The Anthropocene: Ecologies, Tensions, Futures
UvA Online Winter School Online (2 weeks) | Monday 18 January – Friday 29 January 2021 | Academic Director: Dr. Nadina Galle
Unhinging the National Framework: Platform for the Study of Transnational Life Writing
Fifth Annual Symposium | Friday 4 December 2020 9.00 – 17.00 | Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Main Building 5A00 + online via Zoom Webinar | Free of charge, but please register before 1 December.
Keynote speakers:
Prof. dr. Halleh Ghorashi, Professor of Diversity and Integration, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Dr. Anna Poletti, Associate Professor Comparative Literature, Utrecht University
Prof. dr. Gloria Wekker, Professor Emerita, Gender and Ethnicity, Utrecht University
CALL for Benelux students interested in the Environmental Humanities
BASCE, the Benelux Association for the Study of Culture and the Environment (https://beneluxenvironmentalhumanities.wordpress.com), is back! We are looking for Phd, RMA and MA students interested in joining a new BASCE events committee.
Spellbound: Magic and Spiritual Rituals
CALL FOR PAPERS KUNSTLICHT VOL. 42 NO. 1-2 | Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2020
Synergy Award
Are you a PhD-candidate, or have you recently attained your PhD degree? And do you think your research can positively impact society? Then sign up before November 16th!
Cultural Perceptions of Safety
On Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January 2021, the Humanities Faculty of the Open University of the Netherlands in collaboration with the Huizinga Institute, the Netherlands Research School for Cultural History, organizes the international conference ‘Cultural perceptions of safety. Reflecting on modern and pre-modern feelings of safety in literature, philosophy, art and history’.
Dissertation Defense Nadia de Vries: Digital Corpses: Creation, Appropriation, and Reappropriation
Dissertation 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.
The Posthuman & New Materialism
Utrecht Summer School Online Course by Prof. Rosi Braidotti | August 16-27, 2021 (on select days)
Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique
Book announcement: Ed. By Maria Boletsi, Janna Houwen and Liesbeth Minnaard | Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 | This edited volume, which is part of the Palgrave series in Globalization, Culture and Society, includes essays by Jonas Taudal Bækgaard, Maria Boletsi, Ipek Celik-Rappas & Diego Benegas Loyo, Karen Emmerich, Begüm Özden Fırat, Olivia Harrison, Janna Houwen, Nataša Kovačević, Megan C. MacDonald, Geli Mademli, Liesbeth Minnaard, Dimitris Papanikolaou, and Pablo Valdivia.
“We are all in this together” – Connectivity and Community in Isolation
ASCA Workshop 2021, 23-25 June 2021, (Wed to Fri) | Organizers: Jori Snels and Lok Yee Wong | Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Lance Bennett, University of Washington; Dr. Alexandra Segerberg, Uppsala University; Prof. dr. Iris van der Tuin, Utrecht University | Abstracts before 31 December 2020.
Night Stories: Urban Narratives of Migrant Lives in Europe
Call for contributions: Crossings: Journal of Migration & Culture | Special Issue on Night Stories: Urban Narratives of Migrant Lives in Europe | Edited by Sara Brandellero, Ailbhe Kenny and Derek Pardue | Deadline: 31 March 2021, nitecrossings@gmail.com
Call for Papers Journal of Gender Studies
The Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies invites abstracts for articles for its 2021 Spring issue. As this is a general issue there is no subject limitation, provided that the article problematizes gender. Abstracts should be submitted in Dutch or English before 12 October 2020.
Radical Interdisciplinarity
NICA 5 EC Core Course offered by Maaike Bleeker and Iris van der Tuin | Utrecht University | 3 December 2020 – 18 February 2021
Bodies Matter
The Conference Committee of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites proposals for participation in “Bodies Matter,” a two-day conference on histories and theories of the body held in Leiden on 15-16 April 2021. It will feature keynote lectures by Dr Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford and Dr Willemijn Ruberg, Associate Professor in Cultural History, Universiteit Utrecht. Final remarks and a concluding session will be supervised by Dr Frans-Willem Korsten, Senior University Lecturer at LUCAS.
Tracing Disgust: Cultural Approaches to the Visceral
CfP for Book Proposal // Article Proposals for an edited collection | Tracing Disgust: Cultural Approaches to the Visceral (edited by Max Ryynänen, Susanne Ylönen & Heidi Kosonen) | The proposals for an article (300 words) and additional information (such as contact details, affiliation and a short biography), should be sent to editors by August 15th, 2020.
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
Interdisciplinarity in Action – Postponed
NICA Summer School ‘Interdisciplinarity in Action’ is organized by Iris van der Tuin and Maaike Bleeker | Utrecht University | 2,5 EC. The Summer School has been postponed due to the Covid-19 situation. When there is a new date we will announce this on the website.
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.