The 23. NECS Graduate Workshop, hosted by the University of Cologne and organised by , will take place from 29-31 October 2024. The workshop’s title, “L/Nightscapes: Perspectives on Illumination and the City”, refers to the mutual conditionality of night and … Read more...
How does popular music shape and reflect cultural identities? The symposium “From Hinterland to Europapa: Identity and Placemaking in Dutch Popular Music Culture”, taking place on 25 October from 14.00-17.00 at Radboud Institute for Culture and History, explores the intricate … Read more...
As part of International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, Het Nieuwe Instituut is hosting a book launch of The Green Dip – a visual manifesto of an ongoing research project conducted by The Why Factory at TU Delft – on 10 October, … Read more...
The Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) is organizing the research seminar “What is Landscape? Theory, Aesthetic and Politics of Landscapes” – divided over six sessions from October 2024 to Spring 2025.
Led by Noa Roei and Irina Souch, this … Read more...
Is the future still a thing? Which relations open up when thinking about “no future” and hopelessness as an old/new “structure of feeling,” to speak with Raymond Williams? On 14 November, 15.00-17.00 at REC C4.50A, the Department of Human Geography, … Read more...
How might we expand our approach to urban research from a sensory perspective? What about multimodal methods and questions of representation concerning your research? The Department of Human Geography, Planning & International Development is organizing a masterclass lunch with Prof. … Read more...
On 28 September 2023, the Walking as Research Practice (WARP) Research Group of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis will present the Special Issue WARP x Soapbox Journal book at ENTER ENTER ‘A Space For Books’, Amsterdam, during the bring … Read more...
Calculating how much more we have to breathe and burn? Gamifying our collective survival?
With an interest in apps and climate change, Dr. Rolien Hoyng and Sarah Vorndran (RMA) are bringing together a diverse group of people to think about … Read more...
Presenting findings from the recently published book Aesthetics of Gentrification (2021) – but also sharing new work on pandemic reshapings of public space – this talk will argue that many cities worldwide are experiencing a rise in coercive aesthetic practices following the social-spatial restrictions of lockdown.
October 23, 2020, Amsterdam
The workshop Digital Gaming and Urban Space explores the global context of how digital games and gaming impact urban life.
Tracing Washington, D.C.’s shift from a Chocolate City to a “post-chocolate” cosmopolitan metropolis, this talk discusses the continuing significance of blackness in the U.S. capital, and discuss how blackness is integral to our understanding of the city.
21 March 2019 (Spui25, Amsterdam)
A line in the sand: IPCC's "Global Warming of 1.5 °C" and the public discourse of tipping points
Event at Spui25
June 1-2 2017, Amsterdam
The international workshop Urban World-Making explores contemporary processes of 'worlding' in relation to urban environments.
This lecture will elaborate on Jane Jacobs and her less well-known visions on economic growth and forms of social and political organization that shape urban life.
This lecture will offer a comparative approach to the performative dynamics of celebrity in street art, with reference to Banksy and Alexandre Farto (the Portuguese street artist aka Vhils)
This talk is part of a larger project that explores the longue duree, the deep time, of urban mediation, and examines the aggregated histories of city-building, mud-molding and mark-making.
This talk discusses an experimental pedagogical video project, made in the wake of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution, that draws upon the emerging mobile aesthetics of cellphone filmmaking and public encounters with revolutionary spontaneity.
The Question of the Image in the Networked Age: handwritten notes, Flipcam diaries, and YouTube remixes from the battlefield in Syria.
The ASCA Cities Project is pleased to be hosting a free public screening of URBAN TIDES, a documentary about the making of De Ceuvel in Amsterdam-Noord.
For the international conference Visualizing the Street, the ASCA Cities Project invites papers that explore the impact of contemporary practices of image-making on the visual cultures of the street.
Interdisciplinary symposium on the High Line that critically interrogates the park’s relation to public space, creative practice, neoliberal urban renewal, urban political ecology, and policy-led gentrification. The event … Read more...
June 12-13 2014, Paris
This interdisciplinary conference will bring together scholars from across the humanities and social sciences to explore the many ways in which garbage - in its diverse forms and articulations - is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices.
May 9-10, 2013, Institute for Public Knowledge, New York University, in collaboration with the Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies.Bringing together perspectives from across the humanities and social sciences, this international workshop will explore how recent practices of visual culture interrupt and dislodge the narratives of mobility, speed, and growth which have overwhelmingly determined our understanding of global cities.
October 19, 2012, University of Amsterdam.
A workshop on creative practices that slow down processes of globalisation.
May 8, 2012, University of London, UK.
This symposium considers inertia, and other forms of stillness or blockage, as a condition in urban life, articulated and operationalized through visual culture and spatial practice.
May 18, 2012, Location: ARCAM Architectuurcentrum Amsterdam.
Bringing into consideration diverse expressions of urban modernity worldwide, the Questioning Urban Modernity conference uses globalization as a central paradigm for understanding contemporary urban space and culture. In doing so, it seeks to develop a more adequate understanding of urban modernity.
CRESC annual conference 2011, September 6-9, Manchester, UK.
This panel brings together papers from the fields of Asian studies, film studies, and art history to examine the relationship between globalization, cities, and aesthetics
NECS Conference "Sonic Futures", 23-26 June, London, UK.
This panel brings together researchers from the Cities Project at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis to examine the critical and perspectival trope of the "scape" (landscape, mindscape, soundscape, etc) in relation to a range of urban settings, including Los Angeles, New York, and Tehran.
November 2010 (Amsterdam) and January 2011 (Paris). Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis/University of London Institute in Paris.
This conference seeks to interrogate the post-war history of underground culture in the cities of Paris and Amsterdam.
October 1-2, 2009. Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis/Department of English.
This interdisciplinary workshop aims at bringing together a select group of leading scholars in the fields of urban and cultural studies to address the relationship between globalization and violence in contemporary visual culture.