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Guest Researcher: Iris Cseke

Iris Cseke participates in ASCA as a visiting phd student from February to July 2012. Iris is enrolled in the PhD program “ProArt” at the department of arts at the University of Munich, Germany. Her dissertation is an interdisciplinary study in the fields of media, performance and communication research and deals with the different performative dimensions of online videos within the public sphere on YouTube.

Dissertation Defence: Niall Martin

Noise, Neoliberalism and Iain Sinclair
Promotor: prof. dr. M.D. Rosello, 9 March 2012, 10.00 hrs, Agnietenkapel.

Dissertation Defence: Walid El Houri

The meaning of resistance: Hezbollah’s media strategies and the articulation of a people
Promotor: Patricia Pisters March 9th, 14.00 hrs., Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231

Dissertation Defence: Camiel van Winkel

During the Exhibition the Gallery Will Be Closed: Contemporary Art and the Paradoxes of Conceptualism
Promotors: Deborah Cherry & Jeroen Boomgaard
Friday 17 February, 11.00, Aula, Singel 411

Events

ASCA Reading Group Media and Governmentality

In recent years, a rich and heterogeneous field of research has developed, in which the concept of governmentality has been applied in quite different ways to media related question. In monthly mini-workshops we want to discuss the most important issues in this discussion.

Media & Memory: Back to Basics

Workshop March27, 2012, UvA/University Library, Potgieterszaal, Singel 425
‘Digitalmemories’, ‘memorymediation’, ‘mediated memories’: in the past five years, more than one scholar has sought for words to grasp the nexus between (new) media and (cultural/individual /collective) memory.

Extremely Close and Incredibly Slow

ASCA Workshop, Universiteitstheater & Vondelbunker, Amsterdam, 28-30 March 2012. Confirmed Keynote Speakers are: Peter Greenaway, Hilary Ramsden, and Bryan Reynolds.

ASCA Workshop: How To Get Published

April 4, 2012, from 15.00-17.00 hrs.
With Bart Garssen, Christoph Lindner and Esther Peeren

ASCA Nieuwsbrief

Newsletter of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis

ASCA Annual Report 2009