Core Courses 2020-21
NICA Core Programme 2020-2021
New PhD Candidate: Shekoufeh Behbehani,(Un)screened Narratives: Non-Normative Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Iran
Shekoufeh Behbehani | University of Amsterdam 2020-2024 | Supervisors: Murat Aydemir, Gerard Wiegers, Annemarie Korte
CALL for Benelux students interested in the Environmental Humanities
BASCE, the Benelux Association for the Study of Culture and the Environment (https://beneluxenvironmentalhumanities.wordpress.com), is back! We are looking for Phd, RMA and MA students interested in joining a new BASCE events committee.
Imagining the Image 2020-2021
This course examines different conceptualizations of the image in the context of historical transformations of the arts. If, from visual studies to Bildwissenschaft, images and the visual have received a significant amount of scholarly and theoretical attention, the use and reflection on the notion of form seems to have migrated from disciplines such as art history and architectural history largely to fields such as (cultural) history, philosophy and literary studies.
Dissertation Defense: Ozge Calafato, Posing for the Republic. Making the Modern Turkish Citizen in Vernacular Photographs from the 1920s and 1930s
Universiteit van Amsterdam, 25 November 2020, 13:00 hrs. | Supervisors: Luiza Białasewicz, Esther Peeren
New PhD: Inte Gloerich, Blockchain imaginaries: A Critical Analysis
New PhD Inte Gloerich | Transmission in Motion, Utrecht University | 2020-2024 | Supervisor: Maaike Bleeker
New PhD: Sanaz Afshin, An Exploratory Study on Theatre Interventions with Refugees in the Netherlands
New PhD project by Sanaz Afshin | University of Groningen | Supervisors: Dr. Sara Strandvad (official promoter), Dr. Eleftheria Ioannidou (daily supervisor)
Dissertation Defense Nadia de Vries: Digital Corpses: Creation, Appropriation, and Reappropriation
Defense date: Wednesday 2 December 2020, 14:00 | Aula – Oude Lutherse Kerk (Singel 411) | University of Amsterdam | Supervisors: Esther Peeren and Ellen Rutten.
New PhD: Florence Evans, Imaginative Visions of Traumatic Heritage in Argentina
University of Amsterdam | 2020-2024 | Advisors: Ihab Saloul, Jan Willem van Henten.
“We are all in this together” – Connectivity and Community in Isolation
ASCA Workshop 2021, 23-25 June 2021, (Wed to Fri) | Organizers: Jori Snels and Lok Yee Wong | Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Lance Bennett, University of Washington; Dr. Alexandra Segerberg, Uppsala University; Prof. dr. Iris van der Tuin, Utrecht University | Abstracts before 31 December 2020.
Transmission in Motion Seminar (2020-2021): “Knowledge in Making – Design by Doing”
The Transmission in Motion Seminar is a more-or-less monthly gathering of researchers and students from across disciplines. To participate, please send an email to tim@uu.nl to receive additional information and readings. RMA Students can acquire 3 EC if they attend all meetings and write blog posts after each meeting. Please register at tim@uu.nl. For more information, contact Maaike Bleeker at m.a.bleeker@uu.nl.