Dr Martha C.E. Van Der Bly is a sociologist, specialised in globalization and (national) identity, the social construction of cultural sameness and diversity and the sociology of religion.
She graduated cum laude in sociology at the University of Groningen in The Netherlands. Her MA-thesis, a quantitative and theoretical analysis of the sociological structure of the performance arts in The Netherlands, won the national Boekman-Award. She published a book and various research studies on the sociology of arts and on pop music. After working for multinational ING Group in the fields of both Direct Marketing and International Payments and Cash Management, she returned to the alma mater to study globalisation within the context of a Phd.
Her research was awarded a full scholarship of the Royal Irish Academy under the Third Sector Research Programme and won a Culture Foundation Award for young top research, granted by the Prince Bernhard Foundation in Amsterdam.
Her research has won awards from, the World Society Foundation (University of Zurich), the Prince Bernhard Culture Foundation, the Boekman Foundation amongst others.
Van Der Bly obtained a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) at the Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS) and a BA Sociology (cum laude) and a MA Sociology (cum laude) from the University of Groningen (RUG), The Netherlands.
Van Der Bly was a Garnett Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Studies (ISS) at the Erasmus University Rotterdam, Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the study of Global Governance (CsGG) at the London School of Economics (LSE), Honorary Visiting Fellow of the Department of Sociology at City University London and a Research Associate at the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam.
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Dr. Martha Van Der Bly is available for talks about issues related to art, globalisation, the Holocaust, (national) identity, world society and Future Studies, globalisation and the sociology of religion.
Martha has spoken at venues and events such as the International Sociological Association (ISA), the World Society Foundation in Zürich, the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC, USA, the Catholic Association of Performing Artists (CAAPA) in London. the Central Libray Amsterdam (OBA), de Raad voor de Kunsten (Art Council) in The Hague and Felix Mertitis in Amsterdam.
Martha’s thoughtfully tailored lectures combine analytical understanding of global society with artistic imagination, philosophical insight into the long duree of humanity’s development, a clear outline of the choices we are facing today and inspiring the audience to think about a new world society that is built on common humanity and our shared vulnerability.
hanisms of Dominant Globalization and Cultural Polarisation