Sander Hölsgens
Lecturer
- Name
- Dr. S.R.J.J. Hölsgens
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 3451
- s.r.j.j.holsgens@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-8770-8110
Sander Hölsgens (PhD, UCL) is an anthropologist and educator. As a lecturer at the Leiden Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, he teaches practice-led courses in visual ethnography and audiovisual culture.
Sander Hölsgens’ current research continues to explore:
- the anthropology of skateboarding
- engaged and critical pedagogies
- phenomenologies of skill acquisition
- emerging and disappearing media technologies
Students writing theses on these areas of study are particularly invited to reach out for supervisory support.
Sander is one of the founding members of Pushing Boarders, a platform tracing the social impact of skateboarding worldwide. He curates the Rotterdam-based film festival Field Recordings and is part of the Film Place Collective. Sander acted as the Visual and New Media editor of Cultural Anthropology between 2015 and 2019, and is the author of ‘Skateboarding in Seoul: A Sensory Ethnography’ (2021).
Prior to joining Leiden, Sander taught at University College London, where he co-ran The Bartlett Film+Place+Architecture Network and contributed extensively to the UCL Writing Lab. At the University of Groningen, he completed two NWO-funded research projects: 1) Exploring Journalism’s Limits: Enacting and Theorising the Boundaries of the Journalistic Field (postdoc, 2018-2019) and 2) Documenting complexity: Intersections of Documentary, Activism and Technological Innovation (co-applicant and postdoc, 2019-2021).
Lecturer
- Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen
- Culturele Antropologie/ Ontw. Sociologie
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (17 February 2023), Animal Crossing en de grenzen van culturele representatie: Gamer.nl [blog entry].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (10 January 2023), Towards a technical pedagogy . Leiden Anthropology Blog. Leiden: Leiden University [blog entry].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J., Loewen R., Nguyen T.P., Paveck H. & Sborgi A.V. (2022), 12/13/18/19: the making of Blind Spot. In: Mindrup M. & Chee L. (Eds.) Remote practices: architecture at a distance. London: Lund Humphries. 129-136.
- Hölsgens S. (11 May 2022), We need to talk about skateboarding. Leiden Anthropology Blog: Leiden University [blog entry].
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (2021), Skateboarding in Seoul: a sensory ethnography. Groningen: University of Groningen Press.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (2020), Review of: Snyder G.J. Skateboarding LA: inside professional street skateboarding, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 26(4): 917-918.
- Hölsgens Sander Wildt de Saskia Witschge Tamara (2020), Walking the Newsroom: Towards a Sensory Experience of Journalism, The Journal for Artistic Research 21.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J. (2020), Dislocation blues, Visual Anthropology Review 36(2): 412-417.
- Hölsgens S.R.J.J., De Wildt S. & Witschge T. (2020), Towards an experientialist understanding of journalism: exploring arts-based research for journalism studies, Journalism Studies 21(7): 928-946.
- Curator and programmer
- (Art) Criticism, podcasts, interviews
- Co-founder and programmer