Events - ASCA - University of Amsterdam

14Mar2018 09May2018

This is Film!

Event

Film Heritage in Practice is a six-session series at EYE offering insight into what happens behind the scenes in film archives, museums and cinemas. Each session will cover a different topic and feature an ...

05Apr2018 17May2018

War and Peace: New Cinema from Central and Eastern Europe

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6 film screenings, 6 interviews with the directors at VOX-POP, a series initiated and hosted by Katya Dorofeeva and Ellen Rutten at the Russian and Slavic Studies Department, in collaboration with ASCA. ~ How do ...

24Apr2018

Spectrology and Hauntology with Paula Albuquerque and Lauryn Mannigel

15:00 - 17:30 | Event

4th session of the Artistic Research Seminar organized by Paula Albuquerque

26Apr2018

Responsibility and the Other: Between the Political and the Ethical -- Levinas, Weil & Arendt

15:00 - 18:00 | Event

5th session of the ASCA Theory Seminar organized by Patricia Llorens, Gerrit Schaafsma, Linda Xheza

12May2018 17May2018

Moving Together: Activism, Art and Education – A Week with Angela Davis

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Moving Together: Activism, Art and Education – A Week with Angela Davis is a weeklong program taking place from 12-17 May at various arts, cultural, educational and heritage institutions, and community centers in ...

14May2018

Politics of divination. Neoliberalism as theology of chance

20:00 - 21:30 | Event

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the neoliberal ideas that arguably caused the damage have been triumphant in presenting themselves as the only possible solution for it. How can we account for the persistence of ...

16May2018

The Idea of Africa

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Masterclass and lecture by Gina Dent, as part of the program Moving Together: Activism, Art and Education – A Week with Angela Davis

16May2018

Mimi Onuoha at UvA

15:00 - 16:30 | Event

Mimi Onuoha (NYU) will visit UvA as part of the DATACTIVE Speakers’ Series. The talk is sponsored by DATACTIVE, ASCA and the Amsterdam Network for the Study of Online Contention (ANSOC). Title and location TBA.

17May2018

ASCA PhD Supervision Workshop

11:00 - 13:00 | Event

ASCA invites all current and prospective PhD supervisors to a workshop on PhD supervision, organized by Patricia Pisters, Esther Peeren and Eloe Kingma. We will address how to become involved in PhD supervision, ...

17May2018

ASCA PhD Skills Seminar

15:00 - 18:00 | Event

What should (and shouldn’t) I do at academic conferences? How do I go about organizing a conference, seminar or masterclass? Where should (and shouldn’t) I publish my research? How long does it take for a publication ...

17May2018

Spinoza Lecture: Aesthetic Responsibility

20:15 - 22:00 | Lecture

Susan Wolf will hold the Spinoza Chair of the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities in the second term of the academic year 2017-2018 and will be delivering the accompanying two Spinoza Lectures on ...

22May2018 22Apr2018

Sheila Jasanoff – The Ethics of Invention

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Workshop and Lecture with and by Sheila Jasanoff (Harvard University) on "Digital Governance and the Distributed Self" and "A Second Creation: Human Futures and the Reinvention of Nature".

24May2018

Can New York Be Saved? The Urban Condition during the Anthropocene

10:00 - 12:00 | Event

Masterclass with Ashley Dawson (Princeton Environmental Institute) organized by ASCA Cities Project in collaboration with NICA

24May2018

The Energy Commons

17:00 - 19:00 | Event

Public Event with Ashley Dawson and Jeff Diamanti organized by ASCA Cities Project at Location: SPUI25, Spui 25, Amsterdam.

26May2018 29May2018

Activating the Archive. Audio-Visual Collections and Civic Engagement, Political Dissent and Societal Change

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How can audio-visual collections be mobilized for the common good? How can preservationists, curators and programmers be trained to achieve this goal? In May 2018, the EYE International Conference will explore ...

06June2018 07June2018

Decolonial Desires with Dr. Vanessa Agard-Jones

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Lecture and Masterclass: Decolonial Desires with Dr. Vanessa Agard-Jones (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, Columbia University) Lecture Respondent: Dr. Rivke Jaffe (Professor of Cities, Politics and Culture, ...

08June2018

Hermeneutics and the Flesh (curated by Divya Nadkarni, ASCA)

15:30 - 17:30 | Event

Next session in the Women in Theory Reading Group organized by Nadia de Vries

14June2018 14June2017

Spinoza Lecture: Selves Like Us

20:15 | Lecture

Susan Wolf will hold the Spinoza Chair of the Department of Philosophy of the Faculty of Humanities in the second term of the academic year 2017-2018 and will be delivering the accompanying two Spinoza Lectures on ...

27June2018 29June2018

The NECS 2018 Conference Media Tactics and Engagement

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The University of Amsterdam, the Free University of Amsterdam and Utrecht University are happy to present: The NECS 2018 Conference Media Tactics and Engagement (27-29 June 2018), hosted by the University of ...

20Sept2018 21Sept2018

Politics of Boredom

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Call for Papers for a workshop at University of Amsterdam, organized by Aylin Kuryel, Adam Gisborne, Helen Weeres.

27Sept2018 28Sept2018

Facts: True, Alternative, Evolving

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Association of Adaptation Studies Annual Conference 2018, with a special focus on Entertainment Franchises. The University of Amsterdam | 27-28 September 2018 Confirmed Keynotes: Professor James Chapman (University ...

18Oct2018 19Oct2018

Fifth Annual ACGS Conference: Global Critical Pedagogies

Conference

In a time of fake news, internet memes, and a global information overload, questions of education and pedagogy have become all the more pressing. Globally, institutes of higher education are under threat, facing ...

29Nov2018 01Dec2018

Elvis lives in Amsterdam Manifestations of the imaginary musician

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CALL FOR PAPERS Elvis lives in Amsterdam. University of Amsterdam, 29 November - 1 December 2018. Conference convenors: Rutger Helmers and Oliver Seibt. Deadline for submissions: 31 May 2018.