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  1. 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
  2. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 18.10.2019
    Lab Environments. Spaces of Possibility and Certainty in Scientific Practice
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This workshop addresses the laboratory as both a confined space, assembling and isolating elements of experimental systems; and a permeable space, embedded in organizations and infrastructures. It aims to explore how every entry, exit, change, or...

    Fields of research Literature and natural science
    Created on: 16.08.2019
  3. 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
  4. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Principles of An-Archy: Hannah Arendt, Reiner Schürmann, and the Politics of the Many
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Facundo Vega’s project, Principles of An-archy: Hannah Arendt, Reiner Schürmann, and the Politics of the Many , compares Arendt’s and Schürmann’s shared but unacknowledged interest in ‘principles’ and ‘beginnings’ inherent to politics. Vega...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  5. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Residues of Presence: Between Physics and Metaphysics
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This project attempts to open a space of convergence between the insights arising from continental philosophy and modern physics. Both have challenged a naive faith in the horizon of constant presence that have long regulated both philosophical and ...

    Fields of research Literature and philosophy,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  6. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Derealization and Non-Relationality: Racialized Violence in the Postmigrant Situation
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The project takes up the notion of the non-relational Other and reassesses its use for the analysis of postmigration Germany. The political assassinations by the NSU between 2000 and 2007 indicate that we need to consider a socio-ontological...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  7. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    The (Un-)Bounded Elementary Organism: Visions of the Continuity of Life in the 'Dark Age' of Physical Chemistry
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    During the first three tumultuous decades of the twentieth century, many important biologists, physicists, and chemists began to think of the living cell not as a bounded object, but rather as a more or less differentiated region of a continuous...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and natural science
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  8. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Colonial Residue: Dismantling the Colonial Legacy in Postcolonial Environments
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Adopting the breadth of the term ‘environment’ outlined in the 2018-2020 ERRANS environ/s Fellowship, and being attentive to its focus on how environments can urge the questioning of clear-cut distinctions and ‘produce complex political ecologies...

    Fields of research Postcolonial studies,  Ecocriticism
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  9. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    When History Merges into Setting: Walter Benjamin and the Decreation of Human Sovereignty
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This monograph turns to the writings of Walter Benjamin with the hope of renewing a critical language for addressing the philosophical pre-conditions of ecological and racialized violence. The project explores how Benjamin re-theorizes notions of...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  10. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    'Nuclear Afterlives'
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This research project, tentatively titled ‘Nuclear Afterlives’, examines the complex and conflicting residues of nuclear contamination, and some of nonhuman harborers of these residues. Following Sperling’s first book project on weird embodiment in...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies,  Literature and philosophy,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  11. Category: Projects
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    Turning to Stone
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    With a focus on the presence of rocks in the work of a number of non-male artists, this project will begin with a study of Beverly Buchanan’s work with stones in the American South in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Amelia Groom will travel to the US...

    Fields of research Feminist studies,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. Category: Priority Programmes
    Institutions: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry
    ERRANS environ/s ICI Focus 2018-20
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    If what begins already finds itself in the thick of it, in the midst of something else, and among others elsewhere, what emerges, in the middle, at this mid-place or mi-lieu , does not thereby constitute a centre. Without starting or end point,...

    Fields of research Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 03.06.2019
  15. 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