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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: 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. Category: Workshops, seminars
    Beginning: 18.03.2019
    Voice and Environment
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This workshop will bring artists and scholars together for a sustained conversation on the theme of voice and environment. It will explore physical, cultural, sonic, and social interactions between voice and environment, as well as issues relating to...

    Fields of research Ecocriticism,  Literature and music/sound studies
    Created on: 20.02.2019