Abstract submission deadline: August 12th, 2024 (extended deadline) Conference dates: October 31st and November 1st 2024 The Moving Humanities Conference, organized by Radboud University and Groningen University, will take place on October 31st and November 1st, 2024. This year’s theme is Resistance taken in its broadest sense, both within our subjects of research and the humanities itself. Resistance can be to […]

We are inviting extended proposals by June 10th, 2024
Can we speak of a turn to absence? Across the contemporary academic conjuncture, theory is reapproaching the absent in all its varying fleshly and rhetorical forms, revalorizing ‘absence’ itself as a critical matter. Enduring scholarly investments in re-presenting and re-presencing the absented body (from the archive and media, from power and institutions, from theory and writing) have become supplemented in current critical work by an affirmative interest in staying with absence as such.

24 May 2024 | Leiden University
In this workshop, we will explore the history of legal performance and spectatorship across the longue durée: from trials in the ancient agora to policing in the contemporary mediascape.

Deadline for abstract: to be submitted by 30 April 2024
This special issue of TMG – Journal for Media History examines how historical practices of racialisation structure representations of Europe, Europeanness and belonging in the domain of popular culture. Mainstream media, by which we mean state-sponsored and dominant commercial and publicly accessible radio and television, and widespread print media genres such as newspapers and magazines, have produced and circulated dominant representations of who is European and has a rightful place in Europe.

25 April 2024 | University of Amsterdam
From mobile phone cameras to light sensors that run our faucets, digital technologies are ubiquitous and inescapable in our everyday life today. They are also optimized for white skin, by means of sampling, coding, and guided by will (or lack thereof) to finesse particular aspects of a technology that assumes a false (white) universality. The pervasiveness of such technologies means a non-white person will have several reminders throughout their day of their Otherness.

25 April 2024 | 09:00 – 18:00 hrs | Jaarbeurs, Utrecht The Digital Society programme, with the participation of all Dutch universities, in collaboration with NWO, SSH-council and UNL, is organizing the 5th edition of the Digital Society Conference. The event will take place on Thursday the 25th of April 2024 at the Jaarbeurs in Utrecht. […]

When: 31st May 2024 Where: University of Amsterdam, specific location tba Organizers: Spiros Chairetis (Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellow, University of Amsterdam) and Maria Boletsi (Endowed Professor of Modern Greek Studies, University of Amsterdam) In recent years, a series of events have thrust humor into the spotlight of social discussions. For instance, in 2019, Shane Gillis, an […]

The 2023–2024 ASCA Cities seminar will approach the city through the lens of materiality. Taking up the theme of ‘Material Cities’, we are interested in how making the city is both a material and immaterial process. From ‘natural’ construction materials to the traces of technological infrastructures, we will consider how larger questions of care, belonging and community, but also of access and power – quite literally – materialize in the urban. 

6 and 7 June 2024 | Tilburg, Netherlands
This conference brings together critiques of how Big Tech invades all domains of public and private life, transforming those domains in the process. The conference explores how the humanities can contribute to a better understanding of this development. At the same time, we are interested in how humanities research changes in relation to this development. While critiquing Big Tech, it is important to acknowledge that for many, platforms like Instagram, Tumblr, and X (Twitter) are places of consciousness building and activism. It is also safe to say that without these platforms, movements like MeToo, Trans Liberation, and Black Lives Matter would not have happened the way they did. Yet while these platforms help liberate personal and collective life in some respects, ultimately they are not designed for emancipation, but to maximize user engagement. The conference examines the ways in which Big Tech interpellates people as users, through its technologies and its discourses. We will also discuss potential forms of resistance against this interpellation.