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Global Digital Cultures invites a new round of seed grant proposals
21 Jan 2021
The RPA invites seed grant proposals that focus on questions related to global digital cultures. The Global Digital Cultures steering committee will assess all proposals with specific attention to proposals’ ...
European grant for disclosure of colonial sound collections from Southeast Asia
14 Jan 2021
A Dutch-French-British research consortium, led by UvA researchers Barbara Titus and meLê yamomo, has received a European grant for their three-year project titled Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives ...
Call for Papers: Decolonising the Memories of Enslavement
11 Jan 2021
The issues of discrimination and racism are more than ever at the heart of today’s debates in Europe, America and Africa since the killing of Georges Floyd by police officers in Minneapolis. The conference ...
About Urban and Visual Culture in Contemporary Iran
7 Jan 2021
About Urban and Visual Culture in Contemporary Iran. Non-visibility and the Politics of Everyday Presence. (London: Bloomsbury 2020) by Pedram Dibazar
Nine Cross-faculty Research Projects Awarded GDC Grants
7 Jan 2021
The Global Digital Cultures RPA is pleased to announce the projects that have been granted research support funding following the 2020 Call for Applications.
Simone De Beauvoir: New Perspectives for the 21st Century International Conference
4 Jan 2021
Call for Papers
Simone De Beauvoir: New Perspectives for the 21st Century
International Conference
June 3-4, 2021, Leuven, Institute of Philosophy
Call for Papers: 3.0 ‘Impasse’
4 Jan 2021
Contribute to the third volume of our research journal Soapbox. Soapbox is an open-access platform for cultural analysis: a biannual research journal and website for critical, creative and experimental cultural work.
Call for applications: Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellowships in Modern Greek Studies 2021-2022
23 Dec 2020
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for two (2) visiting research fellowships in the field of Modern Greek Studies for early-career and more advanced scholars who wish to ...
2020 Jarman Award
27 Nov 2020
Michelle Gamaker was one of the six shortlisted artists for the 2020 Jarman Award. ASCA researcher Catherine Lord stars as a large man and a nun in two films in Gamaker’s trilogy. In 2020 the Film London Jarman Award ...
New ASCA Postdoc: Aleksandra Piletić
27 Nov 2020
Aleksandra is joining ASCA as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Platform Labor project (starting 1 January 2021).
Our dreams of a perfect countryside blind us to rural reality
3 Nov 2020
For many people, the image that is conjured up when they imagine life outside the city, is one that harkens back to an earlier era: an idyllic countryside, timeless, serene, far removed from the rest of the world. ...
Finishing Fellowships awarded to eight PhD candidates
23 Oct 2020
Every year the Faculty offers a number of Finishing Fellowships to PhD candidates who have succeeded in writing an advanced draft of their thesis without the support of structural funding. The fellowships aim to ...
“We are all in this together” – Connectivity and Community in Isolation
7 Oct 2020
ASCA Workshop 2021, 23-25 June 2021, (Wed to Fri) | Organizers: Jori Snels and Lok Yee Wong | Keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Lance Bennett, University of Washington; Dr. Alexandra Segerberg, Uppsala University; Prof. ...
A Time of Lost Gods Mediumship, Madness, and the Ghost after Mao
1 Oct 2020
New book by Emily Ng with California University Press 2020
Call for Proposals | Research Innovation and Sustainability Fund 2020
10 Sep 2020
The UvA Faculty of Humanities offers the Research Innovation and Sustainability (RIS) Fund that aims at supporting staff with research time in their career development and expanding their opportunities to conduct ...
Bernard Stiegler study group
9 Sep 2020
The study group will offer participants the opportunity to familiarise themselves with Stiegler’s thought through close readings of a selection of his texts. We will ask ourselves how to ‘care’ for Stiegler’s ideas ...
Shut Up and Write that PhD!
8 Sep 2020
Esther Hammelburg and Aris Emmanouloudis started weekly Shut Up & Write sessions, and invite other PhD students to join. Every Tuesday morning from 9-12 we shut up and write together
Conspiracy theories and the socialist past
3 Sep 2020
Many classic conspiracy theories concern the withholding of information from the public. In Central and Eastern Europe, however, suspicion is more commonly aimed at outside influences. Thanks to an ERC Starting Grant ...
Eight UvA researchers receive ERC Starting Grants
3 Sep 2020
The European Research Council (ERC) has this year awarded Starting Grants to eight UvA researchers. The laureates are: Thijs Bol, Janna Cousijn, Efstratios Gavves, Imke Harbers, Kristine Krause, Sanne Kruikemeier, ...
Comedy and Crisis: Pieter Langendijk, the Dutch, and the Speculative Bubbles Of 1720
2 Sep 2020
Joyce Goggin, Frans De Bruyn | Liverpool University Press, 30 sep. 2020 - 288 pagina's | Comedy and Crisis contains the first ever scholarly English translation of Pieter Langendijk's Quincampoix, or the Wind Traders ...
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