Music, Performance and Politics: Tatming and the postcolonial ruins of Hong Kong
A colloquium by Jeroen de Kloet, Yiu Fai Chow, and Leonie Schmidt | Thursday 13 December 2018 at 15:30 | In room 3.01 at Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Amsterdam
Unhinging the National Framework: Perspectives on Transnational Life-Writing
Unhinging the National Framework: Perspectives on Transnational Life-Writing | Symposium Friday, 7 December 2018, 9.30 – 17.00 | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Metamodernism
Call for papers Metamodernism | Radboud University Nijmegen | Thursday 4 and Friday 5 July 2019 | Organisers: Dr. Dennis Kersten (RU), Dr. Usha Wilbers (RU) and Prof. Antony Rowland (ManMet) | Deadline abstracts: 1 February 2019
Seminars in Global Art History and Heritage
Our first international guest is Dr. Elsje van Kessel (University of St Andrews), who will speak about: Art, Law, and the Freedom of the Seas in the Early Seventeenth Century | Time and place: Thursday 20 December, 15-17 hrs. | Vossius Zaal, Leiden University Library
The illustrated cityscape: imperfect lines of urban exploration
Tânia A. Cardoso, The illustrated cityscape: imperfect lines of urban exploration | Universiteit van Amsterdam | 2018-2022 | supervisors: Emilie Sitzia and Carolyn Birdsall
The Afterlife of the Object
CALL FOR PAPERS European Summer School in Cultural Studies | University of Copenhagen, 18-22 June 2018
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 […]
All Power to the People!
International Symposium | We are proud to announce the 2-day ‘Black Panther’ symposium with special guests Kathleen Cleaver & Emory Douglas | Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 November 2018 | Former American Embassy in The Hague
Radical imaginings: art practices of/for justice
Call for Papers | Radical imaginings: art practices of/for justice (working title) – Kunstlicht Vol. 40 (2019) No.1. Editor: Aline Hernández | Deadline for Proposals: 15th December 2018.
PhD Scholarship – Radioactive Ruins: Security in the age of the anthropocene
The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) is announcing a three-year, fully funded PhD project on the nuclear origins of the Anthropocene. The project is expected to start 1 February 2019. The PhD project is part of a larger research program on “Radioactive Ruins: Security in the Age of the Anthropocene (RADIANT)”. The aim of the program is to explore the Anthropocene as the radioactive afterlife of the Cold War by asking how nuclear testing has shaped and continues to shape everyday life in the Marshall Islands, Kazakhstan and French Polynesia. Deadline: 23 November 2018.
Possessive Individualism and Transatlantic Slavery in Early Modern Philosophy
NOG Masterclass by Katja Diefenbach | Thursday November 22, 2018 |Utrecht University, 10:00-12:45 | PhD and RMA students can receive 2 ECTS for attending the Masterclass and the Symposium ‘Caring for the World. Ethos and Partisanship’ (on November 23). And an extra 1 ECTS when writing a paper of 4.000-5.000 words. Please note if you wish to receive credit for the Masterclass with your registration at nog@uu.nl. You can register for the masterclass until November 12, 2018.
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.
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)