Chiara Caradonna, Hal Coase, Julien Fischer, Isaac Jean-François, Ido Katri, Sara Kermanian, Caylum O’Neill, Ana Rocío Jouli, Frida Sandström, Qing Shen, Rosie Stockton, and Nagehan Uskan.
With the beginning of the academic year on 15 September 2026, the new cohort will start working on the upcoming ICI Focus AutoReduction.
Auto Reduction
Lecture Series 2026-27
‘Shock and awe’ is typically a state of reduced capacity to act, move, or resist. Under very special conditions it can be experienced as vitalizing, but in the current conjuncture, it is most readily associated with military or terrorist strategies directed at foreign enemies or, more startingly, turned inward in the hands of disaster capitalism and aspiring autocrats.
Monday, 16 November 2026 Cécile Wajsbrot
Monday, 2 November 2026 Matthias Schmelzer
Further talks to be announced soon. All talks start at 19:30 and will be in English.
Since the beginning of the modern era, states have been preoccupied, as Michel Foucault claimed, not only with carceral justice and the general question of ‘who deserves to live’, but also with the growth and protection of the population in their biopolitical functions.
With Tomasz Basiuk, Nikita Dhawan, Antke Antek Engel, and Ewa Majewska
Worlding Global Art Histories through Teaching positions art history education as a tool for world-making and democratic engagement in a time of division. It is a vital resource for educators and students that considers global art histories not as a top-down structure, but as a dynamic and evolving process. Bringing together essays, conversations, and reflections on syllabi, the contributors consider how pedagogy cultivates critical thinking and decolonial awareness. Drawing from teaching experiences in Canada, China, Germany, Singapore, the United States, and other countries, this collection advocates for relationality and pluriversal knowledge as a way to challenge a Eurocentric canon.
