Cultural Perceptions of Safety
On Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January 2021 the Humanities Department of the Open University of the Netherlands organizes the international conference ‘Cultural perceptions of safety’. The conference will be held in Utrecht, at the Academiegebouw, and is supported by the Huizinga Institute (Research Institute and Graduate School of Cultural History). Deadline: 1 June 2020
Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory
Announcing New Critical Times Blog | In the Midst
Call for Papers: On Maps, Kunstlicht Vol. 41 (2020), No. 2-3.
Managing Editor: Anna Sejbæk Torp-Pedersen | Deadline for proposals: 27th April 2020
Articulating belonging: translingualism, belonging and the creation of South African social collectivities
Call for papers | University of Amsterdam and Ghent University, 12 and 13 November 2020, Amsterdam | Please send your proposal to translingualsuidafrika@gmail.com before 8 May 2020.
Two PhD Positions in Critical Humanities Approaches to Platform Society
Radboud University Nijmegen offers two PhD positions. Deadline for applications: 10 May 2020.
Building Bridges: Activists and Cultural Researchers in Conversation
May 28.-29., 2020 | A workshop at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen | Call for Participation Deadline: 31 March 2020
Assistant Professor (0,8fte) in Digital Media at VU
Assistant Professor (0,8fte) in Digital Media
Assistant Professor (0,8fte) in Design History and Theory at the VU
Deadline 1 April 2020.
Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2020
On 13 and 14 November 2020, the 7th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will take place in the Aula of the University of Amsterdam. This year’s topic is:
Food and the Environment: The Dynamic Relationship Between Food Practices and Nature
Ecological Time: natures that matter in activism and art
12 March 2020, 10.00-16.30 / Location: Coehoorn Arnhem / Language: English | In the fourth and last seminar of Time Matters, we will look into natures that matter in art, science and activism.
Other Futures 2020
Open Call to all beings to explore the future of multispecies society together. Other Futures 10 – 12 April 2020. Festival: 10 – 11 April 2020 at Felix Meritis, Amsterdam. Exhibition: Opening 10 April, performance 12 April, closing 10 May 2020 at Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam
Double Agents: Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Marketized University
NOG Masterclass by Alison Harvey | Wednesday February 26, 2020 | Utrecht University | 10.00 – 13.00 hrs
Ecoculture
X Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture | Lisbon, July 6-11, 2020. | Deadline for submissions: February 20, 2020
Cultural perceptions of safety. Reflecting on modern and pre-modern feelings of safety in literature, philosophy, art and history
On Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January 2021, the Humanities Department of the Open University of the Netherlands organizes the international conference ‘Cultural perceptions of safety. Reflecting on modern and pre-modern feelings of safety in literature, philosophy, art and history’. We cordially invite scholars from various disciplines to send in their proposal for paper presentations. | Deadline for abstracts is 1st of June, 2020. | The conference takes place at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
PhD Position at the University of Kassel
Doctoral candidate (m/f/d) – Institute of Social Work and Social Welfare | Faculty of Human Sciences – Prof. Dr. Mechthild Bereswill – fixed-term, part-time (currently 26,67 hours/week) | deadline for submission: 26.02.2020 | start of recruitment : as soon as possible
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)