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

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

28 March 2023

Spring Recess 2023

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

22 March 2023

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.

22 March 2023

Visiting Fellow Sam Dolbear Begins Project on Making Fists

in Aesthetic and Political Histories of the GDR

21 March 2023

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

Hot off the Press!
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

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

ICI Affiliate Fellow Christopher Chamberlin on Institution and Madness

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

24 January 2023

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

3 August 2022

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.

12 July 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 ...

11 July 2022

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.

16 June 2022

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.

3 May 2022

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 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

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

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.

5 January 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 2021

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

21 June 2021

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.

8 June 2021

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.

25 May 2021

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.

17 May 2021

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.

17 May 2021

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

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

26 March 2021

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

3 March 2021

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

2 December 2020

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

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

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

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.

7 October 2020

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.

7 October 2020

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

26 August 2020

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.

11 August 2020

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.

18 July 2020

Summer
Recess 2020

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

11 July 2020

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.

10 July 2020

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.

9 July 2020

Explore the
ICI Archive

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

27 April 2020

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.

30 March 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

‘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

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.

24 July 2019

‘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.

11 July 2019

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.

11 July 2019

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.

29 June 2019

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

27 June 2019

Summer Recess 2019

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

26 June 2019

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.

22 May 2019

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.

15 May 2019

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.

2 May 2019

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.

10 April 2019

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.

26 March 2019

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

25 March 2019

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

25 March 2019

‘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’.

22 March 2019

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.

20 March 2019

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.

20 March 2019

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

19 March 2019

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

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

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

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

‘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

ICI Fellows part of Minor
Cosmopolitan Weekend @ HKW

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

27 November 2018

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

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

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

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 (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

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.

28 August 2018

Farewell to
ICI Fellows 2016-18

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

16 July 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.

16 July 2018

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.

7 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.

25 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.

14 June 2018

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.

12 June 2018

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.

17 May 2018

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.

16 May 2018

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.

9 May 2018

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

7 March 2018

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.

6 March 2018

Agnese Grieco @ Mondolibro
Atlante delle sirene

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

3 March 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

7 August 2017

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.

25 July 2017

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.

25 July 2017

Call for Papers:
Over and Over
and Over Again

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

5 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.

5 July 2017

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

20 June 2017

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.

17 May 2017

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.

3 May 2017

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.

29 March 2017

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.

1 March 2017

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

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

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

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

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 ...

8 June 2008

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