Willem Schinkel

DAI INtroductionweek October 2018: welcome at WALTER books: Krista Jantowski asks Willem Schinkel to share some insights about the current state of the Left in the Netherlands (Photo: Nikos Doulos)

Willem Schinkel (1976) is Professor of Social Theory at Erasmus University Rotterdam. He publishes in a wide range of subjects, including social theory and social philosophy, the sociology of art and STS. In 2007, he was visiting scholar at NYU (New York, USA); in 2010 he was visiting scholar at the Institute for Public Knowledge (NYU); and in the spring of 2011 he was visiting scholar at Humboldt University in Berlin (philosophy department).

After working on a Veni grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), he was the principal investigator of the ERC project Monitoring Modernity, which focuses on the ways society is imagined in the monitoring of flows of migrants, flows of capital and climate change.