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Call for Papers: RMeS Winter School & Graduate Symposium 2020-21

October 8, 2020/in RMeS News /by Chantal

28 & 29 January 2021 | VU University Amsterdam
This Winter School will feature different types of sessions: 1) sessions for presenting your work to peers 2) lectures by RMeS staff members and 3) a workshop on Academic Career outside Academia.

RMeS RMa Course: Fake News, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation and the Media

September 29, 2020/in RMeS News /by Chantal

30 April, 7, 21, 28 May & 4 June 2021 | Utrecht University
In this course, we will approach this cluster of terms referring to mediatized misleading content from different angles, both historically and conceptually, as a methodological y engage with and maybe a field of practical, activist, political intervention. Each session will be dedicated to one or more aspects of the topic and introduced by scholars working on these issues. Students will be invited to develop a case into a research paper.

PhD Defence: Roel Lutkenhaus – Erasmus University Rotterdam

September 28, 2020/in PhD Alumni, RMeS News /by Chantal

29 October 2020 | Erasmus University Rotterdam
On Thursday 29 October 2020 at 15:30hr, Roel Lutkenhaus will defend his PhD dissertation.
In 1992, a scene from the TV show Medisch Centrum West—a popular Dutch medical drama— sparked conversations in Dutch living rooms about organ donation. On screen, a doctor had just informed a couple about their son, who had been admitted to the ICU after a car accident. The parents are torn between emotions as the doctor brings up the inevitable: “I am sorry. I know you don’t want to hear this, but Bart’s heart could save the life of another child.”

Shut Up & Write that PhD!

September 10, 2020/in RMeS News /by Chantal

Every Tuesday morning from 9-12 | Zoom
Esther Hammelburg and Aris Emmanouloudis started weekly Shut Up & Write sessions, and invite other PhD candidates to join. Every Tuesday morning from 9-12 we shut up and write together in a (UvA-secured) Zoom session. This means 3 hours of putting away all distractions and focusing on PhD work.

RMeS Network Event: Re-Imagining Your Research

September 10, 2020/in RMeS News /by Chantal

Friday 25 September 10.00-12.00 | via Zoom
Next to (self-)discipline, doing research requires creativity and imagination. In times of COVID-19, where researchers are bound to their own laptop, books, and headsets, creativity does not seem to be sparked easily in an environment that does not seem to change much. Although a lot of ideas can come from our own coffee mugs, one might miss the imagination that was sparked by taking walks over the campus, meeting and talking to colleagues in front of a (cheap) coffee machine, and the many strolls that you took to the library.

RMeS RMa Course: Trending Topics – Engaging Objects

July 21, 2020/in RMeS News /by Chantal

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.

How to work with pleasure in times of corona by Bernadette Kester (EUR)

May 7, 2020/in RMeS News /by Chantal

The global pandemic of COVID-19 has dramatically transformed our everyday realities. Such significant changes inevitably affected our approaches in academic work. With (even greater) uncertainty about the future and merging of office/home environments, finding focus can be rather challenging. We have reached out to our Confidential Counsellor and a qualified Meditation Teacher, Dr Bernadette Kester for some advice and useful tools in battling distractions.

Keynote lecture: Creative Practice Ethnography by Professor Larissa Hjorth (RMIT University)

RUG new host university RMeS

Vacancy | The RMeS PhD Council needs you!

Recipient of the RMeS PhD Workshop Grant: Dr Rik Spanjers

Book Launch: Introducing Vigilant Audiences

Call for Papers: RMeS Winter School & Graduate Symposium 2020-21

RMeS RMa Course: Fake News, Conspiracy Theories, Disinformation and the Media

PhD Defence: Roel Lutkenhaus – Erasmus University Rotterdam

Shut Up & Write that PhD!

RMeS Network Event: Re-Imagining Your Research

RMeS RMa Course: Trending Topics – Engaging Objects

How to work with pleasure in times of corona by Bernadette Kester (EUR)

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