Metamodernism Conference at Radboud University
Nijmegen | 3-5 July 2019
Site specific theatrical performance/boat trip
Boat trip as part of the Sites of Memory series (see below)
Guest Lecture: “Unmaking a Chocolate City: Spatial Aesthetics of Race and the Gentrifying Urban Landscape” by Brandi T. Summers
Caption: A now-defunct brewery in Washington, D.C.; an anti-gentrification sticker posted on a construction site in Washington, D.C. (credit: Joseph Young)
Guest Lecture by Brandi T. Summers in the ASCA Cities Project | Time: Friday, 21 June, 15:00-17:00 | Location: room 1.05, P.C. Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134
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.
Summer School Communicating Difficult Pasts
For the sixth year the Summer School of the Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) is held in cooperation with Kuldīga Artist Residency, the Art Academy of Latvia and the Estonian Academy of Arts. | 2–7 August 2019 | Deadline for applications: 3 June.
Special Event at UvA With Civil Rights Advocate Kimberlé Crenshaw
Amsterdam, 11 JUNE, 15.00-17.00 | Open for registration.
Gender and Open Science
CALL FOR PAPERS | Special Issue Dutch Journal of Gender Studies (Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies) | Editors: Margriet Fokken (UU), Looi van Kessel (LUCAS), and Fleur Praal (LUCAS) | Deadline 1 July 2019
PhD Work in Progress
21 June 2019 – 13.00-18.00 Bushuis – F2.08B, Kloverniersburgwal 48, Amsterdam We’d like to invite all PhD researchers for our ‘Work in Progress’ meeting in the afternoon of Friday, June 21, 2019 (all further details to be announced). The idea is simply for PhD researchers to share a sample of their own work in progress, […]
Posthuman Knowledge(s)
Utrecht Summer School course by Prof. Rosi Braidotti August 19-23, 2019 In 2019, Braidotti’s intensive course will focus on “Posthuman Knowledge(s)”. The aim of the course is to offer a critical overview of contemporary debates about the implications of the ‘posthuman turn’, for knowledge production and research in the Posthumanities. Braidotti will apply her specific […]
Challenging the Sites of Knowledge. Medial and pluri-medial configurations and transformations
Call for Applications Summer School 2019 Application deadline: 30 April 2019 | When: 3 – 7 September 2019 | Where: Hotel Bad Muntelier, Murten, near Berne, SwitzerlandLanguages: English (main), German
Racial Orders, Racist Borders
Call for Papers: Sixth Annual ACGS Conference, 17-18 October 2019, University of Amsterdam. | Around the world, racist discourses, attitudes, and practices have moved from the fringes into the mainstream, putting core democratic values under pressure. Familiar racial orders have resurfaced and reinforced racist borders, both metaphorical and material. The sixth annual conference of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) invites papers that examine how forms, discourses and practices of racism have materialized in various institutional contexts. | Please submit an abstract (max. 250-300 words) and a short bio (max. 100 words) by 15 May 2019 to acgs-fgw@uva.nl.
The Political-Aesthetic Economy of Narco-Capitalism
Lecture Andres Saenz de Sicilia | 25 April 16:00-18:00 | location to be announced
Human
The 3rd PARSE Biennial Research Conference: Human | 13-15 November, 2019 | Gothenburg | Call for contributions: panels, papers, performances, screenings, collaborations and workshops | Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2019 | For submissions go to: https://www.conftool.org/parse2019/
Imperfections: Mistakes, Cracks, Noise Today
The Sublime Imperfections research collective (Amsterdam) devotes a round table + performance event to aesthetics & discourses of imperfection, mistakes, glitches and noise, repair and distortions. The event is part of a conference that address cravings for imperfection in design, music, art, writing, psychology, and genetics. | Featuring Mieke Bal, Graham Dunning, Linor Goralik, Patricia Pisters, Ellen Rutten, Yuriko Saito, DJ Trish Trash. | Date: March 12 | Time: 18:00-23:00
Aurality: Musical Modes of Knowledge Inscription
Seminar Series of the Research Group Music and Culture | Organizer: Barbara Titus | sessions on 14 March, 4 April, 2 May, 27 June
Replacement and replaceability: theoretical traditions and contemporary practices
Replacement and Replaceability | Call for Abstracts for an edited volume | Deadline Extension, New deadline: March 15th 2019
Neurohumanities: Promises & Threats
IX Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture | Lisbon, July 1-6, 2019 | CALL FOR PAPERS | Deadline for submissions: February 28, 2019
Comedy, Humourlessness and the Gimmick
Reading Session Berlant & Ngai on Comedy, Humourlessness and the Gimmick.. Organized by Eva Sancho Rodriguez and Esther Peeren | 8 Februari, 10:00-13:00 hrs | PCHooft, room 4.22
Sound in Action – Compatibility and Space
28th of February, 20:00 hrs. | De School, Doctor Jan van Breemenstraat 1, Amsterdam | In the second event of Sound in Action, Compatibility and Space, we will reflect on the intersection of urban-space crisis, sound and music.
Between Myth and Memory: Contemporary Politics and the Performance of History
Call for Papers | An interdisciplinary one-day symposium on 25 April 2019 at the Centre for Performance and Urban Living, University of Surrey | Keynote: Dr. Sophie Nield (Royal Holloway, University of London) | Deadline: 8 March 2019. All proposals should be submitted to Dr Julia Peetz: j.peetz@gsa.surrey.ac.uk