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

Abyssal Apex: On Scale and scala in Christian Mysticism
Abyssal Apex: On Scale and scala in Christian Mysticism

26 Jun 2026
19 00

Discussion

Periodizations

How, why, and with what epistemic implications is history divided into temporal segments? Periodizations — whether in the form of epochs, ages, turning points, or more heroic ‘eras’ — belong to the most fundamental and at the same time most frequently contested historiographical operations in literary, art, and media studies.

30 Jun 2026
16 00 - 20:30

Symposium

Intelligence and
Technodiversity

A decade ago, Yuk Hui introduced the concept of cosmotechnics, according to which different cultures have different ways of conceiving of and implementing technology. In later works, he continued to recommend technodiversity as complementary to biodiversity and noodiversity.

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 ...

6 Jul 2026
15 30 – 17:45

Workshop

Organic Forms
and Figurative Thoughts

Through the discussion of selected readings the workshop investigates the generative capacity of organic metaphors—roots, degeneration, mutation, etc.—as critical and creative frameworks for thinking figurality.

6 Jul 2026
19 00

Lecture

Forms of Radicality

Christy Wampole
This lecture explores the rich history and the variety of meanings of radicality, a term that connects roots and left-wing politics. Its etymology leads to the Latin radix or root, inviting associations with origins, anchoring, sustenance, and the subterranean.

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.