Event | NICA Winter School ‘Interdisciplinarity in Action’
NICA Winter School ‘Interdisciplinarity in Action’, organized by Maaike Bleeker and Iris van der Tuin (UU).
3-4-5 March 2021 (2-5 pm each day)
Utrecht University (online)
2,5 EC
Building on the NICA Core Course ‘Radical Interdisciplinarity’ taught annually by Maaike Bleeker and Iris van der Tuin, NICA now offers an independent but complimentary Winter School programme ‘Interdisciplinarity in Action’. As the title implies, the School focuses on the practical aspects of interdisciplinary learning, research, and teaching. Situating ourselves in the field of the Scholarship of Interdisciplinary Teaching and Learning (SoITL), we ask questions such as: How do interdisciplinary careers look? How do we best navigate within interdisciplinary collaborations and communicate their results? What are suitable interdisciplinary pedagogies and didactics? What are effective teaching and learning activities for interdisciplinary classrooms? How do interdisciplinary studies foster creative and entrepreneurial mindsets?
The three-day online Winter School consists of talks by experts within the field. We invite participants to bring questions from their own interdisciplinary practices and reserve space, after each presentation, to work with these questions. During these working sessions, presenters are there to answer specific questions participants may have and to brainstorm about how participants think they may convert input and feedback into their own interdisciplinary practices. Confirmed guest speakers are: Dr. Bianca Vienni Baptista (ETH Zürich) from the H2020 project Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe; Dr. Linda de Greef (University of Amsterdam) of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies; Dr. Katrine Lindvig (University of Copenhagen) from the Department of Science Education, builder of CoNavigator, a hands-on interdisciplinary collaboration & problem solving tool; Prof. Catherine Lyall (University of Edinburgh), author of Being an Interdisciplinary Academic: How Institutions Shape University Careers (2019); Rianne Poot (Utrecht University) of the Center for Entrepreneurship. Lecturers from Utrecht University’s interdisciplinary undergraduate program Liberal Arts and Sciences are: Dr. Merel van Goch, Dr. Rianne van Lambalgen, and Florentine Sterk, MSc.
Students will be sent a set of texts by leading SoITL scholars in preparation of the online event and are required to submit questions for discussion by March 1 latest.
Application deadline: February 19, 2021 5pm. Please submit a one-page CV and a short motivation letter. Please send your application to nica@hum.leidenuniv.nl.
This NICA Winter School is co-produced by the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership for Higher Education ‘Innovation in Education: Intersecting Sciences and Humanities’ (2018-1-MK01-KA203-0467117).