Preliminary list of titles, teachers, locations and credits

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- […]

Announcement | NICA Core Courses 2023-2024

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

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 […]

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.

We are happy to announce the new NICA PhD Council! 

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 […]

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

A brief interview with NICA’s director, Pepita Hesselberth

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dissertation Defense of Tingting Hui | Leiden University | 20 October 2020 13:45 hrs. | Supervisors: Ernst van Alphen and Yasco Horsman.

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

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).

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.

“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       

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Deadline 1 April 2020.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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).

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 […]

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/

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.