Core Courses 2018-19
In the academic year 2018-19, NICA offers three 6 EC core courses for research master students.
Aesthetics of Death Workshop
Aesthetics of Death | 14 March 2019 | University Library, Belle van Zuylen room | Workshop organized by Esther Peeren, with Eugenie Brinkema, Cornelia Graebner, Itay Sapir, Nadia de Vries, and Daniel de Zeeuw
Seminar Series – Opera Forward Festival 2019
1-3 March 2019, Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam, in collaboration with ASCA and NICA | The 2019 edition of the Opera Forward Festival (Dutch National Opera) in Amsterdam bears the theme “Identity and Confrontation”.
On Crime, Crowds, and the City: Poe, Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Nietzsche
Masterclass and lecture by Jeremy Tambling | March 7th 2019 | Masterclass at 13.30-15.30 in PC Hoofthuis 6.25 | Lecture at 17.00-18.00 in PC Hoofthuis 1.04.
The Afterlife of the Object
CALL FOR PAPERS European Summer School in Cultural Studies | University of Copenhagen, 18-22 June 2018
Off the Grid
Call for Papers – Soapbox: Journal for Cultural Analysis 1.2 “Off the Grid” | Please submit your abstract (max 300 words) to submissions@soapboxjournal.com by December 1. The full papers (3000-5000 words) are due February 15. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
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.
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.
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.