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.
Application deadline: 31 January 2025
Are you an RMA student passionate about media studies and eager to have a voice in shaping the direction of the RMeS PhD program? We want YOU to join the RMeS PhD Council!
6 February 2025 | University of Amsterdam
In this seminar, after an overview of the history of Canadian comics and how contemporary comics are produced, distributed and received in Canada, we will concentrate more specifically on comics that focus on Indigenous topics and ecological issues to investigate how the medium is used to address and advocate for increased visibility of indigenous culture and the natural world. The often-reductive conflation of the indigenous into the natural here serves as a way in which indigenous creators grab attention, but also as a cultural construction to be interrogated.
7 February 2025 | EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam
Do you prefer to spend your time on Letterboxd or are you simply interested in cinema, history and museum curation? On Friday, February 7, 2025, the Research School for Media Studies (RMeS) is organizing an inspiring visit to the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. This is a unique opportunity to enjoy an exclusive guided tour that takes you through the brand new exhibition about renowned Turkish director and photographer Nuri Bilge Ceylan, as well as the museum’s permanent collection.
22-23 May 2025 | Erasmus University Rotterdam
Deadline for abstracts: January 15, 2025
A kind reminder that the deadline for abstract submissions for the ECREA Communication & Democracy Section’s off-year conference, Automating Democracy: AI Use Between Social Justice and Social Control is coming up on January 15, 2025.
29 January 2025 | Maastricht University
“The Line Graph and the Slave Ship” returns to the eighteenth-century origins of modern data visualization in order excavate the meaning—and power—of visualizing data. Exploring two examples of early data visualization—the line graphs of British trade data included in William Playfair’s Commercial and Political Atlas (1786) and Description of a Slave Ship (1789) created and circulated by a group of British antislavery activists—this talk will connect Enlightenment theories about visual and statistical knowledge to contemporaneous ideas about personhood and race.
How are media keeping us busy these days?
In this podcast series the RMeS PhD council interviews media doctors that either work in or outside academia.
The RMeS PhD council welcomes RMa students, PhD students and post docs in media studies to join the RMeS Grad Students Discord server!
RMeS Winter School & Graduate Symposium 2024-25
/in RMeS News /by Chantal29 & 30 January 2025 | Maastricht University
Confirmed keynote speaker: Professor Lauren Klein (Emory University)
The RMeS winter school offers PhD candidates the opportunity to present their current work, and receive feedback from their peers and senior scholars. Presentations can be on any topic students are working on and would like to get feedback on, ranging from chapter and article drafts to research proposals. Students will as much as possible be matched with reviewers that have expertise on their topic.