Institutskolloquium Winter Semester 2025/26:
IfEE, transversally. Thinking the para-institute
Dienstags/Tuesdays, 2:30-4pm (siehe Sondertermine/see special events)
Anton-Wilhelm-Amo-Straße 40/41, 10117 Berlin - Raum/Room 408
Organisation: Ignacio Farías & Jonas Tinius
This semester's departmental seminar series asks what constitutes an institute, a discipline, or an institutional tradition. The impulse does not arise from instability or crisis, but from an epistemic, infrastructural, and political response to change and transformation. We wish to question ourselves generatively and transversally, examining the multiple genealogies, paths, and potential futures of our discipline and its articulation in our institute. The aim is not to affirm a canon or to stabilise an institutional trajectory, but to consider how institutional formations emerge and can be reconfigured.Enacting a para-institutional reflection, this series situates the IfEE within broader contemporary and historical processes—academic, political, affective, epistemological—and opens a space to ask how institutional styles of thought are translated across generations and geographies. What do we inherit, and what do we become? How do we deal with ruptures, transitions, and transformation? Rather than providing closure, this seminar is an invitation to participate in the ongoing co-constitution of our discipline(s) and our institute. It traverses core research fields, key infrastructures (labs, para-archives, archives, publications), and academic politics in and beyond Berlin. It proposes a collaborative exploration into the very conditions of the university as a habitable institution.
11. November 2025 (in English)
11. November 2025 | 4-6pm (in English)
6. Januar 2026 (in English)
13. Januar 2026 (in English)
20. Januar 2026 (in English)
27. Januar 2026 (in German)
10. Februar 2026 (in German)
Hier geht es zur Online-Teilnahme.
Für barrierefreien Zugang nutzen Sie bitte den Eingang Hausvogteiplatz 5-7. Über den Innenhof gelangen Sie zum Erdgeschoss des Instituts, wo Sie den Aufzug zu Raum 408 nehmen können.
Weitere Anfragen zur Zugänglichkeit beantwortet gerne Ignacio Farías
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For barrier-free access, please enter through Hausvogteiplatz 5-7. The inner courtyard leads to the ground floor of the institute, where you can take the lift to room 408.
For further accessibility inquiries write to Ignacio Farías
Allgemeine Information zum Institutskolloquium
Während des Semesters kommt jede Woche das gesamte Institut zusammen, um sich über neueste Forschungen und aktuelle Debatten auszutauschen – Studierende und Lehrende, Promovierende und PostDocs, Mitarbeitende und Gäste. Das Institutskolloquium findet jedes Semester zu einem anderem übergeordneten Schwerpunkt statt, der gegenwärtige Themen, Diskussionen und Kontroversen in der Gesellschaft oder im Fach aufgreift. Regelmäßig laden wir dazu auch internationale Gäste anderer Disziplinen und Universitäten ein, um uns über ihre jüngsten Forschungsperspektiven auszutauschen. Die Vortragsreihe steht allen Interessierten offen und kann sowohl vor Ort als auch online via Zoom verfolgt werden. Die Vorträge werden auf Deutsch oder Englisch gehalten.
General Information on the Institute’s Colloquium
Every week during the semester, the institute meets to discuss the latest research and current debates - students and lecturers, doctoral students and postdocs, staff and guests. The Institute’s Colloquium takes place every semester with a different overarching focus that addresses current topics, discussions and controversies in society or the discipline. We also regularly invite international guests from other universities, as well as disciplines, to share their latest research activities. The lecture series is open to everybody interested and can be attended both on-site and online via Zoom. The lectures are held in German or English.