Dr J.J.M.J. Boom (Jeroen)

Jeroen Boom is an Assistant Professor in Visual Culture Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen. His research focuses on the politics and ethics of seeing and not seeing in the context of contemporary (documentary) cinema, global politics, and ecological violence. He is currently working on a book project on opacity and other visual disruptions in essay films about migration. He co-directed the seminar series Minor Movements: How to Create Space for Personal and Political Change with Niels Niessen and currently co-organizes the seminar series Aquatic Thinking in a Fluid Age with László Munteán at the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis.

• Critical Humanities