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The EGSH Award Ceremony of this year announced that Carolina Dalla Chiesa, lecturer at the Arts & Culture Studies department, won the Award for Best Ph.D. Thesis 2021 for her thesis 'Crowdfunding culture, bridging arts and commerce'. The jury mentioned that,

The work of Carolina Dalla Chiesa is both interdisciplinary as a unique combination of cultural and economic studies, and uses a mixture of methods as well.

Vincent Baptist, PhD Candidate at ESHCC, won the award for Best Conference Paper 2021. The award was for his paper, Criminal, cosmopolitan, commodified: how Rotterdam’s interwar amusement street became a safe mirror image of itself, presented at the international conference Cultural Perceptions of Safety. The jury mentioned that,

Vincent, your paper about the pre-war Schiedamse Dijk in Rotterdam is a perfect example of how the study of one street requires not only mastery of historical archives, but also an understanding of urban planning, sociology and philosophy. You have combined these excellently to assess the different meanings of Schiedamsedijk through time, moving from a street that was as famous as the German Reeperbahn, to a rather sanitized commercial “pleasure scape”, in what you call a safe mirror image of itself. As a result, the paper is not only a rich contribution to local Rotterdam history but also an important addition to our interdisciplinary understanding of wider urban processes.

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