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’ ...

De presentatie van 'Gelijke kansen in de stad', essaybundel onder redactie van Herman van de Werfhorst en Erna van Hest.

Het is 25 jaar geleden dat de eerste DNA-wetgeving in Nederland werd ingevoerd. In de jaren erna werd in toenemende mate forensisch DNA ingezet als opsporingsmiddel.

In this public seminar five invited experts will tackle thought-provoking issues that are crucial to understand Bolsonaro’s rise to power. They will also assess the directions of his government’s policies and their ...

Between 1870 and 1930 South America was the second largest recipient of migrants in the world only after the USA. Millions of Europeans emigrated notably to Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. How have countries with 200 ...

Between 14-17 March 2019 the institute of Theatre Studies hosts the Biennial of the international network of Performance Philosophy.

Organisers: Carolyn Birdsall, Anette Hoffmann. Confirmed speakers: Alejandra Bronfman (University at Albany), Jennifer Stoever (Binghamton University)

Sonic practices and their racialised heritage serve as a departure point for this workshop, which explores the entanglements of race with sound, concepts of voice, and the colonial archive. Performing an archival ...

How would datafication look like seen… ‘upside down’? What questions would we ask? What concepts, theories and methods would we embrace or have to devise? These questions are at the core of the two-day research ...

University of Amsterdam, 29 November - 1 December 2018 Conference convenors: Rutger Helmers and Oliver Seibt.

In a time of fake news, internet memes, and a global information overload, questions of education and pedagogy have become all the more pressing. Globally, institutes of higher education are under threat, facing ...