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Workshop
11–12 July 2024
In English

Organized by Oliver Aas, Hana Gründler, Antje Kempe, and Barbara Kristina Murovec

This workshop responds to today's age of hyperactivity and 24/7 accessibility by examining practices of inaction, both old and new. Encouraging a broad approach to 'inactivity' — which is re-emerging as a key aesthetic and epistemological term for the twentieth-century — the workshop looks at and problematizes a variety of its modes, including the seemingly good (reflection), bad (passivity), and questionable (withdrawal).

The organizers thus invite scholars from art history, philosophy, sociology, literature, and related fields, and those who work in different geographical areas, to present a short talk of about 25 minutes (followed by a discussion).

A workshop of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institute, Research Group ‘Ethico-Aesthetics of the Visual’ and University Greifswald, Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research, in cooperation with the ICI Berlin

The submission deadline is 7 April 2024.

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As sensorial machine-human assemblages, drones are involved with cultural affects, technological materialities, and political discourses. Hence drones are not just technical instruments; they are interconnected with discourse. This talk will trace the world-making powers of drone technology in order to address how the sensorium of the drone can work as a model for imagining communities.

Part of the ICI Lecture Series Models 2023-24

Public Livestream available
At the venue: Registration will open on 16 Apr 2024

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This conference aims to explore the potentials of writing a history of psychoanalysis from a global perspective through a comparative study of its politics of translation. 

Organized by Elizabeth Lunbeck, Andreas Mayer, and Romain Tiquet
A Centre Marc Bloch event as part of the ERC-funded programme MaDAf in cooperation with the ICI Berlin

At the venue: Registration will open on 16 Apr 2024

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Cosmism was an interdisciplinary movement intertwining Marxist discourse, Orthodox Christianity, Enlightenment thought, and Eastern philosophical traditions, advancing speculative models of international socialism, the quest for immortality, and the potential for resurrection through technological means in an imagined not so distant future.

The discussion will be complemented by a screening of Gilgamesh: She Who Saw the Deep (2022, 47′, directed by Anton Vidokle and Pelin Tan). 

With Boris Groys and Anton Vidokle
In conversation with Marietta Kesting and Elena Vogman

Organized by Elena Vogman and Marietta Kesting
An ICI Berlin Event in cooperation with the research project ‘Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe’ (Volkswagen Stiftung/Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

At the venue: Registration will open on 23 Apr 2024

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