Core Courses 2020-21
NICA Core Programme 2020-2021
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.
The Ecology of Forms
ASCA Political Ecologies Seminar 2020-21: “The Ecology of Forms” | For registration or further information, please contact the organisers, Jeff Diamanti and Joost de Bloois (j.diamanti@uva.nl; j.g.c.debloois@uva.nl).
Digital Media and Machinic Cultures
Digital Media and Machinic Cultures | NICA 10 EC Core Course offered by Pepita Hesselberth & Yasco Horsman | Time and Place t.b.a.
Hip-hop and Dutch identity
First Sound in Action event of the new academic year at Bitterzoet | 12 October 19:15 hrs | This year our events will continue to address topics connected to current musicological research and entail both academic discussion and artistic performance, thereby challenging artificial divides between artistic and academic work. Due to the last year’s success, we intend to tackle even more actual, thought-provoking and intertextual issues.
Artistic Research Research Group 2020-2021
Seminar organized by Paula Albuquerque and Maria Sartzetaki | Contact: maria.sartzetaki7@gmail.com | First session on 2 October 1-3 pm with Sara-Lot van Uum and Jonas Staal.
On Agency
“On Agency”, part 2 of the 3-part workshop series “Circulation of knowledge, agency and branding in a museum setting” | Date: TBC | Time: 10.00 – 17.00 | Venue: Stedelijk and seminar room (TBC) | Open to: postgraduate and research students, members of the Huizinga Institute and NICA | Credits: 1 ECTS (available upon request) | Coordination: Eve Kalyva
Critical Race Theory Seminar
The ASCA/NICA Seminar Series “Critical Race Theory” (CRT) is designed to offer an overview of this relatively new and burgeoning field. The seminar is organized and hosted by Praveen Sewgobind. To register, please send a message to asca-fgw@uva.nl. A very limited number of RMA students may earn 6 EC by participating and writing a 5,000 words paper.