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Organized by James Harker, Clio Nicastro, and Laura Scuriatti for Bard College Berlin in cooperation with ICI Berlin

Autotheory, autofiction, and related genres, such as auto-sociobiography or mythobiography show the interplay between theorizations of personal life, subjectivity and historical or collective experience. This workshop explores the history of these forms, and is interested in their genealogies, as well as in the politics and aesthetics of subjectivity, especially in the moments when these practices have intensified. 

The organizers welcome proposals for 20-minute talks. Abstracts of 300 words and short bios should be sent by 15 March 2026 to  theselfatscale@ici-berlin.org

As with all events at the ICI Berlin, there is no registration fee. Any further queries should be addressed to the organizers.

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The symposium Frantz Fanon’s Social Therapy: ‘To Give Body to an Institution’ explores Frantz Fanon’s political, clinical, and aesthetic approach to institutions along three interrelated lines. First, it delves into the impact of Saint-Alban on Fanon’s conception of madness and the institution as both in need of a cure and capable of curing — a sociogenic and phenomenological perspective attentive to embodiment, subjectivity, and history. Second, it turns to his work at Blida-Joinville and Charles-Nicolle, where colonial alienation thwarted the implementation of social therapy, yet where Fanon and his collaborators experimented with media, spatial, and aesthetic practices to propose new forms of collective life.

Organized by Camilla Caglioti, Marlon Miguel, and Elena Vogman as part of the Research project ’Madness, Media, Milieus. Reconfiguring the Humanities in Postwar Europe‘ (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, funded by Freigeist Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation) in collaboration with ICI Berlin

Unfortunately, the venue is fully booked.

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Artist Kader Attia and curator Wietske Maas will discuss fragments from Attia’s film installations Reason’s Oxymorons (2015) and The Body’s Legacies, Pt. 2: The Postcolonial Body (2018). They will also reflect on the collective experience of La Colonie, a decolonial space for debate, education, and conviviality founded by Attia in Paris in 2016. Since the pandemic, La Colonie has continued as a nomadic project.

Part of the symposium Frantz Fanon’s Social Therapy

Unfortunately, the venue is fully booked.

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The discussion will be based on the recently published book by Sarah Horn trans* Werden. Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs (Becoming Trans: Queer Temporalities and Transitions in Video Blogs), which consists of a media studies analysis of selected videos by trans video bloggers who documented their gender transitions on YouTube in the 2010s. In self-documentary practices that record the effects of testosterone on the body, trans being reveals itself as a complex and uncertain becoming that can be experienced as queer temporality in a specific environment mediated by technology. The effects of mediatization are the focus of the analysis.

With Sarah Horn, Cat Dawson, and Antke Engel

Organized by ICI Berlin and ICI Berlin Press.

Registration opens on 2 February 2026.

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Das Buch trans* Werden. Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs widmet sich in einer medienwissenschaftlichen Analyse ausgewählten Videos von trans* Videobloggern, die ihre geschlechtlichen Transitionen in den 2010er Jahren auf YouTube dokumentieren. In selbstdokumentarischen Praktiken verbunden mit den Wirkungen des Testosterons auf die Körper offenbart sich trans* Sein als ein komplexes und ungewisses Werden, das in medialer Umgebung als queere Zeitlichkeit erfahrbar wird. Hierbei stehen die Effekte der Mediatisierung im Fokus der Analyse.

ISBN 978-3-96558-111-1 | Hardcover | 37.5 EUR
ISBN 978-3-96558-112-8 | Paperback | 20.5 EUR

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