Moments of Meaning-Making
Book launch Mieke Bal
- Date
- 9 September 2025
- Time
- 17:00
- Location
- SPUI25
Rather than writing a conventional autobiography or a scholarly retrospective, Bal chose to explore her intellectual and personal journey through a series of terms – Anachronism, Becoming, Criticism, Friendship, and many others – that together form a web of meaning. With photographs by Lena Verhoeff and design by Lotte Lara Schröder, the book is also a visual and tactile experience.
Several artists, writers, and scholars will reflect on Mieke Bal’s work through the lens of their own practices and fascinations. How have Bal’s work and presence influenced their thinking or development: personally, intellectually, or collaboratively? With: Marlene Dumas, Tingting Hui, Maaike Meijer, Abram de Swaan, Roos Theuws, and Mieke Bal.
SPUI25 is the academic-cultural podium of Amsterdam. Since 2007, we have been giving scientists, authors, artists and other thinkers the opportunity to shine a light on issues that occupy, inspire or concern them. In cooperation with a large number of academic and cultural partners, we organize between 250 and 300 freely accessible programs per year. These are enriching, often interdisciplinary programs that move between science and culture, fact and fiction.
SPUI25 is one of the UvA podia in the University Quarter.
