Core Courses 2019-20
NICA Core Programme 2019-2020
The Poetics and Politics of Sharing
Alok Vaid-Menon and Bini Adamczak in an Online Masterclass Tandem | 14 May 2020, 1600 (CEST), Zoom
Interdisciplinarity in Action – Postponed
NICA Summer School ‘Interdisciplinarity in Action’ is organized by Iris van der Tuin and Maaike Bleeker | Utrecht University | 2,5 EC. The Summer School has been postponed due to the Covid-19 situation. When there is a new date we will announce this on the website.
Call for Papers: On Maps, Kunstlicht Vol. 41 (2020), No. 2-3.
Managing Editor: Anna Sejbæk Torp-Pedersen | Deadline for proposals: 27th April 2020
Museums and the circulation of knowledge
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 28 September 2020, 10.00 – 17.00 | Organized by Eve Kalyva, NICA and Huizinga Institute.
Articulating belonging: translingualism, belonging and the creation of South African social collectivities
Call for papers | University of Amsterdam and Ghent University, 12 and 13 November 2020, Amsterdam | Please send your proposal to translingualsuidafrika@gmail.com before 8 May 2020.
Cancelled-Big Books / Big Data Size and Scale in Literature, Digital Media and Architecture
Book Launch/Symposium at the University of Amsterdam, 16 June 2020, 16.00-18:00 hrs | Launch of “Big Books in Times of Big Data” (Leiden U.P. 2019) by Inge van de Ven, with presentations by Henriette Steiner, Kristin Veel, Kiene Brillenburg Wurth, and Inge van de Ven.
Media | Art | Politics: Soirées on Optimism, Failure and Care
Due to the Covid-19 situation the upcoming sessions have been postponed for the next weeks/months. At a later stage, MAP will resume the series of soirées with reading sessions in which we will be reading, integrally, the following books: Jack Halberstam’s Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), and Maria Puig de Bellacasa’s Matters of Care (Minnesota UP, 2017). Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (Duke UP, 2011) was discussed during the first session in February.
Transmission in Motion Seminar (2019-2020)
“Expanded Practices of Knowing: Interdisciplinary Approaches” | The Transmission in Motion Seminar is a more-or-less monthly gathering of researchers and students from across disciplines. Contact: tim@uu.nl. Due to Covid-19 the last sessions are organized online.
Radical Interdisciplinarity
NICA core course 5 EC | Taught by Maaike Bleeker and Iris van der Tuin | November 2019 – February 2019
In this course we look at currently emerging interdisciplinary approaches that move beyond the borders of the humanities and investigate how they may challenge and reorient our thinking. How do certain ‘moves’ offered by state-of-the-art scientific approaches lead to radically interdisciplinary endeavors, change our understanding of the object of our research, the relationships between objects and concepts, and what it is that we do when we do theory?
Decolonial Studies and Political Philosophy
NICA Core Course 6 EC | Yolande Jansen | April – May 2020 | The course will be offered online | In the humanities, globalization has until quite recently been studied from two rather distinct perspectives: either from a postcolonial or decolonial cultural-historical perspective, or from a normative, political theoretical perspective, often rooted in the liberal and human rights traditions. Over the last years, it has been increasingly recognized by scholars from both the cultural and political-theoretical fields that integrating these perspectives would be helpful to enhance the humanities’ critical and practical potential in today’s world.