The forgotten legacy of Dutch composers suppressed by the Nazi’s
Supervisors: Julia Kursell, Rob van der Laarse and P. Lelieveldt
Performance art and ethics: on the mutually-empowering dialogue between one’s experimental performance art practice and Levinas’s “Totalité et Infini”
Supervisors: Kati Rottger and Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
Carceral (P)Artisanry
Supervisors | Robin Celikates & Guy Geltner
Deciphering the Cultural Palimpsest of New Amsterdam
Supervisor | Esther Peeren, Frans Blom and Lia van Gemert
The Artist as Expert: A Critical Research on the Project Economy
Supervisors: Jeroen Boomgaard, Mia Lerm-Hayes
Image and Displacement: Migratory Aesthetics in Contemporary Indian and Israeli Art
Supervisors: Noa Roei, Esther Peeren and Ernst van Alphen
Mediterranean Drifts|The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art in Greece in the Context of the Refugee Crisis
Supervisors | Maria Boletsi, Esther Peeren
Remembering Violence: Cultural memory, popular culture and the Indonesian War of Independence
Supervisers: Jeroen de Kloet, Leonie Schmidt
The Interaction Between Women's Real Life Role in Society and the Roles they are Given in Iranian Cinema After the Islamic Revolution 1979
Supervisors: Maryn Wilkinson & Patricia Pisters
The Relationship Between Art and Technology
Supervisor | René Boomkens
Cinema and Gender Politics in Contemporary Iran: Subversive or Co-extensive
Supervisors: Murat Aydemir, Gerard Wiegers
Schizophrenia and the Construction of Reality: Experiencing Subjectivities through Virtual Reality.
Supervisor: Patricia Pisters, Gaston Franssen
Call to Arms: Art Institutions in the Age of Ecological Emergency
Supervisors | Jeff Diamanti, Esther Peeren
A full hearing of Spoken Word Poetry in Cape Vernacular Afrikaans
Supervisors: Margriet van der Waal, Gaston Franssen
Walter Benjamin’s atmospheric hermeneutics
Supervisors: Ben Moore, Monique Roelofs
Curating ‘Europeanness’: Shaping and propagating European culture in Contemporary Art Exhibitions as part of the European Capital of Culture Initiative
Supervisors | Murray Pratt, Margriet Schavemaker, Astrid van Weyenberg
Balancing Privacy - Resolving Conflicts Between Interests
Supervisors: Beate Roessler, Thomas Nys
Inscribing Sonic Space between Body and Ether: Epistemological Modalities of Media, Embodiment and Speculation in the Art of Ryoji Ikeda
Supervisors: Barbara Titus, Julia Kursell
Values in Old Age, in Search of a New semantic Space
Supervisor | Rene Boomkens
Islam and Judaism, Muslims and Jews in Contemporary "Dutch Enlightenment", in Light of Their Genealogies in Modern Political Philosophy
Supervisor | Yolande Jansen
After Emmanuel Levinas: The ethics and poetics of literary (artistic) experience
Supervisor | Josef Früchtl
Rethinking the Web as a Source of Data
Supervisor | Richard Rogers
Imagining the Rural in Contemporary Dutch Culture
Supervisors | Esther Peeren, Hanneke Stuit
The Urban Opportunities and Challenges of Airbnb
Supervisors | Niels van Doorn, Rivke Jaffe
The Development of Instrumental Music in Ottoman/Turkish Maqam Music: Experimental Studies Between the Years 1940 - 2000
Supervisors: Julia Kursell, Barbara Titus, Anne van Oostrum
Pre-and post-apartheid creative writing: An exploration of selective Afrikaans poetry during a revolutionary period of turmoil
Supervisor: Margriet van der Waal
Assessment of Artistic Quality
Supervisor | René Boomkens
Utopia, Technology and Posthuman Bodies in Jeanette Winterson Fiction
Supervisors: Esther Peeren, Niall Martin
Between Thinking and Doing: Performance Philosophy as perspective for analysing audience’s changing role in artistic events and democracy
Supervisor: Kati Röttger
Wilding Sustainability: Towards an Ecofeminist, Decolonial, Posthuman Concept of Care
Supervisors: Yolande Janssen, Jana Cattien
Drifting Studio Practice. Return of the making in the thinking
Supervisor | Patricia Pisters, Henk Slager
Edward Said's Musical Concepts
Supervisor | Julia Kursell
The illustrated cityscape: imperfect lines of urban exploration
Supervisors | Emilie Sitzia, Carolyn Birdsall
Historical Body:Recovering Lost Narratives and Negated Memories in Contemporary Performance Art from Africa and the Mediterranean
Supervisors: Mia Lerm-Hayes & Marga van Mechelen
The Moving Canvas: Images Between Photography, Film, and Painting
Supervisor | Murat Aydemir
Vernacular Disruptions: Reading Postcolonial Literature in Dutch
Supervisor | Ieme van der Poel
The Citizen Professional as New Co-Actor in Urban Space Production
Supervisor | René Boomkens
Audiovisual Archives in the Mekong Region: Digitization, Policies and Cultural expression of Southeast Asian Film Heritage
Supervisors | Giovanna Fossati and Floris Paalman
Apocalyptic Reckoning and Visualizations of Obligation: A Genealogy of Debt and Its Representations in Art, Media and Culture
Supervisors: Joyce Goggin, Carrol Clarkson
Creating New Europe via Contemporary Art in Post-Wall Era: Examining Manifesta - European Biennial of Contemporary Art in the Context of Intermingled Relationships between Art, Society and Politics
Supervisors: Mia Lerm-Hayes, Johan Hartle
Music, Musicians and the War of the Spanish Succession
Supervisor | Julia Kursell
Witnesses to Revoltution: Documentary Film, Multitude, and Global Democracy in the 21st Century
Supervisor | Patricia Pisters
Cinematic Ethics of Migration: Auto-Ethnographic Migrant Perspectives in Contemporary Documentary Film.
Supervisors: Patricia Pisters, Carolyn Birdsall
Practices and Principles of Journalistic Information Gathering and Verification in the Digital Age
Supervisor: Mark Deuze
Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and the ‘Free International University’ (FIU): A History of radical experiments in higher arts education
Supervisors: Rene Boomkens
Mediating Justice: Politics, Media, Theatre and Law in the Golden Dawn Trial
Supervisors | Maria Boletsi, Yasco Horsman
Island Imbroglios. Aruban Issues and Publics on Facebook
Supervisor | Richard Rogers
Cinematic Construct Amsterdam: Amsterdam as Filming Location in International Postwar Film
Supervisors: Eef Masson & Patricia Pisters
The Politics of Depression. A critical analysis of the political-epistemological limits of major depressive disorder
Supervisors: Patricia Pisters, Julian Kiverstein
From the Vastness of the Web to Mainstream Production and Vice-Versa: Fan Idenities, User-Generated Content and Produser Communities
Supervisors | Carrol Clakson and Joyce Goggin
From Experimental Institutionalism to the Demodern Museum: Experimentation and Self-Reflection in Visual Art Institutions from 1989 to the present.
Supervisors | Mia Lerm-Hayes and Joost de Bloois
In the heights of a new Broadway style and the troubles of engaging audiences in the 21st. century: Revitalizing musical theatre.
Supervisors | Kati Rottger
Adaptation and the Heritage of the Sixties
Supervisor | Thomas Vaessens & Gaston Franssen
« Barvalo ». Designing an Exhibition on and with Roma Communities in a French National Museum
Supervisors | Emilie Sitzia, Margriet Schavemaker, Huub van Baar
Reception of the theatre of Heiner Müller in Latin America since 1989: artistic reinterpretations and political resonances
Supervisor: Kati Rottger
La soberanía del vacío: Abe, Blanchot, Elizondo
Supervisor: Shelley Godsland
The Visual Language of News on Social Media
Supervisor: Richard Rogers
Between memory and imagination: Homecoming in Aharon Appelfeld’s and Eva Hoffman’s autobiographies and fiction
Supervisors: Irene E. Zwiep and Yaniv Hagbi
Thinking the Brain through Art and Neuroscience
Supervisor: Patricia Pisters, Machiel Keestra
Missing Limbs
Supervisor | Esther Peeren & Patricia Pisters
Fare Musica Antica (Ebraica) reinventing a usable past
Supervisors | Julia Kursell, Irene Zwiep, Barbara Titus
Corporate Collections as Emerging Heritage: Art Market Dynamics, Corporate Strategies, and Public Support for the Arts
Supervisors | Arnold Witte, Nachoem Wijnberg
Masculinity Crises in 60s' Novels: A Blast From the Past?
Supervisors: Maria Boletsi, Ernst van Alphen
“Is this /ourguy/?”: Tracing Political Identity Formation within Anonymous Online Subcultures.
Supervisor | Bernhard Rieder
Liveness coming to life. The mediatised experience of cultural events
Supervisors: Thomas Poell, Jeroen de Kloet, José van Dijck
Festival curation in the forcefield of international prestige and national heritage
Supervisor | Kati Rottger
Future news work: mapping and understanding atypical journalism
Supervisors: Mark Deuze and Mirjam Prenger
China’s global cinema: state-driven film-related co-operations with BRI countries.
Supervisors: Jeroen de Kloet and Patricia Pisters
Understanding Dutch Heritage from the Perspective of East Asian Immigrants.
Supervisors: Kati Röttger, David Duindam
Queer Chronotopes in Contemporary Fiction
Supervisors: Shelley Godsland & Murat Aydemir
Towards Emplacing Authentic Political Theatre in Nigeria
Supervisor | Kati Rottger
Non-heteronormative Cultural Practices of Sexual Citizenship in Curaçao and Bonaire under Conditions of (Post)Coloniality
Supervisors: Sruti Bala & Rivke Jaffe
Sanskritic Metres in Old and Modern Javanese: A Study of Their Musical and Literary Features
Supervisors | Julia Kursell, Barbara Titus
The Platformization of the Global Sex Industry: Markets, Morals, and Mass Intimacy
Supervisors | Thomas Poell and Olav Velthuis
The ‘lesbian continuum’ in Greek literature of the 20th and 21st centuries
Supervisors: Maria Boletsi and Elizabeth Arseniou
Social Movements and the Discovery of Social Reality
Supervisors: Mari Mikkola, Daniel Loick
How everything became economics: The rise of the CPB and economic thinking in Dutch political debates.
Supervisor: Huub Dijstelbloem, Frederica Russo
Constructing threats and Modelling Security in a Data Risk Society
Supervisor | Stefania Milan & Marieke de Goede
Belief and the Will
Supervisors | Franz Berto and Christian Skirke
Dutch Design, Glitches, Misfits: Why Western Europeans Crave the Imperfect.
Supervisor: Ellen Rutten, Marie-Aude Baronian
Anthropomythos: the quest for meaning in times of ecological crisis
Supervisors: Nial Martin, Boris Noordenbos, Esther Peeren
The Institution as Ideology: Re-imagining cultural practices in Palestine
Supervisors: Chiara de Cesari and Jeroen de Kloet
Representation of cultural identities in Netflix series: a transnational experience of television? The case of Criminal
Supervisors: Toni Pape, Misha Kavka
An Exploration of Gendered Vulnerability in Spanish Literature
Supervisors: Shelley Godsland, John Garrido Ardila
Media Swarms - Sef-Mediation, Affect, and Emergent Forms of Political Assciation in the "Movements of the Squares
Supervisor | Richard Rogers
The Making of Composers
Supervisor | Julia Kursell
Crude Oil, Political Identities: The Oil-Encounter in Modern Iranian Fiction
Supervisors: Esther Peeren , Ernst van Alphen
Provisional thesis title: Dirty Looks: feminine visuality in discursive normalization of sexual violence
Supervisors: Murat Aydemir, Noa Roei
“Actie, Bubbel en Windnegotie” (Action, Bubble and Wind Trade) – a World of Folly, Paper and Performance. Economies of Theatre in the Dutch Republic.
Supervisors: Kati Rottger and Jan Lazardzig
The Exhausted Self
Supervisors: Patricia Pisters and E. Manning
Apprentices of Listening - Listening as a dialogical virtue and skill in primary education
Supervisors: Josef fruchtl, Anders Schinkel, Chiel van der Veen
Do Earthly Beings Have Dignity? Human Rights Beyond the Nature/Culture Divide
Supervisors: Yolande Jansen and Huub Dijstelbloem
The Foundations of Criticism: The Case of October
Supervisors | Johan Hartle, Mia Lerm Hayes, Sven Lütticken
Political Stupidity: Why are we still not thinking politics?
Supervisors: Daniel Loick, and Yolande Jansen
Between Europe and North Africa: Contemporary Francophone Jewish writers rom the Maghreb
Supervisor | Ieme van der Poel
Sexuality and violence across the Global North/Global South divide
Supervisor: Ben Moore and Patricia Pisters
Exchanging Tales of War: Imagined Communities and Negotiation of Identities in ographical Writings of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
Supervisors | Ena Jansen & Rone Foster (Stellenbosch University)
Towards an Alternative Database Management System: Structuring Film Archives as Social Networks
Supervisor | Robin Boast, Giovanna Fossati
Identiteit en de representatie van trauma in het literaire oeuvre van Breyten Breytenbach
Supervisors | Margriet van de Waal, Astrid van Weyenberg
Modes of Possession: The Production of Subjectivity and Property in the Cape Colony and its Eastern Frontier, 1856-1913
Supervisors: Carrol Clarkson & Margriet van der Waal
Between Preservation and Exhibition: Debates on Digital Technology in European Film Archives
Supervisors: Giovanna Fossati & Benoit Turguety
Genealogical study of digital images.
Supervisors | Annet Dekker and Julia Noordegraaf
Caribbean Music Palimpsests: Embodied Action and Cultural Transmission
Supervisors | Julia Kursell, Barbara Titus
Lessons from Glyptodon morelloi: A biography of Jorge Helios Morello Wyler
Supervisors: Shelley Godsland and Ana Maria de Costa Toscano
Politics as Vehicle of Art: A Study of the Patronage Networks Linking the Italian Transavangardia Movement to the Italian Socialist Party
Supervisors: Mia Lerm-Hayes & Gregor Langfeld
Alternatives to the Corporate Sharing Economy
Supervisor | Niels van Doorn
Marking Memory on a Plate: Food Narratives from the Middle East
Supervisors: Esther Peeren and Noa Roei
Performing theory: Radical creative machines for post-capitalist politics in Chile's Multitude.
Supervisors: Kati Röttger, Joost de Bloois
Sociopoetics and ‘forms’ of political engagement
Supervisors: Ellen Rutten & Josef Fruchtl
From the Streets to the Screens: Following Activists in Contemporary Beirut
Supervisors: Thomas Poell, Eliza Steinbock
Rethinking the Notion of Freedom from the Perspective of the Refugee
Supervisors: Robin Celikates & Yolande Jansen
Finding Human Dignity in the Digital Economy: Digital Reification, Mediation, and Algorithmic Management in the Platform-Mediated Work
Supervisors | Mark Deuze, Christian Fieseler (BI Norwegian Business School)
Black Disruption, White Reinforcement
Supervisors: Yolande Jansen, Michiel Leezenberg
Infinite Regression in Autobiographic Cinema
Supervisors: Patricia Pisters, Laurent van Lancker
Future Literature: Reading Skills in the Age of Digital Media
Supervisors: Thomas Vaessens, Ernst van Alphen
Post-rationalization: Openness in Contemporary Social Organization
Supervisors | René Boomkens, Robin Celikates
Cyborgization and Decyborgization
Supervisor | Patricia Pisters
The language of the passions – Towards an understanding of passion communication and elicitation on the English stage 1753-1806
Supervisor: Kati Röttger
Past Nature in Contemporary Art and New Materialisms. How Art and Philosophy Interact
Supervisors: Mia Lerm-Hayes & Mirjam van Rijsingen
Natively Digital Datasets of Memory
Supervisor | Richard Rogers
Refusing the Macabre Dance
Supervisor | Carrol Clarkson, Tara MacDonald
Exploring the Rhythms of Techno: A Discussion of Music, Culture, and Everyday Life
Supervisors: Oliver Seibt and Julia Kursell
Journalism as Artistic Practice
Supervisors | Mark Deuze, Jan van der Stoep
The God of Holland: Pyke Koch and the Abendland Aesthetic of Magical Realism
Supervisors | Mia Lerm-Hayes and Ernst van Alphen
Sublime Imperfections: Post-Soviet Trash Aestetics
Supervisors: Joost de Bloois, Ellen Rutten
The Reflective Journalist
Supervisor | Mark Deuze
From Social Memory to Social Reproduction: The Expanded Cinema of Bernadette Mayer
Supervisors: Mia Lerm-Hayes, Paula Albuquerque, Marija Cetinic
The Museum as a Lab: Environmental Exhibitions in Israel 1967-1994
Supervisors: Margriet Shavemaker, Noa Roei
Klangspuren aus dem Pazifik. Klangepistemologien im Berliner Phonogramm-Archiv.
Supervisors | Barbara Titus, Julia Kursell, Birgit Abels
A Stakeholder Analysis of the Audio-Visual Sector in Trinidad & Tobago: Implications for Policy-making
Supervisors: Emiel Martens and Patricia Pisters
Let's Get Physical? Post-Digital Discourse and Artistic Practices
Supervisors: Ellen Rutten & Katja Kwastek
Public Opinion in the Age of the Digital Public Sphere. A public philosophical approach to the expression and forming of opinions
Supervisors: Yolande Jansen and Robin Celikates
“Fissured” body/minds: Disability theory and a discourse of deformity in H.D.
Supervisors: Rudolph Glitz and Carrol Clarkson
Understanding New Political Attitudes of Romanticism and Cosmopolitanism
Supervisor | Josef Früchtl & Patricia Pisters & Robin Celikates
Playful Filmmaking: Ludic Practices in Cinema
Supervisors | Patricia Pisters, Toni Pape
Contestation in the Anthropocene: Globalised Disobedience and Climate Justice
Supervisors | Robin Celikates and Beate Roessler
Fashion as Moving Image: Dancing Figures, Swirling Fabrics
Supervisor: Marie-Aude Baronian
Human at the Crossroads of Decolonization and Ecocriticism: a Caribbean Discourse
Supervisors | Yolande Jansen and Joost de Bloois
Friendship and enmity in Nietzsche and Schmitt
Supervisors | Jozef Fruchtl and Marc de Wilde
Celebrating the Chinese Rural? A Postfeminist Analysis of Female Rural-based Online Celebrities in China
Supervisors: Esther Peeren, Tommy Tse
Jie Shen
Algorithmic Imaginaries in Contemporary China
Supervisors: Joost de Bloois, Thomas Poell
Gazing Ahead: China’s Imagined Futures in Digital Art.
Supervisor | Jeroen de Kloet
Impacts of globalisation upon women’s fashion in contemporary urban India, on the example of Mumbai
Supervisors | Christine Delhaye, Rene Boomkens
The Platformization of the Global Sex Industry
Supervisors | Thomas Poell, Olav Velthuis
Age Group Identities and the Aging Body in 1920s Literary Culture
Supervisor | Rudolph Glitz
Socially Engaged Art and State Transformation in Hungary
Supervisors: Chiara de Cesari and Mia Lerm-Hayes
Palpitating Subjects: South America, Desire, and Spectatorship
Supervisors: Abe Geil and Patricia Pisters
Imagining the Rural in Contemporary British Culture
Supervisors | Esther Peeren, Hanneke Stuit
Murmuring Springs (El Murmurar de las Fuentes).
Supervisors | Shelley Godsland
Everyday Acts of Institutional Resistance to Civic Empowerment: an Analysis of the Relations Between Data Activists, the State, and Public Sector Information & Open Data
Supervisors: Stefania Milan & Richard Rogers
What Does it Mean to be of a Particular Gender? Critical Essentialism in Philosophy of Gender.
Supervisors: Beate Rössler & Robin Celikates
Globalization and the new appearance of fashion
Supervisor | René Boomkens
Ki Ageng Qithmir: Traditional Islamic Cosmology and the Making of Its Cosmological Music
Supervisors: Barbara Titus
Ethics of Intimacy: Reconfiguring Relational Knowledge Practices through Errant Movements in Transnational Art and Literature
Supervisor: Monique Roelofs
Homelessness at Home in Contemporary Cinema of Turkey after 2013
Supervisors | Esther Peeren, Maryn Wilkinson
Imagining the Rural in Contemporary American Culture
Supervisors | Esther Peeren, Jaap Kooijman
Consciousness in the Modernist Novel: A Concept-Historical Approach
Supervisors: Carrol Clarkson, Rudolph Glitz
South Africa's Constitutional Court Art Collection: Curating Post-apartheid
Supervisor: Carrol Clarkson
Writing Selfhood: Autobiography in South Africa since liberation
Supervisors: Prof Carrol Clarskson and Prof David Attwell (York)
Men who play with men: A Study on Contemporary Chinese Masculinity in the Age of Rising Cyber Nationalism
Supervisors | Jeroen de Kloet, Rachel Spronk
Roberto Bolaño and the Neoliberal Labyrinth
Supervisors: Shelley Godsland, Hanneke Stuit
Passport Stories: Passport Regimes and (Narratological) Forms of Worldmaking in the Global South and Beyond
Supervisors | Yolande Jansen, Hanneke Stuit
Social Network Sites and Privacy.
Supervisors: Beate Roessler & Robin Celikates
Being wenyi qingnian: A study of youth and creativity in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China
Supervisors: Jeroen de Kloet and Leonie Schmidt
The Representation of the Refugee Crisis on the British and Greek Media. Did the mainstream media raise discourses of ethical responsibility towards the refugees?
Supervisor: Marie-Aude Baronian, Ellen Rutten
Radical Disobedience: An Agonistic Praxis Against Anti-Pluralism
Supervisors: Robin Celikates, Yolande Jansen, Erdoğan Yıldırım
Navigating the Zone: Cinematic Phantomachia and Uncanny Spaces of Radical Otherness in Narratives of Trauma in Post-War Auteur Cinema
Supervisor | Patricia Pisters
Entangled Landscape: Seeing Through Ruins in Chinese and European Art and Visual Culture
Supervisors | Ernst van Alphen and Jeroen de Kloet
Chinese women’s cinema in mainland China in the 21st century
Supervisor | Misha Kavka
New Archival Site between Film and Installation: Experimental Documentary, Archive Medium and Museums
Supervisors | Giovanna Fossati, Annet Dekker
From the ‘cut’ to the ‘Imaginary’: How the Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami Encourages the Audience to Imagine
Supervisors: Josef Früchtl, Abe Geil
Fluid Heterotopias: Gendered Bodies and Spaces in Modern British and Chinese Women’s Writing
Supervisors: Ben Moore, Carrol Clarkson
Apps for Learning: A software study analysis of mobile applications for language development in children
Supervisor: Stefania Milan
Imagining the Rural in Contemporary China from a Perspective of Cultural Biographies of Everyday Objects.
Supervisors: Esther Peeren, Jeroen de Kloet