NICA Winter School ‘Interdisciplinarity in Action’

Building on the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (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’. It focuses on the practical aspects of interdisciplinary learning, research, and teaching.

The Winter School

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. Several guest speakers have been confirmed.