Course Overview
NICA offers graduate courses for research master and PhD students, and serves as a professional network for affiliated scholars.
Attention: Economies, Media, Affect
Intensive one-week NICA core course | Online (Tilburg University) | Instructor: Inge van de Ven | 6 ECTS
Radical Interdisciplinarity
NICA core course | Online (Utrecht University) | Instructor: Maaike Bleeker and Iris van der Tuin | 5 ECTS
Digital Media and Machinic Cultures
NICA Core Course | Leiden University (on-site) | Instructors: Pepita Hesselberth and Yasco Horsman | 10 ECTS
Political Philosophy and the Decolonial Humanities
NICA core course | University of Amsterdam (on site) | Instructor: Yolande Jansen | 6 ECTS
Cultures of Extraction, Cultures of Externalization
NICA Core Course | University of Amsterdam (on site) | Instructors: Toni Pape | 6 ECTS
POPulism - Popular culture and populism
Online lecture series (RUG) | Credits: 1 or 2 ECTS | Organizers: Dr. Melanie Schiller, Dr. Léonie de Jonge, Dr. Elizaveta Gaufman
The body as point of entry: A performative reading of the film 'Sarafina!' (1992)
Lecture by Buhlebezwe Siwani | Part of Politics and Performance Speakers Series | Organizers: Sruti Bala and Elize Mazadiego | 2 ECTS
ASCA Cross-Media Research Seminar 2021-2022: 'Infrastructure and Experience'
First session of ASCA's Cross-Media Seminar 2021-2022 | Organizers: Sudeep Dasgupta, Abe Geil, Markus Stauff | 6 ECTS
Critical Humanities Group 2021-2022: “Key concepts for the Never-Normal”
Hybrid lecture series (RUN) | Credits: On request | Organizers: Niels Niessen and Jeroen Boom
ARRG: Jesse Ahlers and Judith Westerveld
Lecture by Jesse Ahlers and Judith Westerveld | Part of Artistic Research Research Group 2021-2022| Oudemanhuispoort - C0.17, Amsterdam (on-site) | ECTS: on request
Transmission in Motion - “Shifting Grounds: Translating Academic Research on Affect to User Experience Research at Google”
Lecture by Marta Zarzycka | Part of Transmission in Motion seminar 2021-2022 | Online | Credits: 3 ECTS | Coordinator: Maaike Bleeker
Art & Design in the Age of Climate Crisis and Ecocide
Lecture by Suzanne Dahliwal | Part of Politics and Performance Speakers Series | Organized by Sruti Bala and Elize Mazadiego | 2 ECTS
Indigenous Cultural Resurgence and Environmental Justice on the Global Stage
Lecture by Helen Gilbert | Part of Politics and Performance Speakers Series | Organized by Sruti Bala and Elize Mazadiego | 2 ECTS
ARRG: Špela Petrič and Jade Mandrake
Lecture by Špela Petrič and Jade Mandrake | Part of Artistic Research Research Group 2021-2022| Oudemanhuispoort - C0.17, Amsterdam (on-site) | ECTS: on request
ARRG: Gabriel Paiuk and Janice McNab
Lecture by Gabriel Paiuk and Janice McNab | Part of Artistic Research Research Group 2021-2022| Oudemanhuispoort - C0.17, Amsterdam (on-site) | ECTS: on request
ARRG: Sabrina Huth, Ilana Reynolds and Suzan Tunca
Lecture by Sabrina Huth, Ilana Reynolds and Suzan Tunca | Part of Artistic Research Research Group 2021-2022| Oudemanhuispoort - C0.17, Amsterdam (on-site) | ECTS: on request
Reading Group 'Aesthetics and Politics in Critical Theory'
University of Amsterdam/online | 2 ECTS | Organizers: Ben Moore, Marc Farrant, Steyn Bergs
Trans* and Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Contemporary Cultural Issues
Reading Group | University of Amsterdam | Organizers: Alvaro Lopez and Mina Burnside | 2 or 3 ECTS
25 Years of Infinite Jest: The (After)Lives and Influences of the Work of David Foster Wallace
Conference and masterclass | VU University Amsterdam and Amsterdam University College | Organizer: Allard den Dulk | 3 ECTS
Slavery in the Cultural Imagination: Voices of Dissent in the Neerlandophone Space, 17th-21st Century
Conference | ASCA, ASG and ICON | Organizers: Saskia Pieterse, Marrigje Paijmans and Karwan Fatah Black, Yra van Dijk and Aafje de Roest | 2 ECTS
Metamodernism, New Sincerity, Post-Critique – 25 Years After Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Masterclass | VU Amsterdam and Amsterdam University College | Allard den Dulk | 3 ECTS
Masterclass and Public Lecture by dr. Amanda Boetzkes - “The Ecology of Forms”
Masterclass and Public Lecture by Dr. Amanda Boetzkes | Location: TBA | Instructor: Joost de Bloois, Jeff Diamanti | 6 ECTS
Huizinga/NICA Museum workshop “On Agency”
Part of the workshop series “Circulation of knowledge, agency and branding in a museum setting”, coordinated by Eve Kalyva | Venue: Stedelijk museum | in collaboration with Huizinga Institute | 1 ECTS
Masterclass and Public Lecture by dr. Daniel Barber - “The Ecology of Forms”
Masterclass and Public Lecture by Dr. Daniel Barber | Location: TBA | Instructor: Joost de Bloois, Jeff Diamanti | 6 ECTS
Shades of Pale: Exploring Whiteness in Neerlandophone Literature
22nd Meeting of the Platform for Postcolonial Readings | Keynote lecture by Mikki Stelder | Location: Leiden University | Instructor: Liesbeth Minnaard, Lieselot De Taeye, Marrigje Paijmans | 1-2 ECTS
Thinking with Derrida Now - Workshop and Masterclass
Workshop and Masterclass | Location: University of Amsterdam | 1 ECTS | Coordinators: Marie-Aude Baronian