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INVITATION
 
The Trouble brwith Thinking

The Trouble
with Thinking

Transnational Dialogues on Academic Freedom

Workshop, 14 Oct 2024, 10:00 - 19:00

Moving beyond humanitarian frames of scholar rescue, this workshop brings together scholars who have been forced to leave their countries of origin as a result of their resistance to the narrowing of space for thought with scholars currently concerned about the fate of academic freedom in their home countries. The participants of the workshop will explore the playbooks through which scholars have been shut out of sanctioned systems of knowledge production in the Global South and the post-Socialist East, along with approaches they developed to fight this attack on thinking and to rebuild spaces for it in exile.

With Homa Hoodfar, Tuba İnal-Çekiç, Ilya Kalinin, Teresa Koloma Beck, Thomas Keenan, Pascale Laborier, Jana Lozanowska, Ewa Majewska, Jennifer Ruth, Oleksandr Shtokvych, Asli Vatansever, Jessica Young, and Tirdad Zolghadr

Organized by Kerry Bystrom and Aysuda Kölemen for Bard College Berlin & OSUN Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative in cooperation with ICI Berlin

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UPCOMING EVENTS
 
Bettina brMalcomess

Bettina
Malcomess

Colonial Scales: Operational Images, Depth of Field and Orders of Information

Lecture, 21 Oct 2024, 19:30

This lecture explores the operations of scale within cinematic and photographic mediations of the South African War (1899–1902), a peripheral colonial conflict between the British Empire and the Boer republics in South Africa. Examining actuality films from the war alongside officers’ accounts, photographs, maps, and neglected archival collections, it proposes a way to think about scale within what Malcomess calls an emerging colonial order of information.

Part of the ICI lecture series Scale

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Planetary Design brReclaiming Futures

Planetary Design
Reclaiming Futures

Conference, 23 - 26 Oct 2024

Today, many people are experiencing the uneven impacts of climate change, pandemics, wars, market crashes, biodiversity loss, and supply chain disruptions on a global scale. That a shared planetary future is, at best, uncertain is widely accepted. Governments, corporations, consultancies, and design firms are trying to tackle this uncertainty by envisioning various future scenarios and ways to get there.

Organized by Governing Through Design project team (Claudia Mareis, Kenny Cupers, Orit Halpern, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Özgün Eylül İşcen, Nadia Christidi, Sudipto Basu, Anke Gründel, Tania Messell), in cooperation with the ICI Berlin

The conference marks the culmination of Governing Through Design, a collaborative research project supported by a Sinergia Grant of the Swiss National Science Foundation.

Partners: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Technische Universität Dresden, Universität Basel, Concordia University, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (FHNW)

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Andrea brBallestero

Andrea
Ballestero

Casual Planetarities: Force-Fields and Movement as Terms of Engagement

Lecture, 23 Oct 2024, 18:30

Replacing questions of scale with concerns about distance, Ballestero’s talk asks how people make sense of their planetary condition by thinking geologically. She explores the role that movement — movement of an aquifer and movement as analytic — plays as people navigate the force-fields of their daily lives an already changed planet.

Part of the conference Planetary Design Reclaiming Futures

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Noortje brMarres

Noortje
Marres

The Non-Human Standpoint: Living Environments after AI

Lecture, 25 Oct 2024, 18:30

The world is living with a tiring paradox today: The perspective of the non-human is validated as never before, after AI has been widely embraced as the new 'engine of change'. But at the same time, anti-environmental attitudes are in the ascendancy and seem to be only amplified, consolidated, and fed by the embrace of machine intelligence. How to break this coupling of two contradictory validations through 'AI', of the non-human perspective with withdrawal from the world?

Part of the conference Planetary Design Reclaiming Futures

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Daniel S. brBrooks

Daniel S.
Brooks

Scale Ranges: The Variety of Matter’s Forms, and Levels of Organization as Local Maxima

Lecture, 6 Nov 2024, 19:30

Originally applied to preserve a materialist worldview that extends beyond physics and chemistry, the notion of levels of organization is one of the most recognizable ideas in biology. Although sometimes (erroneously) used interchangeably, the relationship between ‘levels’ and ‘scale’ presents an exciting (and relatively unexplored) area in theoretical biology and the history and philosophy of science. Here, Brooks will address this lacuna by clarifying how the two notions can inform and enhance one another.

Part of the ICI lecture series Scale

Public Livestream available
Registration will open on 23 Oct 2024

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Italy’s Contemporary brCinema of Migration

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Cinema of Migration

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