Producing Cybersecurity Knowledge: A sociotechnical analysis of cybersecurity and associated cultures
Supervisors: Rocco Bellanova, Stefania Milan
On the Genealogy of Walter Benjamin’s Conception of Now-Time: The Significance of Sufi Influence in the Analysis of Theoretical, Cultural and Political Representations of the Now.
Supervisors: Maria Boletsi, Joost de Bloois, Yaniv Hagbi
The forgotten legacy of Dutch composers suppressed by the Nazi’s
Supervisors: Julia Kursell, Rob van der Laarse and P. Lelieveldt
Carceral (P)Artisanry
Supervisors | Hanneke Stuit, 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
Mediterranean Drifts|The Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Art in Greece in the Context of the Refugee Crisis
Supervisors | Maria Boletsi, Esther Peeren
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
A Fashionable mediating power: Examining the role of fashion as a mediating power in Africa-China relations in Kenya and Mozambique.
Supervisors: Tommy Tse, Patricia Pisters
Mirror Dwelling in VRChat, its queer potential and role in community building and intimacy
Supervisors: Misha Kavka, Toni Pape
Ethical Decolonization & De-dichotomization of Identities in a Settler-Colonial Conflict: A Moral Foundation for a Secular Democratic State in Historic Palestine
Supervisors: Yolande Jansen, Sarah Bracke
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
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
The Theory of Tonal Jazz Harmony: Towards an Integrated Approach
Supervisor: Walter van de Leur
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
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
Another Disappearing Audience? Towards an Integrated Study of Standpoint Epistemologies and Intersectionality for Critical Media Literacy Education
Supervisors: Sudeep Dasgupta, Blandine Joret
Wilding Sustainability: Towards an Ecofeminist, Decolonial, Posthuman Concept of Care
Supervisors: Yolande Janssen, Jana Cattien
Through Southern Lenses: A Post-Colonial Exploration of Film Schooling in Africa and Latin America
Supervisors: Giovanna Fossati, Asli Özgen
The illustrated cityscape: imperfect lines of urban exploration
Supervisors | Emilie Sitzia, Carolyn Birdsall
The Moving Canvas: Images Between Photography, Film, and Painting
Supervisor | Murat Aydemir
Vernacular Disruptions: Reading Postcolonial Literature in Dutch
Supervisor | Yolande Jansen, Richard van Leeuwen
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
Pleasuring Technics
Supervisors: Misha Kavka, Toni Pape
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
The Politics of Depression. A critical analysis of the political-epistemological limits of major depressive disorder
Supervisors: Patricia Pisters, Julian Kiverstein
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
Things that matter: attuning to structural violence in post-dictatorial Buenos Aires
Supervisor: Sruti Bala, Boris Noordenbos
Wig Trade in Guangzhou: Entangled Beauty, Authenticity, and Identity
Supervisors: Tommy Tse, Jeroen de Kloet
« Barvalo ». Designing an Exhibition on and with Roma Communities in a French National Museum
Supervisors | Emilie Sitzia, Margriet Schavemaker, Huub van Baar
A Postmodern Vaudeville: Analysing the dramaturgical devices for distancing, commentary and reflection in the musicals of Bob Kander and Fred Ebb
Supervisors: Kati Röttger, Millie Taylor, Julia Kursell
Lady Credit’s New Clothes: The Constitution of European Financialised Subjectivities through FinTech Platforms
Supervisors: Thomas Poell, Niels van Doorn
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
Remix, Reimagine & Reanimate: The Archival Potentials of Videographic Criticism
Supervisors: Jaap Kooijman, Floris Paalman
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
Fare Musica Antica (Ebraica) reinventing a usable past
Supervisors | Julia Kursell, Irene Zwiep, Barbara Titus
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
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
Techno-futurism(s) in China:Infrastructure of Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
Supervisors: Misha Kavka, Christine Bichsel
China’s global cinema: state-driven film-related co-operations with BRI countries.
Supervisors: Jeroen de Kloet and Patricia Pisters
Worlding Communication: Novel Communication Barriers in Global Science Fiction and Speculative Literature
Supervisors: Esther Peeren, Emelia Quinn
Understanding Dutch Heritage from the Perspective of East Asian Immigrants.
Supervisors: Kati Röttger, David Duindam
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
Greekness and Crisis: Decolonial perspectives and alternative futurities in the visual arts, film and performance during the Greek crisis
Supervisors: Maria Boletsi, Eva Fotiadi, Kristina Gegaudaite
Social Movements and the Discovery of Social Reality
Supervisors: Mari Mikkola, Daniel Loick
Postcolonial Carcerality: Thinking Abolitionist Strategies in North Africa
Supervisors: Daniel Loick, Jana Cattien
Belief and the Will
Supervisors | Franz Berto and Christian Skirke
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
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
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, Jan Lazardzig
Artificial Amsterdam: Architectural Writing and the Urban (Re)imagination of Nature
Supervisors: Markus Stauff, Maryn Wilkinson
Dismantling the Nostalgia: Art Practices Dealing with Colonial Leftovers
Supervisors: Leonie Schmidt, Jeroen de Kloet
Unregulated Automated Journalism
Supervisors: Beate Roessler, Eva Groen-Reijman
Dwelling Spaces: A Study on the Aesthetics and Politics of Contemporary Artist-in-Residencies
Supervisors: Margriet Schavemaker, Sruti Bala
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
Reimagining Traditional Indigenous South African Musical Transcription and Notation For Applied Composition and Performance Practices
Supervisors: Walter van de Leur, Maya Verlaak
Political Stupidity: Why are we still not thinking politics?
Supervisors: Daniel Loick, and Yolande Jansen
Let’s Get the Dosage Right! The Pharmacology of Boredom and Technology in the Digital Age
Supervisors: Misha Kavka, Daniel de Zeeuw
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
Super homines curans: Superheros, Care, Power and Democracy
Supervisors: Boris Noordenbos, Misha Kavka
Data Bodies
Supervisors: Tobias Blanke, Thomas Poell
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
Spatial Justice Imaginaries | Q(ueerinG)IS
Supervisors: Stefania Milan, Davide Beraldo
Interrupting Broadcasts|Broadcasting Interruptions: a study of subjectivation in colonial soundscapes
Supervisors: meLê Yamomo, Barbara Titus
Creating Beauty as an Act of Resistance: How a Feminist Global Graffiti Art Movement Shapes a Revolution through a Techno-Corporeal Aesthetic
Supervisors: Monique Roelofs, Sudha Rajagopalan
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
Analogue Visual Music: An Artistic Query into the relation of Self & Technology
Supervisors: Paula Albuquerque, Julia Kursell
Untangling Resolutions. Through the lens of the image
Supervisors: Geert Lovink, Florian Cremer
Caribbean Music Palimpsests: Embodied Action and Cultural Transmission
Supervisors | Julia Kursell, Barbara Titus
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
at this moment stanley brouwn is at the distance of x feet from this pointe
Supervisors: Margriet Schavemaker, Sruti Bala
Black Star: Race, Representation, & the need for Intransigence against the Despotism of Anti-Blackness over Black Hollywood Cinema
Supervisors: Pei-Sze Chow, Patricia Pisters
From the Streets to the Screens: Following Activists in Contemporary Beirut
Supervisors: Thomas Poell, Eliza Steinbock
Black Disruption, White Reinforcement
Supervisors: Yolande Jansen, Michiel Leezenberg
Infinite Regression in Autobiographic Cinema
Supervisors: Patricia Pisters, Laurent van Lancker
My Life in the Bush of Ghosts: Artistic Use of Obsolete Audiovisual Media to Excavate Postcolonial First-Person Narratives
Supervisors: Asli Özgen-Havekotte, Giovanna Fossati
Un-Hinged: Mobilizing ‘Love’ as a Force for Furthering Understandings of ‘Autonomy’ and ‘Freedom’ within Sex Cultures for Women in the Digital Age
Supervisors: Misha Kavka, Ladan Rahbari
Art Materializing Time and (Dis)Entangling Nature-Cultures: Shifting Ecological Perceptions of the Present Past and Possible Futures.
Supervisors: Mia Lerm-Hayes & Jeff Diamanti
Natively Digital Datasets of Memory
Supervisor | Richard Rogers
Re-politicizing Psychedelics: Phenomenologies of Resonance Towards Acid Communist Futures
Supervisors: Joost de Bloois, Patricia Pisters
Refusing the Macabre Dance
Supervisor | Ben Moore, Barnita Bagchi
Exploring the Rhythms of Techno: A Discussion of Music, Culture, and Everyday Life
Supervisors: Oliver Seibt and Julia Kursell
Surviving in Abeyance: Digital Networks and Resistance in Hong Kong after the Anti-Extradition Bill Movement
Supervisors: Jeroen de Kloet, Leonie Schmidt
Journalism as Artistic Practice
Supervisors | Mark Deuze, Jan van der Stoep
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
An acoustemology of the unheard. The technology, the narrative, and the art of listening beyond aurality
Supervisors: Geert Lovink, Cecile Malaspina
The Museum as a Lab: Environmental Exhibitions in Israel 1967-1994
Supervisors: Margriet Shavemaker, Noa Roei
AI in het ontwerponderwijs: een kritische oriëntatie (AI in Design Education: A Critical Investigation)
Supervisor: Geert Lovink, Sebastian Olma
“Earthy-Taste Culture”: Laughter, Comedy and Chinese Rural Imaginations
Supervisors: Esther Peeren, Jeroen de Kloet
Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence - Mapping (Social Media) Platforms’ Role in Shaping (Public) Tech Imaginaries
Supervisors: Thomas Poell, Christian Katzenbach
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
Improvising Free Spirits: The Aesthetics of Unpredictability in the Thought of Arendt and Nietzsche
Supervisors: Walter van de Leur, Thomas Nys
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
Littorals as ecocritical sound milieus: ecomusicological field recording-based artistic research in transitional space
Supervisors: Julia Kursell, Jeff Diamanti
“Fissured” body/minds: Disability theory and a discourse of deformity in H.D.
Supervisors: Rudolph Glitz and Carrol Clarkson
Cultural Platform labor at the Global Margins: A study of Gendered and Classed North-African YouTubers.
Supervisors: Thomas Poell, Misha Kavka
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
Dancing and Displacement: Embodied reverberations of gentrification in Amsterdam
Supervisors: Oliver Seibt, Julia Kursell
The sound of Egyptian counterculture: rewriting notions of class, identity and culture through Mahraganat
Supervisors: Jaap Kooijman, Maaike Voorhoeve
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
Moral Truth: Exploring the Concept of Practical Cognition in Kant’s Ethics
Supervisors: Beate Roessler, Thomas Nys
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
Gendering Digital Cultural Production in Chinese Platform Economy
Supervisors: Jeroen de Kloet, Tommy Tse
Seeing with, by, and of AI: Mapping the Regimes of Algorithmic Vision
Supervisors: Richard Rogers, Natalia Sánchez-Querubín
Public Space Mime: Zero and the Politics of Daily Movements
Supervisors: Monique Roelofs, Annemie Halsema
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
Towards Abolitionist Ecologies: Abolishing Eco-Carcerality
Supervisor: Daniel Loick
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
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
Obsessed with “the West”: Xeniteia and Imperialisms in Contemporary East Asian Literature, Films and Television
Supervisors: Ansgar Mohnkern, Esther Peeren
Men who play with men: A Study on Contemporary Chinese Masculinity in the Age of Rising Cyber Nationalism
Supervisors | Jeroen de Kloet, Rachel Spronk
Passport Stories: Passport Regimes and (Narratological) Forms of Worldmaking in the Global South and Beyond
Supervisors | Yolande Jansen, Hanneke Stuit
A Duty to Desire? On the Politics of Sexual Desire
Supervisors: Daniel Loick, Jana Cattien
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: Ellen Rutten, Tatiana Makakis
Radical Disobedience: An Agonistic Praxis Against Anti-Pluralism
Supervisors: Yolande Jansen, Erdoğan Yıldırım
Entangled Landscape: Seeing Through Ruins in Chinese and European Art and Visual Culture
Supervisors | Ernst van Alphen and Jeroen de Kloet
New Archival Site between Film and Installation: Experimental Documentary, Archive Medium and Museums
Supervisors | Giovanna Fossati, Annet Dekker
Silence after Catastrophe: Disaster Survivor Witnessing in Contemporary Japan
Supervisors: Ellen Rutten, Ernst van Alphen
From the ‘cut’ to the ‘Imaginary’: How the Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami Encourages the Audience to Imagine
Supervisors: Josef Früchtl, Abe Geil
Searching for Accessibility and Inclusivity: An Archaeology of Film Cataloging Infrastructures from Cards to Databases
Supervisors: Giovanna Fossati, Christian Olesen
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
Modern Self And Modern Horror: Post-Impressionist Aesthetics in Virginia Woolf and Eileen Chang
Supervisors: Emilie Sitzia, Nicholas Carr, Rachel Esner
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