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In contemporary Western societies, lyric poetry is often considered an elitist or solipsistic literary genre. Yet a closer look at its history reveals that lyric has always been intertwined with the politics of community formation, from the imagining of national and transnational discursive communities, to the use of poetry in episodes of collective action, protest, and social resistance. Poetic forms have circulated between languages and traditions from around the world and across time. But how does lyric poetry address or even create communities — and of what kinds? This volume takes a global perspective to investigate poetic communities in dialogue with recent developments in lyric theory and concepts of community. In doing so, it explores both the political potentialities and the perils of lyric poetry.

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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

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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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This talk is an attempt to clarify a longstanding controversy in the history of humanities scholarship in the university, namely its relation to political activism, and to the political in general. Guillory’s hypothesis is that the appropriate frame for understanding this relation is the autonomy of social spheres, as expressed in the historical tendency of different spheres to become depoliticized over time.

The lecture is part of the ZfL Annual Conference on ‘Activism and Academia‘. An event of the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL) in cooperation with the Dahlem Humanities Center (DHC) and the ICI Berlin

Registration will open on 20 Nov 2024

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