1 Feb 2021 19 30 LectureDavid J. GetsyReduction as Expansion. The Queer Capacities of Abstract ArtAbstract art is sometimes considered merely formal, and its reductive visual qualities are seen as a refusal of representation or a flight from subject matter. 11 Feb 2021 19 00 LectureInfrastructures of Intimacy and the Deplatforming of SexSusanna PaasonenPaasonen’s talk discusses the stakes of the new potentials of getting together online – aesthetically, socially, sexually, and politically. For Paasonen it is the tactile dimensions of online encounters, more so than the visual, that affect us as 'resonance' or 'grasp' us. 4 5 Mar 2021 SymposiumLatexCritical Inflections on (Neo)Extractivism in Latin AmericaThe symposium seeks to examine and question the different modes of extractivism that have marred and marked the histories of Latin America and the Caribbean. 24 Mar 2021 19 00 LectureTouche-toucheJean-Luc NancyJean-Luc Nancy has long considered touch to be central for an understanding of the relation between the self and the world, a crucial question of his philosophy he will also explore in his talk entitled ‘Touche –touche’. 26 Apr 2021 19 00 LectureHow to Have Sexin a PandemicTim DeanTim Dean’s thinking has evolved around questions of infection, pharmaceutical regimes, and the forms of the self and the social that come with them. His talk echoes the title of Douglas Crimp’s seminal 1987 essay about AIDS ‘How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic?’ 11 May 2021 20 00 LectureAndreas CremoniniPrekäre Verkörperungen: Die Figur des Helden zwischen Exemplarität und SingularitätWas ist ein Held, eine Heldin? Eine Figur, die bestimmte menschliche Eigenschaften, verkörpert, die wir für exemplarisch halten und Dinge tut, die vorbildlich sind?
