A Planetary Aesthetics for the Future Democratic Society
Research project by Stefan Niklas, funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation (2024-2027)
Funded Research Projects
Funded research projects are projects comprising one or more researchers that are externally funded at the national or European level (ERC, VENI, VIDI, VICI, Horizon2020); their performance goals are fixed, as is their lifespan.
Projects overview
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AIsymmetries
This research group coordinated by Lonneke van der Velden and Claudio Celis Bueno builds on these growing body of academic research in order to critically examine the social, political, and economic dimensions behind ... -
Abolition Democracies – Transnational Perspectives
Research Project of Daniel Loick funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation -
Big Brother Wants Your Vote: How Critical Micro-targeting Influences Dutch Democracy
Beate Roessler [co-applicant], Prof. N. Helberger (Main applicant) receive funding from NWO (Maatschappelijk Verantwoord Innoveren) 2020 | Political parties send citizens tailored, microtargeted messages, hoping to ... -
Capture and Analysis Tools for Social Media Research (CAT4SMR)
Bernard Rieder | Platform Digitale Infrastructuur | The project seeks to stabilize and further develop a set of existing and heavily used tools for the collection and analysis of social media data (Facebook, Twitter, ... -
China Fashion Power
Tommy Tse (Media Studies) ERC Consolidator Grant 2022-2027 | Tse’s project will investigate how, in the context of the Belt and Road Initiative, China’s global power is manifested, negotiated and resisted in people’s ... -
Conspiratorial Memory: Cultures of Suspicion in Post-Socialist Europe
Boris Noordenbos – ERC Starting | 2021-2026 | Many classic conspiracy theories concern the withholding of information from the public. -
Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives
A Joint Programming Initiative on Cultural Heritage and Global Change (JPICH-CHIP) | 2021-2024 | A Dutch-French-British research consortium, led by Barbara Titus and meLê yamomo (University of Amsterdam), has ... -
Eco-Islam in Indonesia: Media, Institutions, Publics
ERC Consolidar Grant Leonie Schmidt (2024-2028) -
Emergencies of Authoritarianism
The project team is coordinated by Judith Butler (Berkeley), Robin Celikates (Berlin), Daniel Loick (Amsterdam) and Zeynep Gambetti (Istanbul), and involves Debaditya Bhattacharya (Delhi), Gisela Catanzaro (Buenos ... -
Entangled Freedoms: Decolonial Modernisms as Transnational Relations of Resistance, 1940s-1980s
ERC Consolidator Sanjukta Sunderason (2024-2028) -
Imagining Institutions Otherwise: Art, Politics, and State Transformation
Vidi Chiara de Cesari | 2020-2024 | Following the “social turn” in contemporary art, a number of political and cultural theorists have argued that art’s primary function is to “imagine things otherwise” and incite ... -
MSCA ITN Early Language Development in the Digital Age (e-LADDA)
Stefania Milan receives funding from the European Commission (Horizon 2020/ Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions) -
Moral Truth: Exploring the Concept of Practical Cognition in Kant’s Ethics
Open Competition Grant Thomas Nys (2023-2027) -
Narratives from the long tail: transforming access to large-scale audiovisual archives
Giovanna Fossati – Sinergia (main applicant: Sarah Kenderdine, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Zwitserland) -
Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums
Chiara de Cesari – NWA-ORC (co-applicant) 2021-2025 (main applicant: Susan Legêne, VU Amsterdam) -
Restituting, Reconnecting, Reimagining Sound Heritage
In 2024, the research project Restituting, Reconnecting, Reimagining Sound Heritage (Re:Sound), led by Dr. Sri Margana from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, received a subsidy from the NWO/NWA ... -
Sustainability Performances, Evidence & Scenarios (SPES)
The objective of the Sustainability Performances, Evidence and Scenarios (SPES) project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon Europe Programme, is to better understand the interconnections between economic growth, ... -
The Future of Modernity and Non-Modern Futures
As recipients of the UvA Starter Grant, an initiative created to consolidate the research profile of junior assistant professors (UD), Elio Baldi and Irene Villaescusa Illán have pooled their resources to work on a ... -
The politics of (not) eating animals
Eva Meijer – NWO Veni 2021-2025 | In this research project I examine deliberative practices surrounding the eating of animals. I examine three case studies in order analyse the relation between language and power and ... -
Untimely World Pictures: Confronting the Anthropocene Through Historical Representations of the Global Environment.
Simon Ferdinand – NWO Veni 2021-2025 | Although Earth is now predominantly represented as a geometrical globe, historically it has been depicted in much more diverse ways. This project uses an innovative ...