24 May 2022 20 00 Lecture Fernando Castrillon Freud’s Seduction: The California Dream and a Future Psychoanalysis This talk opens up the question of how and which Freud came to California’s shores, what Fernando Castrillón is terming ‘Freud’s seduction‘. 9 Jun 2022 10 30 - 20:00 Symposium Reducing Climate The notion of reduction is central to the discourse on climate disaster and environmental collapse. A political understanding of climate has led to urgent calls for ever increasing measures aiming at reduction—for example reducing emissions or consumption. 10 Jun 2022 10 30 - 14:30 Workshop Legal Imagination for Gaia In the face of climate breakdown, legal discourse is urged to reconsider the relationship between law and nature: What kind of legal imagination is needed for the time of Gaia? 13 Jun 2022 19 30 Lecture Urs Stäheli Undoing Networks Contemporary societies are often described in terms of network metaphors and theories informed by an 'ethos of connectivity'. Many contemporary social theories operate with a normative bias toward networking. 15 Jun 2022 14 00 Symposium Heavier Than Air Resisting the Military State The starting point is a novel entitled 'Gas gegen Gas' (Gas against Gas) written by the chemist, editor, and translator Dora Sophie Kellner (1890–1960), which was serialized in a number of newspapers between 1928–30. 15 Jun 2022 19 30 Lecture Esther Leslie These Tears, This Gas, These Turbulent Times Gas, made in the factories of future conglomerates IG Farben (Germany) and Imperial Chemical Industries (Britain), diffused from the battlefields of the First World War and seeped into dreams and thought. 17 Jun 2022 10 00 - 20:00 Symposium Bad Taste? Culture and Consumption in the Great Acceleration This symposium takes the planetary ecological crisis as an urgent occasion to reflect on the history and politics of taste. Talk of taste today is considered outmoded, if not suspect. 20 Jun 2022 19 00 Discussion Seeing and Scale Geographies of Computer Vision Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen will talk about the histories, anatomies, and applications of computer vision systems. 23 24 Jun 2022 11 00 Symposium The Case ‘Case’ derives from the Latin casus, which denotes a fall, a chance event, a misfortune or accident. A case seems to portend a twist of fate, even death, but whose? In two distinct fields in which the case looms large — law and psychoanalysis — it is knowledge itself that falls before the case. 28 29 Jun 2022 15 00 - 21:00 Symposium Naming Touch What is the relationship between naming and touching? This symposium explores the haptic effects of names as well as the attempt to name haptic experience through the lens of anthropology, performance studies, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.
