Core Courses 2018-19
In the academic year 2018-19, NICA offers three 6 EC core courses for research master students.
Aurality: Musical Modes of Knowledge Inscription
Seminar Series of the Research Group Music and Culture | Organizer: Barbara Titus | First session: 14 March, 16:00-18:00 hrs, Amsterdam
The Challenge of Scaling: How Infrastructure is Lived
Lecture by Asher Boersma (Locating Media, Siegen University) | ASCA Cities seminar Repairing Infrastructures | Thursday 14 March, 15:00-17:00 hrs. | P.C. Hoofthuis (Spuistraat 134), Room 1.05.
Launch First Issue of Soapbox: Practices of Listening
Soapbox Issue 1.1 Launch: Practices of Listening | 28 February 2019, 20:00 – 21:30 | SPUI25, Spui 25-27 | 1012 WX, Amsterdam
Love With(out) Optimism
ASCA Reading Group Women in Theory | Friday 15 February, 15:00-17:00, PCH 5.56
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
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.