Netherlands Research School for Media Studies

The Netherlands Research school for Media Studies (RMeS) is a national network of academic experts in media research. It is organized to advance knowledge on media and to educate young scholars, both PhD candidates and promising RMa students, in classical and cutting edge theories and methodologies in media studies, and to offer them an opportunity to start building a network.

RMeS News & Events

Call for Abstracts: Contingency, Culture & Oncology – Interdisciplinary perspectives on existential care through arts-based research in oncology

Date: Friday October 31 st , 2025 Location: Zaal ‘t IJ, ADORE building, Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc The Department of Medical Oncology is pleased to invite abstract submissions for the first interdisciplinary CCO symposium exploring the role of arts-based research in developing existential care for people living with incurable cancer. This symposium is grounded in […]

RMeS Kick-Off Event: Stripping the Layers of Academia: Identity, Impact, and Imagination

19 September 2025 | Utrecht University|
This kick-off event invites RMa students and PhD candidates to reflect on what it means to navigate a research career today. Together, we’ll ask how the environments we work in influence our thinking, how we can resist or reshape institutional expectations, and how the (soft) skills of research, such as collaboration, communication, improvisation, and reflexivity, are not only central to surviving in academia but transferable to other domains.

RMeS – ASCA Thinking and Feeling Seminar 2025-2026

October 2025 – April 2026 | University of Amsterdam
The seminar focuses on the tension between thinking and feeling as a crucial resource for understanding the mediation of politics and culture. This tension has often been lost in the “turn to affect”. The seminar reorients the politics of feeling by setting it into relation with thought, concepts and reasoning. Rather than finesse varied forms of “affect theory”, the seminar constructs a mise-en-scène within which thinking and feeling, reasoning and sensing, are explicitly staged as fractious interlocutors.

RMeS RMa course: Platformisation: Transforming key economic sectors and spheres of life

November – December 2025 | Utrecht University
This autumn, the Research School for Media Studies offers a Platformisation course where faculty members from three participating universities (UvA, UU, RUG) present the latest research in their fields of interest through a series of lectures and workshops. The course invites RMA students to participate in an international, cutting edge research environment, while earning credits towards their degree. It presents a unique opportunity to get to know other students and leading academics from all over The Netherlands, in an open setting of engaging and ambitious exchange that would prove particularly fruitful for students who are aspiring to pursue a future career in academic research or teaching. All ten universities accept the credits earned in this module.