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Core Course | Autotheory / Negativity

June 13, 2025/in Announcements /by Pepita

NICA recommends | Century of the Selfie – Damon Ross Young

May 30, 2025/in Announcements /by Pepita

NICA recommends | A Cutting Room Floor: Practices & Methods of Disclosing Militant Cinema

April 11, 2025/in Announcements /by Pepita

Nicast episode 5: “On Decoloniality”

February 17, 2025/in Announcements, Podcast /by Nikolai Zauber
Nicast episode 5: “On Decoloniality”, with Yolande Janssen and Rolando Vázquez Melken

with Yolande Jansen and Rolando Vázquez Melken

Nicast Episode 4: “Destitution, Queer Architecture, and the Rogue Intellectual”

October 30, 2024/in Announcements, Podcast /by Nikolai Zauber
Nicast Episode 4: “Queer Architecture, and the Rogue Intellectual”

with Jack Halberstam

Announcement | The NICA PhD/rMA Council is looking for new members!

September 13, 2024/in Announcements /by Pepita
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Nicast Episode 3: “Creative writing in academia”

July 22, 2024/in Announcements, Podcast /by Nikolai Zauber
NICAst Episode 3: “Creative writing in academia” with Erin La Cour and Marie Beauchamps

with Erin La Cour and Marie Beauchamps

Nicast Episode 2: “Visual Culture and Machine Vision”

July 9, 2024/in Announcements, Podcast /by Nikolai Zauber
NICAST Episode 2: “Visual Culture and Machine Vision” with Lila Lee-Morrison

with Lila Lee-Morrison

Announcement | NICA’s Statement in Solidarity

May 31, 2024/in Announcements /by Pepita
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our commitment to creating spaces for dialogue

Announcement | NICA Core Courses 2024-2025

May 31, 2024/in Announcements /by Pepita

Preliminary list of titles, teachers, locations and credits

Nicast Episode 1: “The Future of Cultural Analysis”

May 21, 2024/in Announcements, Podcast /by Nikolai Zauber
NICAst Episode 1: Murat Aydemir and Aylin Kuryel

with Murat Aydemir and Aylin Kuryel

Podcast | In Media Res RMeS/NICA special: Karin van Es

October 12, 2023/in Announcements /by Pepita
NICA

This is the second of three special episodes that were recorded during the RMeS/NICA career event in June 2023. In this episode, Bjorn Beijnon (UvA) interviews Karin van Es, Associate Professor of Media and Culture Studies at Utrecht University.  Karin shares her academic journey and how she found the balance in working with people in- […]

News | Meet the NICA PhD/rMA-council

September 11, 2023/in Announcements /by Pepita
NICA

We are happy to introduce the new NICA PhD/RMA-Council!  The Council represents the interests of all of NICA’S PhD candidates and rMA-students and seeks to promote the exchange of knowledge, skills, experiences, and ideas. We will keep ourselves informed of PhD candidates’ and rMA-students’ concerns and raise them with NICA’s director and Advisory Board. We […]

Announcement | NICA Core Courses 2023-2024

September 6, 2023/in Announcements /by Pepita
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Announcement | NICA Core Courses 2023-2024

Announcement | Survey NICA-membership

June 12, 2023/in Announcements /by Pepita
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Dear (aspiring) NICA-member,  We are currently updating our membership directory, in part with the aim of making it more GDPR (AVG) proof. After this general update, we will also launch a public NICA membership directory on our website (with opt-out possibilities of course!). For GDPR/AVG reasons we kindly ask every (aspiring) member to fill out the form below a.s.a.p., so […]

Event | ‘Changing Minds Online’ – Tilburg Digital Humanities Symposium

March 17, 2023/in Announcements /by Pepita

Event | ‘Changing Minds Online’ – Tilburg Digital Humanities Symposium | Dates: 15-16 June 2023 | Location: Tilburg University & Online | Credits: 1 ECTS

Call for Papers | ‘Creative Urban Methods: A Call for Contributions’ – Mediapolis

March 10, 2023/in Announcements /by Pepita

Call for Papers | ‘Creative Urban Methods: A Call for Contributions’ – Mediapolis | Submission: urbaninterfaces@uu.nl  | Submission deadline: 12 April 2023

PhD | ‘Gender and Politics: A Case Study of Soviet Films of 1920s and 1930s’ – Aleena Karim

February 6, 2023/in Announcements /by Pepita

PhD | Gender and Politics: A Case Study of Soviet Films of 1920s and 1930s – Aleena KarimPhD Candidate: Aleena KarimInstitution: Leiden UniversitySupervisors: Maria Boletsi, Peter Verstraten, Otto Boele Where Vladimir Lenin’s “cultural revolution” was inclined towards welcoming the western-produced films in the wake of New Economic Policy (NEP) as well as welcoming reception of […]

Announcement | Join the NICA Research Master Council!

December 5, 2022/in Announcements /by Pepita
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Join the NICA Research Master Council! | Contact: a.perazzetta@umail.leidenuniv.nl | Deadline: 9 November 2022

Announcement | Review of the Eye International Conference 2022 – ‘Global Audiovisual Archiving’

October 6, 2022/in Announcements /by Pepita

This past May, NICA was happy to affiliate with the Eye museum of film and support their annual conference on ‘Global Audiovisual Archiving’. Master’s student Sara Gelao attended the conference and has been kind enough to share her experiences in an article on mediapolis.com. Read about her experiences here.

Announcement | NICA Core Courses 2022-2023

July 1, 2022/in Announcements, Core Courses /by Pepita

As this semester comes to a close, we can start directing our gaze at the upcoming academic year. On that note, we are very pleased to announce this batch of new and returning core courses for 2022-2023. We look forward to welcoming you to one or more of these wonderful events, and are extremely grateful […]

News | Meet the PhD-council!

November 3, 2021/in Announcements /by Pepita
Call for Papers

We are happy to announce the new NICA PhD Council! 

News | Call for members for the new NICA ResMA council

October 6, 2021/in Announcements /by Pepita
Call for members for the new NICA ResMA council

Registration: nica@hum.leidenuniv.nl
Application deadline: October 20th, 2021

News | Eliza Steinbock joins the NICA board

September 8, 2021/in Announcements /by Pepita
Eliza Steinbock joins the NICA board

We are very glad and grateful to announce that Eliza Steinbock will be completing NICA’s advisory board on behalf of Maastricht University. They have been appointed Associate Professor in Gender and Diversity Studies and will surely make an amazing asset to the team! Please find the local representative of your research institute below. In case of any […]

News | Call for Members for the new NICA PhD Council

May 27, 2021/in Announcements /by Pepita
NICA Plenary Event

Are you interested in building a research community in the field of cultural analysis and representing the interests of the NICA PhDs? NICA is setting up a PhD council, and is looking for members!

News | Soapbox Journal new website and email

April 22, 2021/in Announcements /by Pepita
Soapbox Journal New Website

Soapbox is excited to finally be able to introduce you to a project that we’ve been working on for over a year! We have transformed our online identity and we are very happy to show the result at last. Our new website: soapboxjournal.net

News | Meet the new NICA Board

April 1, 2021/in Announcements /by Pepita

We are pleased to introduce you the new members of the NICA advisory board.

News | A brief interview with NICA’s director, Pepita Hesselberth

March 18, 2021/in Announcements /by Pepita
Summer School: The Posthuman and New Materialism

A brief interview with NICA’s director, Pepita Hesselberth

Call for Paper | Soapbox Journal: Impasse

January 4, 2021/in Announcements, Call for Papers /by Eloe Kingma
Soabox Call for Papers: Impasse

Please submit your proposal (800-1000 words) or already written paper following the MLA formatting and referencing style (maximum 5000 words) to submissions@soapboxjournal.com by January 10th 2021. If you hand in a proposal or outline, please consider that the first draft of the full papers (3000-5000 words) are due February 17th.

Film in Context Series

December 16, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
Film in Context Series

ASCA/NICA Series organized by Karen Sztajnberg (ASCA) | January 18, February 15,March 15, April 12, May 1, 2021 | This is a guest speaker series about film and television as dynamically evolving media. We will attempt to offer researchers an in-depth look at different facets of the creative craft, the distribution and exhibition aspects always establishing connections between the guest and topic to our emphasis on cultural analysis.

NICA is Moving! 

December 16, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
NICA is Moving!

As of January 1st 2021, the managerial seat of the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis, presently based at the University of Amsterdam, will move to Leiden University.

Politics and Performance Speakers Series

December 9, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
Politics and Performance Speakers Series

ASCA Online lecture series organized by Sruti Bala (Theatre Studies) and Elize Mazadiego (Art History). To register please contact Elize Mazadiego e.m.mazadiego@uva.nl.

PhD | (Un)screened Narratives: Non-Normative Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Iran

November 16, 2020/in PhDs, Announcements /by Chantal
New PhD Candidate: Shekoufeh Behbehani,(Un)screened Narratives: Non-Normative Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Iran

PhD-Candidate: Shekoufeh Behbehani | University of Amsterdam | Supervisors: Murat Aydemir, Gerard Wiegers, Annemarie Korte

Imagining the Image 2020-2021

November 12, 2020/in Announcements /by Chantal
Imagining the Image 2020-2021

This course examines different conceptualizations of the image in the context of historical transformations of the arts. If, from visual studies to Bildwissenschaft, images and the visual have received a significant amount of scholarly and theoretical attention, the use and reflection on the notion of form seems to have migrated from disciplines such as art history and architectural history largely to fields such as (cultural) history, philosophy and literary studies.

PhD | An Exploratory Study on Theatre Interventions with Refugees in the Netherlands

October 19, 2020/in PhDs, Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
New PhD: Sanaz Afshin, An Exploratory Study on Theatre Interventions with Refugees in the Netherlands

PhD-Candidate: Sanaz Afshin | University of Groningen | Supervisors: Dr. Sara Strandvad (official promoter), Dr. Eleftheria Ioannidou (daily supervisor)

“We are all in this together” – Connectivity and Community in Isolation

October 7, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
“We are all in this together” – Connectivity and Community in Isolation

ASCA Workshop 2021, 23-25 June 2021, (Wed to Fri) | Organizers: Jori Snels and Lok Yee Wong | Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Lance Bennett, University of Washington; Dr. Alexandra Segerberg, Uppsala University; Prof. dr. Iris van der Tuin, Utrecht University | Abstracts before 31 December 2020.

Transmission in Motion Seminar (2020-2021): “Knowledge in Making – Design by Doing”

October 1, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
Transmission in Motion Seminar (2020-2021): “Knowledge in Making – Design by Doing”

The Transmission in Motion Seminar is a more-or-less monthly gathering of researchers and students from across disciplines. To participate, please send an email to tim@uu.nl to receive additional information and readings. RMA Students can acquire 3 EC if they attend all meetings and write blog posts after each meeting. Please register at tim@uu.nl. For more information, contact Maaike Bleeker at m.a.bleeker@uu.nl.

Dissertation Defense of Tingting Hui, Melodramas of the Tongue: Accented Speech in Literature, Art, and Theory

September 16, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
Dissertation Defense of Tingting Hui, 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

September 11, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
Radical Interdisciplinarity

NICA 5 EC Core Course offered by Maaike Bleeker and Iris van der Tuin | Utrecht University | 3 December 2020 – 18 February 2021

Symposium Posthuman Futures: Art & Literature

September 4, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
OSL/NICA Symposium: Posthuman Futures

Online OSL/NICA symposium organized by Amalia Calderón and José Bernardo Pedroso Couto Soares
June 3rd-4th, 2021 | 2 ECTS | In collaboration with OSL
Registration through OSL

Critique(s) of Violence

September 3, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
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

September 2, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
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

September 2, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
Digital Media and Machinic Cultures

Digital Media and Machinic Cultures | NICA 10 EC Core Course offered by Pepita Hesselberth & Yasco Horsman  | Time and Place:  Feb-May 2021, Mondays 11:00 – 13:00 hrs. | Leiden University.

Hip-hop and Dutch identity

September 2, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
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

September 1, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

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

September 1, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
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

August 27, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
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.

Just Futures: How to Think, Compose and Live?

August 26, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
Just Futures: How to Think, Compose and Live?

NICA 6 EC Core Course by Toni Pape | Thursdays from 8 April through 13 May 2021

Cultural Studies

August 25, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
Cultural Studies

NICA 6 EC Core Course by Murat Aydemir on Fridays, 15:00-17:00. Through Canvas/Zoom |
Dates: October 9, October 16, October 30, November 6, November 13, November 20, December 4|
Enrolment: contact Eloe Kingma at nica-fgw@uva.nl before September 26. Be sure to specify your research-master programme and university.

Decolonial Studies and Political Philosophy

August 20, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

NICA 6 EC Core Course offered by Yolande Jansen | University of Amsterdam | 7 April -26 May 2021 | This course looks at the intersection of decolonial studies and normative political philosophy, and tries to address them from a relatively integrated perspective. We bring together both fields in a systematic way by testing normative theories of global justice and human rights in political philosophy against the works of liberalism’s critics from a decolonial or critical theoretical perspective.

Bodies Matter

August 4, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

The Conference Committee of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites proposals for participation in “Bodies Matter,” a two-day conference on histories and theories of the body held in Leiden on 15-16 April 2021. It will feature keynote lectures by Dr Elleke Boehmer, Professor of World Literature in English, University of Oxford and Dr Willemijn Ruberg, Associate Professor in Cultural History, Universiteit Utrecht. Final remarks and a concluding session will be supervised by Dr Frans-Willem Korsten, Senior University Lecturer at LUCAS.

Tracing Disgust: Cultural Approaches to the Visceral

August 4, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

CfP for Book Proposal // Article Proposals for an edited collection | Tracing Disgust: Cultural Approaches to the Visceral (edited by Max Ryynänen, Susanne Ylönen & Heidi Kosonen) | The proposals for an article (300 words) and additional information (such as contact details, affiliation and a short biography), should be sent to editors by August 15th, 2020.

Cities Seminar: (Post)Pandemic Urbanism – Semester 1

August 4, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

In the 2020-21 ASCA Cities seminar, we will consider recent developments in urban life in the wake of the ongoing global pandemic. In taking up this theme, we are particularly interested in examining the intersections between digital technologies and contemporary urban environments, from the vantage point of creative, cultural, aesthetic and political practices. 

Cultural Perceptions of Safety

April 23, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

On Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January 2021 the Humanities Department of the Open University of the Netherlands organizes the international conference ‘Cultural perceptions of safety’. The conference will be held in Utrecht, at the Academiegebouw, and is supported by the Huizinga Institute (Research Institute and Graduate School of Cultural History). Deadline: 1 June 2020

Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory

April 15, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Announcing New Critical Times Blog | In the Midst

Interdisciplinarity in Action – Postponed

April 8, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

NICA Summer School ‘Interdisciplinarity in Action’ is organized by Iris van der Tuin and Maaike Bleeker | Utrecht University | 2,5 EC. The Summer School has been postponed due to the Covid-19 situation. When there is a new date we will announce this on the website.

Museums and the circulation of knowledge

April 6, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, 28 September 2020, 10.00 – 17.00 | Organized by Eve Kalyva, NICA and Huizinga Institute.

Articulating belonging: translingualism, belonging and the creation of South African social collectivities

April 3, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Call for papers | University of Amsterdam and Ghent University, 12 and 13 November 2020, Amsterdam | Please send your proposal to translingualsuidafrika@gmail.com before 8 May 2020.

Two PhD Positions in Critical Humanities Approaches to Platform Society

March 26, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Radboud University Nijmegen offers two PhD positions. Deadline for applications: 10 May 2020.

Building Bridges: Activists and Cultural Researchers in Conversation

March 3, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

May 28.-29., 2020 | A workshop at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen | Call for Participation Deadline: 31 March 2020

Assistant Professor (0,8fte) in Digital Media at VU

March 2, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Assistant Professor (0,8fte) in Digital Media

Assistant Professor (0,8fte) in Design History and Theory at the VU

March 2, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Deadline 1 April 2020.

Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2020

March 2, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

On 13 and 14 November 2020, the 7th Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food will take place in the Aula of the University of Amsterdam. This year’s topic is:
Food and the Environment: The Dynamic Relationship Between Food Practices and Nature

Ecological Time: natures that matter in activism and art

February 18, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

12 March 2020, 10.00-16.30 / Location: Coehoorn Arnhem / Language: English | In the fourth and last seminar of Time Matters, we will look into natures that matter in art, science and activism.

Other Futures 2020

January 27, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Open Call to all beings to explore the future of multispecies society together. Other Futures 10 – 12 April 2020. Festival: 10 – 11 April 2020 at Felix Meritis, Amsterdam. Exhibition: Opening 10 April, performance 12 April, closing 10 May 2020 at Rozenstraat – a rose is a rose is a rose, Amsterdam

Media | Art | Politics:  Soirées on Optimism, Failure and Care

January 21, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Due to the Covid-19 situation the upcoming sessions have been postponed for the next weeks/months. At a later stage, MAP will resume the series of soirées with reading sessions in which we will be reading, integrally, the following books: Jack Halberstam’s Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011), and Maria Puig de Bellacasa’s Matters of Care (Minnesota UP, 2017). Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism (Duke UP, 2011) was discussed during the first session in February.

Double Agents: Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Marketized University

January 21, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

NOG Masterclass by Alison Harvey | Wednesday February 26, 2020 | Utrecht University | 10.00 – 13.00 hrs

 

Ecoculture

January 20, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

X Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture | Lisbon, July 6-11, 2020. | Deadline for submissions: February 20, 2020

Cultural perceptions of safety. Reflecting on modern and pre-modern feelings of safety in literature, philosophy, art and history

January 20, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

On Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd of January 2021, the Humanities Department of the Open University of the Netherlands organizes the international conference ‘Cultural perceptions of safety. Reflecting on modern and pre-modern feelings of safety in literature, philosophy, art and history’. We cordially invite scholars from various disciplines to send in their proposal for paper presentations. | Deadline for abstracts is 1st of June, 2020. | The conference takes place at the Academiegebouw in Utrecht, the Netherlands.

PhD Position at the University of Kassel

January 17, 2020/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Doc­to­ral can­di­da­te (m/f/d) – In­sti­tu­te of So­ci­al Work and So­ci­al Wel­fa­re | Faculty of Human Sciences – Prof. Dr. Mechthild Bereswill – fixed-term, part-time (currently 26,67 hours/week) | deadline for submission: 26.02.2020 | start of recruitment : as soon as possible

Night Scenes

December 12, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Call for Proposals Postgraduate Roundtable organized by Sara Brandellero at University College London, 23 April 2020 | Deadline for submissions: 13 January 2020

Reduction: 12 post-doctoral fellowships in Berlin

November 29, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

APPLICATION DEADLINE: 19 January 2020 (23:59 CET) | ICI Berlin | Christinenstraße 18/19, Haus 8 | D – 10119 Berlin | U – Bhf. Senefelder Platz (U2) | +49 (0)30 473 72 91 10 | www.ici–berlin.org

Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise

November 29, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
photo: Tom Janssen

Saturday 7 December, 13–21 hrs, including dinner from 17.45–19 hrs in the Basic Activist Kitchen | Language: English | Propositions #10: Instituting Otherwise is a one-day public symposium on the civic practice of art institutions, organized by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht on Saturday 7 December 2019, from 13.00–21.00 hrs. The symposium probes the question of how to institute spaces for art in the face of the pressing urgencies of the present.

The Johan Huizinga Fellowship for historical research

November 22, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

The Johan Huizinga Fellowship is open to MA graduates, as well as PhD students and post-doctoral candidates. MA Graduate/PhD Fellows are those who have completed their MA degree or whose proposal is embedded in the research plans of their forthcoming PhD dissertation, postdoctoral Fellows must have completed their PhD dissertation and obtained a PhD-degree on the date of application. | The closing date for all applications is 19 January 2020, at 6:00 p.m. (Amsterdam time/CET).

Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches to Songs and Practices of Singing (1200-today).

November 18, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Song Studies 2020 | Call for papers. The Amsterdam Centre for Cross-Disciplinary Emotion and Sensory Studies and THALIA, research group on the Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance. Ghent University, 1-3 July 2020. Keynote speaker: Monique Scheer (Tübingen University)

XVIII MAGIS International Spring School – Media Archaeology Section

October 17, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Gorizia (Italy), March 28th-31st, 2020 ? Call for papers: Ecologies of Perception. We invite you to send us individual paper proposals, workshop proposals and panel proposals. Proposals should contain a short CV (10 lines max) and be no longer than one page. The deadline for their submission is December, 31st 2019.

Human Being in a Humanitarian World: Global Health, human rights and humanities

October 8, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

On the 29nd of October The New Utrecht School, in collaboration with University College Utrecht, Julius Global Health and Health Management Support Team, organizes a public lecture with the title Human Being in a Humanitarian World: Global Health, human rights and humanities. 

Story of Diseases: Learning from the past for today’s Global Health

October 8, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

On the 22nd of October The New Utrecht School, in collaboration with University College Utrecht, Julius Global Health and Health Management Support Team, organizes a public lecture with the title Story of Diseases: Learning from the past for today’s Global Health. | Location: University College Utrecht, Auditorium, Utrecht University

Storytelling in the Margins

October 3, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

CALL FOR PAPERS ISSUE 5.1 of Junctions: Graduate Journal of the Humanities | 15 November 2019: Deadline manuscripts

Imagining climate change: The visual arts to the rescue?

September 26, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Ulrike Hahn | EUR | 2019-2023 | Supervisors: Filip Vermeylen, Pauwke Berkers, Katja Kwastek | Humanity has entered a new era, often labelled the Anthropocene – the human epoch. It poses a significant threat to the ecological integrity of the planet, particularly through human-caused climate change. The abstract and complex nature of climate change makes it a topic that is often framed and visualised in overly scientific and problem-focused ways. Ulrike Hahn’s research studies a promising alternative approach for imagining climate change from the contemporary visual arts.

(Un)timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique

September 24, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

ASCA/OSL Conference | Amsterdam, 17-18 October 2019 | Organized by: Maria Boletsi (Leiden University and University of Amsterdam), Natashe Lemos-Dekker (University of Amsterdam), Kasia Mika (Queen Mary, University of London), Ksenia Robbe (University of Groningen)

Seminars in Global Art History and Heritage

September 3, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma
Image: Albert Eckhout, Studies of two Brazilian turtles, c. 1640, Mauritshuis.

Invitation to the fourth and fifth meeting in the Seminars in Global Art History and Heritage (organized by Mary Bouquet – UCU, Stijn Bussels – LU, and Thijs Weststeijn — UU), which will take place on October 10th and November 21st, 2019.

Dialogues Between Images and Texts

August 28, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Part of the 11th Annual International Conference on Visual and Performing Arts organised by ATINER (Athens Institute for Educational and Research) | Athens, 8-11 June 2020 | Call for Papers | Symposium coordinator: Dr Eve Kalyva (e.m.kalyva@gmail.com) | Deadline for calls for papers: 4 November 2019

Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food 2019

August 21, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Friday, 15 November – Saturday 16 November 2019 | Aula of the University of Amsterdam, Singel 411, 1012 XM Amsterdam | The Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food is the annual point of assembly and an exchange of knowledge in the field of Food history in the Netherlands. It intends to stimulate debate and research that bridges the gap between different disciplines. Another aim is to transfer academic research to a wider public and stimulate research using the History of Food Collection of Allard Pierson | Collections of the University of Amsterdam. The symposium is therefore targeted at both an academic and a professional audience.

Our Mechanical Eyes — On Seeing Machines

July 11, 2019/in Announcements /by Chantal

In the exhibition Rothko and I*, *alone without your phone, the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (Schiedam, NL) invites their visitors for an “intimate experience” with Rothko’s Grey, Orange on Maroon, No 8 (1960); the visitor can observe the painting, but has to leave their phone at the door.[1] The mobile phone is seen as blocking the way when it comes to attaining intimacy with the painting.

ROSANNA Fonds

July 11, 2019/in Announcements /by Chantal

Het ROSANNA Fonds voor Vrouwen is opgericht door Rosi Braidotti en Anneke Smelik, met als doel het stimuleren van het academisch onderwijs voor getalenteerde vrouwen aan de Universiteit Utrecht.
De eerstvolgende deadline voor het ontvangen van aanmeldingen voor een ROSANNA Fonds Beurs is 1 december 2019.

Professor J.M. van Winter Stipend 2019

May 22, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Each year, the Stichting Gastronomische Bibliotheek makes a stipend of €1000 available for research that makes particular use of the History of Food collection of the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam.

Posthuman Knowledge(s)

May 6, 2019/in Announcements /by Chantal

Utrecht Summer School course by Prof. Rosi Braidotti August 19-23, 2019 In 2019, Braidotti’s intensive course will focus on “Posthuman Knowledge(s)”. The aim of the course is to offer a critical overview of contemporary debates about the implications of the ‘posthuman turn’, for knowledge production and research in the Posthumanities. Braidotti will apply her specific […]

Racial Orders, Racist Borders

April 3, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

Call for Papers: Sixth Annual ACGS Conference, 17-18 October 2019, University of Amsterdam. | Around the world, racist discourses, attitudes, and practices have moved from the fringes into the mainstream, putting core democratic values under pressure. Familiar racial orders have resurfaced and reinforced racist borders, both metaphorical and material. The sixth annual conference of the Amsterdam Centre for Globalisation Studies (ACGS) invites papers that examine how forms, discourses and practices of racism have materialized in various institutional contexts. | Please submit an abstract (max. 250-300 words) and a short bio (max. 100 words) by 15 May 2019 to acgs-fgw@uva.nl.

Human

March 5, 2019/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

The 3rd PARSE Biennial Research Conference: Human | 13-15 November, 2019 | Gothenburg | Call for contributions: panels, papers, performances, screenings, collaborations and workshops | Deadline for abstracts: 31 March 2019 | For submissions go to: https://www.conftool.org/parse2019/

Augmented Value for Multilingual Theatre

April 30, 2018/in Announcements /by Chantal

Michael Tijssen | University of Amsterdam
This PHD research aims to develop arguments in which way the organic theatre experience, when exposed to a foreign language audience, often diminished in its artistic output by the necessity of applied surtitles or dubbing, can be enhanced through the adaptation of modern digital tools that provide an individualized translation in the language chosen by the spectator.

Music and Migration: The Role of Networking and Transcultural Capital for West African Musicians in the Netherlands

April 17, 2018/in Announcements /by Chantal

Iye Echa | University of Amsterdam
This research investigates the artistic contributions of some West Africans musicians who have migrated and settled in the Netherlands. West African musicians are active in the Dutch music scene as performers, music/dance instructors, and instrument makers or as repairers and music entrepreneurs.

Traveling Caribbean Heritage

July 5, 2017/in Announcements /by Chantal

Joeri Arion | Erasmus University / KITLV | Traveling Caribbean Heritage  | Supervisors: G. Oostindie  (KITLV) A. van Stipriaan (EUR) Centuries of migrations have deeply impacted the development of the creolized Papiamentu/o-speaking cultures of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao. The islands’ asymmetrical relation to the Netherlands begs many questions regarding insular identities. Mass tourism became a […]

ReThink NICA

March 13, 2015/2 Comments/in Announcements /by Eloe Kingma

We, the undersigned members of the national research school NICA (Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis), express our solidarity with the national and interdisciplinary ‘Rethink’ movement and emphasize the following principles and demands …

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