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  1. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 14.10.2024
    The Trouble with Thinking. Transnational Dialogues on Academic Freedom
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The past decade has seen a troubling turn toward autocracy across wide regions of the globe. What may have once seemed confined to parts of the Global South and the former Communist Bloc is now, through the rise of right-wing populism, markedly...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 26.08.2024
  2. 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
  3. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 20.10.2022
    Slavoj Žižek: ‘Unbehagen in der Natur’ / On Thinking the End of Nature (Lecture)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    It is as if the Earth is gradually turning into Trisolaris, a strange planet from The Three-Body Problem , Liu Cixin’s sci-fi masterpiece. Trisolaris has three suns which rise and set at strange and unpredictable intervals: sometimes too far away...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 16.08.2022
  4. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.10.2021
    Prekäre Verkörperungen: Die Figur des Helden zwischen Exemplarität und Singularität
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Vortrag: 26. Oktober 2021, 20:00 Uhr Was ist ein Held, eine Heldin? Eine Figur, die bestimmte menschliche Eigenschaften, verkörpert, die wir für exemplarisch halten und Dinge tut, die vorbildlich sind?Ein normatives Beispiel also, das an unser...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 26.07.2021
  5. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 26.04.2021
    Tim Dean: How to Have Intimacy in an Epidemic
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

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

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 19.02.2021
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 17.11.2020
    Prekäre Verkörperungen: Die Figur des Helden zwischen Exemplarität und Singularität (Andreas Cremonini)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Was ist ein Held, eine Heldin? Eine Figur, die bestimmte menschliche Eigenschaften, verkörpert, die wir für exemplarisch halten und Dinge tut, die vorbildlich sind? Ein normatives Beispiel also, das an unser Handeln appelliert und zur Identifikation,...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology and 1 more
    Created on: 24.01.2020
  9. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 24.02.2020
    Lecture: Out of Nature: The Invention of a Political Force (Didier Debaise)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The moderns have invented a ‘nature’ and made it one of their most important political institutions. The talk will revisit this very singular adventure through which a number of local inventions, gestures, and operations, namely within experimental...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 16.12.2019
  10. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 10.03.2020
    Lecture: Hashtag Confessions: What Can Psychoanalysis Say About #MeToo? (Nadine Hartmann)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Public feminism today travels by way of a technological update of collective speech acts of avowal and confession understood as already constituting political action — a practice familiar from 1970s feminism. And correspondingly, critiques of ...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 09.12.2019
  11. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 24.03.2019
    Lecture: Haunted Futures: 
The Utopian Margins (Avery Gordon)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The philosopher Ernst Bloch declared that ‘all given existence and being itself has utopian margins which surround actuality with real and objective possibility’. This talk takes up the idea of the utopian margins, along with its distinctive...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 02.12.2019
  12. Category: Fellowships, stipends, scholarships etc.
    Application deadline: 19.01.2020
    Reduction. The ICI Berlin announces 12 post-doctoral fellowships for the Academic Years 2020–22
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Critical discourse has little patience with reduction. One of its most devastating charges levelled against theories, analyses, and descriptions is that of being reductive. Conceptual frameworks are dismissed for being impoverished, ontologies...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 25.11.2019
  13. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 14.01.2020
    Psychoanalytische Kulturwissenschaft (Lecture Series 2020)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Die Vortragsreihe widmet sich dem Einfluss der Psychoanalyse auf die Kulturtheorien im Allgemeinen sowie besonders treffenden Anwendungen psychoanalytischen Verstehens auf aktuelle Phänomene. Die zentralen psychoanalytischen Konzepte Freuds und...

    Fields of research Literature and psychoanalysis/psychology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 08.11.2019
  14. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 18.11.2019
    On Ecocolonialism and Speculative Crime Scenes (Federico Luisetti)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The Anthropocene has been embraced by the humanities, social sciences, and visual arts as a new geologic epoch that captures the planetary dimension of the long-term human impact on the environment. This talk will instead propose to approach the...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 16.09.2019
  15. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 27.09.2019
    Truth, Freedom, and the Academy
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Truth is in a tricky situation. For the past few decades, critics and scholars influenced by post-structuralism and post-colonialism have waged a sustained campaign to challenge the authority of official and institutional modes of discovering and...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 09.09.2019