ASCA supports reading groups initiated by staff and PhD candidates in the field.
Organized by Beate Roessler and Hao Wang | For more information and enrolment, please send an email to Hao Wang: damon.z.wang@gmail.com.
Organized by Kati Röttger (k.e.röttger@uva.nl) | The group aims to share extensive lectures of theoretical texts that touch upon key concepts and methodologies in the field of Performance-and Media Research. | First meeting 30 August 2019.
Organized by Jeroen de Kloet (b.j.dekloet@uva.nl | The ASCA Trans-Asia cultural studies reading group aims to bring scholars in The Netherlands together who are working on issues related to "Asia," to read and discuss key texts as well as each other’s work.
Organized by Jan Overwijk (j.l.overwijk@uva.nl) | Reading plans are flexible and are to be decided by the participants at each meeting.
Organized by Dr Ben Moore (B.P.Moore@uva.nl), Marc Farrant (m.farrant@gold.ac.uk), and Steyn Bergs (s.bergs@vu.nl). | This reading group will explore a selection of seminal, and some lesser-known, works within twentieth and twenty-first century critical and cultural theory, with an emphasis on the intersection between the aesthetic and the political.
In the first semester of 2020-2021, the reading group focusses on conceptualizations of masculinity and masculinities.
The readings are selected around the following host of questions: How should we conceptualize masculinity? Should we adopt a pluralist conception of masculinities and what would that be? What sort of thing is masculinity and where (if at all) is the difference to maleness, manliness, or manhood? Should we conceptualize masculinity as something that a person has or as something else? What is its relation to domination? What is its relation to bodily characteristics of what sort? How does masculinity relate to men both individually and at the aggregate level? Is there a racialized/classed/etc. dimension to masculinity? What sort of normative stances can or should we take towards masculinities?
Meetings are monthly on the second-to-last Friday of the month, at 1600-1800 hours, Amsterdam time. The location is online.
Please email Alex (a.thinius@uva.nl) at any time to participate, co-organize, or receive more information.
18 September: Stoltenberg / Bordo
23 October: Connell
20 November: Hearn
18 December: Curry
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 and legacy, and to put these to use in contemporary critical theory and cultural analysis.
Reading Group organized by Marc Tuters and Daniel de Zeeuw
In the aftermath of the global populist insurgency as well as the reported decline in commitment to democratic values amongst youth in "advanced" liberal societies, this reading group focuses on radical right-wing political philosophy.