The magazine iBestuur interviewed myself and information studies Professor, Felienne Hermans (VU) about the Dutch goverment’s current approach to disinformation. A longer and more detailed version of the interview will be published in the next […]
Tag: engagement
Workshop on PublicLy Communicating Climate Science In the social media Age
Here’s a video summary of the workshop we organized as part of a team-based seed-project I’m leading at UU on the public communication of science about climate change in the era of social media’s dominance […]
Sharing research insights at RIVM Symposium on Pandemic Communication
At the end of the month, I’ll be joining other academics and policymakers at a symposium on pandemic behaviour organized by the RIVM (the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment). I’ll be […]
Seed Funding from “Pathways to Sustainability”
Some colleagues and I recently started setting up a small but ambitious project under the theme: Public Communication of Climate Science in the Social Media Age. We’re very pleased to have received funding via the […]
Opinion piece on intellectual freedom and the rise of the right wing at universities
Today this piece of mine was published on a Dutch political opinion site. I’m adding the English version of it here: The UvA should not have offered Jordan Peterson a right wing “safe space” Last […]
Our piece about Syria solidarity for Salvage Magazine
Saskia Baas and I wrote this piece in light of the recent escalations of violence in Syria, and the problematic selectivity we observed in the response to these events among prominent leftist political publications and public figures.
Op-ed in the NRC Handelsblad: No feminism without anti-racism
Catherine Black, Domitilla Olivieri and I wrote an opinion piece that was published today (under a different title) in the Dutch national newspaper, NRC Handelsblad. I’ve posted an English language version of that piece below, as well as an interesting update:
Speaking at Anti-racism Demonstration in Amsterdam
Just got a call from Comité 21 maart. Looks like I’ll be one of the speakers at the anti-racism demonstration this Saturday on behalf of Feministen in Verzet. It’ll be one of several demos going on […]
Feministen in Verzet (Feminists in Resistance) have a Facebook page now
This week we set up a Facebook page for Feministen in Verzet and showed up at the International Women’s Day demonstration in the center of Amsterdam to spread our flyer against PEGIDA and for an anti-racist, inclusive feminism.
Donya Alinejad 