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’ ...

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 ...

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. Non-visibility and the Politics of Everyday Presence. (London: Bloomsbury 2020) by Pedram Dibazar

The Global Digital Cultures RPA is pleased to announce the projects that have been granted research support funding following the 2020 Call for Applications.

Call for Papers Simone De Beauvoir: New Perspectives for the 21st Century International Conference June 3-4, 2021, Leuven, Institute of Philosophy

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Aleksandra is joining ASCA as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Platform Labor project (starting 1 January 2021).

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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

New book by Emily Ng with California University Press 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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...