Core Courses 2018-19
In the academic year 2018-19, NICA offers three 6 EC core courses for research master students.
Masterclass Ariella Azoulay (Brown University)
23 Nov 2018 | Tropenmuseum
The Research Center for Material Culture is pleased to invite you to a masterclass with Professor Azoulay, one of the leading photo theorists today. Azoulays work explores questions around photographic theory, archival practices in relation to issues of sovereignty, political subjectivity and human rights. Professor Azoulay will speak on the theme potential history, a concept and an approach that she has developed over the last decade, which has far-reaching implications for the fields of political theory, archival formations and photography studies
Crowds and Parties
ASCA/NICA Master class with Jodi Dean organized by Joost de Bloois | 22 November 11:00-13:00 hrs. | PC Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam, room K04.
Sound, Ontology, and Race: Which way does the turn go?
Masterclass with Dr. Alejandra Bronfman (University at Albany, SUNY) | Date: Tuesday 11 December, 15:00-17:00 | Location: Potgieterzaal, University Library (UB), Singel 425, Amsterdam
Listening to Racism in the United State, or Why Sound Matters
Public lecture by Dr. Jennifer Lynn Stoever (Binghamton University, SUNY) | Tuesday 11 December, 9:00-11:00 | Doelenzaal, University Library (UB), Singel 425, Amsterdam
Hip Hop, Cop Voice and the Cadence of White Supremacy in the United States
NICA Masterclass with Dr. Jennifer Lynn Stoever (Binghamton University, SUNY) | Potgieterzaal, University Library (UB), Singel 425, Amsterdam | 10 December 2018, 10:00-12:00 hrs.
During this masterclass, we will discuss how police officers in the United States use a racialized and gendered way of speaking called ‘cop voice’ to provoke fear and extreme forms of compliance from people of colour.
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.
Elvis lives in Amsterdam. Manifestations of the imaginary musician
Conference | Amsterdam | 29 November – 1 December 2018. During this conference we aim to have an interdisciplinary discussion about the various ways in which our understanding of musicians taps into the imaginary, and what case studies about musicians can teach us about the imaginary constitution of our everyday experiences.
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.
Marsyas to Madonna. The construction of the musician as figure and type
NICA Masterclass | Thursday 29 November, 9:30-11:30 | Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam, Singel 425, Vondelzaal
With Lydia Goehr (Columbia University, New York) and Marlies de Munck (University of Antwerp / Royal Conservatory of Ghent)
This seminar will run through a history of the arts, from antiquity to popular culture, to ask what is at stake in putting musicians on view. Why look at them as opposed to listen to them? What does that say about music as an art? We will start with Apollo and Marsyas and go from there.