Core Courses 2020-21
NICA Core Programme 2020-2021
Soapbox Call for Papers: Impasse
Please submit your proposal (800-1000 words) or already written paper following the MLA formatting and referencing style (maximum 5000 words) to submissions@soapboxjournal.com by January 10th 2021. If you hand in a proposal or outline, please consider that the first draft of the full papers (3000-5000 words) are due February 17th.
Film in Context Series
ASCA/NICA Series organized by Karen Sztajnberg (ASCA) | January 18, February 15,March 15, April 12, May 1, 2021 | This is a guest speaker series about film and television as dynamically evolving media. We will attempt to offer researchers an in-depth look at different facets of the creative craft, the distribution and exhibition aspects always establishing connections between the guest and topic to our emphasis on cultural analysis.
NICA is Moving!
As of January 1st 2021, the managerial seat of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis, presently based at the University of Amsterdam, will move to Leiden University.
Politics and Performance Speakers Series
ASCA Online lecture series organized by Sruti Bala (Theatre Studies) and Elize Mazadiego (Art History). To register please contact Elize Mazadiego e.m.mazadiego@uva.nl.
New PhD Candidate: Shekoufeh Behbehani,(Un)screened Narratives: Non-Normative Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Iran
Shekoufeh Behbehani | University of Amsterdam 2020-2024 | Supervisors: Murat Aydemir, Gerard Wiegers, Annemarie Korte
Imagining the Image 2020-2021
This course examines different conceptualizations of the image in the context of historical transformations of the arts. If, from visual studies to Bildwissenschaft, images and the visual have received a significant amount of scholarly and theoretical attention, the use and reflection on the notion of form seems to have migrated from disciplines such as art history and architectural history largely to fields such as (cultural) history, philosophy and literary studies.
New PhD: Inte Gloerich, Blockchain imaginaries: A Critical Analysis
New PhD Inte Gloerich | Transmission in Motion, Utrecht University | 2020-2024 | Supervisor: Maaike Bleeker
New PhD: Sanaz Afshin, An Exploratory Study on Theatre Interventions with Refugees in the Netherlands
New PhD project by Sanaz Afshin | University of Groningen | Supervisors: Dr. Sara Strandvad (official promoter), Dr. Eleftheria Ioannidou (daily supervisor)
New PhD: Florence Evans, Imaginative Visions of Traumatic Heritage in Argentina
University of Amsterdam | 2020-2024 | Advisors: Ihab Saloul, Jan Willem van Henten.
“We are all in this together” – Connectivity and Community in Isolation
ASCA Workshop 2021, 23-25 June 2021, (Wed to Fri) | Organizers: Jori Snels and Lok Yee Wong | Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Lance Bennett, University of Washington; Dr. Alexandra Segerberg, Uppsala University; Prof. dr. Iris van der Tuin, Utrecht University | Abstracts before 31 December 2020.