FASoS Research Institute
Moving boundaries, bridging disciplines
The research institute of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) at Maastricht University studies societies and cultures as they unfolded during the modern and contemporary era in a radically interdisciplinary manner. We analyse the interrelationships of Europeanisation, globalisation, scientific and technological development, political change and cultural innovation. We are interested in how today’s societies cope with and reflect these challenges in various ways. These could be artistic practices and practices of remembrance as well as specific forms of governance and political integration as well as strategies for managing knowledge, technologies and risks. While our research starts from today’s problems, we have a strong interest in how the modern world came to be.
Research
To nurture and maintain this kind of innovative, interdisciplinary research, the research institute of FASoS has created a matrix organisational structure. Its backbone are four distinct research programmes, each of which is composed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers. While the research programmes form the core of the research activities at FASoS, the faculty also has five centres as specific research hubs and to facilitate interaction with external academic partners and societal stakeholders. Together, the research programmes and the research centres provide a framework that facilitates flexibility, networking, and mobility beyond disciplinary boundaries.
Research Centres
News
Christian Ernsten and Zuyd University lector Ties van de Werff receive UM-Zuyd collaboration grant
The €29,000 grant was given to develop a shared UM-Zuyd learning space in the context of MERIAN – an already existing collaboration between these institutions and the Jan van Eyck Academy.
Darian Meacham appointed Professor of Practical Philosophy
Darian’s research focuses on how philosophy can help us to better understand and steward the co-shaping of technology and politics.
Costas Papadopoulos winner of eScience Center - Lorentz Competition
With a grant of €50,000, Costas will be able to organise a 5-day workshop with 25 international experts on 3D heritage from the academic community and the public/private sector to explore 'Paradata in 3D Scholarship: Intellectual Transparency and Scholarly Argumentation in Digital Heritage'.
Harro van Lente receives RWTH Aachen Research Fellowship
The project 'Epistemic Imaginaries' will study how within research fields ideas about 'where to go' emerge, stabilize and change under external pressure, such as the climate crisis.
Emilie Sitzia receives Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowship
Emilie Sitzia has received a Cambridge Visual Culture Visiting Research Fellowship to work on a project titled ‘Common Sense: (Re)inventing a Social and Sensory Museology of the Illustrated Book’.
