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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Core Courses and Summer Schools

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

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

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

Making Texts Work: Life Writing, Media Affordances and Circulation

Dates: 4 March, 11 March, 18 March, 25 March, 15 April 2025 | Location: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam | Instructors: Anna Poletti, Erin la Cour | Credits: 5 ECTS

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Field Theory

Dates: 4-28 March 2024 | Time: 10:00-14:00 | Location: University of Amsterdam | Instructor: Jeff Diamanti | Credits: 6 ECTS

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Temporalities of Liberation: History and the Question of Freedom

Dates: 17 April , 24 April, 8 May, 15 May, 22 May 2025 | Time: 15:30-17:15 | Location: Maastricht University | Instructors: Faisal Hamadah, Timo Makori | Credits: 5 ECTS

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Aquatic Thinking in a Fluid Age

Dates: 17, 24 April, 8, 15, 22 May 2025 | Location: Radboud University | Instructors: László Munteán, Jeroen Boom | Credits: 5 ECTS

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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

Conferences

Poetry’s Haunting: A Symposium on C.P. Cavafy

Date: 9 December 2024 | Time: 15.30-20.30 | Location: Leiden University | Credits: 1 ECTS

What if… Neurodiversity? - Symposium

Date: 22 January 2025 | Location: Amsterdam, Academy of Theatre and Dance | Credits: 1 ECTS

Colloquium and Symposium: Social Practice: Art in Times of Destruction

Dates: Monthly from 5 December 2024 onwards (Colloquium) + 4 April 2025 (Symposium) | Locations: Amsterdam | Credits: 1 or 2 ECTS

Lectures

Workshops and masterclasses

Creative Writing for the Queer Screen: A hands-on Screenwriting Workshop

Dates: 10 December 2024 (Amsterdam) & 11 December 2024 (Utrecht) | Times: 13:00-17:30 | Location University of Amsterdam & Utrecht University | Credits: 1 ECTS