Biography
Vincent Baptist is a Postdoc at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication. His current research focuses on urban intimacies, paradoxes and iconicity.
His doctoral research was part of the European HERA-funded project ‘Pleasurescapes: Port Cities’ Transnational Forces of Integration’. Within this collaborative project, he investigated public spaces of entertainment that were located in the port city of Rotterdam throughout the 1880s-1970s. He is also affiliated to the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus research program 'PortCityFutures'.
Vincent previously worked as a Pre PhD Fellow in the digital humanities research program CREATE at the University of Amsterdam, where his research was linked to the CLARIAH Amsterdam Time Machine project. From 2018 to 2020, he was an editorial assistant for NECSUS - European Journal of Media Studies.
Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- baptist@eshcc.eur.nl
- Room
- M6-48
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
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Work
- Vincent Baptist (2023) - Healthy Cities and Bodies: Reflections on New Paradigms of Urban Wellbeing - Mediapolis : a journal of cities and culture, 8 (2) - [link]
- Vincent Baptist (2023) - Pleasure Near the Port: Spaces and legacies of notorious entertainment culture in 20th-Century Rotterdam
- Vincent Baptist (2022) - Nostalgia for Urban Vices: Cultural Reminiscences of a Demolished Port City Pleasure Neighborhood - Journal of Urban History, 48 (6), 1304-1323 - doi: 10.1177/00961442221101464 - [link]
- Vincent Baptist (11 april 2023) - Rijnmond-interview: ‘Katendrecht: Dorpse wijk of gebruikt Rotterdam ‘de Kaap’ om vroegere hoerenbuurt te promoten?’
- Vincent Baptist (6 april 2023) - NPO Radio 1-interview Villa VdB: 'In oude zeemansbuurten heeft veel gentrificatie plaatsgevonden’
- Vincent Baptist (23 maart 2023) - NRC-interview Jong Geleerd: 'Ik ben zelf deel van de gentrificatie'
- Vincent Baptist (2023) - Framing Industrial City Icons: Cross-Media Analysis of Post-War Urban Iconization with the CLARIAH Media Suite (Poster Presentation)
- Vincent Baptist (2023) - CLARIAH Media Studies Research Fellows meeting
- Vincent Baptist (2023) - LDE PortCityFutures seminar 'Sensing and Reimagining the Waterfront'
- Susan Hogervorst & Vincent Baptist (2023) - Urban Redevelopment and Inhabitants’ Need for Authenticity: The Case of Katendrecht’s Deliplein Square, Rotterdam
- Vincent Baptist (2023) - CLARIAH Media Suite Fellowship Seminar
- Vincent Baptist (2022) - HERA-Pleasurescapes: Project Outline and Approaches
- Vincent Baptist (2022) - Between Panopticon and Pornotopia: Understanding Municipal Plans for Eros Centers in Urban Maritime Environments
- Vincent Baptist (2022) - Plezier kruipt waar het niet gaan kan: Een nieuwe kijk op drie beruchte Rotterdamse amusementsbuurten
- Vincent Baptist (2022) - Pleasurescape Katendrecht
- Vincent Baptist (2022) - Pleasure near the Port: Spaces and Legacies of Notorious Entertainment Culture in 20th-Century Rotterdam
- V (Vincent) Baptist (2022) - Best Conference Paper 2021
- Vincent Baptist (2022) - CLARIAH Research Fellowship
Master Thesis
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CH4050
Quantitative Historical Methods
- Year Level
- BA-2, BA-2
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CH2216
Urban Transformations
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CH4240
Sustainable Development in Hist. Persp.
- Year Level
- MA, MA
- Year
- 2023
- Course Code
- CH4022
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