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.
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.
Send your proposal before February 15, 2025.
Are you passionate about sharing original research with new generations of students and scholars you admire? Have you been sitting on an idea for organizing a workshop in your area of expertise, but you don’t have the funds to do so? RMeS has got your back!
Send your proposal before February 15, 2025.
Are you passionate about sharing original research with new generations of students and scholars you admire? Have you been sitting on an idea for organizing a workshop in your area of expertise, but you don’t have the funds to do so? RMeS has got your back!
31 March – 6 April 2025 | KNIR – Rome
In collaboration with the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome, RMeS will organize a course on Media in the (Eternal) City.
Media are ambiguous in cities, whether we think of billboards and screens in public spaces, people navigating through cities via maps on their smartphones, cinemas and newspaper buildings, surveillance cameras observing crowds, or tourists taking selfies. Cities as material surroundings and social structures are shaped by media and mediated experiences, while media also shape and structure the lives of people in cities, whether they are inhabitants or visitors. In this course we will therefore explore how media, mediated social life and the city – with Rome as a case – constitute one another.
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!
Call for Papers: Netherlands Media Studies Conference
/in RMeS News /by ChantalSave the date: 23 October 2025 | Utrecht
RMeS is inviting submissions to the first Netherlands Media Studies Conference. This one-day event will take place in Utrecht on Thursday 23 October 2025. It provides a space for media studies scholars and students to discuss their work and make connections with peers.