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Transitions: Queer Temporalities in Trans Video Blogs
The discussion will be based on the book trans* Werden. Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs (Becoming Trans: Queer Temporalities and Transitions in Video Blogs), which consists of a media studies analysis of selected videos by trans video bloggers who documented their gender transitions on YouTube in the 2010s. In self-documentary practices that record the effects of testosterone on the body, trans being reveals itself as a complex and uncertain becoming that can be experienced as queer temporality in a specific environment mediated by technology. The effects of mediatization are the focus of the analysis. Sarah Horn is Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin in film studies at the Institute for Film, Theatre, Media, and Cultural Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. She has completed her doctorate at Ruhr University Bochum in the graduate programme ‘The Documentary: Excess and Deprivation’ with a thesis in media studies. Her research focuses on topics in queer and feminist theory, trans studies, media, gender (especially masculinities), and affect politics. She is a member of the DFG Research Network Gender, Media, and Affect and co-editor of the journal Kultur & Geschlecht. Cat Dawson is an art historian and gender and sexuality studies scholar who work on the cultural production of minoritized subjects in North America and Europe from the late nineteenth century to the present. They are currently a research fellow at the ICI Berlin, where they are working on their second book, provisionally titled Trans Form, which studies what it means to ‘look trans’ or see in a trans way when there are at least multiple mutually exclusive ways of inhabiting that category. Antke Antek Engel (they/them) is director of the Institute for Queer Theory (iQt) in Berlin; a site where academic debate meets up with political activism and artistic/cultural practices. They received their Ph.D. in Philosophy at Potsdam University in 2001, and since then held various guest professorships in gender and queer studies. They have published widely in the fields of queer, feminist and poststructuralist theory, political philosophy, and visual cultural studies.
2026
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Discussion
Discussion of the talk Raúl Sánchez Cedillo, ‘Beyond Collapse: Rethinking Emancipatory Politics in the Age of Global War and Climate Crisis’, part of the conference Pluriverse of Peace, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 24:55 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_13>
2025
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Mezzadra, Sandro Proliferating Transitions: New Beginnings at the End of the World as We Know It
Sandro Mezzadra, ‘Proliferating Transitions: New Beginnings at the End of the World as We Know It’, talk presented at the conference Pluriverse of Peace: How to Connect Anti-War and Environmental Struggles?, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 12:10 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_12>
2025
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Cedillo, Raúl Sánchez Beyond Collapse: Rethinking Emancipatory Politics in the Age of Global War and Climate Crisis
Raúl Sánchez Cedillo, ‘Beyond Collapse: Rethinking Emancipatory Politics in the Age of Global War and Climate Crisis’, talk presented at the conference Pluriverse of Peace: How to Connect Anti-War and Environmental Struggles?, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 18:07 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_11>
2025
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Discussion
Discussion of the talk Shuree Sarantuya, ‘Eco-Wars on Nomads: The Making of “Hostile Environments” in Mongolia’, part of the conference Pluriverse of Peace, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 14:06 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_10>
2025
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Sarantuya, Shuree Eco-Wars on Nomads: The Making of ‘Hostile Environments’ in Mongolia
Shuree Sarantuya, ‘Eco-Wars on Nomads: The Making of “Hostile Environments” in Mongolia’, talk presented at the conference Pluriverse of Peace: How to Connect Anti-War and Environmental Struggles?, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 14:44 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_09>
2025
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Discussion
Discussion of the talk Svitlana Matviyenko, ‘Elemental Warfare: How Russia Weaponizes Environmental Destruction in Ukraine’, part of the conference Pluriverse of Peace, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 15:32 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_08>
2025
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Matviyenko, Svitlana Elemental Warfare: How Russia Weaponizes Environmental Destruction in Ukraine
Svitlana Matviyenko, ‘Elemental Warfare: How Russia Weaponizes Environmental Destruction in Ukraine’, talk presented at the conference Pluriverse of Peace: How to Connect Anti-War and Environmental Struggles?, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 23:51 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_07>
2025
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Discussion
Discussion of the talk Enikő Vincze, ‘“ReArmEurope”: Saving Capitalism, Abandoning Life’, part of the conference Pluriverse of Peace, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 23:03 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_06>
2025
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Vincze, Enikő ‘ReArmEurope’: Saving Capitalism, Abandoning Life
Enikő Vincze, ‘“ReArmEurope”: Saving Capitalism, Abandoning Life’, talk presented at the conference Pluriverse of Peace: How to Connect Anti-War and Environmental Struggles?, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 16:41 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_05>
2025
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Discussion of the talk Debora Darabi, ‘No Plan B?: Capitalism, Climate Crisis, War, and Class Struggles’, part of the conference Pluriverse of Peace, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 23:05 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_04>
2025
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Darabi, Debora No Plan B?: Capitalism, Climate Crisis, War, and Class Struggles
Debora Darabi, ‘No Plan B?: Capitalism, Climate Crisis, War, and Class Struggles’, talk presented at the conference Pluriverse of Peace: How to Connect Anti-War and Environmental Struggles?, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 31:16 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_03>
2025
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Taube, Magdalena Introduction
Magdalena Taube, Introduction to the conference Pluriverse of Peace: How to Connect Anti-War and Environmental Struggles?, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 07:08 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_02>
2025
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Woznicki, Krystian Introduction
Krystian Woznicki, Introduction to the conference Pluriverse of Peace: How to Connect Anti-War and Environmental Struggles?, ICI Berlin, 16 October 2025, video recording, mp4, 03:58 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e251016_01>
2025
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Pluriverse of Peace: How to Connect Anti-War and Environmental Struggles?
Emancipatory movements in Europe and beyond have either lost momentum or are facing unprecedented repression. Meanwhile, private sector elites (and their political allies) have taken off their white gloves, pursuing profit, power, and prestige in ways that are increasingly barbaric. Given the current situation, in which short-term progress seems more out of reach than ever, it is time to explore the root causes of our dire predicament and what it will take to create a radically better world for everyone. To this end, the Berliner Gazette’s Pluriverse of Peace conference focuses on the (im-)possibilities of peace and environmental politics. “The endless accumulation of capital” (Immanuel Wallerstein) through market-driven mass production, financialization, etc. has depleted resources and polluted the planet. This has made ecosystems more vulnerable and unstable, which also affects markets and economies. Competition for resources and control of supply chains leads to territorial conflicts. War has become an increasingly common means of defending ‘national economies’. Meanwhile, the resource-intensive rise of the global war regime creates a disastrous ecological footprint that exacerbates environmental collapse. At this juncture, various forms of environmental warfare are emerging, involving the use of extreme weather, pollution, or terraforming as weapons. To break this vicious cycle, it is necessary to ask and discuss the deeper questions about the polycrisis and rethink strategies and alliances to articulate our shared desire for liberation and just transition. Tackling the structural dimension, the conference addresses the class interests behind the resurgence of militarism and the increasingly reactionary responses to the climate crisis. Scholars, activists, and cultural workers are invited to discuss the following questions: How should we address the increase in armed aggression and the mounting, disastrous consequences of the climate crisis? How can we tackle these issues at the structural level and across national borders? How can an emancipatory politics centre on the struggles of the impoverished, dispossessed, and exploited — that is, of those who are most affected by militarism and environmental disasters, yet often neglected by peace and climate movements?
2025
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Pier Paolo Pasolini Seeing Otherwise
In this workshop, participants probe the enduring relevance of Pasolini’s thought by choosing a concept, theme, or work that they have found particularly interesting and talking about it in 10-minute presentations. Since its inception the ICI Berlin has found a profound source of inspiration in the work and life of Pier Paolo Pasolini, organizing conferences, lectures, and performances as well as producing several publications. On the 50th anniversary of Pasolini’s death, the ICI Berlin organizes a public discussion entitled Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Unstable Geographies, which both goes back to the 2012 volume The Scandal of Self­Contradiction: Multistable Subjectivities, Traditions, Geographies and opens up to two publications in the ‘Cultural Inquiry’ series: Pasolini: Dialogues avec la France / Dialoghi con la Francia (2025) and Reorienting Pasolini, forthcoming in 2026.
2025
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Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Unstable Geographies
Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was a writer and filmmaker deeply rooted in European culture, as well as a public intellectual who moved between different traditions, identities, and languages. Fascinated by peripheries, be it within Italy (in the rural Friuli, the Roman borgate, or Naples) or the Global South (in East Africa, the Middle East, and India), he looked for possible alternatives to the hegemony of western neocapitalism and consumerism. Pasolini’s poetic gaze probed not only different geographies but also disparate temporalities, drawing provocative analogies, and zooming in and out in the constant attempt to unhinge coordinates, hierarchies, and logics. Fifty years after Pasolini’s death, this event explores his multi-scalar aesthetics, its political relevance, as well as its invitation to return the gaze. Chiara Caradonna is senior lecturer at the Departments of Romance Studies and of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and currently visiting fellow at the the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL) in Berlin. In her research, she explores the intersections between modern and contemporary European literature, continental philosophy, anthropology, photography, and cinema from an ecocritical and decolonial perspective. She has published articles on Pasolini’s reception of the Russian poet Osip Mandel’štam and on his theory and practice of notation across genres. She is the editor of the volume Reorienting Pasolini, forthcoming with ICI Press. Fabien Vitali is wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at the University of Siegen. He obtained his PhD from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa with a dissertation on the essays of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. His extensive work on Pasolini also includes the translation and commentary of Pasolini’s conversations with Jewish film journalist Gideon Bachmann, which were awarded the Translation Prize of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2023 (Pasolini-Bachmann, Gespräche 1963–1975, 2022). He translated into German Pasolini’s dialogues with the readers of the communist magazine Vie Nuove from the 1960s (2025). Since 2025, he has been the editor of the Sefiroth| ספירות series at the Galerie der abseitigen Künste in Hamburg. There he recently published the essay ‘Der Zeit widersprechen’, a study on the performative dimension of Pasolini’s cultural criticism.
2025
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Sarah Horn Ausblick: Transition from Nowhere to Nowhere
Sarah Horn, ‘Ausblick: Transition from Nowhere to Nowhere’, in Sarah Horn, trans* Werden: Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs, Cultural Inquiry, 38 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 323-33 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-38_5>
2025
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Sarah Horn (Selbst-)Dokumentarische Praktiken und trans* Archive
Sarah Horn, ‘(Selbst-)Dokumentarische Praktiken und trans* Archive’, in Sarah Horn, trans* Werden: Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs, Cultural Inquiry, 38 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 277-321 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-38_4>
2025
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Sarah Horn Testosteron, Medien, Männlichkeiten
Sarah Horn, ‘Testosteron, Medien, Männlichkeiten’, in Sarah Horn, trans* Werden: Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs, Cultural Inquiry, 38 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 189-275 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-38_3>
2025
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Sarah Horn Testo-Transitionen differenzieren – trans* Geschlechtlichkeit und Rassifizierungen
Sarah Horn, ‘Testo-Transitionen differenzieren – trans* Geschlechtlichkeit und Rassifizierungen’, in Sarah Horn, trans* Werden: Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs, Cultural Inquiry, 38 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 117-88 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-38_2>
2025
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Sarah Horn Zweimal durch die Pubertät – Transition auf YouTube
Sarah Horn, ‘Zweimal durch die Pubertät – Transition auf YouTube’, in Sarah Horn, trans* Werden: Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs, Cultural Inquiry, 38 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 27-116 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-38_1>
2025
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Sarah Horn Einleitung: Transition und queere Zeitlichkeiten
Sarah Horn, ‘Einleitung: Transition und queere Zeitlichkeiten’, in Sarah Horn, trans* Werden: Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs, Cultural Inquiry, 38 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 1-25 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-38_0>
2025
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Sarah Horn Vorwort
Sarah Horn, ‘Vorwort’, in Sarah Horn, trans* Werden: Queere Zeitlichkeiten und Transitionen in Videoblogs, Cultural Inquiry, 38 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), p. vii-xi <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-38_00>
2025
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