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Call for Papers | NYU Cinema Studies Student Conference | February 19-20, 2021 | nyuconference2021@gmail.com | Deadline for submissions: 20 December 2020.

Fifth Annual Symposium | Friday 4 December 2020 9.00 – 17.00 | Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building 5A00 + online via Zoom Webinar | Free of charge, but please register before 1 December.
Keynote speakers:
Prof. dr. Halleh Ghorashi, Professor of Diversity and Integration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dr. Anna Poletti, Associate Professor Comparative Literature, Utrecht University
Prof. dr. Gloria Wekker, Professor Emerita, Gender and Ethnicity, Utrecht University

CALL FOR PAPERS KUNSTLICHT VOL. 42 NO. 1-2 | Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2020

On Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January 2021, the Humanities Faculty of the Open University of the Netherlands in collaboration with the Huizinga Institute, the Netherlands Research School for Cultural History, organizes the international conference ‘Cultural perceptions of safety. Reflecting on modern and pre-modern feelings of safety in literature, philosophy, art and history’.

Call for contributions: Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture | Special Issue on Night Stories: Urban Narratives of Migrant Lives in Europe | Edited by Sara Brandellero, Ailbhe Kenny and Derek Pardue | Deadline: 31 March 2021, nitecrossings@gmail.com

Book Launch/Symposium at the University of Amsterdam, 16 June 2020, 16.00-18:00 hrs | Launch of “Big Books in Times of Big Data” (Leiden U.P. 2019) by Inge van de Ven, with presentations by Henriette Steiner, Kristin Veel, Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, and Inge van de Ven.

The third meeting of the Artistic Research Research Group will take place on Friday February 14th, 2020 from 13:00-16:00 at Theorie Trap, Fed Lev, Rietveld (Roeskestraat 96). This meeting is hosted by ARIAS (Amsterdam Research Institute for Arts and Sciences) and will consist of presentations contemplating AI’s existence in a research context, and defining that relationship.

ASCA Political Ecologies Workshop announces: Masterclass and Public Lecture with Dr. Cymene Howe (Rice University). Masterclass: Friday, March 6th @ 10:00-12:00 (Location TBA)

Lecture by Darby English | January 13, 2020, 18.00 for lecture and Q&A (through February 2020 for display) | Oude Lutherse Kerk, Singel 411 | In the final chapter of his new book “To Describe a Life: Notes at the Intersection of Art and Race Terror” (2019), the maverick art historian Darby English sets out “to describe rather than contain” a very curious object: “Lorraine Motel, April 4 1968”. This is a model of the site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, produced by the design firm Boym Partners in 1998 as part of the Buildings of Disaster series.

Next Event: November 22, 11-1pm (PCH 7.02): Reading Group on Felix Guattari’s The Three Ecologies | organizers: Joost de Bloois: j.g.c.debloois@uva.nl and Jeff Diamanti: j.diamanti@uva.nl

Friday, 6 December, 2019 Atrium, Medical Faculty Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Van der Boechorststraat 7 1081 BT Amsterdam ? Symposium organized by Babs Boter | With keynote lectures by Sonja Boon (Department of Gender Studies, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada) and Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, England, biographer and author of fiction)

 

Guest lecture by Dr. Derek Gladwin (UBC) organized by the ASCA Cities Project on Friday 1 Nov., 3-5pm, in the Potgieterzaal, University Library (Singel 425, Amsterdam). A 2016 Report from the World Energy Council titled “Innovating Urban Energy” predicts that by 2030 the global footprint will triple in urban areas. Without an understanding of the spatial effects of energy use and demand, urban populations cannot fully engage in the development of better practices and policies to create a just society. Consequently, there is an urgent need to address the ways cities might produce knowledge about their energy use, impact, and relationships.

Friday November 8, 2019, 13:00-17:00 | ASCA/NICA Symposium organized by Gaston Franssen | VOC-zaal, Bushuis, Kloveniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam | Open to all students and staff members. Register by sending a mail to nica-fgw@uva.nl. Please mention your affiliation.

“Expanded Practices of Knowing: Interdisciplinary Approaches” | The Transmission in Motion Seminar is a more-or-less monthly gathering of researchers and students from across disciplines. Contact: tim@uu.nl. Due to Covid-19 the last sessions are organized online.

NICA Masterclass with Patricia Barkaskas (Instructor & Director Indigenous Community Legal Clinic, University of British Columbia) | For: (research) master students / PhD candidates | Date: Friday, November 1, 2019 | Time: 10:00-12:00 | Location: University Library (Potgieterzaal), Singel 425, Amsterdam. | 1 EC | This masterclass considers questions connected to the project of a decolonial resistance pedagogy, and its significance in Canada for the project of decolonizing and Indigenizing justice.

Public Talk and Masterclass with Allan Stoekl (Penn State University) organized by ASCA Political Ecologies Group & Environmental Humanities Center, CLUE+, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | September 20th, 2019 | Please note that we are in the VUMedical Faculty, room D-565 (building MF) at the Vrije University

NICA Core Course 6 EC | Yolande Jansen | April – May 2020 | The course will be offered online | In the humanities, globalization has until quite recently been studied from two rather distinct perspectives: either from a postcolonial or decolonial cultural-historical perspective, or from a normative, political theoretical perspective, often rooted in the liberal and human rights traditions. Over the last years, it has been increasingly recognized by scholars from both the cultural and political-theoretical fields that integrating these perspectives would be helpful to enhance the humanities’ critical and practical potential in today’s world.

The theme of the 2019-2020 ASCA Cities Seminar is “Cultures of Urban (In)Justice”. We are interested in examining dynamics of spatial (in)justice from the vantage point of creative, cultural, aesthetic and political practices in contemporary urban environments. | Semester 1 dates: Friday 20 September, Friday 18 October, Friday 1 November, Friday 6 December | Organisers: Carolyn Birdsall, Jeff Diamanti, Simone Kalkman and Kasia Mika | Contact: c.j.birdsall@uva.nl

Cross-Media Research Seminar 2019-20 | Organizers: Sudeep Dasgupta, Abe Geil, Markus Stauff (contact: m.stauff@uva.nl ) | Meetings are on the following Fridays 15-18h (dates for semester 2 will be determined later): Sept 20, Oct 18, Nov 15, Dec 13

After the great succes of the past three years, with sold out shows, we are bringing a new edition within the theme Emerging Memory; what stories from history do we share, document or archive, by whom and from who’s perspective? What do we rather forget? The audience is taken past historical sites whilst spoken word artists, dancers, musicians and visual artists bring history to the present. It’s a quest for our shared cultural heritage and encounter through stories between 22nd June till 4th July.

11 June 2019, 16:00-18:00 | University Theater
From a land called the “Cradle of Civilizations” to one that is now described as “apocalyptic” and “one of the most dangerous places on Earth”, Syria may have no more critical moment than the current crisis to reflect on what is taking it down this terrifyingly dark path. We resort to history in order to decipher the mysteries of the present, and there is no more honest and direct history than that of the built environment: a concrete object that tells the narratives not only of the winners, the wealthy and the powerful, but also of those who were brushed aside, cut apart and walked over.

Call for Applications Summer School 2019 Extended deadline: 15 Mai 2019 | When: 3 – 7 September 2019 | Where: Hotel Bad Muntelier, Murten, near Berne, SwitzerlandLanguages: English (main), German

Workshop at Spui25 organized by Ernst van Alphen | Speakers: Maria Boletsi, Eugenie Brinkema, Tomas Jirsa and Ernst van Alphen | 29 May 2019, 3-6 pm.

Workshop and Book Launch | 10 May 2019, 15:00 hrs. | Goethe Institut Amsterdam | Herengracht 470 Amsterdam

Double Lecture: Eugenie Brinkema (MIT) and Julius Greve (University of Oldenburg) | Lecture Series in Media | Arts | Politics | Convened by Pepita Hesselberth, Yasco Horsman (Film and Literary Studies, Leiden University) | Monday May 6,  15.00-17.30 | Eyckhof 1 / 003C / Leiden University

Session #5 of the Race in Philosophy and Media Seminar introduced by Sudeep Dasgupta | BG1 0.16, 5 April, 15.00 – 18.00 | Contact: tessa.devet@student.uva.nl.

Symposium at the University of Amsterdam, 5th – 7th June 2019 | Keynote speakers: Sarah Clancy, Jim Hicks, Frank Keizer | Deadline for proposals: 15th April 2019 | Dates: The event will commence in the late afternoon of 5th June and end by early afternoon of 7th June | A collaboration of ‘Contemporary Poetry and Politics’ (FFI2016-77584-P), The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, The Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies, and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. | Organizers: Cornelia Gräbner (Lancaster University), Joost de Bloois (University of Amsterdam).

This Spui25 event, co-hosted by The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Duke University Press, is a launch for two new books in media studies: Eliza Steinbock’s Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change and Toni Pape’s Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption, both published by Duke University Press this Spring 2019 | Spui25 Amsterdam | 16 May 2019

Master Class with Eleonora Belfiore | Date: 11 April, 2019 | Time: 10:00 – 12:30 | Venue: Utrecht University, Drift | Open to: PhD candidates, (R)MA students | Credits: 1-2,5 ECTS | Contact: Whatsthepoint@uu.nl | Register before: March 15, 2019

Workshop by Silvia Bottiroli | Friday, March 15th 2019,10.45 – 12.15 | Location: De Brakke Grond, Rode Zaal

Masterclass and ASCA Cities Public Talk by Dr. Deborah Cowen (University of Toronto)organized by ASCA Cities Project in collaboration with NICA | April 15th, 2019 | Public Talk: April 15th, 15.00 – 18.00 uur, Doelenzaal in de UB | Masterclass: April 15th, 10.00 – 12.00 uur, Potgieterzaal in de UB

Lecture by Asher Boersma (Locating Media, Siegen University) | ASCA Cities seminar Repairing Infrastructures | Thursday 14 March, 15:00-17:00 hrs. | P.C. Hoofthuis (Spuistraat 134), Room 1.05.

Lecture by Liska Chan (University of Oregon) in ASCA Cities Seminar on Repairing Infrastructures | 8 February, 3-5 pm. | Room 1.01A, University Theatre (Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18)

ASCA Reading Group Women in Theory | Friday 15 February, 15:00-17:00, PCH 5.56

Aesthetics of Death | 14 March 2019 | University Library, Belle van Zuylen room | Workshop organized by Esther Peeren, with Eugenie Brinkema, Cornelia Graebner, Itay Sapir, Nadia de Vries, and Daniel de Zeeuw

Masterclass and lecture by Jeremy Tambling | March 7th 2019 | Masterclass at 13.30-15.30 in PC Hoofthuis 6.25 | Lecture at 17.00-18.00 in PC Hoofthuis 1.04.

ASCA/NICA Master class with Jodi Dean organized by Joost de Bloois | 22 November 11:00-13:00 hrs. | PC Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam, room K04.

Public lecture by Dr. Jennifer Lynn Stoever (Binghamton University, SUNY) | Tuesday 11 December, 9:00-11:00 | Doelenzaal, University Library (UB), Singel 425, Amsterdam

Call for Papers – Soapbox: Journal for Cultural Analysis 1.2 “Off the Grid” | Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) to submissions@soapboxjournal.com by December 1. The full papers (3000-5000 words) are due February 15. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

PhD-Candidate: Sandra Becker | University of Groningen | Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Michael Stewart Foley, Dr. Dan Hassler-Forest, Dr. Tim Jelfs

Conference | Amsterdam | 29 November – 1 December 2018. During this conference we aim to have an interdisciplinary discussion about the various ways in which our understanding of musicians taps into the imaginary, and what case studies about musicians can teach us about the imaginary constitution of our everyday experiences.

NICA Masterclass | Thursday 29 November, 9:30-11:30 | Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam, Singel 425, Vondelzaal
With Lydia Goehr (Columbia University, New York) and Marlies de Munck (University of Antwerp / Royal Conservatory of Ghent)
This seminar will run through a history of the arts, from antiquity to popular culture, to ask what is at stake in putting musicians on view. Why look at them as opposed to listen to them? What does that say about music as an art? We will start with Apollo and Marsyas and go from there.

The 2nd International Amsterdam Comics Conference. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 15-17 November 2018.

Roundtable on Friday, September 28, 3 pm.| June 10th, Brian Leiter published on his blog a leaked letter in support of Avital Ronell, professor in German and comparative literature at New York University, who was apparently under investigation for sexual harassment and assault of a PhD-student. The letter was signed by Judith Butler, Emily Apter, Jean-Luc Nancy,  Geoffrey Bennington, Slavoj Zizek, Cathy Caruth, Jonathan Culler, Hent de Vries, Joan W. Scott, Sam Weber, Shoshana Felman, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and others.

Since the nineties, fashion designers and engineers have been experimenting with the integration of technology into fashion. A robotic dress that protects your personal space, a shirt that sends hugs over distance, or trousers that help to correct posture; they now all exist in real life.

In the 2018-19 ASCA Cities seminar series we examine the city through the lens of infrastructures. This seminar will take stock of the many failures and crises of infrastructure, gathering thinkers and ideas committed to reparative infrastructures that both anticipate and help sustain sociality. Putting infrastructure at the heart of our social and cultural analysis, as Deborah Cowen (2017) argues, “insists that we ask how power works, in its most mundane and practical ways,” in turn helping to refine concepts of resistance and justice.    

NICA Core Course, 6 EC, Amsterdam | April-May 2019 | Offered by Prof. dr Yolande Jansen. This course looks at the intersection of decolonial studies and normative political philosophy, and tries to address them from a relatively integrated perspective. We bring together both fields in a systematic way by testing normative theories of global justice and human rights in political philosophy against the works of liberalism’s critics from a decolonial or critical theoretical perspective.

Workshop with Natalie Bookchin, June 29, 15.00-18.00. In her art practice, Natalie Bookchin interrogates our contemporary digital surface in order to reveal the social realities that lie beneath.

May 22 | For the third time, Humanities Rally is organizing a Night of Protest. As in 2014 and 2015 we will come together because unfortunately we still face the same problems. There are still cutbacks, different studies are being combined and the workload among teachers is too high. Room for choice disappears, lecturers are being fired and the representative advisory bodies can’t do anything about it. Invite all your friends and co-worker to come to Oudemanhuispoort on May 22 at 19:00h for a Night of Protest!