Gesprek | The Social and Political Lives of Images
Activiteit van Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam |
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Datum: | vrijdag 4 april 2025 om 17:00 uur |
Locatie: | SPUI25, Spui 25-27, Amsterdam / Online |
Informatie: | Voertaal: Engels. Aanmelden |
Toegang: | Gratis |
Seeing Matters! Tijdens deze bijeenkomst in SPUI25 (Amsterdam) onderzoeken we de transformerende kracht van beelden, van protestborden tot memes op sociale media. Hoe kunnen beelden bewegingen mobiliseren, debatten beïnvloeden en percepties veranderen? Met o.a. Sarah Awad (Aalborg University), auteur van het binnenkort te verschijnen boek Seeing Matters.
De voertaal is Engels.
In an age dominated by visual culture, the dual power of images, to both democratize and polarize, is more evident than ever. Drawing on her forthcoming book Seeing Matters (Cambridge University Press), Sarah Awad (Aalborg University, Denmark) will explore how images, from protest imagery, political campaigns, photojournalism, to social media memes, actively shape our thoughts, emotions, and actions. Rather than simply reflecting our world, images now serve as dynamic agents of change – mobilizing movements, influencing public debate, and at times deepening societal rifts. Awad’s analysis challenges us to rethink the power inherent in the act of seeing.
About the speakers
Sarah Awad is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her research lies at the intersection of cultural psychology, communication, and social development, focusing on how art, storytelling, and visual methodologies reveal insights into identity, collective memory, and politics during times of change.
Olga Eisele is an Assistant Professor at the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (University of Amsterdam). Her work examines political crisis communication, focusing on the European Union and the legitimation challenges facing democratic organizations. In her work she is applying automated, quantitative methods and computational text and image analysis.
Josephine Hoegaerts is Professor of European Culture after 1800 at the University of Amsterdam’s European Studies group, where she explores the histories of speech and sound in modern democracies. Her research investigates topics from citizenship and political participation to the embodiment of authority in nineteenth-century Europe.
Ofra Klein is an Assistant Professor in Mediatisation and Digitalisation at Erasmus University Rotterdam. She holds a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute. Her research focuses on the radical right, social media and online political mobilisation.
Joost Vintges is a research associate at GAGE/ODI and PhD candidate at the UvA. In his PhD research, he investigates the interplay between architectural visualisations and financial real estate in the fast urbanization of the Egyptian desert.
Duitsland Instituut Amsterdam in cooperation with The Amsterdam School for Regional and Transnational and European Studies (ARTES)