Night Scenes
Call for Proposals Postgraduate Roundtable organized by Sara Brandellero at University College London, 23 April 2020 | Deadline for submissions: 13 January 2020
Reduction: 12 post-doctoral fellowships in Berlin
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 19 January 2020 (23:59 CET) | ICI Berlin | Christinenstraße 18/19, Haus 8 | D – 10119 Berlin | U – Bhf. Senefelder Platz (U2) | +49 (0)30 473 72 91 10 | www.ici–berlin.org
Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise
photo: Tom JanssenSaturday 7 December, 13–21 hrs, including dinner from 17.45–19 hrs in the Basic Activist Kitchen | Language: English | Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise is a one-day public symposium on the civic practice of art institutions, organized by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht on Saturday 7 December 2019, from 13.00–21.00 hrs. The symposium probes the question of how to institute spaces for art in the face of the pressing urgencies of the present.
The Johan Huizinga Fellowship for historical research
The Johan Huizinga Fellowship is open to MA graduates, as well as PhD students and post-doctoral candidates. MA Graduate/PhD Fellows are those who have completed their MA degree or whose proposal is embedded in the research plans of their forthcoming PhD dissertation, postdoctoral Fellows must have completed their PhD dissertation and obtained a PhD-degree on the date of application. | The closing date for all applications is 19 January 2020, at 6:00 p.m. (Amsterdam time/CET).
Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches to Songs and Practices of Singing (1200-today).
Song Studies 2020 | Call for papers. The Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotion and Sensory Studies and THALIA, research group on the Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance. Ghent University, 1-3 July 2020. Keynote speaker: Monique Scheer (Tübingen University)
Fourth Annual Symposium Unhinging the National Framework: Transnational Life Writing
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)
XVIII MAGIS International Spring School – Media Archaeology Section
Gorizia (Italy), March 28th-31st, 2020 ? Call for papers: Ecologies of Perception. We invite you to send us individual paper proposals, workshop proposals and panel proposals. Proposals should contain a short CV (10 lines max) and be no longer than one page. The deadline for their submission is December, 31st 2019.
Human Being in a Humanitarian World: Global Health, human rights and humanities
On the 29nd of October The New Utrecht School, in collaboration with University College Utrecht, Julius Global Health and Health Management Support Team, organizes a public lecture with the title Human Being in a Humanitarian World: Global Health, human rights and humanities.
Story of Diseases: Learning from the past for today’s Global Health
On the 22nd of October The New Utrecht School, in collaboration with University College Utrecht, Julius Global Health and Health Management Support Team, organizes a public lecture with the title Story of Diseases: Learning from the past for today’s Global Health. | Location: University College Utrecht, Auditorium, Utrecht University
Storytelling in the Margins
CALL FOR PAPERS ISSUE 5.1 of Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities | 15 November 2019: Deadline manuscripts
Imagining climate change: The visual arts to the rescue?
Ulrike Hahn | EUR | 2019-2023 | Supervisors: Filip Vermeylen, Pauwke Berkers, Katja Kwastek | Humanity has entered a new era, often labelled the Anthropocene – the human epoch. It poses a significant threat to the ecological integrity of the planet, particularly through human-caused climate change. The abstract and complex nature of climate change makes it a topic that is often framed and visualised in overly scientific and problem-focused ways. Ulrike Hahn’s research studies a promising alternative approach for imagining climate change from the contemporary visual arts.
(Un)timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique
ASCA/OSL Conference | Amsterdam, 17-18 October 2019 | Organized by: Maria Boletsi (Leiden University and University of Amsterdam), Natashe Lemos-Dekker (University of Amsterdam), Kasia Mika (Queen Mary, University of London), Ksenia Robbe (University of Groningen)
Seminars in Global Art History and Heritage
Image: Albert Eckhout, Studies of two Brazilian turtles, c. 1640, Mauritshuis.Invitation to the fourth and fifth meeting in the Seminars in Global Art History and Heritage (organized by Mary Bouquet – UCU, Stijn Bussels – LU, and Thijs Weststeijn — UU), which will take place on October 10th and November 21st, 2019.
Sustainability: Technocracy and Meditation
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
Dialogues Between Images and Texts
Part of the 11th Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts organised by ATINER (Athens Institute for Educational and Research) | Athens, 8-11 June 2020 | Call for Papers | Symposium coordinator: Dr Eve Kalyva (e.m.kalyva@gmail.com) | Deadline for calls for papers: 4 November 2019
Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2019
Friday, 15 November – Saturday 16 November 2019 | Aula of the University of Amsterdam, Singel 411, 1012 XM Amsterdam | The Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food is the annual point of assembly and an exchange of knowledge in the field of Food history in the Netherlands. It intends to stimulate debate and research that bridges the gap between different disciplines. Another aim is to transfer academic research to a wider public and stimulate research using the History of Food Collection of Allard Pierson | Collections of the University of Amsterdam. The symposium is therefore targeted at both an academic and a professional audience.
Cultures of Urban (In)Justice
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
Our Mechanical Eyes — On Seeing Machines
In the exhibition Rothko and I*, *alone without your phone, the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (Schiedam, NL) invites their visitors for an “intimate experience” with Rothko’s Grey, Orange on Maroon, No 8 (1960); the visitor can observe the painting, but has to leave their phone at the door.[1] The mobile phone is seen as blocking the way when it comes to attaining intimacy with the painting.
ROSANNA Fonds
Het ROSANNA Fonds voor Vrouwen is opgericht door Rosi Braidotti en Anneke Smelik, met als doel het stimuleren van het academisch onderwijs voor getalenteerde vrouwen aan de Universiteit Utrecht.
De eerstvolgende deadline voor het ontvangen van aanmeldingen voor een ROSANNA Fonds Beurs is 1 december 2019.
Professor J.M. van Winter Stipend 2019
Each year, the Stichting Gastronomische Bibliotheek makes a stipend of €1000 available for research that makes particular use of the History of Food collection of the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam.