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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 global academic landscape is still characterized by deep rifts, with the financial resources for research in the Global North incomparably more robust than those available to the Global South. 

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

Registration required

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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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While Michael Taussig writes a book-length account in Istanbul of his time in a village in northern Colombia besieged by paramilitaries, he draws what is happening outside his window. How these two channels of image and text come, don’t come, and partially come together is the elusive subject of this talk, resonant with the precarity of the villagers in such a situation no less than of the images emitted through the interstices of the text.

Part of the ICI lecture series Scale

Livestream available
Registration will open on 27 Nov 2024

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What is the relationship between social and mental alienation? How can one envision care and cure practices that counter the homogenizing policies of institutions and go beyond the neoliberal economy of individual well-being? The evening explores the legacies of institutional psychotherapy, a psychiatric reform and resistance movement that emerged in France in response to the fascist extermination of patients with mental and physical disabilities.

The publication Psychotherapy and Materialism edited by Marlon Miguel and Elena Vogman is forthcoming with ICI Berlin Press, 2024.

Registration will open on 27 Nov 2024

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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.

Hardcover  33,50 EUR
Paperback 17,00 EUR

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