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Philosophy and the Event

A workshop by Hent de Vries
Amsterdam, June 15, 2011

ASCA International Workshop: Practicing Theory

Amsterdam, March 2-4, 2011
Organizers: Adam Chambers, Aylin Kuryel, Niall Martin, Irina Souch, Hanneke Stuit
Deadline for Proposals: September 15, 2010
Although theory and practice are often considered to be mutually exclusive, this conference proposes to investigate how these two ways of thinking and/or doing overlap and how they influence and construct each other.

How to Do Cultural Analysis and Why (Not)?

ASCA Seminar, Engaging Method 2010-2011
Organized by Murat Aydemir
Next session May 11th, 17:00-19:00: Kati Röttger: "Intervening the Global: Poetologies of the Performative"

ASCA Theory Seminar: Mobility, Cultures, Concepts

Directed by Mireille Rosello and Sudeep Dasgupta
First Semester: Fridays 4-7pm: September 9 (or 16 if film seminar), September 30, October 21, November 25; Second Semester: Friday: 3-6pm: February 24, March 23, April 27, Mei 25, June 1st: Mini conference (9-5pm)
Location first session: PCH, Spuistraat 134, room 404.

Paris-Amsterdam Underground Conferences

Paris-Amsterdam Underground is a collaborative research initiative between the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and the University of London Institute in Paris.
The Amsterdam conference will take place at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) on November 18-19, 2010.
The Paris conference will take place at the University of London Institute in Paris (ULIP) on January 21-22, 2011.

ASCA PhD Seminar Film-Philosophy: Re/Presenting the Political

Directors: Josef Früchtl, Christoph Lindner, Patricia Pisters
Coordination: Maria Poulaki (m.poulaki@uva.nl)
Dates: 8 October, 5 November, 3 December, 4 February, 4 March, 1 April, 6 May. Time: 3-6

The Cities Seminar

Presentation Skills

Offered by Frans-Willem Korsten
This workshop aims at training PhD-candidates’ oral presentation skills. Participants are required to give a lecture, to act as session chair, and to actively participate in discussion. Although reflection on the various subjects presented in the lectures is not excluded, the focus is on presentation. The sessions will be devoted to different forms of academic presentation relevant to PhD candidates: giving a lecture, introducing a lecturer, introducing a topic of discussion, acting as session chair, posing and answering questions during an academic discussion, etc.

ASCA PhD seminar: Critical Cultural Theory and the Question of Method in the Humanities: Presence - Paradigm - Archeology

Organizer: Josef Früchtl. Participants: Johan Hartle, Albert van der Schoot, Christian Skirke
17 September, 22 October, 19 November, 17 December, 18 Februari, 18 March, 15 April and 20 May. Time: 10.00-13.00 uur

ASCA Reading Seminar Performance- and Media Research

Director: Kati Röttger

Every third Tuesday in the month from 11.00 - 13.00, room 26, Nwe Doelenstraat 16. First meeting: 21 September 2010

ASCA Reading group: "exclusion's circumference"

The group focuses on readings of texts and objects which are attentive to the dynamics of exclusion in forms of community and communication.

The 9/11 Effect Project

Monthly 9/11 Reading Group (2009-2010) Organised by Jaap Kooijman (J.W.Kooijman@uva.nl), Marieke de Goede (M.deGoede@uva.nl) and Jenifer Chao (J.C.Chao@uva.nl)
The 9/11 Effect is a multidisciplinary research project that focuses on the cultural politics of representation and visualization of 9/11 and the ‘war on terror', particularly in art and popular culture.

Representing National Identity (peer-review group)

Organized by Melanie Schiller
It is often said that globalization might lead to the end of nation-states. But, in fact, many nations (in Europe and elsewhere) are currently eager to re-define their national identities.

Critical Cultural Theory and the Question of Method in the Humanities

Organizer: Josef Früchtl, Johan Hartle, Albert van der Schoot, Christian Skirke
Sessions: September 18th, October 23rd, December 4th, February 12ht, March 19th, April 23rd, may 21st, June 18th.
For a long time the natural sciences delivered the model for answering the question: what is scientific thinking? Nowadays it seems to be clear that the unity of science is a myth because there is neither a common method nor a common object of all sciences. And this is true also for the sciences called ‚humanities’. What are the alternatives?

ASCA Trans-Asia Cultural Studies Reading Group

The ASCA Trans-Asia cultural studies reading group aims to bring scholars in The Netherlands together who are working on issues related to "Asia," to read and discuss key texts as well as each other's work.

ASCA Nieuwsbrief

Newsletter of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis

ASCA Annual Report 2009