About

ReCNTR is an interdisciplinary research centre focused on promoting multimodal and audiovisual research methods in social science, humanities and the arts. It is supported by the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, the Institute of Political Science, the Center of the Arts in Society at Leiden University, the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts and by the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. The centre is premised on the acknowledgement of a “post-textual turn” in our disciplines, and ambitions to promote practices of making in a novel economy of knowledge production. It is aimed at bringing together researchers around the idea that making – as in filmmaking, photographing, drawing, etc. –  are forms of thinking, and thus important methodologies for social science and humanities. “Making” is not understood as separate from, or in dialogue with, scientific work, but as a practice and methodology of scientific work. The centre’s concrete mission is thus to provide as space – both physical and intellectual – for established and emerging scholars in the social sciences and humanities dispersed within and outside Leiden University, as well as artists and makers interested in engaging with social science and humanities, in order to facilitate the development of this new research agenda. 

Co-directors

Inaya Basu, Research Master’s Student, Center for the Arts in Society
Francesco Ragazzi, Associate Professor, Institute of Political Science
Cristiana Strava, Assistant Professor, Institute for Area Studies
Erik Viskil, Professor, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts
Mark Westmoreland, Associate Professor, Institute for Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology

Mara Constantinescu, Centre Manager

Advisory Board

Bart Barendregt, Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University
Manon Bovenkerk, Near/By Film
Marcel Cobussen, Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University
Aymeric Mansoux, Willem de Kooning Academy
Angus Mol, Centre for Digital Humanities, Leiden University
Clara Pallí Monguilod, 1646
Mattijs van de Port, Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam
Rachael Rakes, Curator, writer, and editor
Julian Ross, EYE Film Institute
Sofia Stolk, ASSER Institute and VU Amsterdam
Diana Toucedo, Netherlands Film Academy
Myriam Vanderbroucke, Curator and researcher
Bo Wang, Artist and filmmaker
Paul Wouters, Faculty of Social Science, Leiden University

Contact
recntr@fsw.leidenuniv.nl