ASCA PhD Writing Café
28 Oct 2026
You are all invited to join the ASCA Writing Café, every Wednesday from 10:00-17:00 hrs.
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
A research community devoted to the comparative and interdisciplinary study of culture (in all its forms and expressions) from a broad humanities perspective
Upcoming events
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Scientific Communism Meets Storytelling: Political Literacy and the Idiom of Conspiracy in the Cold War Soviet Union
28 Oct 2026Lecture by Alexey Golubev, University of Houston | Organized and moderated by Boris Noordenbos & Gulnaz Sibgatullina | 28 October 2026 · 16:00–17:30 | Universiteitstheater · Room 3.01 -
The Power of Platforms and Maps: A joint book launch
29 Oct 2026This event brings together two recently published books—Platforms: A Critical Introduction by Anne Helmond and Fernando van der Vlist, and Maps as Media by Alex Gekker (both with Polity Press)—to open up a shared ... -
Cosmologies reading group #30: shaman or shamanism
30 Oct 2026Cosmologies Group on Friday, 30 October, from 15:00 to 18:00 in OMHP A 1.18C.
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2027 ASCA Workshop: Queer Forms
Organized by Samuel-Ludmila Feline-Constantin, Imogen Grigorovich, Jakob Henselmans, Jacinta van de Ven & Lars Klute | May 31-June 2, 2027Read more -
ASCA Statement
on Collaborations with Israeli Institutions and International Corporations Complicit in Atrocity CrimesRead more
News
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Call for Papers: Queer Forms
2027 ASCA Workshop | Keynotes: Eugenie Brinkema, Lee Edelman, Robyn Wiegman | Monday, May 31—Wednesday, June 2, University of Amsterdam | Organisation: Samuel-Ludmila Feline-Constantin, Imogen Grigorovich, Jakob ... -
Call for Participation: Console-ing Passions
International Conference on Television, Video, Audio, New Media, and Feminism | 28-30 June 2027 | University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Deadline for proposals: 1 December 2026. -
When data becomes a requirement for democracy
Open government was supposed to bring citizens closer to politics. By making government information publicly available, people would be better informed about the decisions that affect their lives, while at the same ... -
Meet the Fellow: Dr.K. Bailey Thomas
Dr.K. Bailey Thomas is our sixth fellow in the RPA Decolonial Scholars in Residence Program 2026.
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ASCA PhD Community
Located at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) brings together scholars active in literature, philosophy, visual culture, religious studies, ...Read more -
News and events
The ASCA programme is organized by and for academic staff, PhD candidates, and selected Research MA students. It is a collaborative effort designed to provide high level events to discuss relevant and urgent topics ...Read more -
ASCA Research
ASCA is a research institute and doctoral school dedicated to the critical and innovative study of culture from a broadly interdisciplinary perspective grounded in the humanities but increasingly extending to ...Read more