Research Schools
Research Masters
- Art and Visual Culture (Radboud University Nijmegen)
- Art Studies (University of Amsterdam)
- Artistic Research (UvA)
- Arts and Culture (Leiden University)
- Cultural Analysis (Amsterdam, UvA)
- Gender and Ethnicity (Utrecht)
- International Performance Research (University of Amsterdam)
- Literary and Cultural Studies (Groningen)
- Literary Studies (Leiden University)
- Media, Art and Performance Studies (Utrecht University)
- Religious Studies (Amsterdam, UvA)
- Visual Arts, Media and Architecture (Amsterdam, VU)
Dissertation Defense: Ozge Calafato, Posing for the Republic. Making the Modern Turkish Citizen in Vernacular Photographs from the 1920s and 1930s
/in PhD Alumni /by Eloe KingmaUniversiteit van Amsterdam, 25 November 2020, 13:00 hrs. | Supervisors: Luiza Białasewicz, Esther Peeren
Dissertation Defense Nadia de Vries: Digital Corpses: Creation, Appropriation, and Reappropriation
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalDissertation Defense Nadia de Vries, Digital Corpses: Creation, Appropriation, and Reappropriation | 2 December 14:00 hrs. | University of Amsterdam, Lutherse Kerk | Supervisors: Esther Peeren and Ellen Rutten.
Dissertation Defense Nadia de Vries: Digital Corpses: Creation, Appropriation, and Reappropriation
/in PhD Alumni /by Eloe KingmaDefense date: Wednesday 2 December 2020, 14:00 | Aula – Oude Lutherse Kerk (Singel 411) | University of Amsterdam | Supervisors: Esther Peeren and Ellen Rutten.
Living with Censorship: The Political Economy and Cultural Politics of Chinese Gay Dating Apps
/in PhD Alumni /by Eloe KingmaDissertation Defense Shuaishuai Wang | Supervisors: Jeroen de Kloet and Rachel Spronk. | UvA, 19 November, 10:00 hrs., Agnietenkapel. | This dissertation studies the political economy and cultural politics of Chinese gay dating apps, namely, Blued, Aloha, and ZANK. Unlike their Western counterparts such as Grindr and Jack’d whose functionalities are concentrated on location-based browsing, Chinese gay dating apps frequently integrate new features into their basic dating structures.
Clocked! Time and Biopower in the Age of Algorithms
/in PhD Alumni /by Eloe KingmaEvelyn Wan | Utrecht University | Dissertation Defense 23 November 2018 | Supervisor: Maaike Bleeker | Clocked! investigates what algorithms are, how they operate, and how they evade our human perception through their machinic speeds of microtemporal processing.
Savage Embraces: James Purdy, Melodrama, and the Narration of Identity
/in PhD Alumni /by Eloe KingmaDissertation Defense Looi van Kessel | 4 December 16:15 hrs. | Auditorium of the Leiden University Academy Building, Rapenburg 73, Leiden | In his dissertation, Looi van Kessel explores the ways in which the early works of the American author James Purdy undermine the notion of a stable and true identity.
Transnational Literary Projects
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalAnouk Zuurmond | University of Amsterdam
As financial and political crises make issues of a shared European identity more pressing, the question of what binds us together is currently discussed with an increased sense of urgency. To facilitate such reflections on a shared identity, different transnational projects have been instigated by cultural organizations, promoted by and mostly with generous financial support from EU-programs and institutes.
Governmentality in Cultural industries of China
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalLin Jian | University of Amsterdam
The main question of this study is what kind of governmentality the academia, policies and practices of cultural industries reflected in contemporary China. This would consist of three objects: the outcomes of cultural industries studies in Chinese mainland, the policies of cultural industries, and the agents (cultural workers and entrepreneurs, namely creative class) in cultural industries.
Art in the Divided City: The Representation of the Rio de Janeiro. Favela in Participatory Art Projects
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalSimone Kalkman | University of Amsterdam
This research investigates the increasingly popular practice of contemporary art projects in Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums). In recent decades, many (professional) artists have worked in marginalised communities, making the interaction with disadvantaged groups an essential part of their work.
The Revival of the Baroque Violin
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalMimi 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.
Burning Desires: An Analysis of Gay Youth Coming Out Stories, Masculinity, and Violence in Film
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalParis Cameron-Gardos | Burning Desires: An Analysis of Gay Youth Coming Out Stories, Masculinity, and Violence in Film
My thesis will explore the ways in which different types of masculinities are constructed by different kinds of coming out stories in film. In particular, I wish to examine the links between violence, in all its forms and masculinities in these stories of sexual self-recognition.
Planning, Public Space and Identity in Latin America
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalAlejandra 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?
Secret Theatre: Off-the-grid Performance Practices in Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia (1945 – 1989)
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalOlga Krasa-Ryabets | University of Amsterdam | Secret Theatre: Off-the-grid Performance Practices in Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia (1945 – 1989) | Supervisors: Ellen Rutten, Kati Röttger This study examines the home as a site of dissent, subversion and social change by way of theatrical performance. It investigates understudied instances of theatre/performative activity produced within private […]
Memory and Materiality: Multisensory Ethnography of Culturally Diverse Urban Settings
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalElisa Fiore | Radboud University Nijmegen | Memory and Materiality: Multisensory Ethnography of Culturally Diverse Urban Settings | Supervisors: Anneke Smelik, Liedeke Plate My PhD research develops a multisensory ethnography of gentrifying multicultural urban settings to investigate how gentrification contributes to the inclusion or exclusion of certain cultural expressions in those areas. The two selected […]
Between Bios and Art: Aesthetic and Ethical Significance of Art Working with Living Materials
/in PhD Alumni /by Eloe KingmaAgnieszka 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 […]
Affect and Urbanity: Single Migrant Woman in Shanghai
/in PhD Alumni /by Eloe KingmaPenn Ip | My research studies how spaces control and enable lower class single migrant women’s intimate lives in contemporary Shanghai. The project focuses on single migrant women at the age of 20-35, in Shanghai who work in 3 distinctive sectors: factories, bars/night clubs, and domestic services. By employing affect theory to bridge city spaces to […]
Political animal voices
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalEva 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 […]
Essayism at the dusk of catastrophe
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalThijs Witty | Despite a long and varied history, rooted in sixteenth-century France via the writings of Michel de Montaigne, essays are usually associated with highly derivative activities: school assignments, newspaper commentaries, or other standardised modes of opinionated thinking.
Pretty Smart Wearables: Theories of the Body, Fashion and Technology
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalLianne 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.
A History of the Construction of the Idea of Dutch Design, 1945-2010
/in PhD Alumni /by ChantalJoana Ozorio de Almeida Meroz | This research examines the history of the construction of the idea of Dutch Design, 1945-2010. It advances from the premise that Dutch Design is the product of a discursive construction rather than the natural result of a ‘typically Dutch’ identity or culture. Accordingly, this research traces the development of ideas about Dutch Design as well as the actors involved in the production and institutionalisation of those ideas.