Core Courses 2018-19
In the academic year 2018-19, NICA offers three 6 EC core courses for research master students.
Visual Story Telling – Thinking and Making
Masterclass and Workshop with Dr. Simon Grennan: 14 November, 13:00-16:00 (room to be determined)
In conjunction with the conference, Amsterdam Comics and NICA will organize a masterclass and workshop focusing on visual story telling.
Drawing Yourself In and Out of It
The 2nd International Amsterdam Comics Conference. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 15-17 November 2018.
ASCA Workshop 2019: Realities and Fantasies: Relations, Transformations, Discontinuities
ASCA Workshop 2019: Realities and Fantasies: Relations, Transformations, Discontinuities, 10-12 April 2018, University of Amsterdam. Organized by Divya Nadkarni, Alex Thinius, and Nadia de Vries. Deadline for proposals: 15 October 2018.
The Academy and the Idea of Decolonisation
Masterclass by Professor Toyin Falola (University of Texas), Amsterdam, 10 December 2018, 10:00-12:30. The aim of this workshop is to revisit the state of the art on theories of decolonisation of mind and knowledge. More information to be announced soon. Registration before: 1 November 2018.
About the Ronell/Reitman Case: A Roundtable
Roundtable on Friday, September 28, 3 pm.| June 10th, Brian Leiter published on his blog a leaked letter in support of Avital Ronell, professor in German and comparative literature at New York University, who was apparently under investigation for sexual harassment and assault of a PhD-student. The letter was signed by Judith Butler, Emily Apter, Jean-Luc Nancy, Geoffrey Bennington, Slavoj Zizek, Cathy Caruth, Jonathan Culler, Hent de Vries, Joan W. Scott, Sam Weber, Shoshana Felman, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and others.
Artistic Research: Sharing Methods and Practices
The Artistic Research Research Group focuses on Artistic Research as a new approach to tackling research questions and it aims at promoting the exchange of ideas between artists and scholars from a wide range of fields and disciplines.
Pipeline Politics
Pipelines were never meant to be involved in politics. Over the past decade, however, pipelines have entered the mainstream of political discussion and debate as never before. Dr. Imre Szeman (University of Waterloo) will discuss the issues in the ASCA Cities seminar.
Repairing Infrastructures
In the 2018-19 ASCA Cities seminar series we examine the city through the lens of infrastructures. This seminar will take stock of the many failures and crises of infrastructure, gathering thinkers and ideas committed to reparative infrastructures that both anticipate and help sustain sociality. Putting infrastructure at the heart of our social and cultural analysis, as Deborah Cowen (2017) argues, “insists that we ask how power works, in its most mundane and practical ways,” in turn helping to refine concepts of resistance and justice.
Cultural Studies Now
NICA Core Course, 6 EC, November-December 2018 | Offered by Murat Aydemir. In this course, we will revisit the main genealogies and methodologies of Cultural Studies in relation to current developments, exploring the following five areas of contestation: conjuncture, politics, reality, interdisciplinarity, and culture. How did Cultural Studies start out? What can it now be?
Decolonial Studies and Political Philosophy
NICA Core Course, 6 EC, April-May 2019 | Offered by Prof. dr Yolande Jansen. This course looks at the intersection of decolonial studies and normative political philosophy, and tries to address them from a relatively integrated perspective. We bring together both fields in a systematic way by testing normative theories of global justice and human rights in political philosophy against the works of liberalism’s critics from a decolonial or critical theoretical perspective.