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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 10.05.2021
    Suzanne Conklin Akbari: What Ground Do We Read On? (Online)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The field of Medieval Studies has undergone a period of reckoning, including a greater awareness of histories of race and racialization, an increasingly fraught relationship of religious and racial identities, and the effects of the ’global turn‘,...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Media studies,  Writtenness and 2 more
    Created on: 10.05.2021
  5. 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
  6. Category: Various (summer schools etc.)
    Beginning: 26.02.2021
    Book Presentation: Possibilities of Lyric. Reading Petrarch in Dialogue
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    In Italian Presentation and discussion of the latest ICI Berlin Press publication by Manuele Gragnolati and Francesca Southerden, Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (2020) . The seminar Lirica&Teoria ...

    Fields of research Italian literature,  Lyric poetry,  Translation
    Created on: 22.02.2021
  7. 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
  8. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 24.03.2021
    Jean-Luc Nancy: Touche-touche
    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 French literature,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 15.02.2021
  9. 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

  10. Corinna Haas
    University or institution: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry