Experimental
Humanities

Lectures and Discussion, 14 Nov 2019, 18:00

Across the humanities and in the performative arts the experiment — commonly associated with the empirical sciences — is gaining ground.

With Nishant Shah and Vanessa Agnew

Organized by Alexander Dunst, Elahe Haschemi Yekani, Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen, Anja Schwarz

A criticalhabitations event in cooperation with ICI Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Paderborn University/BMBF, and Potsdam University

Federico
Luisetti

Lecture, 18 Nov 2019, 19:30

The Anthropocene has been embraced by the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts as a new geologic epoch that captures the planetary dimension of the long-term human impact on the environment.

Part of the ICI Lecture Series Errans environ/s.

Svetlana Boym
Exile and Imagination

Screening, Discussion, 26 Nov 2019, 19:30

This one-hour documentary film by Judith Wechlser from 2017 engages with the life and work of Svetlana Boym (1959-2015), literary and cultural critic, media artist, novelist, and playwright.

With Judith Wechsler

Moderated by Tatyana Gershkovich

An ICI Berlin event in cooperation with American Academy in Berlin

A
Tentation

ICI Library Event, 10 Dec 2019, 19:30

The tent represents an experimental and existential form of life and habitat, oscillating between an always-possible departure and an often uncertain arrival. The evening will consist of a staged reading delving into the manifold ways of literary camping.

Organized by Corinna Haas, Claudia Peppel, and Arnd Wedemeyer

RE-

An Errant Glossary

Thinking
the Political

Dante’s Political
Modernities

Laurence
Rickels