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.  

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 […]

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 […]

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.

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 […]

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.

ERRANS environ/s The ICI Berlin announces 12 postdoctoral fellowships for the Academic Years 2018-20 If what begins already finds itself in the thick of it, in the midst of something else, and among others elsewhere, what emerges, in the middle, at this mid-place or mi-lieu, does not thereby constitute a centre. Without starting or end point, […]

NOSTER Grand Course 2017 Course description: The NOSTER Grand Course is a biannual intensive two-day course in which junior researchers gain in-depth knowledge on a specific theme that is relevant for both; theologians and religious studies scholars. This year’s theme will be ‘Masking the Race-Religion Constellation in Europe and the US’. ‘Masking the Race-Religion Constellation […]

Cornell University 2018 Summer Session: June 17 – July 26 An international programme of study with leading figures in critical thought The School of Criticism and Theory was founded in 1976 by a group of leading scholars and critical theorists in the conviction that an understanding of theory is fundamental to humanistic studies. Today, in […]

Deadline proposals: 26 November 2017 | Issue release: Spring 2018
‘Art history’ as we know it in the west is traditionally closely linked to its institutions. In various essays, American art historian Donald Preziosi has stressed the inextricable relations between art history, museography, and the modern nation-state. Art history needed archives to depart from; the museum provided such archives, and both added luster to the collective imagination of the nation-state based on the fabrication of a national (Christian) cultural past.