Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp has received funding for her PhD Project through the NWO programme PhDs in the Humanities

The first of DATACTIVE’S PhD students to cross the finish line, Niels ten Oever, has received the Honorable Mention for his dissertation “Wired Norms: Inscription, Resistance, and Subversion in the Governance of the ...

Bjorn Beijnon received the NWO Doctoral Grant for Teachers which is aimed at allowing teachers to gain research experience in order to improve the quality of education and to strengthen the ties between universities ...

The research schools of the Faculty of Humanities (ACLC, AHM, ARTES, ASCA, ASH, and the interfaculty institute ILLC) have been working on recruiting new PhD candidates – one for each school. The two remaining ...

Anna-Rose Shack, Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp and Heleen de Vries have received funding for their doctoral research at the UvA through the NWO programme PhDs in the Humanities. Financiers are the Programme Office Sustainable ...

Giovanna Fossati, UvA professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture, has become one of the new members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, better known as the Oscars. Fossati, who is also the ...

The Faculty of Humanities invites applications for PhD Finishing Fellowships, tenable from January 1, 2022. Deadline for applications: October 1, 2021.

The 2021 ASCA Awards Committee, Jakko Kemper, Misha Kavka, and Jeff Diamanti, have awarded Flora Lysen's dissertation Brainmedia: One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920–2020; Marrigje Paijmans article ‘An ...

Pei-Sze is joining UvA's Media Studies department as an Assistant Professor in Media and Culture, and will be teaching courses on film studies and global media culture. Her research has centred on peripheral screen ...

The research schools of the Faculty of Humanities (ACLC, AHM, ARTES, ASCA, ASH, and the interfaculty institute ILLC) have been working on recruiting new PhD candidates – one for each school. Four of six positions ...

Algorithms have become significant shapers of the way sexuality is searched for and found on social media. In the online world, behavioral data speak for a person, instead of a person speaking for him/herself ...

This webinar discusses how Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) coordinate their operations across distance and difference. FIUs play a pivotal role in financial surveillance. They receive transaction information from ...

The University of Kent published a call for papers for the conference '(In)Tangible Heritage(s)', a conference on design, culture and technology in past, present, and future on 15-17 June 2022 in Canterbury, UK.

How does the global digital media landscape, populated by multinational subscription video-on-demand providers (SVOD) such as Netflix, challenge local cultural policy regulators and content producers? In this ...

P(R)OTESTAS is a transdisciplinary, trans-Pacific comparative research of protest, power, and digital authoritarianism, focused on the recent massive anti-government protests and hard-handed repression in South-East ...

'Emotional Ethics of The Hunger Games' (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) expands the ‘ethical turn’ in Film Studies by analysing emotions as a source of ethical knowledge in 'The Hunger Games' films.

The ASCA selection committee 2021, consisting of Maria Boletsi, Sudeep Dasgupta, Stefan Niklas, Esther Peeren, and Tjalling Valdes Olmos, has selected Pinar Türer and her project on the Ethics of Intimacy out of 464 ...

During the academic year 2021-2022, Gaston Franssen will be affiliated with the UvA Institute for Advanced Study as a research fellow. At IAS, Franssen will work on a project focusing on ‘diagnostic cultures’ in ...

GDC offers regular research seminars in which two work-in-progress papers from junior and senior researchers are discussed. These sessions feature research on global digital cultures from a wide variety of ...

Many museums in Europe and beyond are wrestling with their colonial collections. What should happen with these objects that were acquired in the colonial past? And which role can this heritage play in improving ...