Rizvana
Bradley

The Double Bind of Reproduction: On Black Mediality

Lecture, 30 Nov 2023, 19:30

This talk approaches two concepts — the double bind of reproduction and black mediality, which get to the heart of a number of theoretical questions concerning the entanglements of raciality, mediation, and immediation, and the violence of touch. Beginning from the double bind of reproduction, the talk interrogates the singular ways in which black feminine labours are conscripted in the reproduction of both the antiblack world and its fugitive ulteriors.

Acting
Out

Cuban Artists Challenge to the State

Artist Talk, 5 Dec 2023, 19:00

ICI Fellowships
2024–26

The ICI Berlin announces twelve post-doctoral fellowships for the ICI Focus ‘Scale’ of the ICI Core Project ‘Reduction’

Scales are used to quantify properties such as length and temperature, or also popularity and affect, but as Alice discovers in Wonderland, a change of scale can also have dramatic qualitative consequences. It disrupts customary ways of perceiving, acting, and being — to the point of feeling as ‘queer’ to her as a caterpillar’s metamorphoses. Helped by the arguably inextricable intertwinement of different meanings and aspects of ‘scale’, Alice’s experiences continue to provide apt metaphors for the disorienting importance and effects of scale and scaling at the time of hyperglobalization and the so-called anthropocene.

Interested applicants should read the full announcement on www.ici-berlin.org/fellowships-announcement.

Deadline: 8 January 2024, 14:00 (CET)

Call For Papers!
Model Organisms: Materiality, History and Politics

Symposium, 21-22 March 2024

Model organisms are life forms used to test biological theories of various kinds in laboratory settings. Research with model organisms muddies the line between models as material objects and models as abstract entities. The organizers welcome proposals for 20-minute talks that present case studies of particular model organisms as well as more general critical accounts of the practice of modeling with living organisms and its historical and political aspects.

Organized by Maria Dębińska, Julia Sánchez-Dorado, Ben Woodard

Please send 250-word abstracts for 20–minute papers to modelorganismsICI@gmail.com 

Deadline: 30 November 2023

Call for Papers!
Symposium Recognition

Symposium, 23-24 May 2024

Constitution as a viable social subject is dependent on being recognized by others as such, whether that recognition takes the form of an ethical gesture, a political objective, or a legal instrument. The desire for recognition is therefore often assumed to be universal. For many activists and theorists, recognition of rights and identities has been at the heart of social justice movements, particularly since the 1980s.

Organized by B Camminga, Ruth Ramsden-Karelse, Natascia Tosel

Please send 300-word abstracts for 15 to 20–minute papers to natascia.tosel@ici-berlin.org

Deadline: 15 January 2024

Ulysses, Dante,
and Other Stories

Elena Lombardi

Cultural Inquiry, 28
Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023

Open Access

From Solar Futures
to Future Solidarity

Making and
Breaking Models

An Atlas of
Spatial Figures