Architecture at Times of War: The Politics and Ethics of Destruction, Witnessing and Rebuilding
ASCA/NICA workshop | 11 June, 13:00-15:00
To accompany Marwa Al-Sabouni’s lecture “From a Model of Peace to a Model of Conflict: The Effect of Architectural Modernization on the Syrian Urban and Social Make-up” (11 June, 16:00-18:00, University Theater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16), ASCA and NICA are organizing a seminar focusing on Architecture at Times of War, in which we will read parts of Al-Sabouni’s book The Battle of Home: Memoir of a Syrian Architect and contextualize it by connecting it to other work focused on the role of architecture before, during and after conflict situations by Judith Naeff and Eyal Weizman.
Public Lecture by Marwa Al-Sabouni
11 June 2019, 16:00-18:00 | University Theater
From a land called the “Cradle of Civilizations” to one that is now described as “apocalyptic” and “one of the most dangerous places on Earth”, Syria may have no more critical moment than the current crisis to reflect on what is taking it down this terrifyingly dark path. We resort to history in order to decipher the mysteries of the present, and there is no more honest and direct history than that of the built environment: a concrete object that tells the narratives not only of the winners, the wealthy and the powerful, but also of those who were brushed aside, cut apart and walked over.
Performing Robots Conference: Dialogues Between Theatre and Robotics
23-25 May 2019, Utrecht (the Netherlands) | Organized by Transmission in Motion (Utrecht University) and SPRING Performing Arts Festival
This conference takes stock of interactions between theatre and robotics so far and looks at possibilities for future collaboration. What do the performing arts have to offer as inspiration, model, and test-case for the development of robots and for human-robot interaction? How might collaboration between the performing arts and robotics contribute to further development of social robots, as well as to critical understanding of what it will mean to be living with them?
Challenging the Sites of Knowledge – Medial and pluri-medial configurations and transformations
Call for Applications Summer School 2019 Extended deadline: 15 Mai 2019 | When: 3 – 7 September 2019 | Where: Hotel Bad Muntelier, Murten, near Berne, SwitzerlandLanguages: English (main), German
Postcolonial Poetics and Decolonizing the Academy
Master Class and Lecture by Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford) | Date/Time/Location: Thursday 16 May 2019. Masterclass at 13.30-15.30 in Vondelzaal, UB. Lecture at 17.00-18.00 in PC Hoofthuis 1.04.
How to do Things with Affect?
Juul KraijerWorkshop at Spui25 organized by Ernst van Alphen | Speakers: Maria Boletsi, Eugenie Brinkema, Tomas Jirsa and Ernst van Alphen | 29 May 2019, 3-6 pm.
Asbestos Towns
ASCA Cities Public Talk by Dr. Arthur Rose (University of Bristol) | Friday 17 May, 15.00 – 17.00 hrs., room 101A, Universiteitstheater (Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16-18)
Climate Realism – Aesthetics and Politics of Climate
© privatWorkshop and Book Launch | 10 May 2019, 15:00 hrs. | Goethe Institut Amsterdam | Herengracht 470 Amsterdam
A date with destiny: racial capitalism and the beginnings of the Anthropocene
Session #6 of Race in Film and Philosophy
Location: BG1 0.16, Turfdraagsterpad 9 | Time: May 3, 15.00-18.00
In this seminar we will discuss some key ways the Anthropocene is inexorably racial. The capitalist system requires racializing populations and environments from early modernity to the present and into the future.
Decomposition and Deformation: Literature, Film, Philosoph
Double Lecture: Eugenie Brinkema (MIT) and Julius Greve (University of Oldenburg) | Lecture Series in Media | Arts | Politics | Convened by Pepita Hesselberth, Yasco Horsman (Film and Literary Studies, Leiden University) | Monday May 6, 15.00-17.30 | Eyckhof 1 / 003C / Leiden University
Urban Crisis-Scapes: On Walks and Ruins
Urban Crisis-Scapes: On Walks and Ruins | Amsterdam Belle van Zuylenzaal, 16-17 May 2019 | 1 EC | The workshop will focus on city-scapes that have recently been radically reconfigured through pervasive frameworks of crisis – financial, political, humanitarian etc. We want to explore alternative experiences of urban space, new artistic imaginaries, and innovative cultural initiatives emerging from such urban crisis-scapes by centering on two distinct but interrelated thematic lines: Walks and Ruins.
Moving the Colour Line
Session #5 of the Race in Philosophy and Media Seminar introduced by Sudeep Dasgupta | BG1 0.16, 5 April, 15.00 – 18.00 | Contact: tessa.devet@student.uva.nl.
ASCA Workshop 2019: Realities and Fantasies: Relations, Transformations, Discontinuities
University of Amsterdam | 10-12 April 2019 | 3 EC. Organized by Divya Nadkarni, Alex Thinius, and Nadia de Vries. Keynote speakers: Jonathan Culler (Cornell University), Annabelle Dufourcq (RU Nijmegen), Nkiru Nzegwu (SUNY Binghamton), Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku).
Against the Grain: The Ethics, Poetics and Politics of Contrarian Speech
Symposium at the University of Amsterdam, 5th – 7th June 2019 | Keynote speakers: Sarah Clancy, Jim Hicks, Frank Keizer | Deadline for proposals: 15th April 2019 | Dates: The event will commence in the late afternoon of 5th June and end by early afternoon of 7th June | A collaboration of ‘Contemporary Poetry and Politics’ (FFI2016-77584-P), The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, The Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies, and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. | Organizers: Cornelia Gräbner (Lancaster University), Joost de Bloois (University of Amsterdam).
Affective Politics in Contemporary Media: Double book launch with Eliza Steinbock, Toni Pape and Sudeep Dasgupta
This Spui25 event, co-hosted by The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Duke University Press, is a launch for two new books in media studies: Eliza Steinbock’s Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change and Toni Pape’s Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption, both published by Duke University Press this Spring 2019 | Spui25 Amsterdam | 16 May 2019
What’s the Point? Impact and the Future of the Humanities
The Utrecht University Humanities Graduate Conference 2019, What’s the Point? Impact and the Future of the Humanities, will take place on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th April 2019. | Registration is open.
Be Careful What You Wish For: On Impact as a Proxy for Value in Arts & Humanities Research
Master Class with Eleonora Belfiore | Date: 11 April, 2019 | Time: 10:00 – 12:30 | Venue: Utrecht University, Drift | Open to: PhD candidates, (R)MA students | Credits: 1-2,5 ECTS | Contact: Whatsthepoint@uu.nl | Register before: March 15, 2019
How Vulnerable are the Humanities?
Master Class with Simon During | Date: 11 April, 2019 | Time: 10:00 – 12:30 | Venue: Utrecht University, Drift | Open to: PhD candidates, (R)MA students | Credits: 1-2,5 ECTS | Contact: Whatsthepoint@uu.nl | Register before: March 15, 2019
Towards a Performative School — Performance Philosophy Biennial
Workshop by Silvia Bottiroli | Friday, March 15th 2019,10.45 – 12.15 | Location: De Brakke Grond, Rode Zaal
New media dramaturgy: performing matter and the ecological question
MASTERCLASS offered by the Centre for the Humanities and the Transmission in Motion research group (https://transmissioninmotion.sites.uu.nl/) at Utrecht University, in collaboration with NICA and SPRING Performing Arts Festival | 20 May 2018, 10.30-15h | Het Huis (Boorstraat 107, Utrecht)