16, 17 & 20 June 2022 | University of Amsterdam
In 2010, Anna Gibbs presciently wrote that ‘[c]ontagion is everywhere in the contemporary world. It leaps from body to body, sweeping through mediatized populations at the speed of a bushfire’ (‘After Affect’, The Affect Theory Reader). Although to our COVID-sensitized ears this sounds alarming, Gibbs was in fact laying the groundwork for a productive notion of ‘affect contagion’ that enables as well as mediates our sense of belonging, whether to familial, social, cultural or political networks.

19-22 April 2022 | Utrecht University
This intensive four-day course examines Israeli television and cinema and some glimpse of Palestinian productions. We will discuss the historical, political and social context of Israel and some Palestinian TV and cinema industries. We will look into specific genres and explore their religious, political and cultural backgrounds and how they reflect issues of gender, ideology, and memory.

We are very proud to announce that Dr Anouk Mols (Erasmus University Rotterdam) will receive the RMeS Workshop Grant 2021-2022.
The workshop Context convergence: Exploring the implications of our interconnectedness with contacts, platforms, and spaces is scheduled for October 3, 2022

April May 2022 | Utrecht University
This seminar brings together scholars, artists, and designers who have productively explored these “magical” modes of thinking in their work. In embracing the dreamlike, the mystical, and the irrational as central concepts, the Magic City seminar series inspires us to think about urban life and culture along trajectories that move away from – or reimagine – quantifiable and commodified technological solutions. Practices of healing and cosmic consciousness are rather approached as alternative ways of knowing that could offer new ways of relating to the planet in distress, and of strengthening urban life as an inclusive, diverse, and imaginative community.