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Saul Leiter: “New York Reflections” Exposition 24 Oct. 2011
Saul Leiter created a unique oeuvre of painterly photographs of street life in New York. His compositions, often complex and riddled with reflections and shadows, are the most exceptional feature of his work. The Jewish Historical Museum presents the first broad retrospective of the work of this photographer in the Netherlands. Saul Leiter started shooting ...
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Seth Meyers NTR College Tour 12 Sept 2011
Saturday Night Live’s head writer and ‘Weekend Update’ anchor Seth Meyers, is our guest on September 12th!Besides being an impersonator, anchor and brilliant writer for SNL, Meyers became world famous by hosting the annual Correspondents Dinner at the White House, last May 2011. In the late nineties Seth Meyers lived in Amsterdam and played five ...
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Sherry Turkle “Alone Together: Identity and Digital Culture” 22 Sept. 2011
Young people in America don’t even bother to answer their phones anymore. They prefer to communicate through sms, twitter and Facebook. Every new message irresistibly draws the attention. That’s the exact reason why almost everybody has a mobile within reach: passengers on the train, parents in the schoolyard, friends at the café, students in the ...
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Report: StudentNASA Conference “(New) Media and the United States”
In the afternoon of Friday 21 May, 2010 the first ever StudentNASA event took place at Utrecht University. In order to be of interest to students from all disciplines within the American Studies field, the board decided to choose a theme which could be viewed from multiple angels, covering Economics, Politics, Transatlantic/Foreign Policy, Popular Culture ...