Gary
Cestaro
Dante’s Queer Fathers Online Lecture, 7 Jun 2021, 19:00
In 700 years of intense commentary, readers of the Comedy—at least professional readers—have almost entirely managed to avoid a crucial inquiry: what did Dante know about classical pederasty? What did he think of it? And most poignantly, did he think about Virgil in this context?
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)
Part of the Lecture Series Decentring Dante.
Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation. Please register on the event page. Public livestream available.
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What Happened to
Lesbian and Gay Studies?
Online Symposium, 17-18 Jun 2021
Does anyone do ‘lesbian and gay studies’? The formulation likely sounds quaint when gender and sexuality studies now aims its sights at so much more than what these identities designate.
Organized by Ben Nichols Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation. Please register on the event page. Public livestream available.
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Mireille
Miller-Young
From Hoe to Heaux
: Illicit Eroticism and the Black Erotic Imagination
Online Lecture, 23 Jun 2021, 19:30
The talk considers the politics of Black women engaging in forms of hustling, hypersexuality, and sex work. Centring the question of how Black women interrogate and rework damaging archetypes like the ‘Hoe’, this talk theorizes from below, focusing on multiply marginalized Black cis and femme women involved in stigmatized and criminalized forms of erotic engagement, relation, and survival.
Organized by ICI Berlin
Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation. Please register on the event page. Public livestream available.
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Anarchē
Philosophy, Politics, and the Question of the Ground
Online Conference, 7-8 Jul 2021
Confronted with an arguably incomplete critique of the notion and history of sovereignty, contemporary lines of thinking have forcefully returned to the inquiry into political foundations. Organized by Damiano Sacco and Facundo Vega An ICI event in cooperation with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Berlino
Video-meeting with the possibility of audiovisual participation (registration opens on 15 June 2021).
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NEW ICI BERLIN PRESS PUBLICATION
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The Work
of World Literature
ed. by Francesco Giusti and Benjamin Lewis Robinson
Cultural Inquiry, 19
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2021
Open Access
The contentious discourse around world literature tends to stress the ‘world’ in the phrase. This volume, in contrast, asks what it means to approach world literature by inflecting the question of the literary. Print version (Paperback) 12,50 €
Print version (Hardcover) 25,00 €
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Suzanne
Conklin Akbari
What Ground Do We Read On?
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Tim
Dean
How to Have Sex
in a Pandemic
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The
Workshop
Investigations Into an Artistic-Political Format
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