Core Courses 2019-20
NICA Core Programme 2019-2020
Absence in Cinema: Naomi Uman and the Peekaboo Principle
Lecture and Masterclass by Justin Remes (Iowa State University), Amsterdam 14 May 2020. Location t.b.a.
Critical Issues in the Cultural Industries
9 EC RMA Course at the VU offered by Ginette Verstraete | lectures and seminars in which students actively engage with the texts.
Media | Art | Politics: Soirées on Optimism, Failure and Care
MAP will continue this semester as a series of soirées: three reading sessions in which we will be reading, integrally, the following three books: Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (Duke UP, 2011), Jack Halberstam’s Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), and Maria Puig de Bellacasa’s Matters of Care (Minnesota UP, 2017).
PhD Position at the University of Kassel
Doctoral candidate (m/f/d) – Institute of Social Work and Social Welfare | Faculty of Human Sciences – Prof. Dr. Mechthild Bereswill – fixed-term, part-time (currently 26,67 hours/week) | deadline for submission: 26.02.2020 | start of recruitment : as soon as possible
Melt, Rise and Hydrological Globalization – An Origin Story
ASCA Political Ecologies Workshop announces: Masterclass and Public Lecture with Dr. Cymene Howe (Rice University)
Public Lecture: Friday, March 6th @ 17:00-19:00 (Location TBA) | Masterclass: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene: Friday, March 6th @ 10:00-12:00 (Location TBA)
Contamination
Call for contributions of the third issue of Soapbox, graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis. | Deadline: 3 February 2020
McNation: State Branding in and Beyond Russia
Seminar by Ellen Rutten | May 19, 2020, 3-6 pm | Venue: Spui25 | Open to: PhD Candidates and RMa Students | Credits: 1EC | With a team of internationally renowned expert scholars, writers, and artists, we explore nation branding and popular geopolitics by zooming in on Putin-era Russia – a place and time that allow us to study neo-nationalism as a vivid joint interest (and, in some cases, object of mockery) of both official institutions and rappers, poets, designers, and other ‘other’ voices.
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. To participate, please send an email to tim@uu.nl to receive additional information and readings. RMA Students can acquire 3 EC if they attend all meetings and write blog posts after each meeting. Please register at tim@uu.nl. For more information, contact Maaike Bleeker at m.a.bleeker[a]uu.nl.
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 | 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.