A Revision without Reserve
Symposium, 3 Jun 2019, 10:30
With the entire trajectory of Homo sacer now evident in its completed arch and rearranged order, the symposium sets out to explore crucial concepts and issues at stake in the project and the new contours they reveal within the larger framework.
Organized by Francesco Giusti, Damiano Sacco, and Facundo Vega, in cooperation with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Berlino
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Full Surrogacy Now
Workshop, 5 Jun 2019, 15:00
The surrogacy industry is worth over 1 billion dollars a year, and many of its surrogates work in terrible conditions, while many gestate babies for no pay at all. The recent publication Full Surrogacy Now by Sophie Lewis brings a fresh perspective to debates around assisted reproduction.
Organized by Hannah Proctor
Registration required
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The Year’s Work in Terraforming
Workshop, 12 Jun 2019, 14:00
A Theory of Ecotechnics’, Derek Woods looks at how terraforming has moved back and forth between US science fiction and science, using the tautology ‘terraforming Earth’ as a site for the study of the cultural politics of the Anthropocene.
Organized by Alison Sperling, in collaboration with diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery
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Beyond Trauma? A Transregional Perspective on Trauma and Aesthetics
Symposium, 13-15 Jun 2019
The symposium proposes a transregional reassessment of the concept of trauma across a range of academic disciplines and artistic as well as cultural contexts.
Keynotes by Allen Feldmann and Andreas Maercker Artist Talk with Omer Fast, Kasia Fudakowski, Abdessamad el Montassir, and Damir Arsenijevic
Organized by Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier and Afonso Dias Ramos An Art Histories and ICI Berlin Event
Please note the different venues and registration requirements.
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The Work of World Literature
Symposium, 20-21 Jun 2019
Literary studies today tries to reckon with and transcend the parochialism and Eurocentrism of its tradition by adopting transnational, transhistorical, transcultural, translocal perspectives and by exploring the potential of the term ‘world literature’
Keynote by Derek Attridge
Organized by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson
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Fleshy Spectacles and Broken Hearts
Lecture, 24 Jun 2019, 19:30
This presentation explores the creative vision of Xandra Ibarra’s mobile community performance, ‘The Hookup/Displacement/Barhopping/Drama Tour’, to think about urban queer spaces, minoritarian belonging, and trans-temporal world-making.
Organized by Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen and Michelle Ty
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Against Presentism
Discussion, 26 Jun 2019, 19:30
Thinking about technological changes or ‘revolutions’ is often marked by a presentist, ahistorical mode of thinking and debate. The tropes mobilized in contemporary discussion about ‘digitalization’ and its technologies are usually technicist, innovation- or even disruption-oriented, both in their affirmative and in their critical guises. Organized by Centre for Digital Cultures of Leuphana University Lüneburg in cooperation with the ICI Berlin
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Openness in Medieval Culture
Symposium, 27-28 Jun 2019
This interdisciplinary symposium interrogates the presuppositions of open/closed distinctions in Medieval culture with a view to exploring the semantic field of openness through such related notions as inclusivity, vulnerability, unfinishedness, permeability, excess, profanity.
Organized by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum An ICI Berlin and Somerville College, Oxford Event
Registration required
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Luca Di Blasi Dezentrierungen Beiträge zur Religion der Philosophie im 20. Jahrhundert
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