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Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis University of Amsterdam Bushuis, KloveniersburgwalASCA 48, room F111B, 1012 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands, [email protected], Nieuwsbrief 208 March 2018 Esther Peeren Professor of Cultural Analysis ............. 1 We are proud and happy that ASCA’s Vice Director Dissertation Defence: Mikki Stelder ........................... 1 Esther Peeren has been appointed Professor of KIEM funding For Rachel Esner ................................ 2 Cultural Analysis within the University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Humanities. She is the first to New ASCA Member: Maria Boletsi ........................... 2 hold a Chair in Cultural Analysis. Forms of Temporal Complexities ................................ 2 Professor Peeren received her PhD degree from ASCA Volume and Vibration ................................................. 3 in 2005 (cum laude). Two years later she began Poetins rechtbank/Putin's court ................................. 3 supervising PhD candidates at ASCA. To date, she has This is Film! ................................................................ 4 been co-promotor of 13 PhD candidates. As ASCA’s ‘Drawd too architectooralooral’ .................................. 4 Vice Director, she is responsible for the PhD The Pornification of Culture ....................................... 4 community at ASCA and conducts their annual Uncertainty of Digital Archives ................................. 5 evaluations. Last year, her research project "Imagining the Rural in Global Critical Pedagogies .......................................... 5 a Globalizing World" was awarded an ERC The Urban Commons of Culture, Past & Present ...... 6 Consolidator Grant. Recent publications include an (In)Human Time: Artistic Responses to Radiotoxicity article on the affective dimension of the political .................................................................................... 6 mobilization of the rural in Landscape Research (2018), a Solid Knowledge .......................................................... 7 volume (co-edited with Robin Celikates, Jeroen de Testimony. Commemoration. Wellbeing. .................... 8 Kloet and Thomas Poell) on Global Cultures of Posthuman Ethics, Pain and Endurance .................... 9 Contestation (Palgrave, 2018), a volume (co-edited with Master Class with Wendy Brown ............................... 9 Hanneke Stuit and Astrid Van Weyenberg) on Cutting Edge Research Fund | Deadline extended .. 10 Peripheral Visions in a Globalizing World (Brill 2016) and contributions to the open access publication Symptoms Support tracks Grant Team 2018 ............................. 10 of the Planetary Condition: A Critical Vocabulary (Meson Pre-program PhD in the Arts ................................... 10 Press, 2017). Read more. Paris Institute for Advanced Study Fellowships ...... 10 ASCA congratulates Professor Peeren with this well- IFK Research Fellowships ......................................... 10 deserved appointment! LERU Doctoral Summer School ............................... 10 DISSERTATION DEFENCE: MIKKI STELDER ESTHER PEEREN PROFESSOR OF CULTURAL Queering the Occupation: From Zionist Sexual ANALYSIS Politics to Palestinian Decolonial-Queer Imaginaries Supervisor: Mireille Rosello. 6 March 10:00 hrs., Agnietenkapel. Queering the Occupation exposes a gap between the existing critical frameworks that discuss the role of gender and sexual politics in the context of Israel/Palestine and what it calls Palestinian anticolonial-queer critiques. Such critiques emerge from within Palestinian queer communities and offer novel perspectives on the Israel/Palestine crisis. The first part of Queering the Occupation examines the trajectory of Israel’s gay and lesbian movement from the late 1980s until the present in order to understand how a gay subjectivity emerged within the boundaries of the Zionist state. It looks at how gay rights and gay life are employed in Israel’s nation branding campaign Brand Israel. And, it analyzes the cultural, economic, and political impact of Israel’s gay tourism industry on Israel’s image globally. In the second part, Queering 2 the Occupation examines critical and liberal responses NEW ASCA MEMBER: MARIA BOLETSI to Israel’s use of sexuality and gender in its nation branding efforts. More specifically, it discerns how these responses determine the conditions of possibility for political action and the political imagination in and about Israel/Palestine in the present. It does so by engaging debates within scholarly, media, and activist contexts in Israel/Palestine, North America, and Europe, which discuss the Israeli state’s uses of sexual politics in the context of occupation. Importantly, Queering the Occupation provides insight into Palestinian anticolonial-queer critiques and decolonial- queer space-making practices that provide central conceptual interventions into how the Israel/Palestine Foto: Dirk Gillissen crisis is assessed and understood both within Since January 2018, Maria Boletsi is endowed professor Israel/Palestine and internationally. In doing so, it (bijzonder hoogleraar) at the University of moves beyond conventional understandings of the Amsterdam, where she holds the Marilena Laskaridis Israel/Palestine crisis, which have thus far failed to Chair of Modern Greek Studies. She is also assistant bring social justice to that context. professor at the Film and Literary Studies department of Leiden University. Her current research explores KIEM FUNDING FOR RACHEL ESNER ‘crisis’ as a framework and the ways contemporary Documenting Curatorial Practices in Dutch Art literature and art intervene in crisis-rhetoric in Europe. Museums (1945-Today) She focuses particularly on subjectivities and forms of The Netherlands has a tradition of innovative literary, artistic, and cultural expression that offer curatorial practice in temporary museum exhibitions alternatives to dominant narratives of the ongoing and collection presentations. Much of this practice – ‘Greek crisis.’ Maria would be interested in starting an once dismantled – has unfortunately become invisible. ASCA research group on ‘crisis’ and invites This pilot-project represents the first step in creating a researchers who have affinities with the topic to get in database that will make available to art historians, touch with her. museologists, curators, educators, exhibition She is also writing a book on spectrality in the designers, and the general public the wealth of modernist poetics of the Greek poet C.P. Cavafy and is photographs and subsidiary material documenting main partner in an international project on the modern exhibitions and displays in Dutch art museums from European history of the concept ‘barbarian.’ She is the 1945 to today. The growing interest in exhibition author of Barbarism and Its Discontents (Stanford UP, history gives this project a particular urgency, as does 2013) and co-author of De lichtheid van literatuur: the realization among museum professionals that their Engagement in de Multiculturele Samenleving (Acco 2015) archives should be accessible to future generations. and Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Moreover, many current debates surrounding heritage Modern Theory, Literature and the Arts. Vol. 1 (J.B. and identity center around museum presentations and Metzler, in press). She has recently co-edited the their role in creating shared cultural memory. This volumes Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild: unique project will make the usually hidden but Encounters in the Arts and Contemporary Politics (Brill, crucial curatorial processes involved in their 2018) and Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an realization available for interpretation. Its realization Old Concept (Brill 2015). will enable comparative research that will lead to new insights into (Dutch) museum and exhibition history, FORMS OF TEMPORAL COMPLEXITIES canon formation, and the history of art. Session #5 Forms of Complexity Seminar. 2 March, 15.00- Starting with the archives of the Museum Boijmans 18.00 hrs., IAS Institute, 0.02 Sweelinck Conference Room Van Beuningen, the pilot will examine the materials (Oude Turfmarkt 145) Contact: Tessa de Vet - available. Since different kinds of institutions generate [email protected] different kinds of documents, a comparison will be In this session we will look at forms of temporal made with the (digitized) archives of the Van Abbe complexities. The reading material is a chapter of my Museum. The aim is to produce research questions book The Neuro-Image (‘Signs of Time’) where I suggest and a glossary of terms that can serve as the basis for a new dominant form of cinematographic temporality the digital infrastructure. These will be presented at in what I call ‘the neuro-image’, cinema of the digital two expert meetings with museum curators, archivists age (which has its precursors in what Deleuze calls the and academics, and the outcomes reported in a time-image and the movement-image). This chapter is scholarly article. inspired by Deleuze’s philosophy of the three syntheses of time that he develops in Chapter 2 of Difference and Repetition, ‘Repetition for Itself’), which 3 is recommended as background reading, although it is For the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the Nazis built not a chapter that one reads in a few hours… so I’ve the “Reichssportfeld“ (now: “Olympiapark Berlin”). added this just for reference if you want to dive into An important part of this gigantic sports field were this material).