In De Brakke Grond: an exhibition at the intersection between artistic and scientific experiments; the first ever performance by ‘stand-up scientist’ Damiaan Denys, Head of Psychiatry at the AMC hospital ; a ‘neuro-concert’ by nanoscientist Anirban Bandyopadyay and a film programme in the Kriterion cinema in cooperation with Patricia Pisters, author of The Neuro-Image. For the detailed programme see the website of De Brakke Grond.
On 22 November 2013 a moving presentation of the three volume universal dictionnary of creating women: Le Dictionnaire Universel des Femmes Créatrices, published by the legendary Editions des Femmes in Paris, founded forty years ago by Antoinette Fouque. The presentation took place at the UNESCO building in Paris and was honored by the presence of countless 'grandes dames' of French cinema and music such as Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Riva, Juliette Greco, Lio, Nicole Garcia and Marina Vlady. See here for more and better pictures. The waiting is for the English translation and an online edition, both on their way. Here is information in French about the project. And in the mean time here is my contribution for the entree about women directors in the Netherlands in English (publication in French in the first volume of the dictionnary).
Adrian Martin and Cristina Alvarez Lopez will be in Amsterdam for a lecture and masterclass on creative film criticism. Organized by NICA in collaboration with the Slow Criticism Project of De Filmkrant.
The new issue of Necsus: European Journal of Media Studies is now online. With a special section on "Waste" by guest editors Alexandra Schneider and Wanda Strauven and many interesting contributions on the state of the art in the wide spectrum of media studies today. All available in Open Access.
Teaching on Hitchcock, Fellini and Johan van der Keuken as invited professor of the Department of History and Theory of the Arts at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris.