Core Courses 2019-20
NICA Core Programme 2019-2020
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.
To Describe a Life
Lecture by Darby English | January 13, 2020, 18.00 for lecture and Q&A (through February 2020 for display) | Oude Lutherse Kerk, Singel 411 | In the final chapter of his new book “To Describe a Life: Notes at the Intersection of Art and Race Terror” (2019), the maverick art historian Darby English sets out “to describe rather than contain” a very curious object: “Lorraine Motel, April 4 1968”. This is a model of the site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, produced by the design firm Boym Partners in 1998 as part of the Buildings of Disaster series.
Creative Writing Workshop by Jane Lewty
This workshop will be of interest to current PhD students who not only wish to investigate the correlation[s] between creative and critical writing, but also want to expand their knowledge of cross-genre work. Students undertaking the rMA at NICA and OSL will similarly be energized by writing exercises and research strategies that may compliment their existing practice. They may earn one or two credits for their involvement.
Political Ecologies Workshop
Next Event: November 22, 11-1pm (PCH 7.02): Reading Group on Felix Guattari’s The Three Ecologies | organizers: Joost de Bloois: j.g.c.debloois@uva.nl and Jeff Diamanti: j.diamanti@uva.nl
On Painting
The second meeting of the Artistic Research Research Group will take place on Friday December 6, 2019 from 14:00-16:30 at Vox-Pop Creative Space for the Humanities (Binnengasthuisstraat 9). During this meeting, we will be participating in a reading group lead by On Painting, a reading group engaging with literature surrounding the practice of painting. *Please note that this session is not a presentation but rather a reading group and your familiarity with the text is essential for participation.*
Fourth Annual Symposium Unhinging the National Framework: Transnational Life Writing
Friday, 6 December, 2019 Atrium, Medical Faculty Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Van der Boechorststraat 7 1081 BT Amsterdam ? Symposium organized by Babs Boter | With keynote lectures by Sonja Boon (Department of Gender Studies, Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada) and Elleke Boehmer (Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford, England, biographer and author of fiction)
Artistic Research Amsterdam in Valencia
Students of the Master Artistic Research of the University of Amsterdam (2018-2019) bring their work and thoughts – with some work of their peers – to Valencia. November 01 – 10, 2019 | Opening October 31, 8.30pm | Preview: October 29 – 31, 2019 !
Savage Embraces: James Purdy, Melodrama, and the Narration of Identity
Dissertation Defense Looi van Kessel | 4 December 16:15 hrs. | Auditorium of the Leiden University Academy Building, Rapenburg 73, Leiden | In his dissertation, Looi van Kessel explores the ways in which the early works of the American author James Purdy undermine the notion of a stable and true identity.
Transformations of Trauma in the Age of Climate Change
Workshop with Stef Craps (Ghent University) | Friday 22nd November, 1-4 pm. | Location t.b.a. | The increasing visibility of climate change and scientists’ alarming warnings about it are taking a toll on people’s mental well-being. This lecture surveys the culturally resonant repertoire of new coinages that have emerged in recent years to name and communicate environmentally induced distress.
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.