Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis

NICA is the Dutch national research school in cultural analysis, studies, and theory; generally, in interdisciplinary and theoretical humanities research. The school offers graduate courses for research master and PhD students, and serves as a professional network for affiliated scholars. Presently based at the University of Amsterdam, the school welcomes the participation of scholars and students of all Dutch universities. (Read NICA’s mission statement.)

NICA in numbers:

  • 14 internal PhD students, 52 external PhD students
  • 56 research master students
  • 80 staf members
  • 9 affiliated research master programs
  • 7 variegated activities in 2011, 9 in 2012
  • 27 tot 30 participants to the Summer and Winter Schools
  • 5 well-attended ateliers, 3 masterclasses, and 3 seminars;
  • 12 international guests, among whom Catherine Malabou (Kingston University), Richard Kerridge (Bath Spa University), Maarten Simons en Jan Masschelein (Universiteit Leuven), James Williams (University of Dundee), and Jennifer Robinson (University College London).

Membership

NICA membership is free, caries no obligations, and is open to faculty as well as research master and PhD students. Join us by mailing the following address: Contact NICA

Executive team

  • Director: Christoph Lindner. Christoph is Chair in English Literature at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Fictions of Commodity Culture: From the Victorian to the Postmodern (2003), and the editor of several volumes on James Bond and on urban space and globalization.
  • Program Director: Murat Aydemir. Murat is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of Images of Bliss: Ejaculation, Masculinity, Meaning (2007), and the editor of Migrant Settings: Transnational Perspectives on Place (2008) and Indiscretions: At the Intersection of Queer and Postcolonial Theory (2011).
  • Manager: Eloe Kingma. Eloe wrote a dissertation on medieval interpretations of the Song of Songs, which she defended in 1993. In 1994, she became the Managing Director of ASCA, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.

Advisory Board

NICA’s Advisory Board includes members from the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam and the Universities of Leiden, Maastricht, Groningen, Nijmegen, Rotterdam, and Utrecht. Together, they represent disciplines as varied as Literary Studies, Theatre and Performance Studies, Cultural Philosophy, Art History, Media Studies, Gender Studies and Cultural Studies.

Advisory Board members: