Series

Decentring Dante

The ICI Berlin celebrates the publication of The Oxford Handbook of Dante, ed. by M. Gragnolati, E. Lombardi, and F. Southerden (2021) with a series of lectures that suggest ways of reading Dante’s Comedy from a less central position and with a broader, more critical perspective.

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Intimacy
Online Lecture Series 2021

A cooperation of the Schwules Museum Berlin (SMU), the Leibniz-Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL) with its programme area ‘Neighborhood in Contemporary Berlin Literature’, and the ICI Berlin

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Psychoanalytische Kulturwissenschaft
Lecture Series 2020

The lecture series devotes itself to the influence of psychoanalysis on cultural theories at large as well as to particularly poignant applications of psychoanalytical research to current cultural phenomena.

ERRANS environ/s
Lecture Series 2019-20

The ‘ERRANS environ/s’ Lecture Series investigates the ways in which an attention to environments can dissolve boundaries or make them permeable, undermine naive ontologies, decentre the subject, and produce complex political ecologies attuned to far-reaching entanglements.

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Psychoanalytische Kulturwissenschaft
Lecture Series 2018-19

The lecture series devotes itself to the influence of psychoanalysis on cultural theories at large as well as to particularly poignant applications of psychoanalytical research to current cultural phenomena.

ERRANS environ/s
Lecture Series 2018-19

The ‘ERRANS environ/s’ Lecture Series investigates the ways in which an attention to environments can dissolve boundaries or make them permeable, undermine naive ontologies, decentre the subject, and produce complex political ecologies attuned to far-reaching entanglements.

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ERRANS, in Time
Lecture Series 2017-18

Conceptions of time and temporal experience seem more at odds now than ever. Admittedly, ideas of physical, social, revolutionary time, internal time consciousness, or historical experience are far from settled in their respective discourses and practices.

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ERRANS, in Time
Lecture Series 2016-17

Conceptions of time and temporal experience seem more at odds now than ever. Admittedly, ideas of physical, social, revolutionary time, internal time consciousness, or historical experience are far from settled in their respective discourses and practices.

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ERRANS
Lecture Series 2015-16

the ICI Lecture Series ERRANS takes the shifting meanings of ‘erring’ – connoting the violation of norms as well as the activity of wandering – as a prompt to explore the critical potentials and risks of embracing error, randomness, failure, and non-teleological temporalities.

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Desire’s Multiplicity and Serendipity
Lecture Series 2014-15

Organized by Antke Engel, Jule Jakob Govrin, Christoph Holzhey, the Lecture Series Desire’s Multiplicity and Serendipity is a cooperation between the Institute for Queer Theory and the ICI Berlin.

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ERRANS
Lecture Series 2014-15

the ICI Lecture Series ERRANS takes the shifting meanings of ‘erring’ – connoting the violation of norms as well as the activity of wandering – as a prompt to explore the critical potentials and risks of embracing error, randomness, failure, and non-teleological temporalities, and to do so across different disciplines and discourses.

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Constituting Wholes II
Lecture Series 2013-14

How are wholes and other forms of association differently constituted and how do they constitute their parts and elements? How can one be attuned to heterogeneities and potentialities without participating in the reparation of existing structures of domination?

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Constituting Wholes
Lecture Series 2012-13

How are wholes and other forms of association differently constituted and how do they constitute their parts and elements? How can one be attuned to heterogeneities and potentialities without participating in the reparation of existing structures of domination?

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The Subtle Racializations of Sexuality
Lecture Series 2011-12

Queer Theory, the Aftermath of Colonial History, and the Late-Modern State

Organized by Antke Engel in cooperation with the ICI Berlin, the series brings together theoretical and political considerations that have developed from anti-racist, queer of colour, and/or migrant perspectives on late-modern and neoliberal state policies.

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On Complementarity
Lecture Series 2011-12

'Our positions are complementary, not in conflict!' – Recognizing complementarity offers an attractive model for the coexistence of different knowledges, systems, and cultures. However, different positions rarely simply add up ...

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Welt global denken

Lecture Series 2010-11

In dieser Reihe werden politische Perspektiven der italienischen Gegenwartsphilosophie präsentiert. Die Vortragsreihe wird veranstaltet vom Italienischen Kulturinstitut Berlin in Kooperation mit dem ICI Berlin.

Spannungsübungen

In sports, ‘dream match’ refers to an encounter of two opponents in which a rare combination of competitiveness and difference promises a tantalizing game. With this series, the ICI Berlin aims at enabling such dream matches in the cultural and intellectual fields. The objective is to address basic tensions of the present within a relaxed setting.