ICI Associate Member Agnese Grieco won the Procida Mare isola di Arturo prize for her book Atlante delle Sirene (ilSaggiatore, 2017) in September 2018.

ICI Fellows Clio Nicastro and Hannah Proctor are co-organizers, with Nadine Hartmann, of a new series of events and workshops at diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery called ‘Spellbound: Female Adolescence as Choreography’.

Who Am I (2017), the film directed by ICI Associate Member Agnese Grieco and Lucia Chiarla, was selected for the program and competition of the Hof International Film Festival.

As the ‘Western world’ drifts towards the periphery of a ‘Westernized world’, a ‘return of religion’ reveals in 20th century philosophy a hidden continuation of religious orientations. This ‘religion of philosophy’ is the subject of the texts collected in the present volume.

Volumes 12 and 13 in the series ‘Cultural Inquiry’ have just been released: Conatus und Lebensnot: Schlüsselbegriffe der Medienanthropologie, ed. by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky & Anna Tuschling, and Aura und Experiment: Naturwissenschaft und Technik bei Walter Benjamin, ed. by Kyung-Ho Cha.