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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

Public Livestream available

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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

Public Livestream available

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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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Jean Laplanche ist einer der bedeutendsten französischen Psychoanalytiker, der weit über Frankreich hinaus bekannt war: Erst als Mitherausgeber des Vokabulars der Psychoanalyse mit Jean-Bertrand Pontalis (1967/1972) und später als Begründer der Allgemeinen Verführungstheorie. Die Allgemeine Verführungstheorie gilt als letzter großer Entwurf für ein gemeinsames Fundament der Psychoanalyse.

Organisiert von Udo Hock und Ilka Quindeau
Eine Veranstaltung der Fondation Jean Laplanche in Kooperation mit der Sigmund Freud Stiftung und dem ICI Berlin

Die Anmeldung beginnt am 30. Oktober 2024

Vortrag auf Englisch
Diskussion auf Deutsch

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In times of climate change, pandemics, and migration, global research cooperation is required more than ever. But how to work together without reproducing the inequalities of the global science system?

The conference is organized by the Berlin Center for Global Engagement of the Berlin University Alliance in cooperation with ICI Berlin

Registration will open on 6 Nov 2024

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Born in Harlem in 1924, James Baldwin was a novelist, essayist, playwright, poet, and one of the most influential writers to be associated with the Civil Rights Movement in the US. As part of this year’s celebration of the centennial of his birth, this film programme will feature three short documentaries. All three take place after the height of the Civil Rights era, during the ascendancy of Black Power—a period in which Baldwin’s place within the larger movement underwent a profound and often painful transformation.

After the screening, there will be a discussion with René Aguigah, the author of the recent book James Baldwin: Der Zeuge (2024).

With René Aguigah, Tobi Haslett, anf Claudia Peppel

Organized by Tobi Haslett and Claudia Peppel

Registration will open on 13 Nov 2024

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