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Subject: Lecture: Coco Fusco, Torture - the Feminine Touch. 31 May, 19:30
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31 MAY, 19:30. LECTURE. COCO FUSCO: TORTURE - THE FEMININE TOUCH
http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/435/
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>From 2005-2009, Coco Fusco developed a series of projects that explored
contemporary military scenarios as intercultural encounters, examining
the role of female sexuality as a weapon in the War on Terror. Treating
the so-called “theatre of combat” as a dramatic and symbolic space,
she  concentrated on military prisons. Many of the War on Terror’s most
controversial images have emerged from military prisons run by the US
military in Iraq, Afghanistan and Cuba, featuring depictions of
ritualized humiliation of “enemy combatants.” In her performances,
writings and video about this subject, she attempted to analyze these
spectacles of subjection and to consider how the American military has
capitalized on the growing presence of women in its ranks, adapting
originally feminist ideas about sexual assertiveness in order to exploit
them as interrogation strategies.

Coco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She has performed,
lectured, exhibited, and curated internationally since 1988. Her
performances and videos have lately been included in the Mercosul Biennial
(2011), and featured in Afro-Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic
at the Tate Liverpool (2010) and Self as Disappearance at  the Centre
d’Art Contemporain La Synagogue de Delme (2010). She is an  Associate
Professor and Director of Intermedia Initiatives at Parsons  The New
School for Design in New York.

The lecture is organized by the research group Visual Culture of the DFG
Research Training Group “Gender as a Category of Knowledge” (HU
Berlin) in cooperation with the ICI Berlin.
It is part of the lecture series Talking Eyes (
http://www.talking-eyes.de/ ).

Moderation: Nana Adusei-Poku

Foto: Eduardo Aparicio

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7 JUNE, 19:30. LECTURE. ASTRID DEUBER-MANKOWSKY: DIFFRACTING THE RAYS OF
KNOWLEDGE
http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/424/
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Figural and Agential Realism in Donna Haraway and Karen Barad

According to Donna J. Haraway and Karen Barad, the realness of the world
appears in the fact that the world is in connection. What figure could
symbolize this better than that of diffraction? Like reflection,
diffraction is an optical metaphor. Yet, in contrast to the concept of
reflection that of diffraction neither relates to the mirror-metaphor  nor
follows the model of the copy. Hence both Haraway and Barad proclaim  a
“diffractional turn.” Yet, they differ with regard to the kind of
realism they advocate. While Haraway proposes a figural realism, working
with style, language and metaphors, Barad delineates an agential  realism,
which refers to quantum mechanics. As opposed to Haraway, Barad  does not
intend to create new stories, figures or myths. Instead of  relying on
semiotics, she argues for an ontological turn. She wants to  unify quantum
mechanics with the subatomic world in a new  epistemo-ontology.

The lecture is part of the ICI Lecture Series On Complementarity.

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8 JUN, 10:00. WORKSHOP: MULTISTABLE CITYSCAPES
http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/445/
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The workshop Multistable Cityscapes is meant to provide  a ground for
reciprocal confrontation addressed to all those scholars,  theoreticians
and artists who are interested in exploring the  implications of
multistability in relation to cityscapes and urban  communities. The
workshop aims to promote a reflection on urban spaces  around the world
bypassing merely historical/historicist approaches,  thus endorsing a
horizontal, rhizomatous and open perception of cities’  ambivalent
relationship with modernity and stressing aspects of  confrontation and
plurality rather than complaining the loss of any  alleged former
identity. As multistable figures, cityscapes also take  dissimilar, even
contradictory and mutually exclusive shapes, which  correspond to equally
valid or possible descriptions, yet cannot be  combined into a single
picture – shapes that may have sharp contours but  are also liable to
transformations and sudden aspect changes.

The workshop is open to the public. Please sign up to info at ici-berlin.org

The workshop Multistable Cityscapes is co-organized by the Department of
Italian at the University of Warwick and the ICI Berlin.

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12 JUNE, 19:30. LECTURE. CATHY COHEN: RACE AND QUEER THEORY IN THE AGE OF
OBAMA
http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/447/
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The talk will explore how changes in our understanding of the racialized
state, as experienced in the United States in the era of President  Obama
for example, inform both queer theory and queer politics. Using  the
examples of the campaign against bullying and the struggle for  same-sex
marriage in the United States, I consider how race is directly  deployed
or inherently influences debates and battles over the status  and scope of
queer subjects. Correspondingly, given the significance of  race in the
intimate sphere, at least in the U. S., I consider what  insights might be
gained from centering the work of black queer  theorists and activists as
academics and activists re-imagine the  politics of intimacy.

The talk is organized in cooperation with and supported by the Institut
für Politikwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin (Prof. Cilja
Harders) and the Zentraleinrichtung zur Förderung von Frauen- und
Geschlechterforschung an der Freien Universität Berlin.
It is part of the series The Subtle Racializations of Sexuality: Queer
Theory, the Aftermath of Colonial History, and the Late-Modern State
organized by Antke Engel, Institute for Queer Theory, in cooperation with
the ICI Berlin.

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13 JUNE, 13:00-17:00. WORKSHOP. CATHY COHEN: CATHY COHEN: BLACK QUEER
THEORY AND NEOLIBERALISM
http://www.ici-berlin.org/event/450/
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In this workshop we will explore how the policies and rhetoric of
neoliberalism impact and reshape the intimate sphere, using it as a site
for state intervention while deploying the language of privatization.
This use of the intimate sphere as a site of regulation is not new. For
example, the intimate sphere has always been a heightened domain of
regulation for racialized marginal communities. Understanding this,  what
lessons can we learn from the history of struggle in  African-American
communities over issues such as sex, desire and family?  Specifically, we
will explore what interventions in theory and practice  might be developed
from black queer theory to challenge the attack on  or use of the intimate
sphere in neoliberalism.

The workshop is open to the public. Please sign up by 4 June to
info at ici-berlin.org

The workshop is organized in cooperation with and supported by the
Institut für Politikwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin (Prof.
Cilja Harders) and the Zentraleinrichtung zur Förderung von Frauen- und
Geschlechterforschung an der Freien Universität Berlin.

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