Infrastructures of Intimacy
and the Deplatforming of Sex

Susanna Paasonen

Online Lecture, 11 Feb 2021, 19:00

Susanna Paasonen’s feminist and queer analysis focuses on the question of online pornography and new ways of connecting via platforms and chatrooms, as in her 2011 Carnal Resonance: Affect and Online Pornography.

Part of the Lecture Series Intimacy.

Organized by Peter Rehberg, Hanna Hamel, and Apostolos Lampropoulos

A cooperation of the Schwules Museum Berlin (SMU), the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL) with its research project ‘Neighborhood in Contemporary Berlin Literature’, and the ICI Berlin. Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds.

Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation. Registration opens on 3 February 2021.

Image credit © Spyros Rennt: Hanging out at Ludos, 2020. (Detail)

Possibilities
of Lyric

Reading Petrarch in Dialogue

Online Book Presentation, 26 Feb 2021, 17:00

Presentation and discussion of the latest ICI Berlin Press publication by Manuele Gragnolati and Francesca Southerden, Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (2020). 

The event will be hosted by the international online seminar Lirica&Teoria, coordinated by former ICI Fellow Francesco Giusti (Bard College Berlin) and Christine Ott (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt).

To receive the Zoom link, please send an email to Hélène Guitard-Zdarsky: guitard-zdarsky@em.uni-frankfurt.de

In Italian

David
J. Getsy

Reduction as Expansion. The Queer Capacities of Abstract Art

Andreas
Mayer

The Ambivalent Translator

Giambattista
Vico

und die Italianità der Philosophie