Themes include the global politics of art, fashion and popular culture, memory and heritage, cultural institutions and policymaking, museums’ power and their publics, early and contemporary patronage, book history. Central concerns are colonial heritage, restitution and repair; the cultural dimension of trauma and conflict; ecology, sustainability and climate change, the so-called environmental, health and blue humanities; social justice, intersectionality (race, gender, class), migration and transculturation; the power of visual and material cultures; critical legal approaches applied to the cultural field.

Staff members collaborate with art and cultural institutions in The Netherlands and beyond.