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How might waste present insights into our understanding of life and death in the present context of the ‘postcolonial’ condition? By extension, can waste offer a map to understand the complexity of coloniality within the postcolonial state?

Part of the symposium Queer Waste

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Roundtable participants will reexamine the ideas of thinkers who have shaped, challenged, and extended our understandings of technics, including Walter Benjamin, Heidegger, Gilbert Simondon, Bernard Stiegler, and Sylvia Wynter.

With Nicholas Baer, Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Gertrud Koch, and Annie van den Oever

Moderated by Sulgi Lie

An ICI Event in cooperation with the University of California, Berkeley and Amsterdam University Press

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This workshop will excavate the deep history of the nexus rerum, in the conviction that it represents not only a desideratum within the field of German Studies, but has the potential to contribute to contemporary transdisciplinary debates on ecocriticism and the environmental humanities: to theories of intersubjective interdependence, characterizations of the human/nature divide, and ecosocialist discussions of the 'metabolic rift.' 

Organized by Ross Shields, Alexandra Heimes, and Johannes Wankhammer

An ICI Event in cooperation with Princeton University and the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL)

Please contact ross.shields@ici-berlin.org if you would like to register. Only a few spaces are available and those who are interested in joining should enclose a brief CV.

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Gibson Ncube explores queer lived experiences in Africa through the lens of the body in films. The body in films is a powerful model for understanding the complexities of identity, desire, and gender within diverse African communities.

Part of the ICI Lecture Series Models

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Resistance to acceleration ranges from a booming disconnectivity industry to reactionary criticism of modernity, from the inertia of institutions to the persistence of habitus, emotions, mentalities, and values, from temporalities of waiting and hesitation, nostalgia and remembrance to the relationship between ‘life time and world time’ (Blumenberg).

With Omer Fast and Ute Holl
Moderated by Fred Turner

Organized by the Centre for Digital Cultures of Leuphana University Lüneburg in cooperation with the ICI Berlin, in conjunction with the Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2024

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Vulnerability has emerged as a crucial term to describe the human condition, especially in light of the pandemic. Its etymology can be traced back to the Latin term ‘vulnus’, which denoted both a ‘generic wound’ and the ‘infringement of a right’. 

With Dorina Damsa, Olivia Guaraldo, Daniele Lorenzini, Sophie Nakueira, Liesbeth Schoonheim, and Deva Woodly

Organised by Natascia Tosel (ICI Berlin) and Valentina Moro (University of Verona / DePaul University)

An ICI Event in cooperation with Università di Verona. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement N° 101029336.

Registration will open on 11 June 2024

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When Spinoza famously posed the question ‘what can a body do?’, he (re-)introduced the body into philosophy and associated the body with power. This marked the beginning of a long tradition in which the body is treated as a proper object of philosophy, but only insofar as its (virile) effects on the world are concerned.

Part of the symposium Situating Vulnerability

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