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International Workshop:
18-19 June 2020 at the University of Amsterdam
Digital Methods
20 Jun 2019
Justus Uitermark is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. In our interview he reflected on some of his most recent work, which looks into the geographical dimension of social media ...
Close Reading
13 Jun 2019
Hanneke Stuit is an Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. She is interested in the central logic of inclusion and exclusion in how communities come together, are ...
Ethnography
6 Jun 2019
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 ...
Call for Papers: Sixth Annual ACGS Conference
20 Mar 2019
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 ...
Visitor registration of the 2018 International ACGS Conference has opened
17 Sep 2018
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 ...
Interrupting Globalisation: Heterotopia in the Twenty-First Century
7 Jul 2018
Keywords: heterotopia, globalisation, discourse, space, art, literature, film, popular culture
New members
7 Jul 2018
We are happy to welcome 3 new members and 2 new affiliate members.
New programme leader: Olav Velthuis
10 Apr 2018
We are very happy to announce that professor Olav Velthuis will join the ACGS team as a programme leader of the aesthetics research programme.
New Members
10 Apr 2018
We are happy to welcome 2 new members and 5 new affiliate members.
Book Series: Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society
10 Apr 2018
In 2018, 3 new books are published in the ACGS book series Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society.
Esther Peeren Professor of Cultural Analysis
6 Mar 2018
We are happy to congratulate our Vice Director Esther Peeren with her appointment as Professor of Cultural Analysis.
Call for Papers: Fifth Annual ACGS Conference
6 Mar 2018
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 ...
Call for Papers: Fifth Annual ACGS Conference
6 Mar 2018
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 ...
ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Esther Peeren
8 Dec 2017
ACGS vice-director Esther Peeren has been awarded the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
New Members
28 Nov 2017
We are happy to welcome five new ACGS members.
New ACGS members
18 Sep 2017
We are happy to welcome five new ACGS members.
New ACGS Members
16 Jun 2017
We are happy to welcome six new ACGS members!
New Publication: Symptoms of the Planetary Condition. A Critical Vocabulary
18 Jan 2017
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.
New publication: Global English
29 Oct 2016
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 ...
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