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The ICI Berlin is an independent research centre located in Berlin/Prenzlauer Berg. It defines itself through a series of interlocking core projects that are designed to traverse different disciplines and foster theoretical and critical interventions of cultural inquiry. The projects are undertaken in collaboration with an international group of twelve two-year postdoctoral fellows. For the focus AutoReduction concluding our core project Reduction, we are looking for a responsible, reliable, and committed Research Coordinator (Part Time 50%).

Deadline: 22 June 2026

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Mysticism has always involved encounters with scale: the self dissolving into something larger, the vast becoming intimate, experience that overflows the boundaries of the individual and the measurable. It is telling that Evelyn Underhill referred to mysticism as ‘experience in its most intense form’.

With Anya Burgon, Kirill Chepurin, Rebecca Field, and Tim Glover

Organized by Franco Constantini and Hannah Lucas

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In the history of Western Christian mysticism, height meets depth and scales collide. In this lecture, Kotva will be thinking about the coincidence of apex and abyss in selected manuals of mystical theology. While some manuals favour the image of the mind’s ascent, others emphasise its descent — but all speak of ‘stages’ (scalae) and step-by-step itineraries.

Part of the event Scales of Mysticism

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How, why, and with what epistemic implications is history divided into temporal segments? Periodizations — whether in the form of epochs, ages, turning points, or more heroic ‘eras’ — belong to the most fundamental and at the same time most frequently contested historiographical operations in literary, art, and media studies.

With Tom McCarthy and Inke Arns
Moderated by Lea Pao

Organized by Leuphana University Lüneburg in cooperation with the ICI Berlin, in conjunction with the Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy 2026.

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A decade ago, Yuk Hui introduced the concept of cosmotechnics, according to which different cultures have different ways of conceiving of and implementing technology. In later works, he continued to recommend technodiversity as complementary to biodiversity and noodiversity. Today, the rapid development of AI seems headed in the opposite direction.

With Lou Manuel Arsenault, Yuk Hui, Penny Yiou Peng, and Karin Valis

Organized by Franco Costantini and José Antonio Magalhães

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