Participation in Research Colloquia and
Activities
Students can participate in activities – guest lectures,
research presentations and so on
–
of the research theme groups within the Research Centre for
Arts in Society of the Groningen Research Institute for the
Study of Culture (ICOG):
Research Assistans Programme
If you are a talented and motivated student who started in
September with the research master's track Literary and Cultural
Studies, you can apply for a paid position of one day a week at the
university. Parallel to your courses, you will participate in an
(interdisciplinary) project and do research that relates to the
theme Sustainable Society.
Read more about the Research
Assistants Programme positions.
Staff Selection
Prof. dr.
E.J. (Liesbeth) Korthals Altes is Professor of General
Literature, director of ICOG and the Director of Studies for the
Research Master Literary and Cultural Studies. Her areas of
expertise are literary theory (especially narrative theory), values
and ethics of literature and arts and Modern French literature. She
teaches the first-year course Theory and Methods in the
Arts.
Prof. dr. A.S.
(Ann-Sophie) Lehmann is Professor of Modern and Contemporary
Art and director of the Research Centre Arts in Society. Her
research focuses on process-based approaches to visual material
culture and includes old and new media, from oil paint to software.
She teaches several courses about art in different forms of
media.
Dr. J. (Julian)
Hanich is Associate Professor of Film Studies and his expertise
lies within film and emotion, film and phenomenology,
audience/reception studies, genre studies and film aesthetics.
Together with prof. dr. M.G. Kemperink, he teaches the first-year
course Art and the Emotions: Theory and Practical
Research.
Research Schools
It is possible for research master students to participate in
seminars, courses and summer schools organized by the Dutch
national research schools.
-
Research School for Media
Studies
-
Netherlands
Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA)
-
Research
School for Literary Studies (OSL)
-
Postgraduate
School for Art History (OSK)
- Netherlands Research
School of Gender Studies (NOG)
These 'schools' are organized for the training of PhD and
research MA students. You need to select 10 ECTS (usually 2 x 5
ECTS) from their programme offer. They also organize a variety of
research related events and activities, in which you are, in most
cases, very welcome as a research master student. These events give
you the opportunity to deepen your disciplinary profile and to
become acquainted with leading researchers and with peers in your
field.
