Tim Dean
How to Have Sex in a Pandemic
Online Lecture, 26 Apr 2021, 19:00
Queer-theoretical accounts of intimacy in particular have been decisively shaped by readings of art and literature and psychoanalytic reflection. Tim Dean’s talk 'How to Have Sex in a Pandemic' echoes the title of Douglas Crimp's seminal 1987 essay about AIDS 'How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic?'
Organized by Peter Rehberg, Hanna Hamel, and Apostles 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. Please register using the form on the event page. Public livestream with the possibility to ask questions via chat.
Part of the Lecture Series Intimacy.
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Counter- Archive
Online Symposium, 29 - 30 Apr 2021
At a time when the notion of the ‘archive’ threatens to become a dead metaphor or a cheap replacement for ‘canon’ or ‘corpus’, the symposium suggests to take a particularly contentious example — that of the Yugoslav Partisan ‘counter-archive’ — as a starting-point for its reconsideration of archival politics. Organized by Gal Kirn and Claudia Peppel This ICI event is organized in cooperation with the project Ré.Part – Partisan Resistance(s): Visual culture, collective imagination and revolutionary memory (ANR-15-IDEX-02) of Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA) de l’Université Grenoble Alpes, with generous support of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation. Please register using the form on the event page.
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Marta Popivoda
Landscapes of Resistance
Online Screening, 29. Apr 2021, 19:30
Landscapes of Resistance, a film by Marta Popivoda, traces a journey through the memories of antifascist fighter Sonja (97), one of the first Partisan women in Yugoslavia, who was also among the leaders of the Resistance movement at Auschwitz.
With Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović
Part of the symposium Counter Archive.
Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation. Please register using the form on the event page. Public livestream with the possibility to ask questions via chat.
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Omer Fast
KARLA
Online Screening, 30. Apr 2021, 19:30
KARLA is based on a conversation with a content moderator for the world’s largest online video sharing platform. The content moderator wished to remain anonymous and so his/her words were memorized by an actress, whose performance was then recorded using facial-capture technology.
KARLA (HD video, 34:45 min, Omer Fast 2020)
Followed by a discussion with the artist Omer Fast moderated by Cristina Baldacci and Claudia Peppel Part of the symposium Counter Archive.
Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation. Please register using the form on the event page. Public livestream with the possibility to ask questions via chat.
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Amy Hollywood
Haunting Angels
Online Lecture, 5 May 2021, 19:30
Many characters die twice in the nineteenth-century novel, with protracted and repeated death scenes marking the profundity and inescapability of death, its communal nature, and the deep sentimentality associated with the loss of a beloved other.
Organized by Nadine Hartmann, Clio Nicastro, and Hannah Proctor.
Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation. Please register using the form on the event page. Public livestream with the possibility to ask questions via chat.
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Suzanne Conklin Akbari
What Ground Do We Read On?
Online Lecture, 10 May 2021, 19:00
The field of Medieval Studies has undergone a period of reckoning, including a greater awareness of histories of race and racialization, an increasingly fraught relationship of religious and racial identities, and the effects of the ’global turn‘, which has met with varying degrees of success. Organized by Manuele Gragnolati A lecture on the occasion of the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Dante in cooperation with Équipe littérature et culture italiennes (Sorbonne Université) Moderated by Elena Lombardi and Francesca Southerden Part of the Lecture Series Decentring Dante.
Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation. Please register using the form on the event page. Public livestream with the possibility to ask questions via chat.
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NEW ICI BERLIN PRESS PUBLICATION
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Materialism and Politics
ed. by Bernardo Bianchi, Emilie Filion-Donato, Marlon Miguel, Ayşe Yuva
Cultural Inquiry, 20
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021
Open Access
Is materialism still relevant to critically think politics? Throughout modernity, the concept of materialism was associated with fatalism and naturalism, when it was not simply dismissed as heresy and atheism. In the nineteenth century, materialism evolved into a central concept of progressive politics, reappearing again in the past decades through renewed Marxist and Spinoza-based approaches, New Materialism, and feminist discourses. This volume inquires these contrasting uses from theoretical and historical perspectives.
Print version (Paperback) 18 € Print version (Hardcover) 29 €
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Jean-Luc Nancy
Touche-touche
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Possibilities of Lyric
Reading Petrarch in Dialogue
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Susanna Paasonen
Infrastructures of Intimacy and the Deplatforming of Sex
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