Core Courses 2018-19
In the academic year 2018-19, NICA offers three 6 EC core courses for research master students.
Be Careful What You Wish For: On Impact as a Proxy for Value in Arts & Humanities Research
Master Class with Eleonora Belfiore | Date: 11 April, 2019 | Time: 10:00 – 12:30 | Venue: Utrecht University, Drift | Open to: PhD candidates, (R)MA students | Credits: 1-2,5 ECTS | Contact: Whatsthepoint@uu.nl | Register before: March 15, 2019
How Vulnerable are the Humanities?
Master Class with Simon During | Date: 11 April, 2019 | Time: 10:00 – 12:30 | Venue: Utrecht University, Drift | Open to: PhD candidates, (R)MA students | Credits: 1-2,5 ECTS | Contact: Whatsthepoint@uu.nl | Register before: March 15, 2019
New media dramaturgy: performing matter and the ecological question
MASTERCLASS offered by the Centre for the Humanities and the Transmission in Motion research group (https://transmissioninmotion.sites.uu.nl/) at Utrecht University, in collaboration with NICA and SPRING Performing Arts Festival | 20 May 2018, 10.30-15h | Het Huis (Boorstraat 107, Utrecht)
Infrastructure Otherwise? Cartographies of Settler Colonialism, Resistance and Repair
Masterclass and ASCA Cities Public Talk by Dr. Deborah Cowen (University of Toronto)organized by ASCA Cities Project in collaboration with NICA | April 15th, 2019 | Public Talk: April 15th, 15.00 – 18.00 uur, Doelenzaal in de UB | Masterclass: April 15th, 10.00 – 12.00 uur, Potgieterzaal in de UB
Performing Robots Conference: Dialogues Between Theatre and Robotics
Call for Proposals Performing Robots Conference | 23-25 May 2019, Utrecht (the Netherlands) | Organized by Transmission in Motion (Utrecht University) and SPRING Performing Arts Festival | Deadline for Proposals: 7 March 2019
Aurality: Musical Modes of Knowledge Inscription
Seminar Series of the Research Group Music and Culture | Organizer: Barbara Titus | sessions on 14 March, 4 April, 2 May, 27 June
The Afterlife of the Object
CALL FOR PAPERS European Summer School in Cultural Studies | University of Copenhagen, 18-22 June 2018
Transmission in Motion Seminar 2018-19
Transmission in Motion Seminar 2018-19: Experiment/Experience | Utrecht | October 2018 – May 2019 | 3 EC |
“Have we forgotten experience?” wonders Scott Lash (Experience, 2018). If this is so, we are currently witnessing a comeback with a vengeance.
Urban Crisis-Scapes: On Walks and Ruins
Urban Crisis-Scapes: On Walks and Ruins | Amsterdam Belle van Zuylenzaal, 16-17 May 2019 | 1 EC | The workshop will focus on city-scapes that have recently been radically reconfigured through pervasive frameworks of crisis – financial, political, humanitarian etc. We want to explore alternative experiences of urban space, new artistic imaginaries, and innovative cultural initiatives emerging from such urban crisis-scapes by centering on two distinct but interrelated thematic lines: Walks and Ruins.
ASCA Workshop 2019: Realities and Fantasies: Relations, Transformations, Discontinuities
University of Amsterdam | 10-12 April 2019 | 3 EC. Organized by Divya Nadkarni, Alex Thinius, and Nadia de Vries. Keynote speakers: Jonathan Culler (Cornell University), Annabelle Dufourcq (RU Nijmegen), Nkiru Nzegwu (SUNY Binghamton), Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku). Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2018.