4 5 May 2026
10 00 - 18:00

Workshop

The Self
at Scale

Why does it seem so productive today to be simultaneously the subject and object of one’s writing? This workshop starts from the premise that certain writing and artistic practices position the theorizing self as a mediator between the subject and larger scales of social organization.

11 May 2026
16 00 – 19:30

Workshop

Queer and
Feminist Theory

In Honour of Teresa de Lauretis

18 May 2026
19 30

Lecture

Heather
Love

The Map and the Territory.
Representation, Scale, and the Real in Queer Studies
This talk addresses the question of the map and the territory through the intellectual and institutional history of queer studies. It has been the burden of queer thought to push back against philosophical realism and the idea that, for instance, gender is simply there, a set of incontrovertible biological facts or an ordinary feature of shared experience.

20 May 2026
9 30 - 20:00

Conference

Minima
Formalia

Minor Details and Empty Gestures
This conference takes an interest in minutiae at the levels of aesthetics, ethics, and politics. It invites smaller-scale perspectives to interrogate the interrelations between form and content, and asks how aesthetics forms theory and how theory performs politics.

22 Jun 2026
15 00 – 19:00

Symposium

Diagrams

Between Gestures and Spaces
As visual representations of thinking, diagrams are ubiquitous across human cultures, and remain fascinatingly effective in contemporary theory. By a reduction to a two-dimensional graphic vocabulary of lines and dots, diagrams enable us to grasp the movement and possibility of...

22 Jun 2026
10 30 – 12:30

Workshop

Nulla Dies
Sine Linea

On Diagrammatic Thinking
Diagrams are indispensable in scientific and philosophical thinking. They are both figures of thought and material signs — gestures in space and concepts in mind — yet they operate in rather enigmatic ways, suspended as they are between the readability of texts and an untranslatable image quality

25 Jun 2026
15 00 – 17:30

Workshop

Scales of
Mysticism

Mysticism has always involved encounters with scale: the self dissolving into something larger, the vast becoming intimate, experience that overflows the boundaries of the individual and the measurable. It is telling that Evelyn Underhill referred to mysticism as ‘experience in its most intense form’

25 Jun 2026
19 00

Lecture

Simone
Kotva

2 Jul 2026
10 30 - 20:30

Symposium

Change
of Scale

Leopardi and the Measure of Modernity
From the micro to the macro and vice versa, modernity appears to have brought about multiple changes of scale in the way humans measure, map, and make sense of the world. At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi offered extraordinary insights ...

13 Jul 2026
19 00

Book Presentation Discussion

Reaktionsmaschine

Empörung und ästhetische Gegenwehr
Soziale Medien verändern, wie Menschen urteilen und Sachverhalte bewerten. Sie beschleunigen Empörung und suggerieren einzelnen Personen eine unmittelbare Entscheidungsmacht, die zugleich verlockend und trügerisch ist.