Core Courses 2018-19
In the academic year 2018-19, NICA offers three 6 EC core courses for research master students.
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.
Visual Story Telling – Thinking and Making
Masterclass and Workshop with Dr. Simon Grennan: 14 November, 13:00-16:00 (room to be determined)
In conjunction with the conference, Amsterdam Comics and NICA will organize a masterclass and workshop focusing on visual story telling.
Drawing Yourself In and Out of It
The 2nd International Amsterdam Comics Conference. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 15-17 November 2018.
ASCA Workshop 2019: Realities and Fantasies: Relations, Transformations, Discontinuities
University of Amsterdam | 10-12 April 2018 | 3 EC. Organized by Divya Nadkarni, Alex Thinius, and Nadia de Vries. Keynote speakers: Jonathan Culler (Cornell University), Annabelle Dufourcq (RU Nijmegen), Nkiru Nzegwu (SUNY Binghamton), Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku). Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2018.
The Academy and the Idea of Decolonisation
Masterclass by Professor Toyin Falola (University of Texas), Amsterdam, 10 December 2018, 10:00-12:30. The aim of this workshop is to revisit the state of the art on theories of decolonisation of mind and knowledge. More information to be announced soon. Registration before: 1 November 2018.
About the Ronell/Reitman Case: A Roundtable
Roundtable on Friday, September 28, 3 pm.| June 10th, Brian Leiter published on his blog a leaked letter in support of Avital Ronell, professor in German and comparative literature at New York University, who was apparently under investigation for sexual harassment and assault of a PhD-student. The letter was signed by Judith Butler, Emily Apter, Jean-Luc Nancy, Geoffrey Bennington, Slavoj Zizek, Cathy Caruth, Jonathan Culler, Hent de Vries, Joan W. Scott, Sam Weber, Shoshana Felman, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, and others.
Artistic Research: Sharing Methods and Practices
The Artistic Research Research Group focuses on Artistic Research as a new approach to tackling research questions and it aims at promoting the exchange of ideas between artists and scholars from a wide range of fields and disciplines.