PhD Defence: Stephanie de Smale – Utrecht University
On 27 September Stephanie de Smale defended her PhD thesis Ludic Memory Networks: Following Translations and Circulations of War Memory in Digital Popular Culture in the University Hall.
Datafied Society Seminar: Perspectives
September – December 2019 | Utrecht University
This reading seminar brings together perspectives on and approaches to research into various practices, systems and structures dealing with data and algorithms. We will bring together perspectives from critical data studies, gender studies, new materialism and STS in order to think through concepts such as bias, algorithms, data, platforms, knowledge and accountability.
RMeS Workshop Grant
The RMeS PhD Workshop Grant enables advanced PhD-candidates or recently graduated PhDs to organize a workshop around their own research and share their expertise with a new generation of scholars. The workshop is to center on the theme of the recipient’s dissertation or their current research project. The Grant is intended to acknowledge original and innovative contributions to the field of media studies and to highlight the work of talented scholars at the beginning of their careers.
RMeS Winter School & Graduate Symposium 2019-20
29 & 30 January 2020 | Utrecht University
This Winter School will feature different types of sessions: 1) parallel sessions for presenting your work to peers 2) lectures by RMeS staff members and 3) a workshop on Research Valorisation and Fundraising Schemes.
RMeS RMa Course: Contemporary approaches to digital cultures: platforms, politics, performances and people
April-May 2020 | Erasmus University Rotterdam
How do we identify the fake from the real? What strategies enable us to reveal and yet protect our subjects who seek anonymity online? Can researchers be activists and their research serve as instruments for social change? How do we ensure fair representation through big data analytics? These are some of the questions that need addressing as we seek to study digital cultures. This course identifies key research issues and novel methodological solutions in the study of contemporary digital cultures. In particular, we investigate challenges faced in the arena of data authenticity, representation and communication to lay and other publics.
RMeS RMa Course: Trending Topics – Engaging Objects
February-March 2020 | University of Amsterdam
Each spring, the Research School for Media Studies offers a Trending Topics course where faculty members from eight participating universities (UvA, UU, VU, EUR, UL, UM, RUG, RUN) 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 eight universities accept the credits earned in this module.
Educational Programme 2019-2020
We are currently finalizing our educational programme for 2019-2020.
Full programme will be available by the end of August. Registration will open begin September.
Review: RMeS Network Event – How do You… Collaborate with External Partners?
Collaboration with external partners: Why? How? What are the consequences? This blog is written by Rashid Gabdulhakov (PhD-EUR) As academics, we are still ‘touching the waters’ in matters of collaboration with external partners. Collaboration is a logical and, perhaps, an inevitable scenario in contemporary research. But how do we tune it up? How do we […]
Educational Programme 2019-2020
/in RMeS News /by ChantalWe are currently finalizing our educational programme for 2019-2020.
Full programme will be available by the end of August. Registration will open begin September.