Reading Group | The seminar provides an opportunity for PhD students and others who do research in Media and Performance Studies to share extensive lectures of theoretical texts that touch upon key concepts and methodologies of the field

Crash Course | Cultural analysis is dedicated to the analysis of the specificities of divergent objects of culture, of whatever medium, genre, or age; whether high or low culture; whether banal or rarefied. Those objects are considered in close dialogue with socio-cultural contexts as well as theoretical frames—without, however, ever reducing the object to an example merely illustrating the explanatory power of the selected context or theory. Objects problematize rather than illustrate

Seminar | On literariness, literary culture, and literary transformation. Co-ordinated by Gaston Fransen

Seminar | How are cities – and city life – changing in response to developments such as globalization, transnational migration, new media culture, and environmental engineering? How does cultural production – ranging from literature and the visual arts to architecture and design – inform or contribute to those changes? What value do critical concepts such as the cosmopolitan, the global, the exurban, and the postmetropolitan have in current debates about cities?