Core Courses 2020-21
NICA Core Programme 2020-2021
Dissertation Defense Nadia de Vries: Digital Corpses: Creation, Appropriation, and Reappropriation
Dissertation Defense Nadia de Vries, Digital Corpses: Creation, Appropriation, and Reappropriation | 2 December 14:00 hrs. | University of Amsterdam, Lutherse Kerk | Supervisors: Esther Peeren and Ellen Rutten.
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)
Dissertation Defense Nadia de Vries: Digital Corpses: Creation, Appropriation, and Reappropriation
Defense date: Wednesday 2 December 2020, 14:00 | Aula – Oude Lutherse Kerk (Singel 411) | University of Amsterdam | Supervisors: Esther Peeren and Ellen Rutten.
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 30 November 2020.
Transmission in Motion Seminar (2020-2021): “Knowledge in Making – Design by Doing”
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@uu.nl.
Dissertation Defense of Tingting Hui, Melodramas of the Tongue: Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory
Dissertation Defense of Tingting Hui | Leiden University | 20 October 2020 13:45 hrs. | Supervisors: Ernst van Alphen and Yasco Horsman.
Radical Interdisciplinarity
NICA 5 EC Core Course offered by Maaike Bleeker and Iris van der Tuin | Utrecht University | 3 December 2020 – 18 February 2021
Posthuman Futures: Art & Literature
OSL/NICA Symposium, 10-11th June 2021 | Organized by Amalia Calderón & José Bernardo Couto Soares | Open to: PhD, ReMA and OSL/NICA students, art researchers and artists of all types of media. | Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands. | Deadline for abstract submissions: 5th December 2020.
Critique(s) of Violence
First session on 8 October at 18:00 hrs. All events will be hosted online via zoom. The series is supported by the Philosophy Department of the University of Amsterdam, the Philosophy & Public Affairs Group, the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA) and the Goethe-Institute Amsterdam.