Traditionally, research in the Humanities focuses on textual artifacts. Media scholars, whether they come from historical, cultural, literary, film or journalism studies, work with archival material, secondary sources, and media content. In the analogue age, these products had a relatively permanent character; research designs could take the permanence and durability of the text almost for granted. This is no longer the case. With the rise of digital technology, the production, content and reception of (or participation with) media is continuously in flux and the intensity of change in terms of production practices and institutional structures is significant
Public lecture – John T. Caldwell (UCLA)
Para-industry, shadow academy Date ¦ Monday, 21 May 2012 Time ¦ 11.00 – 13.00 Venue ¦ Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21, Utrecht Open to ¦ all Registration What does it mean to critically theorize a television industry that critically theorizes itself? How should scholars engage, describe, and research media industries in which reflexive forms of self-scrutiny, posed transparency, and… Read more →
Keynote summer school 2012 – José van Dijck
Social media and the engineering of everyday life Keynote – Prof. dr. José van Dijck (UvA) Date: Wednesday June 27th, 2012 Time: 14.00 – 16.30 (followed by drinks) Venue: Universiteit Groningen, Academiegebouw – Senaatskamer Open to: all Registration In 2011, 82% of the world’s Internet populations logged on to some type of social media, up… Read more →
Masterclass – John T. Calwell (UCLA)
Stress aesthetics and symbolic payroll systems in TV production Date ¦ Monday, 21 May 2012 Time ¦ Afternoon, exact time to be announced Venue ¦ Utrecht, to be announced Open to ¦ PhD candidates and RMA students Registration Media studies scholars can gain rich insights—about history, audiences, narratives, and onscreen texts—through material, grounded ethnographic studies of… Read more →
Conference – Postcolonial Cinema Studies
Postcolonial Cinema Studies Date: 7 June, 2012 Venue: Utrecht University Organised by: Sandra Ponzanesi In collaboration with: Postcolonial Studies Initiative, Centre for the Humanities, Culture & Identities and the Gender Studies Programme What is, or what might constitute, ‘Postcolonial cinema studies?’ This one-day conference does not propose ‘postcolonial cinema’ as a genre or wish to… Read more →
Public Lecture and Masterclass by Nick Couldry (Goldsmiths, London)
Public Lecture and Masterclass by Nick Couldry (Goldsmiths, London) Utrecht University’s Centre for Television in Transition in collaboration with the Research Focus Cultures and Identities, Utrecht University announces a public lecture and invites to a master class by internationally renowned media scholar and cultural critic: NICK COULDRY, GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Public lecture Thursday, June… Read more →
NOI♀SE 2012 Summer School – Stillness and Movement of Images
NOI♀SE 2012 Summer School – Stillness and Movement of Images New Perspectives on Temporality, Technology and the Senses in Feminist Theory 27 – 31 August 2012, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 20th Advanced European Summer School in Women’s Studies from Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Organised by the Netherlands Research School of Genderstudies Have you always wondered… Read more →
Call for participation – The everyday appropriation of technology
Call for participation at the Summer School The everyday appropriation of technology — A spatial and sensorial approach Dates: 20 – 25 August 2012 Place: Waldemar Petersen House / Riezlern, Austria Organizers Graduate Program ”Topology of Technology,” Darmstadt University of Technology Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Maastricht University Topic and… Read more →
EuroCORECODE
In september 2010 is het programma EuroCORECODE van de European Science Foundation van start gegaan. Het programma heeft ten doel op een comparatieve manier de factoren te onderzoeken die de regionale dynamiek van Europa door de geschiedenis heen hebben bepaald. Binnen dit programma zijn drie internationale samenwerkingsprojecten toegekend: 1. CULTICSYMBOLS, dat heiligendevoties onderzoek als expressies… Read more →
Call for Papers – Media Homes
Media Homes: Material Culture in Twentieth-Century Domestic Life Friday June 29, 2012 (University of Amsterdam) Call for Papers During the early-twentieth century, a raft of media technologies emerged against the backdrop of urbanisation, industrialisation and rationalisation. At the same time, the private dwelling developed into a centrepiece of modern conceptions of everyday life. While the… Read more →
The NECS 2012 Conference
The NECS 2012 Conference Time Networks: Screen Media and Memory Lisbon, 21st-23th June 2012 hosted by the New University of Lisbon and the University of Coimbra Submissions deadline: 31st January 2012 Please address all inquiries to conference@necs.org Keynote speakers Elizabeth Cowie (University of Kent) Andreas Fickers (Universiteit Maastricht) Lúcia Nagib (University of Leeds) Call for… Read more →
