(Vincent) V Baptist

PhD candidate Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication Department of History

Location: Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
Room: M6-48
Email: baptist@eshcc.eur.nl

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Vincent Baptist is a PhD Candidate at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication.

His doctoral research is part of the European HERA-funded project ‘Pleasurescapes: Port Cities’ Transnational Forces of Integration’. Within this collaborative project, he investigates public spaces of entertainment that were located in the city of Rotterdam throughout the period 1880-1975. He is also affiliated to the Leiden-Delft-Erasmus research consortium 'PortCityFutures', and to Huizinga Instituut, the national research school for Cultural History in the Netherlands.

Vincent previously worked as a Pre PhD Fellow in the digital humanities research program CREATE at the University of Amsterdam, where his research was partially linked to the CLARIAH Amsterdam Time Machine project. From 2018 to 2020, he was an editorial assistant for NECSUS - European Journal of Media Studies.

Vincent obtained a Research Master in Media Studies (University of Amsterdam), with special research interests in film festivals and processes of film circulation and distribution. He also holds a BA in Media Studies (University of Amsterdam) and a BSc in Business Economics (KU Leuven).

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]
Paul van de Laar & Vincent Baptist (2022) - Pleasurescapes - Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method - doi: 10.5040/9781350927933.120 - [link]
Julia Noordegraaf, Marieke Van Erp, Richard Zijdeman, Mark Raat, Thunnis Van Oort, Ivo Zandhuis, Thomas Vermaut, Hans Mol, Nicoline Van der Sijs, Kristel Doreleijers, Vincent Baptist, Charlotte Vrielink, Brenda Assendelft, Claartje Rasterhoff & Ivan Kisjes (2021) - Semantic Deep Mapping in the Amsterdam Time Machine: Viewing Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Theatre and Cinema Culture Through the Lens of Language Use and Socio-Economic Status - doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-93186-5_9 - [link]

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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
Vincent Baptist (2022) - Water, Ports, and Culture in Cities and Landscapes
Vincent Baptist (2021) - Pandemic Visions of Venice: What Three Cinematic Portraits Can Tell Us of a City Plagued by Tourism
Vincent Baptist (2021) - Criminal or Cosmopolitan: Discourses of Safety on Rotterdam’s Interbellum Pleasurescape in Municipal and Audiovisual Sources
Vincent Baptist (2020) - Researching Port Cities’ Historical Entertainment Culture: Reflecting on Hedonism and Heterotopia in Times of Corona
Yvonne Van Mil, Vincent Baptist, Thomas Van den Brink, Hilde Sennema & Tianchen Dai (2020) - Mapping Maritime Mindsets: Towards a Shared Methodology

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