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Rachel Spronk is an Associate professor at the anthropology department of the University of Amsterdam. She is trained as an anthropologist and doing interdisciplinary research on culture, gender and sexuality. Her ...

Around the world, racist discourses, attitudes, and practices have moved from the fringes into the mainstream, putting core democratic values under pressure. Familiar racial orders have resurfaced and reinforced ...

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 ...

Keywords: heterotopia, globalisation, discourse, space, art, literature, film, popular culture

We are happy to welcome 3 new members and 2 new affiliate members.

We are very happy to announce that professor Olav Velthuis will join the ACGS team as a programme leader of the aesthetics research programme.

We are happy to welcome 2 new members and 5 new affiliate members.

In 2018, 3 new books are published in the ACGS book series Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society.

We are happy to congratulate our Vice Director Esther Peeren with her appointment as Professor of Cultural Analysis.

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 ...

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 ...

ACGS vice-director Esther Peeren has been awarded the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).

We are happy to welcome five new ACGS members.

We are happy to welcome five new ACGS members.

We are happy to welcome six new ACGS members!

We would like to congratulate Esther Peeren, vice-director of ACGS, on the vocabulary entries she wrote for the recently published book Symptoms of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary.

Following the workshop Global English, which was sponsored by ACGS and organised by prof. dr. László Marácz, a publication with prof. dr. Philippe van Parijs was published in the latest issue of Acta Universitatis ...

Beijing, Beijing Film Academy, April 27-29, 2017

Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Ursula K. Heise (University of California Los Angeles) Patrick D.Flores (University of the Philippines) Peter Hitchcock (Baruch College, City University of New York)

This volume sheds new light on how today’s peripheries are made, lived, imagined and mobilized in a context of rapidly advancing globalization.