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Current PhD Research

PhD | Experimental Art Institutionalisms in Hungary

July 22, 2021/in PhDs /by Pepita
Experimental Art Institutionalisms in Hungary

PhD-candidate: Eszter Szakács | University of Amsterdam, ASCA | Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Mia Lerm-Hayes, Dr. Chiara de Cesari

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PhD | Passport Stories: Passport Regimes and (Narratological) Forms of Worldmaking in the Global South and Beyond

June 24, 2021/in PhDs /by Pepita
Passport Stories: Passport Regimes and (Narratological) Forms of Worldmaking in the Global

PhD-candidate: Franziska Westhäuser | University of Amsterdam, ASCA | Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Yolande Jansen, Dr. Hanneke Stuit

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PhD | In a Geopolitical Constellation: Asianisms and Modern Art During Decolonization and Cold War in Indonesia

June 2, 2021/in PhDs /by Pepita
In a Geopolitical Constellation: Asianisms and Modern Art During Decolonization and Cold War in Indonesia

PhD candidate: Kerstin Winking | Leiden University Institute for History | Supervisors: Professor Dr. Marieke Bloembergen and Dr. Sanjukta Sunderason

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PhD | Human Rights Beyond the Nature/Culture Divide: Implications of a Critique of Anthropocentrism for the Idea of Human Rights

April 22, 2021/in PhDs /by Pepita
Human Rights Beyond the Nature/Culture Divide. Implications of a Critique of Anthropocentrism for the Idea of Human Rights

PhD-Candidate: Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp | ASCA, UvA | 2020-2024 | Prof. Yolande Jansen/ Prof. Huub Dijstelbloem

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PhD | Novelty and (Self)Referentiality of the Material: Critiques, Limits and Possibilities of/in the Material Turn

April 15, 2021/in PhDs /by Pepita
Novelty and (Self)Referentiality of the Material

PhD-candidate: Aldo Kempen | Open Universiteit | Supervisor: Eddo Evink

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PhD | Call to Arms: Art Institutions in the Age of Ecological Emergency

April 1, 2021/in PhDs /by Pepita
Call to Arms: Art Institutions in the Age of Ecological Emergency

PhD-Candidate: Giulia Bellinetti | ASCA, University of Amsterdam | Supervisors; Dr. Jeff Diamanti/ Prof. Esther Peeren

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PhD | Disempowered Cinema: Desire, Frustration and Enjoyment in Transnational South American Film

April 1, 2021/in PhDs /by Pepita
Disempowered Cinema

PhD-Candidate: Karen Sztajnberg | ASCA, University of Amsterdam | Supervisors: Prof. Patricia Pisters / Dr. Abe Geil

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PhD | From Memory to Reproduction: The Cinema of Bernadette Mayer

April 1, 2021/in PhDs /by Pepita
PhD Matthew David Rana

PhD-Candidate: Matthew David Rana | ASCA | Supervisors: Christa-Maria Lerm-Hayes, Paula Andrade Da Silva Albuquerque, Marija Cetinic

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PhD | (Un)screened Narratives: Non-Normative Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Iran

November 16, 2020/in PhDs, Announcements /by Chantal
New PhD Candidate: Shekoufeh Behbehani,(Un)screened Narratives: Non-Normative Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Iran

PhD-Candidate: Shekoufeh Behbehani | University of Amsterdam | Supervisors: Murat Aydemir, Gerard Wiegers, Annemarie Korte

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PhD | An Exploratory Study on Theatre Interventions with Refugees in the Netherlands

October 19, 2020/in PhDs, Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
New PhD: Sanaz Afshin, An Exploratory Study on Theatre Interventions with Refugees in the Netherlands

PhD-Candidate: Sanaz Afshin | University of Groningen | Supervisors: Dr. Sara Strandvad (official promoter), Dr. Eleftheria Ioannidou (daily supervisor)

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PhD | ‘Imaginative Visions of Traumatic Heritage in Argentina’

October 12, 2020/in PhDs /by Eloe Kingma
New PhD: Florence Evans, Imaginative Visions of Traumatic Heritage in Argentina

PhD-Candidate: Florence Evans | University of Amsterdam |

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PhD | Imagining the Rural in Contemporary China from a Perspective of Cultural Biographies of Everyday Objects.

October 7, 2020/in PhDs /by Eloe Kingma
Imagining the Rural in Contemporary China from a Perspective of Cultural Biographies of Everyday Objects

PhD-Candidate: Chen Zhou | ASCA, University of Amsterdam | Supervisors: Esther Peeren, Jeroen de Kloet

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PhD | Keeping it Real? – Museums and Technology Use in the Digital Era

September 28, 2020/in PhDs /by Eloe Kingma
Keeping it Real? – Museums and Technology Use in the Digital EraCopyrights: State Museum Nature and Man in Oldenburg

PhD-Candidate: Frieda Russell | University of Amsterdam | Supervisors: Rob van der Laarse and Patricia Lulof

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PhD | Embodied involvement in empathetic relations, in interactive media art

June 24, 2020/in PhDs /by Eloe Kingma

PhD-Candidate: Hermen Maat | Groningen Research Arts and Society Platform; University of Groningen (RUG) and the Hanze University (Hanze UAS) | supervisors: B. van Heusden & A. Coumans

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PhD | Queering the Museum: Contemporary Artists and Curators as ‘Critical Visitors’ and Their Creative Interventions

March 12, 2020/in PhDs /by Eloe Kingma

PhD-Candidate: Liang-Kai Yu | Leiden University | Supervisors: Kitty Zijlmans, Eliza Steinbock (LUCAS, UL) and Dirk van den Heuvel (TU Delft & Het Nieuwe Instituut)

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PhD | The representation of trauma in the oeuvre of Marcel Möring

March 5, 2020/in PhDs /by Eloe Kingma

PhD-Candidate: Nienke van Leverink | Universiteit Leiden | Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Yra van Dijk en Dr. Esther Op de Beek

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PhD | The sense of place in site-specific performances (with a focus on Pahlavi II architecture)

February 18, 2020/in PhDs /by Eloe Kingma

PhD-Candidate: Hossein Tavazoni Zadeh | Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | supervisors: J. Hanich & E. Ioannidou

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PhD | The End of Days: The Doomsday Clock, chronology, and scale

February 5, 2020/in PhDs /by Eloe Kingma

PhD-Candidate: Ian Kenny | University of Amsterdam | Supervisors: Niall Martin, Boris Noordenbos

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PhD | Marking Memory on a Plate: Food Narratives from the Middle East

January 21, 2020/in PhDs /by Eloe Kingma

PhD-Candidate: Erica Moukarzel | University of Amsterdam | Supervisors: Esther Peeren and Noa Roei

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PhD | Imagining the US Rural – Genres, Interventions, Feelings

January 21, 2020/in PhDs /by Eloe Kingma

PhD-Candidate: Tjalling R. Valdés Olmos | University of Amsterdam | Supervisors: Esther Peeren and Jaap Kooijman

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