PhD Candidate: Andrés Ibarra Cordero
Date: October 28th, 2022, 10:00
Location: Agnietenkapel, University of Amsterdam
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Murray Pratt (UvA), Prof. Dr. Rodrigo Andrés (U. Barcelona)

PhD-candidate: Argyrios Emmanouloudis
Date: September 9th, 2022, 16:00
Location: University of Amsterdam
Supervisor: Joyce Goggin

PhD-Candidate: Jan Overwijk
Supervisor: prof. dr. René Boomkens; prof. dr. Robin Celikates
10 November 2021 (14:00), University of Amsterdam

PhD-Candidate: Tessa de Zeeuw
Supervisor: F.W.A. Korsten
Wednesday 2 June 2021 (11:15), Leiden University

PhD-Candidate: Ozge Calafato | University of Amsterdam, 25 November 2020, 13:00 hrs. | Supervisors: Luiza Białasewicz, Esther Peeren

PhD-Candidate: Shuaishuai Wang | UvA, 19 November, 10:00 | Supervisors: Jeroen de Kloet and Rachel Spronk

Dissertation Defense: Looi van Kessel | Leiden University, 4 December 16:15 hrs. | Supervisors: Ernst van Alphen and Johanna Kardux

Mimi Mitchell | University of Amsterdam
I propose to examine the history of the baroque violin revival through interviews with the baroque violin pioneers. An oral history of these violinists will be my subject and the interviews with them will be my primary research tool.

Alejandra Espinosa | University of Amsterdam
This project analyzes the methodologies used in Latin American public space planning processes. It explores innovative public space planning proposals that consider and assume a cultural and local identity approach. Some central questions of the research are: On what kind of epistemological perspectives and idea of “development” are such planning processes based? Which parameters and notions of human being do they predispose? How do notions of culture and identity inform the planning of public space in Latin America?

Agnieszka Anna Wolodzka | Leiden University | Promotor: Prof. dr. R. Zwijnenberg In my research I investigate the aesthetico-ethical implications of art as practice and vehicle of meaning production. I am focusing in particular on how art comes with ethical concerns and responsibilities within its creative practice. This aesthetico-ethical dimension of art expresses a quest […]

Eva Meijer | The view that nonhuman animals cannot be political actors because they cannot speak is common in both philosophical tradition and political practice. This view seems to be false in two respects. It refers to a flawed conception of political agency and, second, it ignores the fact that animals clearly do communicate, with […]

Lianne Toussaint | Several Dutch designers and companies experiment with the possibility to integrate electronics, solar panels, smart materials, LEDs, or interactive interfaces into fabrics and clothing. The central aim of the research project ‘Pretty Smart Wearables: Theories of the Body, Fashion and Technology’ is to academically and thoroughly reflect on the socio-cultural implications of this integration of fashion and technology.

Mykola Makhortykh | My project deals with World-War-II memory in Ukraine and its transformations in our digital age. If many Western-European societies have experienced a boom in World-War-II and Holocaust commemoration, Ukrainian war memory is marked by ambiguous relationships between processes of collective remembering and forgetting. This ambiguous stance to war memory does not stand on […]

Pedram Dibazar | This project is a cultural study of tactics of presence in the present-day Iranian public sphere. It refers to a multiplicity of spheres of socio-cultural presence of within and beyond the city. The concept of the city encompasses numerous spatio-temporal formations, including public appearances, power relations, social interactions, urban configurations, cultural representations, societal sensibilities, […]

Simon Ferdinand | The use of cartography as the thematic and formal substance of artistic production has become increasingly prevalent amongst a very diverse set of visual artists over the last century. This project aims to establish the significance of this developing genre within the context of the ongoing theoretical debates over the nature, future trajectory and […]

Mari Nakamura  |  My PhD research project studies the intersections between animation and political thought. Specifically, it explores the ways in which the philosophical notion of ‘emancipation’, along with its related concepts such as ‘domination’ and ‘resistance’, have been conceptualised in Japanese science fictional animation. Considering animation as an expressive medium, and science fiction as a […]

Lonneke van der Velden | This research project comprises an empirical-philosophical analysis aiming to develop conceptual tools for analysing contemporary surveillance networks and forms of critical identity formations

Judith Anne Naeff | This research project aims at analysing contemporary artistic and literary productions as a reflection of the urban experience of post-civil-war Beirut within the framework of the efforts at reconstruction initiated by the Lebanese authorities