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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 Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism,  Interdisciplinarity and 4 more
    Created on: 28.08.2023
  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: 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 30.09.2020
    Lecture: Haunting Angels (Amy Hollywood)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Many characters die twice in the nineteenth-century British and American novel, with protracted and repeated death scenes marking the profundity and inescapability of death, its communal nature, and the deep sentimentality associated with the loss of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 26.06.2020
  14. 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
  15. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 10.06.0020
    Huw Lemmey, Unknown Language: Preview Reading and Life Discussion (Online-Event)
    Submitted by: Corinna Haas

    Long before the collapse of the Information Age, in the twelfth century since the appearance of the prophet Christ, young Hildegard of Bingen finds grace in the ruins of her medieval world. After the great cataclysm and the Angelic power struggle...

    Fields of research Narrative,  Literature of the 21st century
    Created on: 07.05.2020