Core Courses 2018-19
In the academic year 2018-19, NICA offers three 6 EC core courses for research master students.
Decomposition and Deformation: Literature, Film, Philosoph
Double Lecture: Eugenie Brinkema (MIT) and Julius Greve (University of Oldenburg) | Lecture Series in Media | Arts | Politics | Convened by Pepita Hesselberth, Yasco Horsman (Film and Literary Studies, Leiden University) | Monday May 6, 15.00-17.30 | Eyckhof 1 / 003C / Leiden University
ASCA Workshop 2019: Realities and Fantasies: Relations, Transformations, Discontinuities
University of Amsterdam | 10-12 April 2019 | 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).
Against the Grain: The Ethics, Poetics and Politics of Contrarian Speech
Symposium at the University of Amsterdam, 5th – 7th June 2019 | Keynote speakers: Sarah Clancy, Jim Hicks, Frank Keizer | Deadline for proposals: 15th April 2019 | Dates: The event will commence in the late afternoon of 5th June and end by early afternoon of 7th June | A collaboration of ‘Contemporary Poetry and Politics’ (FFI2016-77584-P), The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, The Amsterdam Center for Globalization Studies, and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis. | Organizers: Cornelia Gräbner (Lancaster University), Joost de Bloois (University of Amsterdam).
Sites of Memory – Performance Research seminar on the colonial and slavery history of Amsterdam
Sites of Memory – Emerging Memory is a theatrical boat trip about the colonial and slavery history of Amsterdam. Spoken word artists, dancers and visual artists work together with UvA students, bringing history to live with narratives and performances on board of the boat and on shore. The performance is a mix of past and presence, of what we know and would rather forget. The performance will take place between the 20th of June and 7th of July and will be part of Amsterdam Roots Festival. NICA Research Master Students are invited to contribute to this seminar from April 29th through the end of May.
Affective Politics in Contemporary Media: Double book launch with Eliza Steinbock, Toni Pape and Sudeep Dasgupta
This Spui25 event, co-hosted by The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and Duke University Press, is a launch for two new books in media studies: Eliza Steinbock’s Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change and Toni Pape’s Figures of Time: Affect and the Television of Preemption, both published by Duke University Press this Spring 2019 | Spui25 Amsterdam | 16 May 2019
What’s the Point? Impact and the Future of the Humanities
The Utrecht University Humanities Graduate Conference 2019, What’s the Point? Impact and the Future of the Humanities, will take place on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th April 2019. | Registration is open.
Be Careful What You Wish For: On Impact as a Proxy for Value in Arts & Humanities Research
Master Class with Eleonora Belfiore | Date: 11 April, 2019 | Time: 10:00 – 12:30 | Venue: Utrecht University, Drift | Open to: PhD candidates, (R)MA students | Credits: 1-2,5 ECTS | Contact: Whatsthepoint@uu.nl | Register before: March 15, 2019
How Vulnerable are the Humanities?
Master Class with Simon During | Date: 11 April, 2019 | Time: 10:00 – 12:30 | Venue: Utrecht University, Drift | Open to: PhD candidates, (R)MA students | Credits: 1-2,5 ECTS | Contact: Whatsthepoint@uu.nl | Register before: March 15, 2019
New media dramaturgy: performing matter and the ecological question
MASTERCLASS offered by the Centre for the Humanities and the Transmission in Motion research group (https://transmissioninmotion.sites.uu.nl/) at Utrecht University, in collaboration with NICA and SPRING Performing Arts Festival | 20 May 2018, 10.30-15h | Het Huis (Boorstraat 107, Utrecht)
Infrastructure Otherwise? Cartographies of Settler Colonialism, Resistance and Repair
Masterclass and ASCA Cities Public Talk by Dr. Deborah Cowen (University of Toronto)organized by ASCA Cities Project in collaboration with NICA | April 15th, 2019 | Public Talk: April 15th, 15.00 – 18.00 uur, Doelenzaal in de UB | Masterclass: April 15th, 10.00 – 12.00 uur, Potgieterzaal in de UB