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The City and the Atlantic World 1500-1800: Some New Perspectives
21 Jan 2021
15:30 - 16:30
Event
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.
Carcerality in the Globalised Present
18 Jun 2020 - 19 Dec 2019Conference
International Workshop: 18-19 June 2020 at the University of Amsterdam
Book presentation by Mark Deuze on 'McQuail’s Media and Mass Communication Theory'
14 May 2020
14:30 - 16:30
Event
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 ...
Media Industries, Global Perspectives
10 Jan 2020
14:00 - 15:30
Event
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 ...
17 Oct 2019 - 18 Oct 2019
09:00 - 18:00
Conference
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, ...
Workshop: Racial Orders,Racist Borders
16 Oct 2019 - 10 Oct 2019
09:00 - 19:00
Workshop
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.
Sonic Entanglements
9 Sep 2019 - 10 Sep 2019
10:30 - 16:00
Event
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, ...
China Is Creative! Rethinking Creativity in a Globalized China
29 Aug 2019 - 31 Aug 2019Event
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 ...
Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene
7 Jun 2019
17:00 - 18:30
Event
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
Against the Grain
5 Jun 2019 - 7 Jun 2019Event
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’ ...
Gelijke kansen in de stad
16 May 2019
20:00 - 22:00
Event
De presentatie van 'Gelijke kansen in de stad', essaybundel onder redactie van Herman van de Werfhorst en Erna van Hest.
Opsporing verzocht: ‘ras’ in DNA
25 Mar 2019
20:00 - 21:30
Event
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.
Bolsonaro’s Brazil: Society and Politics in the Neo-Conservative Turn
22 Mar 2019
15:00 - 17:00
Event
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 ...
Diego Acosta (Bristol University). 'The Legal Construction of the Foreigner'
14 Mar 2019
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
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 ...
Performance Philosophy Biennal
14 Mar 2019 - 17 Mar 2019Event
Between 14-17 March 2019 the institute of Theatre Studies hosts the Biennial of the international network of Performance Philosophy.
Entanglements of Race, Sound and the Archive: Coloniality and the Globalised Present
10 Dec 2018 - 11 Dec 2018Event
Organisers: Carolyn Birdsall, Anette Hoffmann. Confirmed speakers: Alejandra Bronfman (University at Albany), Jennifer Stoever (Binghamton University)
Entanglements of Race, Sound and the Archive: Coloniality and the Globalised Present
10 Dec 2018 - 11 Dec 2018Workshop
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 ...
Big Data from the South: Towards a Research Agenda
4 Dec 2018 - 5 Dec 2018Workshop
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 ...
Elvis lives in Amsterdam. Manifestations of the imaginary musician
29 Nov 2018 - 1 Dec 2018Conference
University of Amsterdam, 29 November - 1 December 2018 Conference convenors: Rutger Helmers and Oliver Seibt.
Fifth Annual ACGS Conference: Global Critical Pedagogies
18 Oct 2018 - 19 Oct 2018Conference
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 ...
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