This webinar discusses how Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) coordinate their operations across distance and difference. FIUs play a pivotal role in financial surveillance. They receive transaction information from ...

How does the global digital media landscape, populated by multinational subscription video-on-demand providers (SVOD) such as Netflix, challenge local cultural policy regulators and content producers? In this ...

P(R)OTESTAS is a transdisciplinary, trans-Pacific comparative research of protest, power, and digital authoritarianism, focused on the recent massive anti-government protests and hard-handed repression in South-East ...

This webinar discusses how banks experiment with digital technologies to detect suspicious transactions. Banks are legally obliged to conduct customer research, monitor transactions and to report transactions that ...

Blockchain technology is empowering a growing market for digital art and collectables. The new phenomenon of crypto art is ushering rapid-paced innovations in the art markets, putting to question long-lasting ...

The so-called ‘gig economy’ is transforming our everyday life. For a fairly cheap price, it allows customers to enjoy a variety of services with incredible convenience – such as eating their favourite restaurant’s ...

In Europe today, digital platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, provide essential means for millions of people to express themselves, engage in public debate and organise politically. However, European ...

In this webinar, speakers will address the relation between urban space and play in various ways. What do actual cities do with games? But also what do digital games do with urban space? Our first speaker, ...

Social media such as WhatsApp and Facebook have become important political tools in India, but there is growing concern about fake news spreading on these platforms. What role did misinformation play in the 2021 ...

Spurred by the pandemic, universities around the globe have been forced to move their teaching and research online. Consequently, academia has become even more dependent on digital services provided by big tech ...

During this Zoom seminar, Emma Hart (St Andrews) will offer some new perspectives on cities in the Atlantic world during the early modern period. All are welcome to attend.

International Workshop: 18-19 June 2020 at the University of Amsterdam

In May 2020 the new, updated 7th edition of the seminal handbook McQuail’s Media and Mass Communication Theory will be published. It maintains and extends the narrative of earlier editions into the world of ...

Globalization has transformed the operation of media industries worldwide. Significant scholarly attention has been given to the complex mechanisms of an increasingly connected world in which the flows of content ...

The sixth annual conference of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS), organized in cooperation with the collaborative research center Dynamics of Security at the Universities of Giessen and Marburg, ...

Organised by the Collaborative Research Center Dynamics of Security at the Universities of Giessen and Marburg, Germany, and the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies at the University of Amsterdam.

This workshop gathers together scholars of history, anthropology, ethnomusicology, performance studies, media studies, and psychology working on/in the Asia Pacific sound histories, as well as archivists, ...

Who is creative in China today? What does creativity mean in the context of China? And what do these creativities do in an increasingly globalizing China? Artists, activists and academics gather in this three-day ...

The Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies annual lecture in cooperation with the Faculty of Humanities, Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies, and the Amsterdam Initiative for Iranian Studies

Keynote speakers: Sarah Clancy, Jim Hicks, Frank Keizer. Dates: The event will commence in the late afternoon of 5 June and end by early afternoon of 7 June. A collaboration of ‘Contemporary Poetry and Politics’ ...