Elvis lives in Amsterdam. Manifestations of the imaginary musician
Conference | Amsterdam | 29 November – 1 December 2018. During this conference we aim to have an interdisciplinary discussion about the various ways in which our understanding of musicians taps into the imaginary, and what case studies about musicians can teach us about the imaginary constitution of our everyday experiences.
The Politics of Translation and Adaptation
Film and Literary Studies | LUCAS @ Leiden University invites you to: Two 20 Minute Lectures on African Theatre!
Thursday 6 December, 16:00-18:00 in Lipsius 148, Leiden
ROSANNA Fund
The DEADLINE for the ROSANNA Fund Scholarship applications is coming up: December the 1st, 2018!
Graduate School of North American Studies Freie Universitat Berlin offers Doctoral Grants
The deadline for applications is November 30, 2018.
Visual Story Telling – Thinking and Making
Masterclass and Workshop with Dr. Simon Grennan: 14 November, 13:00-16:00 (room to be determined)
In conjunction with the conference, Amsterdam Comics and NICA will organize a masterclass and workshop focusing on visual story telling.
Voices Unheard. Intersections of Race in Transnational and Postcolonial Research
Voices Unheard. Intersections of Race in Transnational and Postcolonial Research. Workshop with Clive Webb (University of Sussex), Amsterdam, VU, 8 November 2018
The Academy and the Idea of Decolonisation
Masterclass by Professor Toyin Falola (University of Texas), Amsterdam, 10 December 2018, 10:00-12:30. The aim of this workshop is to revisit the state of the art on theories of decolonisation of mind and knowledge. More information to be announced soon. Registration before: 1 November 2018.
Research Master’s Seminar: “Imagining the Image” (VU University)
This course examines different conceptualizations of the image in the context of historical transformations of the arts. This year’s edition will focus on critical theories of representation and visibility, including not only art and media theory but also in philosophy, feminist theory and postcolonial studies.
Sexuality and Borders
Call for Papers Symposium, 4-5 April 2019. Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University, NYC
Fascism? Populism? Democracy? Critical Theory in a Global Context
Critical theory has never contented itself with describing surface appearance—and there is no reason why it should today. Fascism, capitalism, and inequality have assumed new forms, and taken on different significance in novel social conditions. This conference aims to reinvigorate critical and theoretical approaches to the present, devoid of dogmatism, but committed to a politics of equality.
Villains! Constructing Narratives of Evil
Call for Papers: International Conference 6-8 February 2019
International Graduate Center for the Study of the Culture
(Justus Liebig University,Gießen, Germany)
THE CYBERNETIC ADVERTISING AGENCY
SUMMER SCHOOL 2018: THE CYBERNETIC ADVERTISING AGENCY West Summer School for Art and Activism in the Algorithmic Attention Economy 13.08.2018 – 18.08.2018 As a follow-up to the ‘Winter School of Discontent’, West is pleased to invite you to a new Summer School program for 2018, the Cybernetic Advertising Agency! The course will be led by Shailoh Phillips […]
Media in Transition @Utrecht University
In four plenary sessions scholars such as William Uricchio, Henry Jenkins, Lisa Parks, Vicky Mayer, Amanda Lotz, Erkki Huhtamo, Jussi Parikka, Jennifer Holt, Lynn Spiegel, and Roberta Pearson will address topics such as datafication, changing media infrastructures, public values, participatory empowerment, and niche strategies in conversation with discussants from VPRO, Mediawijzer, EYE Filminstitute Netherlands, Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision (Beeld en Geluid), and the European Broadcasting Union.
Monumental Novels: Big Books in Times of Big Data
The last MAP Lecture of this series, will be on Wednesday 25th of April (17:00-18:30) in LIPSIUS 236, with Inge van de Ven’s Monumental Novels: Big Books in Times of Big Data (Tilburg University) What do the works of the authors Roberto Bolaño, Karen Tei Yamashita, Karl Ove Knausgard, Mark Z. Danielewski and books artists like Irma Boom have in […]
DIGGING GROUNDS / KAPUT
The Exhibition and Publication Launch of the Honours Programme ART and RESEARCH Opening Friday 13 April 17:00 – 20:00 Exhibition 14 – 15 April | 12:00 – 20:00 Location Exhibition Centre Looiersgracht 60 Public Programme 14 April | 15:00 Performance programme 15 April | 13:00 – 14:00 Uncharted Territories: Finding our Way (Together) Lecture by art critic and curator […]
Lethal Repetition: Serial Killing in European Cinema (BFI 2015)
05 April 2018
Richard Dyer is Professor Emeritus of Film Studies at King’s College, London, and Professorial Fellow in Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, UK. He has been honoured by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies, and Turku and Yale Universities, and is Fellow of the British Academy. His many books include Stars (1979), Heavenly Bodies (1986), Now You See It (1990), Only Entertainment (1992), The Matter of Images (1993), White (1997), The Culture of Queers (2002), Pastiche (2006), Nino Rota (2010), In the Space of a Song (2012), and Lethal Repetition (2015). This year, he published La Dolce Vita in the BFI Film Classics series.
Posthuman Ethics, Pain and Endurance
The 2018 summer school, titled “Posthuman Ethics, Pain and Endurance: How to Lead an Antifascist Life in Brutal Times,” which will take place between the 20th-24th of August 2018 at Utrecht University, in Utrecht, the Netherlands, combines an introduction to the basic tenets of Braidotti’s brand of critical posthuman theory with an overview on contemporary […]
MAP Lectures: The Network is not the Territory
MAP Lecture series on Wednesday Feb 28 in LIPSIUS 227 (one floor above our usual location), with Florian Sprenger (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main), who has just send us a new title and abstract that looks very exciting indeed. Here it is: The Network is not the Territory. On Capturing Mobile Media – Florian Sprenger (Goethe-Universität […]
Cold Cold Ground
Master of Artistic Research University of Amsterdam De Punt, Frans de Wollantstraat 84 17th of February The first-year students of the Master of Artistic Research of the University of Amsterdam invite you to a presentation of their ongoing research at De Punt (Frans de Wollantstraat 84) on the 17th of February. The doors are open […]
Body and Soul
The symposium is an annual point of assembly and an exchange of knowledge in the field of food history. It intends to stimulate debate and research that bridges the gap between different disciplines. Submissions are encouraged to use an interdisciplinary approach, in which theory and methods from diverse (social) sciences are appropriated or from other disciplines that take a historical stance. Another aim is to transfer academic research to a wider public and stimulate research using the Special Collection of the University of Amsterdam. The symposium is therefore targeted at both an academic and a professional audience.