Course Overview
NICA offers courses, seminars, conferences and reading groupss for research master and PhD-students, and serves as a professional network for affiliated scholars. For our event calendar, please see this page.
For more information on our educational program, see ‘About NICA’s educational program’. If you would like to initiate an event or activity yourself, see ‘Organize an activity’.
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Summer School 2025 – Creative Work(s): Cultural Production Studies Across the Disciplines
Dates: 23-26 June 2025 | Location: University of Groningen | Instructors: Kathryn Roberts, Thijs Lijster | Credits: 5 ECTS
Archaeologies of AI: From Bots to Spectres
Dates: 10, 17, 24 September 2025; 1, 15 October 2025 | Time: 15:15-18:00 | Location: Utrecht University | Instructor: Evelyn Wan | Credits: 5 ECTS
Cultural Analysis Now!
Dates: 6, 7, 9, 10 October 2024 | Location: Leiden University | Instructor: Pepita Hesselberth | Credits: 5 ECTS
Withdrawal and Refusal: Genealogies, Theories, Politics
Dates: November-December 2025 (exact dates tba) | Location: University of Amsterdam | Instructor: Joost de Bloois | Credits: 6 ECTS
Trans* Archives, Arts, Affects (in collaboration with NOG)
Dates: 11, 18, 25 November 2025 | Location: Maastricht University | Instructor: Eliza Steinbock | Credits: 5 ECTS
Cultures of Populism
Dates: February - March 2025 | Location: Radboud University Nijmegen | Instructor: Melanie Schiller (+guest lectures) | Credits: 5 ECTS
Black Aesthetics: Relationalities, Imaginaries, Freedoms
Dates: 11, 18, 25 February; 4, 11, 18 March 2026 | Location: University of Amsterdam | Instructor: Monique Roelofs | Credits: 6 ECTS
Autotheory / Negativity
Dates: April-May 2026 | Location: University of Amsterdam | Instructor: Marija Cetinic | Credits: 6 ECTS
Aquatic Thinking in a Fluid Age
Dates: 17, 24 April; 8,15, 22 May 2026 | Location: Radboud University Nijmegen | Instructors: Jeroen Boom and László Munteán | Credits: 5 ECTS
(Post-)Capitalist Desires: Encounters of Political-Economic, Cultural, and Psychological Analysis - Summer School
Dates: June 2026 | Location: Rijksuniversiteit Groningen | Instructor: Thijs Lijster (RUG), Jamie van der Klauw (EUR) | Credits: 5 ECTS
Tenth Annual IASPM Benelux Student Conference – Research in Popular Music
Date: 20 June 2025 | Time: 9:00-17:00 | Location: Radboud University Nijmegen | Credits: 2 ECTS
Touching time: Duration, Bodies, Politics - Symposium
Dates: 23-24 June 2025 | Location: Tilburg University | Credits: 2 ECTS
Event | Fanon at 100, or the Pragmatics of Freedom: Aesthetics, Care, Psychoanalysis, and Revolution
Date: 24 June 2025 | Time: 13:00-19:00 | Location: P.C. Hoofthuis, Room 1.05 (Spuistraat134, 1012VB Amsterdam) | Credits: 1 or 2 ECTS
This Body is Generated: Dancing Virtual Worlds from AI to VR
Date: 16 June 2025 | Time: 13:00-16:00 | Location: Utrecht University | Credits: 1 ECTS
Filming in European Cities: Rethinking Methodology in Film & Visual Studies - Public Lecture and Masterclass
Date: 25 September 2025 | Time: 13:00-19:00 | Location: Leiden University
Room to Grow: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Future Hortus Medicus
Date: 13 June 2025 | Time: 10:00-17:00 | Location: Universitry of Amsterdam, Allard Pierson | Credits: 1 ECTS
NICA PhD/rMA Council Summer Borrel
Date: 13 June 2025 | Time: 16.30 - 19.00 | Location: Eetcafé Cloos, Plein 12A, 2511 CR, Den Haag
Energy Literacy for Just Transition - Summer School/Residency
Dates: Remote kick-off and check-ins: 7 May, 2 June, 30 June 2025; Field trip / residency: 4 - 10 July 2025 | Location: E-WERK Luckenwalde, Germany | Credits: 4 ECTS
NICA PhD Writing Retreat 2025
Date: 7-9 November 2025 | Location: Utrecht region | Registration deadline: 1 September 2025