Utrecht Colloquia in the Musicologies 2018-19 I’ll Be Your Mixtape: Lou Reed, Andy Warhol, and the Queer Intimacies of Cassettes Judith Peraino (Cornell University) This presentation tells the story of a cassette tape housed in the Andy Warhol Museum Archive, a set of never-released (and rarely heard) songs by Lou Reed, and the tape’s intended…

The Emerging Social Order of Data Colonialism: Why Critical Social Theory Still Matters! Prof. dr. Nick Couldry (London School of Economics and Political Science) Date and Time: Wed, 12 June 2019, 15:30 – 17:00 CEST Location: Kanunnikenzaal in Academiegebouw, Domplein 29, Utrecht Registration: Click this link. Moderator: Prof dr. José van Dijck Respondents: Prof. dr….

“Designing the Dispositif: Between the Art and Reason of Government” This talk situates Michel Foucault’s reflections on the dispositif, often translated into English as “apparatus,” in terms of the design of human practices in the rapidly emerging discourse of design philosophy. The lecture explores how the notion of design is implicit in Foucault’s characterization of…

We cordially invite you to a public lecture and workshop by Jason King, Associate Professor, The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, NYU. The lecture and workshop will take place in the Grote Zaal with the entrance at Muntstraat 2A, MCW-LAB (Grote zaal KNG20) on Tuesday December 11th between 18.30 and 21.00. Tickets are free but please RSVP to: n.l.c.polson@uu.nl.    Lecture – Deconstructing Freddie Mercury…

On January 10 2017  15.00 – 17.00 the [Urban Interfaces] group in collaboration with MCW’s Datafied Society initiative organize their second lecture and research meeting, this time with Shannon Mattern as a guest speaker. Shannon Mattern will give a talk entitled “Interfaces in an Expanding Field”. Shannon Mattern is Associate Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School in New…

We are proud to welcome the renowned theatre collective Rimini Protokoll as guests of our new edition Why Theatre XL! Taking Rimini Protokoll’s artistic work as starting point, we will discuss the relation between theatre and games, the way ludic elements and structures can be deployed in theatre to engage the audience and to address…