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Pasolini

Dialogues avec la France / Dialoghi con la Francia

21 October 2025

KV Falatorio

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Falatório/Chatter by Stella do Patrocínio

Ed. by former fellows Iracema Dulley and Marlon Miguel

@ Aquarium, 2 Oct 2025, 19:00.

Affiliate Fellow Sarath Jakka @ Book Presentation

@ Aquarium, 2 Oct 2025, 19:00.

30 September 2025

KV Lygia Clark

Visiting Fellow Marlon Miguel @ Symposium on Lygia Clark’s Artistic Practise

@ Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 1-2 October 2025

29 September 2025

LS-Scale-25-26

Scale
Lecture Series 2025-26

New ICI Lecture Series

Mood-Summer-Recess-25

Summer
Recess 2025

21 Jul – 14 Sep 2025

Mood-Slow-Cinema

Hot Off the Press!
Time and the Everyday in Slow Cinema

by former Fellow Rosa Barotsi

ICI Fellow Verónica Stedile Luna joins Clara Obligado in a conversation and book launch at HKW, 14 June 2025, 12:00.

ICI Fellow Verónica Stedile Luna @ Miss Read

ICI Fellow Verónica Stedile Luna joins Clara Obligado in a conversation and book launch at HKW, 14 June 2025, 12:00.

Former Fellow Mark Anthony Cayanan will give a talk on:
Notes on Irrelevance: The Queer Lyric and Questions of Community, 11 Jun 2025, 18:00 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Former ICI Fellow Mark A. Cayanan @ HU

Former Fellow Mark Anthony Cayanan will give a talk on:
Notes on Irrelevance: The Queer Lyric and Questions of Community, 11 Jun 2025, 18:00 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

Wedding Federica Buongiorno and Xenia Chiaramonte

Wedding of two former ICI Fellows

Federica Buongiorno and Xenia Chiaramonte

ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting and Claudia Peppel

Hot Off the Press!
Breaking and Making Models

ed. by Christoph F. E. Holzhey, Marietta Kesting and Claudia Peppel

by Associate Member Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

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Queer Post-Cinema

by Associate Member Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky

Mood Library

Stellenausschreibung
Wissenschaftliche/n Bibliothekar*in in Teilzeit (50%)

Deadline 27. April 2025

© Photo by Mara Lavitt November 7, 2022 Yale University, New Haven, CT Yale FAS headshots.

Associate Member Fatima Naqvi @ Süddeutsche Zeitung, WDR, BR

Mit seinem angeblichen Kampf gegen Rassismus und Ungleichheit zersetzt seine Regierung nun die Wissenschaft. Jetzt geht die Angst um.
Ein Stimmungsbericht der Yale-Professorin Fatima Naqvi.

News Manuele Gragnolati

Associate Director Manuele Gragnolati @ Corriere della Sera

Associate Director Manuele Gragnolati featured in an article in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

KV Spring Recess 2025

Spring Recess 2025

7 April – 4 May

Mood Scales for Life

Call for Papers!
Scales of Life

This symposium seeks to investigate how information processing, cognition, and other forms of sensing and making sense occur at different scales, and how the ways of understanding these scales inform and deform one another across the contemporary earth and life sciences.
Deadline: 28 February 2025.

21 January 2025

KV Psychotherapy and Materialism

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Psychotherapy and Materialism

Ed. by Visiting Fellows Marlon Miguel and Elena Vogman

16 December 2024

16 Dec 2024 - 12 Jan 2025

Winter Recess
2024

16 Dec 2024 – 12 Jan 2025

3 December 2024

News Yuri

ICI Fellow Yuri Di Liberto won essay prize

Yuri Di Liberto was awarded the first prize of the 2022-2024 Essay Prize Competition of the Foundation for Philosophical Orientation competition on the topic of How to Orient Oneself in Times of Multiple Crises?

28 October 2024

KV News

ICI Fellow Verónica Stedile Luna will give a talk @ the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut

28 Oct 2024, 18:00

24 October 2024

Mood Library

Job Opportunity
ICI Library Assistant

Für die ICI Library suchen wir zum 1. Dezember 2024 eine Assistenz (d/m/w).
Deadline: 10. Oktober 2024

17 September 2024

Oraib Toukan: Via Dolorosa

Feminist Film Practices and the Legal Framework of Moving Images

Former ICI Fellow Clio Nicastro co-organizes a two-evening screening programme on feminist film practices that address violence against marginalized subjects at arsenal.

16 September 2024

Xenia Chiaramonte

ERC Starting Grant for former ICI Fellow Xenia Chiaramonte

Xenia Chiaramonte has been awarded to pursue her project entitled Social Defence. Uncovering the Transnational Epistemology of the Punitive Age.

10 September 2024

Mood Hand That Touch This Fortune Will

Hot Off the Press! Hand That Touch This Fortune Will

by former ICI Fellow Sam Dolbear

Cover Commons Museums

Hot Off the Press!
Commons Museums

This chapbook centres pedagogy within a new model of museum practice that prioritizes community.

Too Hot to Read

ICI Berlin Press @ Too Hot to Read

ICI Berlin Press will be participating at Too Hot to Read taking place on July 13, 13:00–19:00.

Summer Recess 24

Summer
Recess 2024

15 July – 22 Sep 2024

Cover Displacing Theory through the Global South

Hot off the Press!
Displacing Theory Through the Global South

ed. by former Fellows Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen

Between Aesthetic Practice and Sociopolitical Challenge
Deadline 7 April 2024

Call for Papers!
Inactivity

Between Aesthetic Practice and Sociopolitical Challenge
Deadline 7 April 2024

Spring Recess 2024

Spring Recess 2024

1 – 29 April 2024

KV News Diacritics

Diacritics special issue edited by former fellow Facundo Vega: Heidegger Today?

Conversations on the Contemporaneity of a Thinking Legacy

28 February 2024

Former Fellow Damiano Sacco as one of the Series Editors of The Works of Emanuele Severino

New Series edited by former fellow Damiano Sacco on the works of Emanuele Severino

Former Fellow Damiano Sacco as one of the Series Editors of The Works of Emanuele Severino

26 February 2024

Image credit: Queen of Virginity in Planet Lubunya directed by İrem Aydın, Photographer: Mayra Wallraff, 2023

Call for Papers!
Drag! Queer Crossings in Global Contexts

Symposium 13 May 2024. Organized by B Camminga, Tunay Altay, Özgün Eylül İşcen, and Ruth Ramsden-Karelse

24 January 2024

KV Scale

Announcement
ICI Fellowships 2024–26

The ICI Berlin announces twelve post-doctoral fellowships for the ICI Focus ‘Scale’ of the ICI Core Project ‘Reduction’.

20 December 2023

Mood-Shifting-Nature

Call for Papers!
Symposium Shifting Natures

14 – 15 March 2024. Organized by Federica Buongiorno, Alberica Bazzoni, Xenia Chiaramonte

20 December 2023

Organized by B Camminga, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Natascia Tosel

Call for Papers! Symposium Recognition

Organized by B Camminga, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Natascia Tosel

19 December 2023

Screening and Discussion 'Quilombo, Continuum' with director Juliana Streva, Thursday, 14 December 2023, 16:15.

ICI Visiting Fellows Marlon Miguel and Elena Vogman present Screening & Discussion @ UdK Berlin

Screening and Discussion ‘Quilombo, Continuum’ with director Juliana Streva, Thursday, 14 December 2023, 16:15.

11 December 2023

Winter Recess 23

Winter Recess 2023

11 Dec 2023 – 7 Jan 2024

28 November 2023

Mood Climbing Aboard

Hot Off the Press!
Climbing Aboard

Havana Apartment-Galleries and International Art Circuits, by Analays Alvarez Hernandez

28 November 2023

Mood Ulysses

Hot off the Press!
Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories

by Elena Lombardi

31 October 2023

Mood-CFP

Call For Papers!
Model Organisms: Materiality, History and Politics

Deadline 30 Nov 2023

24 October 2023

Black Box & Oil as Imperial Allegories: The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Gulf Futurism, 27-28 Oct 2023

Affiliate Fellow Özgün Eylül Îscen will give a talk @ KW Digital

Black Box & Oil as Imperial Allegories: The Geopolitical Aesthetic of Gulf Futurism, 27-28 Oct 2023

18 October 2023

Workshop together with Juliana Streva @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 1 Nov 2023, 14:00-19:30

Former ICI Fellow Iracema Dulley on Psychoanalysis and Decoloniality

Workshop together with Juliana Streva @ Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 1 Nov 2023, 14:00-19:30

10 October 2023

GP Nina

Overseen and Overlooked
Three Films by Domietta Torlasco

Organized by former Fellow Clio Nicastro presented by the Harun Farocki Institut

26 September 2023

News Ben 23

Former ICI Fellow Ben Nichols has been awarded the network grant Beyond Radical

Queer Theory and the UK (AHRC Research Network, 2023-24)

20 September 2023

Mood War Torn

Hot off the Press! War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments

Reflections from the Middle East ed.by Former Fellow Umut Yıldırım

19 September 2023

KV LS Models

New ICI Lecture Series
Models 2023-24

A model can be an object of admiration, a miniature or a prototype, an abstracted phenomenon or applied theory, a literary text — practically anything from a human body on a catwalk to a mathematical description of a system

6 September 2023

Ed. by Former ICI Fellows Antonio Castore and Federico Dal Bo

Hot off the Press! Untying the Mother Tongue

Ed. by Former ICI Fellows Antonio Castore and Federico Dal Bo

4 September 2023

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ICI Affiliated Fellow Özgün Eylül İşcen will give a talk at HKW on Counter-Futuring

Past Futures and Speculative Presences of Computing: Sunday, 30 July 2023, 15:00.

Cover Worlding Love, Gender, and Care

Hot off the Press! Worlding Love, Gender, and Care

Shigeko Kubota’s Sexual Healing by Franziska Koch

Summer Recess 23

Summer Recess 2023

17 Jul – 10 Sep 2023

with John Andrew McNeish, Itzell Torres, and Nino Vallen on
Latin American Perspectives on the Promise of the Green Transition @ diffrakt. Thursday, 29 June 2023, 19:30. In English.

Affiliate Fellow Michela Coletta on the Critical Raw Materials Act

with John Andrew McNeish, Itzell Torres, and Nino Vallen on
Latin American Perspectives on the Promise of the Green Transition @ diffrakt. Thursday, 29 June 2023, 19:30. In English.

Mood Dulley

Affiliated Fellow Iracema Dulley will give talk on Generalisierung und der Fall @ PsyBi

27 June 2023, 20:00. In German

Mood Coding Utopias

Call for Papers
Coding Utopias

This symposium draws on the notion of coding, which is deployed in multiple areas ranging from genetic coding and cybernetics to politics and art. Please email a 200-word proposal and short bio by Monday, 17 July 2023.

The keyword for this year’s World Picture Conference is ‘models’. It stages a collaboration with the current ICI Research Project, which reflects upon modelling practices across different fields, with a particular focus on the role of reduction and its critical potentials.

Call for Papers
Models

The keyword for this year’s World Picture Conference is ‘models’. It stages a collaboration with the current ICI Research Project, which reflects upon modelling practices across different fields, with a particular focus on the role of reduction and its critical potentials.

KV Kishik

Hot off the Press! Self Study. Notes on the Schizoid Condition

Former Fellow David Kishik just published his genre-bending work of autophilosophy.

Spring Recess 2023

Spring Recess 2023

The ICI Berlin will be in spring recess from 3 April – 1 May 2023.

The paper aims to analyse the current process of juridification that is altering the relation between the political and the legal realms.

Fellow Natascia Tosel on State, Law and Institutions: A Study on Juridification

The paper aims to analyse the current process of juridification that is altering the relation between the political and the legal realms.

News Sam

Visiting Fellow Sam Dolbear Begins Project on Making Fists

in Aesthetic and Political Histories of the GDR

Emanuele Severino's Law and Chance (Legge e Caso) explores the metaphysical categories that underpin the theoretical and practical domination of contemporary science.

Former ICI Fellow Damiano Sacco as part of the first English translation of Law and Chance by Emanuele Severino

Emanuele Severino’s Law and Chance (Legge e Caso) explores the metaphysical categories that underpin the theoretical and practical domination of contemporary science.

28 February 2023

News Anachival Practices

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Anarchival Practices

Using the Clanwilliam Arts Project as a case study, this volume is founded on the ‘anarchive’, a conceptual constellation that positions the past in relation to the present.

28 February 2023

KV News Goliarda Sapienza, the Outsider

ICI Affiliate Fellow Alberica Bazzoni as part of the podcast Goliarda Sapienza, the Outsider

This week the life and legacy of the long-forgotten and misunderstood queer feminist writer Goliarda Sapienza is considered in a podcast.

27 February 2023

KV News

ICI Affiliate Fellow Christopher Chamberlin on Institution and Madness

Workshop, Saturday, 11 February 2023, 15:00-18:00 @ PSYBI.

24 January 2023

on Gays, Girls, and the Queen’s Hotel, Reimagining Cape Town’s Lost District Six with the Kewpie Photographic Collection, Tue, 31 January 2023, 19:00.

ICI Fellow Ruth Ramsden-Karelse will give a talk @ TU Berlin

on Gays, Girls, and the Queen’s Hotel, Reimagining Cape Town’s Lost District Six with the Kewpie Photographic Collection, Tue, 31 January 2023, 19:00.

16 January 2023

Winter Recess 2022

Winter Recess 2022

The ICI Berlin will be in winter recess starting 12 December 2022. We will resume our public activities with the new term, starting on 9 January 2023.

28 November 2022

KV News

Clio Nicastro & Rosa Barotsi, organizers of film retrospective @ Arsenal

Arsenal cinema   presents four films by Mantas Kvedaravičius on 18 & 19 November and 2 & 3 December 2022. The retrospective explores the work of the Lituanian filmmaker, anthropologist, and archeologist, whose focus was everyday life lived in the midst of war and in spite of it.

16 November 2022

KV Submarines

Former VW-ICI Visiting Fellow M. Ty as part of book presentation Submarines @ ACUD

Submarines brings together drawings by the artist Josephine Baker and texts by M. Ty, in a collaborative search through the underside of the sea, 13 Nov 2022, 18:00.

9 November 2022

Critical discourse hardly knows a more devastating charge against theories, technologies, or structures than that of being reductive. Yet, expansion and growth cannot fare any better today.

Hot off the Press!
The Case for Reduction

Critical discourse hardly knows a more devastating charge against theories, technologies, or structures than that of being reductive. Yet, expansion and growth cannot fare any better today.

12 October 2022

Researcher

Job Offer
Research Coordinator

For our core project Reduction, we are looking for a responsible, reliable, and committed Research Coordinator. Deadline: 14 October 2022

21 September 2022

The taste for a departure from progress and other teleologies, the fascination with disorder, unfocused modes of attention, or improvisational performances cut across wide swaths of scholarly and activist discourses, practices in the arts — yet also in business, warfare, and politics.

Hot off the Press!
Errans: Going Astray, Being Adrift, Coming to Nothing

The taste for a departure from progress and other teleologies, the fascination with disorder, unfocused modes of attention, or improvisational performances cut across wide swaths of scholarly and activist discourses, practices in the arts — yet also in business, warfare, and politics.

20 September 2022

The workshop Worlding Art History through Syllabi takes up the notion of 'worlding' to explore how art history is taught in different places and institutions around the world. Deadline 26 Sep 2022.

Call for Papers! Worlding Art History through Syllabi

The workshop Worlding Art History through Syllabi takes up the notion of ‘worlding’ to explore how art history is taught in different places and institutions around the world. Deadline 26 Sep 2022.

15 September 2022

KV Catering Assistant

Job Offer
Catering Assistant

ICI Berlin is looking for a part-time catering assistant (15 h per week) to take care of receptions and support workflows of ICI Events.

News

ICI Associate Member Agnese Grieco hat den Deutsch-Italienischen Übersetzerpreis gewonnen

Den Preis für die beste Übersetzung, in 2022, erhält Agnese Grieco für Annette, un poema eroico, die italienische Version von Anne Webers Annette, ein Heldinnenepos.

Summer Recess 2022

Summer
Recess 2022

The ICI Berlin will be in summer recess from 18 July on. We thank our fellows, staff, associates, cooperation partners and all the friends of the ICI Berlin and wish ...

KV Publications

Job Offer
Managing Editor ICI Berlin Press

ICI Berlin Press is looking for a part-time Managing Editor to coordinate and oversee all its workflows and procedures.

This volume challenges the persistent association of the Middle Ages with closure and fixity. It uncovers forms of openness which are often obscured by modern assumptions, and demonstrates how they coexist with, or even depend upon, enclosure and containment in paradoxical and unexpected ways.

Hot off the Press!
Openness in Medieval Europe

This volume challenges the persistent association of the Middle Ages with closure and fixity. It uncovers forms of openness which are often obscured by modern assumptions, and demonstrates how they coexist with, or even depend upon, enclosure and containment in paradoxical and unexpected ways.

VW-ICI Visiting Fellow Clio Nicastro and former ICI Fellows Cristina Baldacci and Arianna Nicastro as part of the online book presentation Over and Over and  Over Again. Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory,  28 Feb 2022, 18:00-19:30.

VW-ICI Visiting Fellow Clio Nicastro, former ICI Fellows Cristina Baldacci and Arianna Sforzini as part of the online book presentation

VW-ICI Visiting Fellow Clio Nicastro and former ICI Fellows Cristina Baldacci and Arianna Nicastro as part of the online book presentation Over and Over and  Over Again. Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory,  28 Feb 2022, 18:00-19:30.

26 February 2022

ICI Fellow Amina El-Halawani will give a lecture on Writing Home and Away:  Vignettes of Home and Homing @ at the Illinois Global Institute of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,  1 Mar 2022, 12:00

ICI Fellow Amina El-Halawani on Writing Home and Away @ University of Illinois

ICI Fellow Amina El-Halawani will give a lecture on Writing Home and Away:  Vignettes of Home and Homing @ at the Illinois Global Institute of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign,  1 Mar 2022, 12:00

26 February 2022

KV news Queeres Kino

Buchvorstellung: Queeres Kino / Queere Ästhetiken 25.1.2022

Im Rahmen der Reihe Medien|Denken des Instituts für Medienwissenschaft an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum wird am 25.1.2022 das Buch Queeres Kindo / Queere Ästhetiken als Dokumentationen des Prekären, hg. v. Astrid ...

21 January 2022

Over the last twenty years, reenactment has been appropriated by both contemporary artistic production and art-theoretical discourse, becoming a distinctive strategy to engage with history and memory, establishing unconventional modes of historicization and narration.

Hot off the Press!
Over and Over and Over Again: Reenactment Strategies in Contemporary Arts and Theory

Over the last twenty years, reenactment has been appropriated by both contemporary artistic production and art-theoretical discourse, becoming a distinctive strategy to engage with history and memory, establishing unconventional modes of historicization and narration.

KV News

VW-ICI Visiting Fellow M. Ty @ Tate

VW-ICI Visiting Fellow M. Ty as part of the online conference Consent not to be a single being: Worlding Through the Caribbean, 1-3 Dec 2021

1 December 2021

Winter Recess 2021

Winter Recess

The ICI Berlin will be in winter recess starting 13 December 2021. We will resume our public activities with the new term, starting on 10 January 2022.

29 November 2021

KV News

ICI Affiliate Fellow Facundo Vega Organizes Arendt Conference

The Politics of Beginning
Hannah Arendt Today
30 Nov – 2 Dec 2021
Online Conference

26 November 2021

‘Emboding Codes: Articulating Musical Patterns from Reduced Data’ keynote by Visiting Fellow Federica Buongiorno on 24 Nov 2021, 17:15.

Visiting Fellow Federica Buongiorno @ ARTICULATIONS

‘Emboding Codes: Articulating Musical Patterns from Reduced Data’ keynote by Visiting Fellow Federica Buongiorno on 24 Nov 2021, 17:15.

17 November 2021

KV Models

ICI Fellowship Announcement

The ICI Berlin announces eleven post-doctoral fellowships for the Focus ‘Models’ of the Core Project ‘Reduction’ for the Academic Years 2022-24.

13 November 2021

KV news Queeres Kino

Hot off the Press!
Queeres Kino / Queere Ästhetiken als Dokumentationen des Prekären

When queer cinema and queer aesthetics document the precarious, it also implies a revolution in the symbolic realm. The contributions offer an insight into the current state of queer cinema — its films, videos, and visual installations.

19 October 2021

Still from Silent: Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz

Affiliate Fellow Amelia Groom as part of the programme Still in Touch

The evening features DJ-sets by Bianca Kruk, snacks, drinks, talks by Todd Sekuler and Amelia Groom, and videos by Aykan Safoğlu and Boudry / Lorenz, as part of the clipclub queer-feminist film and video art series @ District Berlin, Thu 16 September 2021, 17:00.

14 September 2021

Summer Recess

Summer Recess 2021

The ICI Berlin is in summer recess from 19 July – 10 Sep 2021.

Camérer. A propos d’images edited by Sandra Alvarez de Toledo, Anaïs Masson,
Former Fellow Marlon Miguel, and Marina Vidal-Naquet.

Hot off the press! Camérer. A propos d’images

Camérer. A propos d’images edited by Sandra Alvarez de Toledo, Anaïs Masson,
Former Fellow Marlon Miguel, and Marina Vidal-Naquet.

News

Former ICI Fellow Cristina Baldacci @ Akademie der Künste

Former ICI Fellow Cristina Baldacci will be part of a series of talks called ‘Arbeit am Gedächtnis – Transforming Archives’ @ Akademie der Künste on Tue, 8 June 2021, 19:00.

News

Affiliate Fellow Marlon Miguel will be giving a talk @ the Institut National de l’Histoire de l’Art

Affiliate Fellow Marlon Miguel will be giving a talk on ‘Mettre la vie en œuvre : autour de ‘La caméra outil pédagogique’ (1955) de Fernand Deligny’, Wed, 19 May 2021, 18:00 (CET), in French, via Zoom.

News

Affiliate Fellow Marlon Miguel will be giving a talk @ the Collège International de Philosophie

Affiliate Fellow Marlon Miguel will be giving a talk on  ‘De la psychiatrie rebelle de Nise da Silveira aux mouvements pour la Réforme Psychiatrique: Clinique, Démocratie et Colonialisme au Brésil’, Mo, 17 May 2021, 20:00 (CET), in French.

News Mood

Affiliate Fellow Marlon Miguel will be giving a talk @ Atelier Vygotski

On Tu, 30 March 2021(CET), 14:00 – 17:00, via zoom

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Affiliate Fellow Marlon Miguel on Fernand Deligny: le réseau à venir

Affiliate Fellow Marlon Miguel will be taking part in the discussion: Fernand Deligny: le réseau à venire, Thursday, 11 March 2021, 17:00-18:15 (CET) via Zoom
In English

News Mood

ICI Fellow Amina ElHalawani on The Role of Kinship in the Songs of Sayed Darwish

ICI Fellow Amina ElHalawani will be presenting her chapter within the book launch of ‘Kinship and Collective Action in Literature and Culture’ (2020), followed by a roundtable discussion, 25 Feb 2021, 19:15 via zoom

22 February 2021

Mood Waiting

ICI Affiliate Fellow M. Ty
On Doing Justice

ICI Affiliate Fellow M. Ty will be joining a conversation via zoom On Doing Justice, Friday 29 Jan 2021, 10:00.

28 January 2021

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ICI Affiliate Fellow Peter Rehberg on Intimacy @ Schwules Museum

Co-curator, Head of Collections and Archives of Schwules Museum, and former ICI Affiliate Fellow Peter Rehberg will give an online-tour of the exhibition ‘Intimacy’ @ Schwules Museum on Thursday, 21 January 2021, 10:00 , to be streamed live on Facebook and Instagram.

20 January 2021

Mood Possibilities of Lyric

Book presentation of ‘Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue’

Presentation and discussion of the latest ICI Berlin Press publication by Manuele Gragnolati and Francesca Southerden, Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue on 26 Feb 2021, 17:00 via zoom.

20 January 2021

ICI Fellow Christopher Chamberlin will be presenting new work on the genealogy of the antiracist clinic, 20 Jan 2021, 20:00 CET via zoom.

ICI Fellow Christopher Chamberlin on ‘The Anti-Racist Clinic’

ICI Fellow Christopher Chamberlin will be presenting new work on the genealogy of the antiracist clinic, 20 Jan 2021, 20:00 CET via zoom.

20 January 2021

News Marlon Miguel

Affiliate Fellow Marlon Miguel
On Psychiatric Power

Affiliate Fellow Marlon Miguel will be presenting a talk via zoom On Psychiatric Power, 18 Jan 2021, 18:00.

11 January 2021

Winter Recess

Winter Recess

The ICI Berlin is in winter recess from 14 Dec 2020 – 8 Jan 2021.

2 December 2020

This online event will lay out some key concepts useful for thinking the relation between contemporary (New) Weird fictions and ecological thought. Tuesday, 1 Dec 2020, 5 pm.

Affiliated Fellow Alison Sperling on Weird Fiction and Ecological Thought

This online event will lay out some key concepts useful for thinking the relation between contemporary (New) Weird fictions and ecological thought. Tuesday, 1 Dec 2020, 5 pm.

30 November 2020

Bibliothek

Job Offer
Academic Librarian

Das ICI Berlin, ein unabhängiges, gemeinnütziges Forschungsinstitut in Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg, sucht für seine interdisziplinäre, kulturwissenschaftlich orientierte Präsenzbibliothek, die ICI Library, zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt eine/n Wissenschaftliche/n Bibliothekar*in.

17 November 2020

News Marlon Miguel

Affiliated Fellow Marlon Miguel on Milieu, (Anti)psychiatry and Disorder

Former ICI Fellow Marlon Miguel will be presenting a talk via zoom on Milieu, (Anti)psychiatry and Disorder: A Cartography of Radical Clinical Practices, 17 Nov 2020, 16:00

16 November 2020

Researcher

Job Offer
Research Coordinator

The ICI Berlin is an independent research centre located in Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg. For our core project reduction, we are looking for a responsible, reliable, and committed Research Coordinator.

For the technical support of our events and the ICI Berlin Press publications, we are looking for a responsible, reliable, and committed Technical Assistant.

Job Offer
Technical Assistant

For the technical support of our events and the ICI Berlin Press publications, we are looking for a responsible, reliable, and committed Technical Assistant.

KV News

Luca Di Blasi on Schuldpolitik im Anthropozän @ Gropius Bau

ICI Associate Member Luca Di Blasi will give a talk on Schuldpolitik im Anthropozän @ Gropius Bau on Fr 28.08.2020, 17:30

ICI Associate Member Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky to discuss Hannah Arendt's relation to feminism with Seyla Benhabib and Eva von Redecker @ DHM.

Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky on Hannah Arendt and Feminism @ DHM

ICI Associate Member Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky to discuss Hannah Arendt’s relation to feminism with Seyla Benhabib and Eva von Redecker @ DHM.

Blue is the color of your eyes (2008) by Louise Bourgeois

Alison Sperling on Feminist SF @ PA58 Theater Hall

Alison Sperling will be a guest in the Talk-Show series Feminist SF: Visions of M/otherhood & Reproduction @ PA58 Theatre Hall, on Thursday, 24 Sep 2020, 18:00.

KV News Summer Recess 2020

Summer
Recess 2020

The ICI Berlin will be in summer recess from 20 July – 11 Sep 2020.

KV News Grapevine Epistemologies

Amelia Groom on Grapevine Epistemologies @ Lothringer 13 Halle

Amelia Groom will be presenting a lecture on rumour, gossip, hearsay and ‘grapevine epistemologies’ as part of the K 2020 programme at Lothringer 13 Halle, 12 Sep 2020, 19.00.

The research collective Spellbound is part of ‘death | text | resonance: Simone Weil and Writing to(wards) Death’, conference and online platform.

Spellbound on Simone Weil @ death | text | resonance

The research collective Spellbound is part of ‘death | text | resonance: Simone Weil and Writing to(wards) Death’, conference and online platform.

Mood Waitingroom

Explore the
ICI Archive

We would like to encourage you to explore the public archive of hundreds of videorecorded ICI Events.

Mood Saal

ICI Events
suspended

The ICI Berlin has suspended all events until at least mid May, in accordance with the directives of the Berlin Senate, and is exploring new formats to continue its programming online.

KV Dante

Hot off the press!
Claude Lefort: Dante’s Modernity

Claude Lefort, one of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century, reads Dante’s Monarchia, showing the surprising relevance of this radical fourteenth-century treatise that defends the necessity of universal monarchy and its independence from the Church for modern political theory.

4 February 2020

Hot off the press! Petrolio 25 anni dopo

Hot off the press!
Petrolio 25 anni dopo

Released only 17 years after the author’s assassination, Pasolini’s Petrolio faced bitter controversies, which did not help its understanding. Exploring the entanglements of political and economic power of those years, ...

4 February 2020

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ICI Fellow Amelia Groom on Silence, Laughter @ Kunsthochschule Weißensee

ICI Fellow Amelia Groom is giving a talk about Silence; Laughter, and the 1982 film A Question of Silence by Marleen Gorris, 22 January 2020, 17:30 @ Kunsthochschule Weißensee

21 January 2020

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ICI Fellowship
Announcement

Reduction. The ICI Berlin announces 12 postdoctoral fellowships for the Academic Years 2020-22. Application deadline: 19 January 2020.

16 January 2020

Current ICI Fellow Daniel Liu has been awarded the 2020 Everett Mendelsohn Prize, awarded annually for a paper published in the Journal for the History of Biology, for his essay 'The Cell and Protoplasm as Container, Object, and Substance, 1835–1861'.

Daniel Liu awarded 2020 Everett Mendelsohn Prize

Current ICI Fellow Daniel Liu has been awarded the 2020 Everett Mendelsohn Prize, awarded annually for a paper published in the Journal for the History of Biology, for his essay ‘The Cell and Protoplasm as Container, Object, and Substance, 1835–1861’.

16 January 2020

Former ICI Fellow Marcus Coelen will lead a workshop on '

Marcus Coelen leads workshop on Derrida’s ‘Geschlecht III’ @ PsyBi

Former ICI Fellow Marcus Coelen will lead a workshop on ‘”sexe”, “race”, “nation”, “humanité”. Zu Jacques Derrida’s Geschlecht III’, on 17 January 2020, 12:00–17:00, @ Psychoanalytische Bibliothek (Hardenbergstr. 9).

13 January 2020

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Winter Recess
2019

The ICI Berlin will be in winter recess starting 16 December 2019. We will resume our public activities with the new term, starting on 13 January 2020.

19 November 2019

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ICI Fellow Y. Ariadne Collins on Colonial Residue @ Silent Green Kulturquartier

ICI Fellow Y. Ariadne Collins is giving a talk on 9 November 2019 at 15:50, as part of the SAVVY programme ‘The Long Term You Cannot Afford. On the Distribution of the Toxic’ at Silent Green Kulturquartier.

4 November 2019

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Claudia Peppel presents ‘Die Kunst des Wartens’ @ Sautter + Lackmann

Claudia Peppel presents Die Kunst des Wartens, published by Verlag Klaus Wagenbach @ Sautter + Lackmann on Wednesday, 30 October 2019, 19:30.

29 October 2019

ICI Senior Researcher Arnd Wedemeyer will present on Hans Blumenberg and the phenomenology of language as part of the international conference 'New Approaches to Hans Blumenberg' @ Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10 October 2019, 18:00.

Arnd Wedemeyer on Hans Blumenberg @ Akademie der Künste

ICI Senior Researcher Arnd Wedemeyer will present on Hans Blumenberg and the phenomenology of language as part of the international conference ‘New Approaches to Hans Blumenberg’ @ Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10, 10 October 2019, 18:00.

10 October 2019

KV Torres

Carlos Alberto Torres on Deliberative Democracy

The talk by Carlos Alberto Torres, organized by ICI Fellow Marlon Miguel, and Bernardo Bianchi, Émilie Filion-Donato, Ayşe Yuva, will take place @ Centre Marc Bloch, 24 Sep 2019, 17:00 -19:00

24 September 2019

Former ICI Fellows Julie Gaillard and Hannah Proctor will give presentations at the international conference 'Libidinal Economies in Crisis Times' @ ACUD Macht Neu, 27–28 September 2019.

Julie Gaillard and Hannah Proctor on Libidinal Economies @ ACUD

Former ICI Fellows Julie Gaillard and Hannah Proctor will give presentations at the international conference ‘Libidinal Economies in Crisis Times’ @ ACUD Macht Neu, 27–28 September 2019.

23 September 2019

Mood Hurston Tell My Horse

‘Spellbound’ continues: Trance, Possession, and the Anthropological Gaze @ diffrakt

The series ‘Spellbound’, organized by ICI Affiliated Fellows Clio Nicastro and Hannah Proctor with Nadine Hartmann, continues @ diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery in another installment on 25 September (19:30), discussing Maya Deren and Zora Neale Hurston with Andrew Witt.

21 September 2019

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Christiane Frey on Blanckenburg’s Theory of the Novel @ HU Berlin

ICI Affiliate Fellow Christiane Frey will lecture on ‘Leben und Form der kleinen Bezüge. Zu Blanckenburgs “Versuch über den Roman”‘, at the workshop ‘Das Wissen des Romans. Lebens-Form / Gattungs-Form’, at the HU Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24, Raum 3.246. 12:00, 26 July 2019.

The series 'Spellbound', organized by ICI Affiliated Fellows Clio Nicastro and Hannah Proctor with Nadine Hartmann, continues @ diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery in another installment on 15 July (19:30), discussing Maya Deren's films with Andrew Witt.

‘Spellbound’ continues: ‘Maya Deren & Cinematic Trance’ @ diffrakt

The series ‘Spellbound’, organized by ICI Affiliated Fellows Clio Nicastro and Hannah Proctor with Nadine Hartmann, continues @ diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery in another installment on 15 July (19:30), discussing Maya Deren’s films with Andrew Witt.

Tom Vandeputte will speak about 'Rechtsprechung und Sprachgerechtigkeit' as part of the workshop 'Übersetzung von Gewalt. Walter Benjamins

Tom Vandeputte on language, law, and justice @ Centre Marc Bloch

Tom Vandeputte will speak about ‘Rechtsprechung und Sprachgerechtigkeit’ as part of the workshop ‘Übersetzung von Gewalt. Walter Benjamins “Zur Kritik der Gewalt”‘ @ Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstr. 191, 3rd floor, Georg-Simmel-Saal, on 12 July 2019, 12:40.

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Amelia Groom on politics and poetics of silence @ Wolf Kino

ICI Fellow Amelia Groom is giving a talk about the politics and poetics of silence @ Wolf Kino on 26 July 2019, 19:30.

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Y. Ariadne Collins on Governing Postcolonial Climates @ Gropius Bau

ICI Fellow Y. Ariadne Collins is giving a talk on 27 July 2019 entitled Governing Postcolonial Climates, as part of the discursive programme of the Berliner Festpiele

The ICI Berlin will be in summer recess from 8 Jul - 20 Sep 2019.

Summer Recess 2019

The ICI Berlin will be in summer recess from 8 Jul – 20 Sep 2019.

Former ICI affiliate fellow Peter Rehberg presents his recently published Hipster Porn @ Schwules Museum on 23 May 2019, at 19:30. The book reflects on the style-defining originality of the queer fanzine Butt, in print from 2001 to 2011.

Peter Rehberg on ‘Hipster Porn’ @ Schwules Museum

Former ICI affiliate fellow Peter Rehberg presents his recently published Hipster Porn @ Schwules Museum on 23 May 2019, at 19:30. The book reflects on the style-defining originality of the queer fanzine Butt, in print from 2001 to 2011.

Former ICI Fellow Marcus Coelen will give a presentation and lead a workshop session on Georges Bataille's social psychology of fascist affect politics as part of a one-day workshop at the FU Berlin on 5 June 2019, 9:30–13:00.

Marcus Coelen on Bataille’s analysis of fascism @ FU Berlin

Former ICI Fellow Marcus Coelen will give a presentation and lead a workshop session on Georges Bataille’s social psychology of fascist affect politics as part of a one-day workshop at the FU Berlin on 5 June 2019, 9:30–13:00.

Former ICI Fellow Marcus Coelen will give a lecture entitled 'Sprache und Psychosen', part of lecture series 'Historische und theoretische Aspekte des Phänomens Psychose' at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin, on 10 May 2019, 16:30.

Marcus Coelen on ‘Language and Psychoses’ @ IPU Berlin

Former ICI Fellow Marcus Coelen will give a lecture entitled ‘Sprache und Psychosen’, part of lecture series ‘Historische und theoretische Aspekte des Phänomens Psychose’ at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) Berlin, on 10 May 2019, 16:30.

Former ICI Fellow James Burton will engage French philosopher Élie During in a multimedia conversation entitled '2001: To Infinity — and Beyond!' @ diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery, 13 April 2019, 19:30.

James Burton on ‘2001: To Infinity — and Beyond!’ @ diffrakt

Former ICI Fellow James Burton will engage French philosopher Élie During in a multimedia conversation entitled ‘2001: To Infinity — and Beyond!’ @ diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery, 13 April 2019, 19:30.

Current ICI Fellow Alison Sperling will be in conversation with Émilie Notéris at the event ‘2368: The Word for World is Forest’ at diffrakt about Science Fiction and Ecology , inspired by the work of Ursula Le Guin,on Saturday, 30 March 2019, at 19:30.

ICI Fellow Alison Sperling on ‘2368: The Word for World is Forest’ @ diffrakt

Current ICI Fellow Alison Sperling will be in conversation with Émilie Notéris at the event ‘2368: The Word for World is Forest’ at diffrakt about Science Fiction and Ecology , inspired by the work of Ursula Le Guin,on Saturday, 30 March 2019, at 19:30.

The book Die Kunst des Wartens (ed. by Brigitte Kölle and Claudia Peppel) collects texts and images about waiting as well as works of former ICI Fellows Rosa Barotsi, Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Hannah Proctor. Book Presentation @ Berlinische Galerie, 12 Jun 2019, 19:00

Hot off the press! Die Kunst des Wartens

The book Die Kunst des Wartens (ed. by Brigitte Kölle and Claudia Peppel) collects texts and images about waiting as well as works of former ICI Fellows Rosa Barotsi, Cristina Baldacci, Clio Nicastro, and Hannah Proctor. Book Presentation @ Berlinische Galerie, 12 Jun 2019, 19:00

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ICI Fellow Alison Sperling on ‘The New Weird’ @ HKW

Current ICI Fellow Alison Sperling will participate in the literary event ‘The New Weird’ with the author Tom McCarthy, Jim Clarke, the Young Girl Reading Group, et al,
on Thursday, 28 March 2019, at 18:00 at HKW

The series 'Spellbound', organized by ICI Fellows Clio Nicastro and Hannah Proctor with Nadine Hartmann, continues at diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery, on 18 and 25 March, 19:30, screening and discussing two films about 'Demonic Possession'.

‘Spellbound’ continues: ‘Demonic Possession’ @ diffrakt

The series ‘Spellbound’, organized by ICI Fellows Clio Nicastro and Hannah Proctor with Nadine Hartmann, continues at diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery, on 18 and 25 March, 19:30, screening and discussing two films about ‘Demonic Possession’.

ICI Fellow Marlon Miguel organizes with Mariana Simoni and Barbara Marcel a panel discussion on the legacy of Marielle Franco on Monday, 25 March 2019, 18:00 @ FU Berlin.

ICI Fellow Marlon Miguel on the legacy of Marielle Franco @ FU Berlin

ICI Fellow Marlon Miguel organizes with Mariana Simoni and Barbara Marcel a panel discussion on the legacy of Marielle Franco on Monday, 25 March 2019, 18:00 @ FU Berlin.

Current ICI Fellow Amelia Groom will give a talk 'All a Blur' as part of the conference 'Thinking Together' of this year's installment of MaerzMusik. The conference session, entitled 'Circluding History II', will take place @ Berliner Festspiele, Sunday, 24 March 2019, 14:00-18:00.

ICI Fellow Amelia Groom on ‘All a Blur’ @ MaerzMusik

Current ICI Fellow Amelia Groom will give a talk ‘All a Blur’ as part of the conference ‘Thinking Together’ of this year’s installment of MaerzMusik. The conference session, entitled ‘Circluding History II’, will take place @ Berliner Festspiele, Sunday, 24 March 2019, 14:00-18:00.

Cristina Baldacci and Francesco Giusti

A Conversation About Re-: An Errant Glossary

Former ICI Fellows Cristina Baldacci and Francesco Giusti featured in an interview with Clare Foster at CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) in February 2019

Cristina Baldacci and Francesco Giusti present Re-Glossary @ CRASSH

Cristina Baldacci and Francesco Giusti present Re-Glossary @ CRASSH

Cristina Baldacci and Francesco Giusti, ICI Fellows in the 2016-18 research project ERRANS, in time, present the volume Re-: An Errant Glossary in the seminar ‘Repetition as Claiming Space’ of the ...

4 February 2019

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Hannah Proctor on ‘Divided Selves’ @ Psychoanalytische Bibliothek

Although psychoanalytic concepts and practices were vocally critiqued by British antipsychiatrists and experimental therapeutic communities in Britain, psychoanalysis remained, though obliquely or in repurposed forms, an influence and inspiration to people involved in these movements.

2 February 2019

Publications Cover RE

Hot off the press! Re-: An Errant Glossary

The fifteenth volume of the Series ‘Cultural Inquiry’ has just been released and is available in print and in several ebook formats. It gathers papers presented at the ICI Fellow workshop in 2017.

22 January 2019

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Book series ‘Cultural Inquiry’ continues as open access publication

The book series ‘Cultural Inquiry’ switches publishers. After publishing fourteen volumes over the course of nine years with Turia+Kant, new titles in the series will now be published by ICI Berlin Press, both open access online and as globally distributed print-on-demand books.

22 January 2019

The series 'Spellbound', organized by ICI Fellows Clio Nicastro and Hannah Proctor with Nadine Hartmann, continues at diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery with another two installments (21 and 28 January, 19:30), screening and discussing a film classic about 'Psychotic Transmission'.

‘Spellbound’ continues: ‘Psychotic Transmission’ @ diffrakt

The series ‘Spellbound’, organized by ICI Fellows Clio Nicastro and Hannah Proctor with Nadine Hartmann, continues at diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery with another two installments (21 and 28 January, 19:30), screening and discussing a film classic about ‘Psychotic Transmission’.

17 January 2019

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ICI Fellows part of Minor
Cosmopolitan Weekend @ HKW

ICI Fellows part of ‘Minor Cosmopolitan Weekend’ @ HKW, 6-8 Dec 2018

27 November 2018

Former ICI Fellow Christiane Frey to present keynote address 'Kleinformate und Monadologie: Leibniz, Benjamin', at HU conference 'Barock

Christiane Frey on Small Formats and Monadology @ HU Berlin

Former ICI Fellow Christiane Frey to present keynote address ‘Kleinformate und Monadologie: Leibniz, Benjamin’, at HU conference ‘Barock “en miniature”: Literarische Kleinformen des Barock und ihr Nachleben’, 16:30, 6 Dec 2016.

26 November 2018

Winter-Recess-2018

Winter Recess
2018

The ICI Berlin will be in winter recess starting 10 December 2018. We will resume our public activities with the new term, starting on 7 January 2019.

25 November 2018

Agnese Grieco @ Procida

Prize for
Atlante delle Sirene

ICI Associate Member Agnese Grieco won the Procida Mare isola di Arturo prize for her book Atlante delle Sirene (ilSaggiatore, 2017) in September 2018.

12 November 2018

ICI Fellows Clio Nicastro and Hannah Proctor are co-organizers, with Nadine Hartmann, of a new series of events and workshops at diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery called 'Spellbound: Female Adolescence as Choreography'.

Clio Nicastro and Hannah Proctor part of ‘Spellbound’ @ diffrakt

ICI Fellows Clio Nicastro and Hannah Proctor are co-organizers, with Nadine Hartmann, of a new series of events and workshops at diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery called ‘Spellbound: Female Adolescence as Choreography’.

1 November 2018

Who Am I (2017), the film directed by ICI Associate Member Agnese Grieco and Lucia Chiarla, was selected for the program and competition of the Hof International Film Festival.

Who Am I (dir. Agnese Grieco, Lucia Chiarla) selected for Hof International Film Festival

Who Am I (2017), the film directed by ICI Associate Member Agnese Grieco and Lucia Chiarla, was selected for the program and competition of the Hof International Film Festival.

31 October 2018

Former ICI Fellow Volker Woltersdorff will give a talk entitled 'Glaubt noch wer, dass Sex politisch ist?', as part of the conference 'Doppelpass: Lesben, Schwule und der Feminismus' @ the Schwules Museum, 31 Aug & 1 Sep 2018, co-organized by ICI Affiliate Fellow Peter Rehberg.

Volker Woltersdorff on Sex and
Politics @ Schwules Museum

Former ICI Fellow Volker Woltersdorff will give a talk entitled ‘Glaubt noch wer, dass Sex politisch ist?’, as part of the conference ‘Doppelpass: Lesben, Schwule und der Feminismus’ @ the Schwules Museum, 31 Aug & 1 Sep 2018, co-organized by ICI Affiliate Fellow Peter Rehberg.

Farewell 2018

Farewell to
ICI Fellows 2016-18

We are very sad that this week we will be saying goodbye to our current ICI Fellows.

Summer Recess 2018

Summer
Recess 2018

The ICI Berlin is in summer recess from 16 July on. We will resume our public activities after the beginning of the new academic year on 10 September.

ICI Senior Researcher Arnd Wedemeyer will present on 'Kantian Science Fiction: Lasswitz, Scheerbart, Geerken' as part of an evening of conversation with Peter Szendy under the title '1755: Of the Inhabitants of the Stars' @ diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery, on 14 July 2018, 19:30.

Arnd Wedemeyer on ‘1755: Of the Inhabitants of the Stars’ @ diffrakt

ICI Senior Researcher Arnd Wedemeyer will present on ‘Kantian Science Fiction: Lasswitz, Scheerbart, Geerken’ as part of an evening of conversation with Peter Szendy under the title ‘1755: Of the Inhabitants of the Stars’ @ diffrakt. centre for theoretical periphery, on 14 July 2018, 19:30.

Christiane Frey and Daniel C. Barber will participate in the workshop 'Political Theology and the Contemporary Moment: Beyond the Christian and the Secular' at the Theologische Fakultät of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 5-6th July, 2018.

Christiane Frey and Daniel C. Barber on the Christian and the Secular @ HU Berlin

Christiane Frey and Daniel C. Barber will participate in the workshop ‘Political Theology and the Contemporary Moment: Beyond the Christian and the Secular’ at the Theologische Fakultät of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 5-6th July, 2018.

ICI Fellow Christiane Frey on Copernicus, Kepler, and Gryphius @ workshop 'Ästhetische Eigenzeiten der Wissenschaften II', Freie Universität Berlin (Clubhaus, Goethestr. 49), 21-22 June, 2018.

Christiane Frey on Elliptical
Times @ FU Berlin

ICI Fellow Christiane Frey on Copernicus, Kepler, and Gryphius @ workshop ‘Ästhetische Eigenzeiten der Wissenschaften II’, Freie Universität Berlin (Clubhaus, Goethestr. 49), 21-22 June, 2018.

As the ‘Western world’ drifts towards the periphery of a ‘Westernized world’, a ‘return of religion’ reveals in 20th century philosophy a hidden continuation of religious orientations. This ‘religion of philosophy’ is the subject of the texts collected in the present volume.

Hot off the press! Dezentrierungen: Beiträge zur Religion der Philosophie im 20. Jahrhundert

As the ‘Western world’ drifts towards the periphery of a ‘Westernized world’, a ‘return of religion’ reveals in 20th century philosophy a hidden continuation of religious orientations. This ‘religion of philosophy’ is the subject of the texts collected in the present volume.

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Cristina Baldacci @
FRACTO (ACUD Studio)

ICI Fellow Cristina Baldacci will discuss artistic practices with the artists Maria Lorio and Raphaël Cuomo, who will present their film Appunti del passaggio at the opening night of FRACTO – Experimental Film Encounter, 24 May 2018, 19:00 at ACUD MACHT NEU.

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Zairong Xiang on
Transdualism @ HKW

Former ICI Fellow Zairong Xiang will speak about ‘Transdualism: The A/history of Yinyang’ as part of the conference ‘Deep Time and Crisis, c. 1930’ at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), 26-27 May, 2018.

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Luca Di Blasi & Marcus Coelen
on Landscapes of Trauma @ Stillpoint Spaces Berlin

ICI Associate Member Luca Di Blasi and former ICI Fellow Marcus Coelen will participate in a discussion Landscapes of Trauma: A Psychoanalytic Look at Performance Art @ Stillpoint Spaces Berlin, 11 May 2018.

Mood CFP Why Care?

Call for Papers:
Why Care?

This symposium will explore aesthetic and political practices of care in their historical dimensions and contemporary manifestations across critical disability studies, crip, queer, feminist theories, political theory, and literary studies. Deadline: 30 March 2018

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Call for Papers:
Dis-Ordered Eating

Deadline Extended: 20 March 2018! The symposium examines the discursive and aesthetic challenges that arise in both the definition and representation of eating disorders in film, literature and the arts, with particular attention to the relationship between eating disorders and temporality.

Agnese Grieco presents her book Atlante delle Sirene (ilSaggiatore, 2017) on 8 March 2018.

Agnese Grieco @ Mondolibro
Atlante delle sirene

Agnese Grieco presents her book Atlante delle Sirene (ilSaggiatore, 2017) on 8 March 2018.

Hania Siebenpfeiffer

Hania Siebenpfeiffer
on Biopolitics & Naked Life @ Helle Panke

ICI Associate Member Hania Siebenpfeiffer will lead a two-day seminar on ‘Michel Foucault & Giorgio Agamben: Biopolitik und “nacktes Leben”‘ @ Helle Panke, 27-28 January 2018.

24 January 2018

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ICI Fellowships
Announcement

ERRANS environ/s. The ICI Berlin announces 12 postdoctoral fellowships for the Academic Years 2018-20. Application deadline: 7 January 2018.

4 December 2017

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Winter
Recess

The ICI Berlin will be in winter recess starting 11 December 2017. Public activities will resume with the new term on 8 January 2018. The exhibition ‘Untimely Now’ can be visited until 19 December, and again from 2 January 2018.

4 December 2017

Performance A Farewell to Progress

Hannah Proctor @ KW
Lichtspiele: A Farewell to Progress

ICI Fellow Hannah Proctor on western capitalist and colonial narrative of ‘progress’ @ KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 7 Dec 2017, 20:30

30 November 2017

Discussion Communist Feelings

Hannah Proctor on Communist Feelings @ diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery

ICI Fellow Hannah Proctor @ the discussion Communist Feelings, diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery, 30 November 2017, 7:30pm.

27 November 2017

Volumes 12 and 13 in the series 'Cultural Inquiry' have just been released: Conatus und Lebensnot: Schlüsselbegriffe der Medienanthropologie, ed. by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky & Anna Tuschling, and Aura und Experiment: Naturwissenschaft und Technik bei Walter Benjamin, ed. by Kyung-Ho Cha.

Hot off the press!
Conatus und Lebensnot
Aura und Experiment

Volumes 12 and 13 in the series ‘Cultural Inquiry’ have just been released: Conatus und Lebensnot: Schlüsselbegriffe der Medienanthropologie, ed. by Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky & Anna Tuschling, and Aura und Experiment: Naturwissenschaft und Technik bei Walter Benjamin, ed. by Kyung-Ho Cha.

27 November 2017

ICI Fellow Christiane Frey on Copernicus, Kepler, and Gryphius @ workshop 'Ästhetische Eigenzeiten der Wissenschaften I', Freie Universität Berlin, 16-17 November, 2017.

Christiane Frey on Copernicus, Kepler, and Gryphius @ FU Berlin

ICI Fellow Christiane Frey on Copernicus, Kepler, and Gryphius @ workshop ‘Ästhetische Eigenzeiten der Wissenschaften I’, Freie Universität Berlin, 16-17 November, 2017.

27 October 2017

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New ICI Lecture Series: ERRANS, in Time

This ICI Lecture Series asks whether the heterogeneous relations between discordant conceptions of time can be understood as being ‘erratically’ structured, that is, as marked by inherent misapprehensions, a dissonance that defies regulation, and an unexpected variability.

5 September 2017

ICI_Library

ICI Berlin
Blogged

After ICI Berlin’s 10th anniversary, Dennis Schep from LiteraturWissenschaft in Berlin spoke to the director, Christoph Holzhey, and the staff researcher, Arnd Wedemeyer about the coexistence of cultures, the embrace of failure, and the role of literature at ICI Berlin.

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Summer
Recess

The ICI Berlin is now in summer recess. We will resume our public activities with the beginning of the new academic year on 11 September.

ICI Fellow Hannah Proctor @ the book presentation of Objects of Feminism, diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery, 14 August 2017, 7:30pm.

Hannah Proctor on Objects of Feminism @ diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery

ICI Fellow Hannah Proctor @ the book presentation of Objects of Feminism, diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery, 14 August 2017, 7:30pm.

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Call for Papers:
Over and Over
and Over Again

International symposium on re-enactment in contemporary art and theory. Deadline: 4 August 2017

ICI Affiliated Fellow Peter Rehberg @ the conference 'A Golden Age for Queer Sexual Politics? Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film in 1970s Germany', Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 20-22 July, 2017.

Peter Rehberg on Post- and Pre-AIDS Representations of Gay Masculinity @ Humboldt Universität

ICI Affiliated Fellow Peter Rehberg @ the conference ‘A Golden Age for Queer Sexual Politics? Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film in 1970s Germany’, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 20-22 July, 2017.

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ICI Yoga Lab
Registration

Friday, 30 June 2017, 11:00 with John David Rhodes The Yoga Lab is part of the Conference Reconfiguring Cultural Inquiry. Please don't forget to bring your yoga mat! Registration is closed

Banu Karaca

Banu Karaca on Freedom of Expression @ Akademie der Künste

ICI Affiliated Fellow Banu Karaca will give a talk on freedom of expression in the arts and culture and the current state of censorship in Turkey, Sunday, 11 June 2017, 19:00 at the Akademie der Künste.

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Banu Karaca on Freedom of the Press @ Deutsches Theater

ICI Affiliated Fellow Banu Karaca will speak about the current situation in Turkey, with special attention payed to the freedom of the press, tonight, 3 May 2017, at 21:30 at the Deutsche Theater, in the context of Free Words Berlin 2017.

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Call for Papers:
Imaging a ‘Middle East’

This symposium examines the continued seductiveness that Orientalism holds over the production of images of the contemporary ‘Middle East’, both inside and outside of the region.

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Hot off the press!
De/Constituting Wholes

Drawing on a variety of archives and methodologies, including aesthetics, history, biology, affect, race, and queer, the ICI Berlin’s latest book publication explores different ways of troubling the consistency and stability of wholes, breaking up their closure and making them more dynamic.

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Call for Papers:
The Shape of Return

Return is both a destination and a process. On the one hand, it is teleological and singular; on the other, meandering, self-prolonging, and perhaps even non-progressive. How does medieval culture cope with this ambivalence? How does return shape medieval cultural artifacts?

20 February 2017

The ICI Berlin mourns the loss of Annette Bitsch, one of the seven fellows with whom the Institute began its work in 2007. We will remember Annette as an enthusiastic, original, and generous thinker.

Remembering
Annette Bitsch

The ICI Berlin mourns the loss of Annette Bitsch, one of the seven fellows with whom the Institute began its work in 2007. We will remember Annette as an enthusiastic, original, and generous thinker.

19 January 2017

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Save the Date!

The ICI Berlin will be celebrating its 10-year anniversary with a three-day conference from 29 June – 1 July 2017.

7 December 2016

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ICI Website Relaunch!

Welcome to our new website! We are proud to present the relaunch, complete with enhanced functionality, responsiveness, and accessibility. Past content will be added over time. Our previous web pages remain accessible under legacy.ici-berlin.org.

5 December 2016

Redfield Global Ghetto

James Redfield Interview
Neukölln Rules

Video Interview mit James Redfield, in: Fluter, Magazin der Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung. Tal Sterngast, Silke Kettelhake, 8.6.2008. Quelle (Leider nicht mehr erreichbar in 2019). Anmerkung: Die für die Anthropologie verwendete Etymologie ...