Core Courses Archive
NICA offers a comprehensive educational program that combines broad overviews of the cultural analysis field with in-depth research and methodological approaches. The Core Courses Archive is designed as a tool for students, providing access to a variety of past courses, lectures, and materials from the past academic year.
Cultural Analysis as Reportage
Dates: 7 November - 12 December 2024 | Time: 15.00-18.00 | Location: University of Amsterdam, PCH 4.28 | Instructor: Joost de Bloois | Credits: 6 ECTS
Black Aesthetics: Relationalities, Imaginaries, Freedoms
Dates: 6, 13, 20, 27 November; 4, 11 December 2024 | Time: 12:00–15:00 | Location: University of Amsterdam, OMHP, BG2 0.02 | Instructor: Monique Roelofs | Credits: 6 ECTS
Trust and Narrative in a Post-Digital Age
Dates: 5, 12, 19 & 26 November; 3 December 2024 | Location: Tilburg University (MindLabs building) | Credits: 6 ECTS
Archaeologies of AI: From Bots to Spectres
Dates: 16, 23, 30 September; 7, 14, 28 October 2024 + visits | Time: 15:15-18:15 | Location: Utrecht University (city centre) & MCW Lab (Muntstraat 2A) | Instructor: Evelyn Wan | Credits: 5 ECTS
Cultural Analysis Now! - 'Engaged Research, Active Hope, and Moral Ambition'
Dates: 13, 20, 27 September, 11, 18, 25 October 2024 | Time: 13:00-16:00 | Location: Leiden University (Sterrewacht/Observatory, Room A0.06) | Instructor: Pepita Hesselberth | Credits: 5 ECTS
Summer school - ‘Creative Work(s): Cultural Production Studies Across the Disciplines’ (2024)
Summer school - ‘Creative Work(s): Cultural Production Studies Across the Disciplines’ (2024) | Dates: 1-4 July 2024 | Location: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Instructors: Sara Strandvad (RUG), Kathryn Roberts (RUG) | Contact: s.m.strandvad@rug.nl & k.s.roberts@rug.nl | Credits: 5 ECTS
Aquatic Thinking in a Fluid Age
Aquatic Thinking in a Fluid Age | Dates: Semester 2, 2024 (weekly meetings on Thursdays) | Location: Radboud University | Instructors: Jeroen Boom (RUN), Laszlo Muntéan (RUN) | Contact: jeroen.boom@ru.nl & laszlo.muntean@ru.nl | Credits: 5 ECTS
Field Theory
Field Theory | Dates: April 2, 4, 9, 11, 16, 18 + final presentation days on April 23 and 25 | Time: 11:00-14:00 | Location: University of Amsterdam | Instructor: Jeff Diamanti (UvA) | Contact: j.diamanti@uva.nl | Credits: 6 ECTS
Making Texts Work: Life Writing, Media Affordances, and Circulation
Making Texts Work: Life Writing, Media Affordances, and the Circulation | Dates: 28 February; 6, 13, 20, 27 March 2024 | Instructors: Anna Poletti (UU), Erin La Cour (VU) | Location: VU, plus field work in Amsterdam | Contact: e.l.lacour@vu.nl & a.l.poletti@uu.nl | Credits: 6 ECTS
*Trans* Archives, Arts, Affects (in collaboration with NOG)
*Trans* Archives, Arts, Affects (in collaboration with NOG) | Dates: 21, 28, February; 6, 13, 20 March 2024 | Location: Maastricht University | Instructor: Eliza Steinbock (UM) | Contact: e.steinbock@maastrichtuniversity.nl | Credits: 5 ECTS
Politics of Withdrawal?
Politics of Withdrawal? | Dates: November 8, 22, 29, December 6, 13, 20 (2023) | Time: 13:15-16:00 | Location: Pieter de La Court building - SA.29 (Leiden University) | Instructor: Joost de Bloois (UvA) | Contact: j.g.c.debloois@uva.nl | Credits: 6 ECTS
Attention: Economies, Media, Affect (2023)
Attention: Economies, Media, Affect (2023) | Dates: 13-17 November 2023 (intensive one-week course, online) + 24 November live meeting in Tilburg | Location: Online & Tilburg University | Instructor: Inge van de Ven (TSHD) | Contact: i.g.m.vdven@tilburguniversity.edu | Credits: 6 ECTS
Cultural Analysis Now!
Cultural Analysis Now! | Location: Leiden University | Instructor: Pepita Hesselberth (UL) | Contact: p.hesselberth@hum.leidenuniv.nl | Credits: 5 ECTS
Archaeologies of AI: From Bots to Spectres
Archaeologies of AI: From Bots to Spectres | Dates: 18, 25 September; 2, 9, 30 October 2023 + exhibition visits | Location: Utrecht University | Instructor: Evelyn Wan (UU) | Contact: p.y.wan@uu.nl | Credits: 5 ECTS
Autotheory and its Negativity
Autotheory and its Negativity | Dates: 11, 18, 25 September; 2, 9, 16 October 2023 | Time: 11:00-15:00 | Location: University of Amsterdam | Instructor: Marija Cetinic (UvA) | Contact: m.cetinic@uva.nl | Credits: 6 ECTS
'Creative Work(s): Cultural Production Studies Across the Disciplines' - Summer School 2023
Dates: 10-13 July, 2023 | Location: Academy Building, RUG | Instructors: Sara Strandvad and Kathryn Roberts | Credits: 5 ECTS
Sensing, Walking, Storying: Intimate Approaches to the Environment
Dates: 3 full days in May + 1 afternoon in June | Location: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Instructor: Ruby de Vos | Credits: 5 ECTS
Field Philosophy
Dates: April-May, 2023 | Location: University of Amsterdam | Instructor: Jeff Diamanti | Credits: 6 ECTS
Autotheory and Desubjectivication
Dates: April-May, 2023 | Location: University of Amsterdam | Instructor: Marija Cetinic | Credits: 6 ECTS
Radical Interdisciplinarity
Dates: March-May, 2023 | Location: Utrecht University | Instructors: Maaike Bleeker and Iris van der Tuin | Credits: 5 ECTS
Graphic Medicine’s Possible Futures: Reconsidering Poetics and Reading
Dates: March, 2023 | Location: Utrecht University | Instructor: Erin La Cour and Anna Poletti | Credits: 5 ECTS
Viral imaginaries: Theory / Art / Contamination
Dates: February-March, 2023 | Location: Leiden University | Instructor: Ilios Willemars (LU) | Credits: 5 ECTS
Laughing Matters: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Humor and Society
Dates: February-March, 2023 | Location: University of Groningen / Leiden University | Instructors: Alberto Godioli (RUG) and Yasco Horsman (LU) | Credits: 5 ECTS
Animal - Human Studies from a Humanities Perspective
Dates: January 23-27, 2022 | Location: FASoS, Maastricht University | Instructors: Leonie Cornips (UM) and Maarten Reesink (UvA) | Credits: 5 ECTS
Politics of Withdrawal
Dates: November-December 2022 | Location: Leiden University & University of Amsterdam | Instructors: Pepita Hesselberth and Joost de Bloois | Credits: 5 ECTS
Attention: Economies, Media, Affect (2022)
Dates: October 2022 (one-week intensive course) | Location: Online | Instructor: Inge van de Ven (TSHD) | Credits: 6 ECTS
European Summer School for Cultural Studies (ESSCS) – ‘Thinking (with) Care’
University of Amsterdam / Leiden University | Organizers: Pepita Hesselberth (LUCAS/ NICA), Esther Peeren (UvA/ ASCA), Ilios Willemars (LUCAS), Kim Sommer (UU/NICA) | Credits: 3 ECTS
Cultures of Extraction, Cultures of Externalization
NICA Core Course | University of Amsterdam (on site) | Instructors: Toni Pape | 6 ECTS
Political Philosophy and the Decolonial Humanities
NICA core course | University of Amsterdam (on site) | Instructor: Yolande Jansen | 6 ECTS
Digital Media and Machinic Cultures
NICA Core Course | Leiden University (on-site) | Instructors: Pepita Hesselberth and Yasco Horsman | 10 ECTS
Radical Interdisciplinarity
NICA core course | Online (Utrecht University) | Instructor: Maaike Bleeker and Iris van der Tuin | 5 ECTS
Attention: Economies, Media, Affect (2021)
Intensive one-week NICA core course | Online (Tilburg University) | Instructor: Inge van de Ven | 6 ECTS
Just Futures: How to Think, Compose and Live?
NICA Core Course by Toni Pape | 6 EC | Thursdays from 8 April through 13 May 2021, 3-5 pm.
Decolonial Studies and Political Philosophy
NICA Core Course by Yolande Jansen | 6 ECTS | Wednesdays 7 April through 26 May (10:00-13:00)
Media and Performance
Time | Every third Tuesday of the month from 11.00 – 13.00 Place | Room 26, Universiteitstheater, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16, Amsterdam Contact | Please contact Kati Röttger...