interested, please fill in our form! There are many reasons to apply, as a board year provides you with invaluable experience for your professional life, gives you the opportunity to meet many new people and is guaranteed to make your board year the most fun time you’ll have as a
This year’s study trip will have us explore the beauty of Scotland! Travel with us to the vibrant city of Glasgow! When? From the 29th of April to the 3rd of May. What’s the price? €320 You will be staying in the Ibis hotel near the city center in separate 3-people rooms with private bathroom, Wi-Fi, towels and so forth. We’ll be visiting the Botanic Gardens, the Necropolis, the magnificent University of Glasgow, and of
We at DACE are more than delighted to present our first ever debut production of the one act play: “Forbidden Fruit”. Prepare yourself for a night full of love, comedy, and heartbreak. Seeing our actors shine on stage will be an experience like never before! Get your tickets here!!! Synopsis: Countess Corissanda is beautiful, rich, a widow and dreadfully bored. Marriage, however, is something that would bore her even more.
Join us at a Guest Lecture given by Dr. Johanson on Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare. It will take place on the 23rd of April at 15.00 in PCH 1.14. Read the abstract below! “In this lecture I reflect on the adaptation history of Juliet’s “Gallop Apace” soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. I will discuss how remarkable both the speech is in articulating early modern female sexual desire and
To commemorate the stabbing of Caesar, Etcetera is conspiring with other study associations to host a party on the 14th of March from 19:00 to 1:00 in club Akhnathon (Nieuwezijds Kolk 25). Non-members more than welcome too! This party is a collaboration between study associations Etcetera (English Language and Culture), VOS (Linguistics), Synkratos, Helios and ASVA! Early Bird Tickets are available until 1st of March. Early bird tickets are €9,-
The 30th Board of Study Association Etcetera cordially invites you to our half-yearly General Members Assembly on Wednesday 13th March 2024 at 18:00! During the meeting, we will take the time to reflect with you on the association’s academic year so far. In addition, we as a board will reflect on the achievements so far, as well as what can be improved upon and how. If you would like to add a
Etcetera is inviting you to the opera! Joing us Monday the 11th of March at 20.15 for Jocasta’s Line, a combination of the classics Oedipus Rex by Stravinsky & Jean Cocteau and a modern version of Antigone. The coolest part? The singing will be entirely in Latin and Ancient Greek! In other words, this is a spectacular opportunity for both those literature geeks and language lovers among you! :) For only €12.50,
Etcetera is seeking contributors for our next yearbook! Would you like to write, edit, design and share your creativity with the rest of the English department? Or get to know professor personally as you interview them and maybe even visit their homes? Now’s your chance: sign up through our form. Experience is not necessary, what matters is your enthusiasm :) You will be doing short weekly meetings in which you
Oscar Wilde once said: “Your sonnet is quite lovely, and it is a marvel that those red rose leaf lips of yours should be made no less for the madness of music and song than for the madness of kissing*” (*Or something more platonic, of course) If you leave Cupid your info below, you will receive a personalized love letter! No charge, no requirements, just a free outpouring of love for our
It’s time for our first bookclub! We are reading If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio and are very excited to discuss this book in detail with you! So come join us in the bookstore Atheneum on the 13th of February at 12 for some booktalk and cookies! The book is available with a 10 percent discount at Atheneum upon showing your etcetera membership!