Niek van de Pas

About

I am a PhD candidate at the departments of Cultural Anthropology and of Methodology and Statistics. My PhD project pertains to notions of Dutchness and Dutch identity and utilizes a combination of ethnographic and text mining methods.

Publications

van de Pas, N. (2023). [Review of the book Black Man in the Netherlands: An Afro-Antillean Anthropology, by F. Guadeloupe]. Etnofoor, 35(2). https://www.jstor.org/stable/27275340
van de Pas, N., de Kort, D., Koster, M., & van Meijl, T. (2022). The Political Potential of Urban Informality in the Global North: A Rancièrian Perspective. Journal of Developing Societies, 38(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/0169796X221089463

Conferences

Contextualizing Personality: Insights from Anthropology to Advance Personality Detection. Poster presented at BNAIC/BeNeLearn 2024, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Teaching

2024-2025

Thesis supervision in the master's programme in Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University
Thesis supervision in the bachelor's programme in Liberal Arts & Sciences (specialization Cultural Anthropology), Utrecht University

2023-2024

Leading seminar groups in the course Anthropology of Violence, Utrecht University
Thesis supervision in the bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University
Thesis supervision in the bachelor's programme in Liberal Arts & Sciences (specialization Cultural Anthropology), Utrecht University
Mini-lecture on using quantitative data in anthropological research
Mentoring on the closing day of the 'Academic Professional' course for Master's students

2022-2023

Thesis supervision in the bachelor's programme in Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University
Thesis supervision in the master's programme in Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University
Mentoring on the closing day of the 'Academic Professional' course for Master's students

Professional Activities

Member of the PhD Council for the Faculty of Social Behavioural Sciences, Utrecht University

Some of my current favorite works

Bostrom, N. (2014). Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford University Press.
Graeber, D. (2015). The Utopia of Rules: on Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. Melville House.
Heldke, L. (2003). Exotic Appetites: Ruminations of a Food Adventurer (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315822068
Matthijs Kuipers (2017): “Makanlah Nasi! (Eat Rice!)”: Colonial Cuisine and Popular Imperialism in The Netherlands During the Twentieth Century, Global Food History, https://doi.org/10.1080/20549547.2017.1279515
Sparrow, R. (2007). Killer Robots. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 24(1), 62–77. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24355087