Februay 2020 | Utrecht & Amsterdam
In this RMeS seminar we will read several classical texts on civil disobedience (Thoreau), on eco-revolution (Marx) and on how these thoughts matter in our time (in respect to nature (Serres) to governance (Deleuze) and science (Stengers)). Additionally, We link this to the ideas of TJ Demos ad to the current developments in Hong Kong and elsewhere.
3 June 2020 | Erasmus University Rotterdam
This workshop aims explores what happens if audiences’ affective investments are challenged. If we, in media studies, consider audiences as participatory communities, comparable to micro communities, this allows for a point of departure to discuss the more challenging or ‘anti-fannish’ behaviour of audiences. What if nostalgic feelings for a pop culture text turn sour (e.g. Ghostbusters), or calling out of a particular person has severe consequences like doxing (e.g. GamerGate)? Examining such reactions and practices offers a fundamental framework for understanding polarization in today’s society.
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.
We are very proud to announce that Dr Leonieke Bolderman (University of Groningen) and Dr Simone Driessen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) will both receive the RMeS Workshop Grant 2019-2020. The RMeS PhD Council, together with three selected members of the Advisory Board, selected both proposals out of the other proposals.
12 November 2019 | VU University
On the face of it, both journalism and Journalism Studies have witnessed a shift toward the users of news. However, while news users have taken center stage in discussions about journalism, they are still more often spoken about rather than spoken with.
30 January 2020 | Utrecht University
The parallel sessions during the RMA Day of the RMeS Winter School will be primarily intended for 2nd-year RMA students, so that they can present their thesis proposals and receive constructive feedback from peers.
February 11 and 25, and March 10, 2020 | Utrecht University
In this seminar series, we propose to address the possibility of imagining alternative futures for urban life as we know it today as an ‘interfacing’ challenge. Conceptually, interfaces are understood to establish relations between two or more separate entities, while at the same time (re)defining them.
1 November 2019, 11:00 | Aula – Oude Lutherse kerk, Amsterdam
Van stripverhalen werd lange tijd gedacht dat die niet geschikt zijn om de geschiedenis op een ‘juiste’ manier te verbeelden. De strip ‘Maus’ van Art Spiegelman bracht daar verandering in. In Maus toont Spiegelman zijn vaders ooggetuigenverslag van Auschwitz en de verlammende last van dit verleden op vader en zoon.
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.
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 Winter School & Graduate Symposium 2019-20
/in RMeS News /by Chantal29 & 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.