16 Jun 2025
18 00 – 21:00

Discussion Screening

Notes for a
Séance

Towards a Technology of the Spirit
The practice of séances — attempts to make contact with voices and worlds on different scales beyond the living, through the agency of a medium — flourished during the social transformations of the early modernist period.

19 Jun 2025
19 00

Book Presentation Discussion

(Post)Colonial
Haunting

Ghosts are first and foremost figurations of power. By giving intersubjective communication a form that can challenge anthropocentrism and Western conceptualizations of Nature, ghosts have the ability to generate alternative histories.

23 Jun 2025
19 30

Lecture

Ben
Nichols

What Is a ‘Single-axis Analysis’?
The concept of ‘intersectionality’ has completely transformed a wide range of disciplines over the last few decades. From literary study to sociology, intersectional approaches—approaches that demand that scholars and activists look at the interplay of multiple social identities and locations in order to understand social life.

26 Jun 2025
11 00 – 18:00

Symposium

Sylvia
Wynter

and the Scales of the Human
Sylvia Wynter has produced a rich body of work synthesizing Black studies, anthropology, cybernetics, literary studies, Caribbean studies, feminist theory, and more. One pivotal concept within her theoretical apparatus is that of the human.

2 Jul 2025
19 00

Book Presentation Discussion

Poetics and Politics

in Contemporary Slow Cinema
This event will engage with the debates surrounding Slow cinema as both an aesthetic movement and a political intervention. The discussion will focus on how extended duration and dead time in film have been seen as challenging capitalist temporalities while simultaneously risking recuperation by the very systems they purportedly resist.

8 Jul 2025
19 00

Lecture

Ara H.
Merjian

New Scholarship on Futurism: From Techno-Mystics to Afro-Futurism
The first comprehensive avant-garde of the twentieth century, Italian Futurism sought to integrate modern life into every imaginable medium and format, from painting to politics, photography to dance, architecture to music.

9 Jul 2025
19 00

Book Presentation Discussion

Modelling
Abstraction

At the risk of oversimplifying, models work by abstracting from the complexity of things: they shed detail and introduce distortion toward ends as numerous as the models themselves.

16 Jul 2025
19 00

Book Presentation Discussion

That Uncertain
Voice

Voice-as-Skin
Based on Zeynep Bulut’s book, Building a Voice: Sound, Surface, Skin (Goldsmiths Press, 2025), this presentation and discussion will explore how one can imagine voice as skin and what such an imagination offers in times of crisis and uncertainties.