ATACD has 3 project goals:
1) To coordinate a multidisciplinary community of knowledge for the sharing, developing and testing of topolocial and complex systems approaches to the study of cultural dynamics.
2) To build the capacity of researches in Europe with skills and understanding of topological approaches to the study of cultural dynamics through mechanisms by which partners may interact and expand their research potential.
3) To enable the transfer of knowledge between various stakeholders including academia and industry in the study of cultural dynamics.

This course aims to introduce different articulations of new feminist theories about the complex interaction of gender, culture and power today. Very inter-disciplinary in orientation, this two-week course presents approaches from the humanities and the social sciences. The school consists of two clusters, which focus on the following themes:
Cluster 1 - Manifest yourself! Negotiating with the Feminist Heritage
Cluster 2 - Global Visions. Promoting Cultural Diversity

• prof. dr. Rosemarie Buikema
• dr. Domitilla Olivieri

“After Secularism” is an investigation, situated in a European context, into contemporary sociological and epistemological conditions and formations coded as “post-secular”. Drawing upon doctoral research concerned with contemporary female religious subjectivities within Christian and Islamic movements that challenge secularization (with case studies in the Russian Federation, Italy and the Netherlands), the current project traces how affirmations of religious subjectivities in conditions of late capitalism and globalization interpellate and speak back to secular and liberal assumptions and hegemonies that inform feminist, social and critical theories on agency, subjectivity and modernity.