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  1. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 28.09.2023
    Coding Utopias
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    There is no shortage of critiques of utopian imaginaries for being coded in colonial, Western, masculine, Christian, and extractive ideologies. Utopia has been, and continues to be, an often violent gesture that chooses the future of select groups...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Interdisciplinarity and 5 more
    Created on: 19.07.2023
  2. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 07.06.2021
    Gary Cestaro Dante’s Queer Fathers
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In English In 700 years of intense commentary, readers of the Comedy—at least professional readers—have almost entirely managed to avoid a crucial inquiry: what did Dante know about classical pederasty? What did he think of it? And most...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature of the Middle Ages (6th-13th century)
    Created on: 07.06.2021
  3. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 12.05.2021
    Lorna Goodison Going Through Hell (Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Perhaps it was seeing an illustration of Henry Holiday’s painting, ‘Dante and Beatrice’, in a history text book at school in Jamaica that started my fascination with the Divine Comedy; for I remember that I had a premonition that this poet and...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Italian literature,  Literary historiography and 2 more
    Created on: 10.05.2021
  4. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 11.02.2021
    Vortrag: Infrastructures of Intimacy and the Deplatforming of Sex (Susanna Paasonen)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Ort: ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18–19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin & Livestream Organisiert von Hanna Hamel (ZfL), Apostolos Lampropoulos (Université Bordeaux Montaigne), Peter Rehberg (Schwules Museum) Kontakt: Hanna Hamel ...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 18.01.2021
  5. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 07.12.2020
    Lecture: Reduction as Expansion. The Queer Capacities of Abstract Art (David J. Getsy)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Abstract art is sometimes considered merely formal, and its reductive visual qualities are seen as a refusal of representation or a flight from subject matter. By contrast, this talk will examine how artists and critics have imbued abstraction with...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and other forms of art
    Created on: 02.11.2020
  6. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 17.06.2020
    Domestic Optimism (With Emma Wolf-Haugh)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colonial aesthetics, obscenity trials, masculine hysteria, crime scene photography, sexology, the production and obfuscation of the lesbian throughout modernity, and the contemporary collapse of post-war social housing projects, all intersect in ...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Postcolonial studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 08.06.2020
  7. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.09.2019
    Thinking the Political after the ‘Ontological Turn’
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Over the recent years, a so-called ‘ontological turn’ has gained prominence, not only in connection with new materialisms, posthumanism, or within the discipline of anthropology, but also in political theory. But what does such an ‘ontological turn’...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Aesthetics
    Created on: 09.09.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Breathing under Blockade: Notes on Affect, Ecology, and Resistance
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    At the ICI Berlin, Yıldırım would like to build an anthro/political perspective to explore the conceptual act of ‘breathing’ as a materially organized and affectively sensed life force in relation to environmental activism and anti-colonial...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and social and cultural anthropology
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Possibility and the Utopian Imagination in the Poetic Practice of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Peripheral but central, external but inner, between being and non-being—possibility has the multi-stable ontology of utopias and their creative and transformative power. Through possibility, writers, philosophers, and artists through the ages have...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Literature and law,  Literature and theology/study of religions and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    The Unwriting Machine: Medio and the Archive in Mario Bellatin
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    How to write without writing? What is a literary milieu outside of itself? How can we read a writing that proliferates by disappearing? Where does the archive end and the oeuvre begin? This project aims to explore the creative (un)writing process...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Arnd Wedemeyer
    University or institution: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology; Literature and law; Literature and philosophy; Lyric poetry; Theory of translation

  12. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 26.02.2019
    Lecture: Die leise Arbeit des Todestriebs. Eine kleine Theoriegeschichte des Begehrens von 1968 bis zur Queer Theory
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Im 1972 erschienen Anti-Ödipus denken Gilles Deleuze und Félix Guattari Begehren als nomadisch mäandernde, transformative Kraft. Dieses Manifest der ›Philosophie des Begehrens‹ inspiriert Guy Hocqenghem, Vordenker der Queer Theory, der diese Idee...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology
    Created on: 20.02.2019
  13. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.06.2018
    Barthes by the Margins
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    What happens to the ‘death of the author’ when we do not read it as a manifest for a new critique, but as a commentary on contemporary art? What happens to our perception of Camera Lucida when we read it not only as a textbook for photography doubled...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  14. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 25.06.2018
    Barthes, Queer Before Queer? A Journey Into Barthes’s Visual Culture
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Barthes’s homosexuality is a well-known fact, and recent biographies have shed light on this major part of his social life. How should the inaugural text of Mythologies (‘The World of Wrestling’) be re-read in light of the fact that he was going to...

    Fields of research Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and visual studies
    Created on: 12.12.2018
  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 13.06.2018
    Ästhetische Eigenzeiten heute: Gegenwart, Gegenwärtigkeit, Vergegenwärtigung
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Gerade jetzt? Die Jahrestagung »Ästhetische Eigenzeiten heute: Gegenwart, Gegenwärtigkeit, Vergegenwärtigung«, die im Rahmen des DFG-Schwerpunktprogramms ‘Ästhetische Eigenzeiten: Zeit und Darstellung in der polychronen Moderne’ stattfindet, will die...

    Fields of research Aesthetics
    Created on: 12.12.2018