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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260826T162426
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20260915
SUMMARY:Fragile Images: Conceptions and Configurations of the Image
DESCRIPTION:The ERC project FRAGILE IMAGES (Grant no. 101141247) invites to
  challenge the dominant notion of understanding images as powerful actors.
  Moving away from the prevalent focus on aﬀective\, persuasive\, and imm
 ersive images\, this project foregrounds the temporal instability\, semant
 ic ambiguity\, and ontological self-reflexivity of images. Starting from t
 he gaze as a mediator between image and viewer\, between activity and pass
 ivity\, between power and weakness\, the project proposes to intertwine a 
 praxeology of showing with a praxeology of viewing. This radically new app
 roach brings together perspectives from Visual Studies and cultural histor
 y and applies them to Roman imagery from the 2nd century BC to the 4th c
 entury AD. On the basis of archaeological and written evidence from this p
 eriod\, ‘fragility’ is explored as a pictorial quality.\\r\\nIn collab
 oration with eikones - Institute for the Theory and History of the Image -
  this workshop situates these concepts within a broader framework. In thre
 e days\, we will test\, refine\, and expand the potential of “fragility
 ” as an image-theoretical concept by deliberately juxtaposing contributi
 ons on Roman imagery with studies focusing on other historical periods\, g
 eographical areas\, and disciplinary backgrounds. \\r\\nProgram [t3://fil
 e?uid=750]
X-ALT-DESC:<p>The ERC project FRAGILE IMAGES (Grant no. 101141247) invites 
 to challenge the dominant notion of understanding images as powerful actor
 s. Moving away from the prevalent focus on aﬀective\, persuasive\, and i
 mmersive images\, this project foregrounds the temporal instability\, sema
 ntic ambiguity\, and ontological self-reflexivity of images. Starting from
  the gaze as a mediator between image and viewer\, between activity and pa
 ssivity\, between power and weakness\, the project proposes to intertwine 
 a praxeology of showing with a praxeology of viewing. This radically new a
 pproach brings together perspectives from Visual Studies and cultural hist
 ory and applies them to Roman imagery from the 2nd&nbsp\;century BC to the
  4th&nbsp\;century AD. On the basis of archaeological and written evidence
  from this period\, ‘fragility’ is explored as a pictorial quality.</p
 >\n<p>In collaboration with eikones - Institute for the Theory and History
  of the Image - this workshop situates these concepts within a broader fra
 mework. In three days\, we will test\, refine\, and expand the potential o
 f “fragility” as an image-theoretical concept by deliberately juxtapos
 ing contributions on Roman imagery with studies focusing on other historic
 al periods\, geographical areas\, and disciplinary backgrounds.&nbsp\;</p>
 \n<p><a href="t3://file?uid=750">Program</a></p>\n\n
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20260917
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UID:news357@eikones.philhist.unibas.ch
DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260905T091006
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260916T181500
SUMMARY:What We See Looks Back at Us: Gaze Relations in Pompeian Wall Paint
 ing
DESCRIPTION:What role do gazes play in the relation between image and viewe
 r? Drawing on Ovid’s Narcissus and selected Pompeian wall paintings\, th
 is lecture explores how pictured figures direct\, return\, evade\, or susp
 end the viewer’s gaze. \\r\\nThe case of Mars and Venus demonstrates t
 hat gaze\, bodily posture\, and facial expression do not necessarily produ
 ce a coherent emotional narrative. Rather\, they create ambiguities and i
 nterpretative gaps that activate the viewer’s own judgement. Looking at
  images thus emerges as an unstable relation between seeing\, being seen\
 , and being addressed—one shaped not only by the image itself\, but also
  by its spatial and cultural setting.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>What role do gazes play in the relation between image and vie
 wer? Drawing on Ovid’s Narcissus and selected Pompeian wall paintings\, 
 this lecture explores how pictured figures direct\, return\, evade\, or su
 spend&nbsp\;the viewer’s gaze.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>The case of Mars and Venus
  demonstrates that gaze\, bodily posture\, and facial expression do not ne
 cessarily produce a&nbsp\;coherent emotional narrative. Rather\, they crea
 te ambiguities and interpretative gaps that activate the viewer’s own ju
 dgement. Looking at&nbsp\;images thus emerges as an unstable relation betw
 een seeing\, being seen\, and being addressed—one shaped not only by the
  image itself\, but also by its spatial and cultural setting.</p>
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260916T193000
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UID:news352@eikones.philhist.unibas.ch
DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260910T210053
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260928T181500
SUMMARY:Ecological Encounters: Skin\, Cognition and Technology
DESCRIPTION:Human skin delineates the outer appearance of the individual\, 
 separating the body from its surroundings. In cultural and literary discou
 rse\, the modern individual is defined by its demarcation of self and non-
 self. Contemporary philosophy and theories of mind\, by contrast\, have re
 cently introduced the term “skin bag” to critique the confinement of h
 umans to their body proper. They argue that the human mind\, especially\, 
 extends naturally to include artificial technologies. While both positions
  may propagate different visions of human nature (and its future)\, they s
 hare a common misconception of the skin. Neither a boundary walling off th
 e organism from its environments\, nor an interface for technological appe
 ndices\, the skin is a living\, ecological host\, enabling life by sustain
 ing the life of other organisms\, and weaving the individual into the coll
 ective.\\r\\nIn my lecture\, I will discuss contemporary insights of micro
 biome research into the vulnerable surfaces of our bodies\, how inside and
  outside become convoluted\, and how the ecological conception of skin tra
 nsforms dualist imaginaries of mind and body\, nature and culture\, indivi
 dual and collective.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Human skin delineates the outer appearance of the individual\
 , separating the body from its surroundings. In cultural and literary disc
 ourse\, the modern individual is defined by its demarcation of self and no
 n-self. Contemporary philosophy and theories of mind\, by contrast\, have 
 recently introduced the term “skin bag” to critique the confinement of
  humans to their body proper. They argue that the human mind\, especially\
 , extends naturally to include artificial technologies. While both positio
 ns may propagate different visions of human nature (and its future)\, they
  share a common misconception of the skin. Neither a boundary walling off 
 the organism from its environments\, nor an interface for technological ap
 pendices\, the skin is a living\, ecological host\, enabling life by susta
 ining the life of other organisms\, and weaving the individual into the co
 llective.</p>\n<p>In my lecture\, I will discuss contemporary insights of 
 microbiome research into the vulnerable surfaces of our bodies\, how insid
 e and outside become convoluted\, and how the ecological conception of ski
 n transforms dualist imaginaries of mind and body\, nature and culture\, i
 ndividual and collective.</p>
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260928T200000
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UID:news350@eikones.philhist.unibas.ch
DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260910T165321
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261002
SUMMARY:Ecologies of Mind in the Cold War
DESCRIPTION:Amid today’s geopolitical turmoil\, armed violence\, and info
 rmation warfare\, parallels could be drawn to the charged global tension a
 nd ideological polarization of the Cold War. Since the advent of the nucle
 ar age\, militarized nationalist and (neo-)colonial regimes have rarely re
 lied on ideological agitation alone. Rather\, they are characterized by th
 e use of data processing and communication technologies for mobilizing\, e
 xtracting\, analyzing\, and manipulating information and collective affect
 s: a form of subjectivation dependent on complex media environments that a
 re neither exclusively civil or military\, commercial or public\, epistemi
 c or governmental. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to explore such
  “ecologies of mind” and their shaping of the psychologized self durin
 g the Cold War. \\r\\nResponding to the moment of charged geopolitical te
 nsions\, ideological polarization\, and technocratic rationalities\, psych
 ologist and anthropologist Gregory Bateson coined the notion of “ecology
  of mind” to account for a distributed subjectivity that resists a mecha
 nistic understanding. Drawing on the transdisciplinary language of cyberne
 tics\, as well as from anthropology\, psychology\, evolutionary biology\, 
 and information theory\, Bateson described cognitive and psychic processes
  as embedded within—and in constant feedback with —the broader social 
 systems of information exchange. In his 1972 anthology Steps to an Ecolog
 y of Mind\, he remarked:\\r\\n“Freudian psychology expanded the concept 
 of mind inwards to include the whole communication system within the body
 —the automatic\, the habitual\, and the vast range of unconscious proces
 s. What I am saying expands mind outwards. And both of these changes reduc
 e the scope of the conscious self.”\\r\\nAccording to this vision\, the 
 organic and inorganic worlds\, the tangible and the discursive\, the socia
 l and the political\, as well as the technological and the aesthetic const
 itute an environment intertwined with the self that expands the mind and d
 ecenters the subject. This recursive epistemology foregrounds context inst
 ead of atomization\, feedback instead of linear causalities.\\r\\nUpsettin
 g the limited focus on Bateson’s immediate sphere of activity\, we welco
 me research on parallel and intersecting projects across disciplines and p
 olitical boundaries that share a common orientation toward the subjectivit
 y as distributed\, relational\, and ecological. Rather than casting Bateso
 n as an anomaly within Cold War rationality\, this conference asks how his
  ecological approach was itself situated within a broader discursive\, pol
 itical\, social\, and techno-scientific environments. In this way\, it inv
 ites to decenter Bateson’s inquiry through various related and simultane
 ous investigations into the environments of the self––namely\, the eco
 logies of mind––in the Cold War.\\r\\nSpeakers:Ole Bogner\, David Buch
 eli\, Orit Halpern\, Ute Holl\, Olexii Kuchanskyi\, Occitane Lacurie\, Svi
 tlana Matviyenko\, Marie Rebecchi\, Magnus Rust\, Kamila Smagulova\, Elena
  Vogman.\\r\\nProgram and abstracts here [t3://file?uid=765].
X-ALT-DESC:<p dir="ltr">Amid today’s geopolitical turmoil\, armed violenc
 e\, and information warfare\, parallels could be drawn to the charged glob
 al tension and ideological polarization of the Cold War. Since the advent 
 of the nuclear age\, militarized nationalist and (neo-)colonial regimes ha
 ve rarely relied on ideological agitation alone. Rather\, they are charact
 erized by the use of data processing and communication technologies for mo
 bilizing\, extracting\, analyzing\, and manipulating information and colle
 ctive affects: a form of subjectivation dependent on complex media environ
 ments that are neither exclusively civil or military\, commercial or publi
 c\, epistemic or governmental. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to 
 explore such “ecologies of mind” and their shaping of the psychologize
 d self during the Cold War.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p dir="ltr">Responding to the mom
 ent of charged geopolitical tensions\, ideological polarization\, and tech
 nocratic rationalities\, psychologist and anthropologist Gregory Bateson c
 oined the notion of “ecology of mind” to account for a distributed sub
 jectivity that resists a mechanistic understanding. Drawing on the transdi
 sciplinary language of cybernetics\, as well as from anthropology\, psycho
 logy\, evolutionary biology\, and information theory\, Bateson described c
 ognitive and psychic processes as embedded within—and in constant feedba
 ck with —the broader social systems of information exchange. In his 1972
  anthology&nbsp\;<i>Steps to an Ecology of Mind</i>\, he remarked:</p>\n<p
  dir="ltr"><i>“Freudian psychology expanded the concept of mind inwards 
 to include the whole communication system within the body—the automatic\
 , the habitual\, and the vast range of unconscious process. What I am sayi
 ng expands mind outwards. And both of these changes reduce the scope of th
 e conscious self.”</i></p>\n<p dir="ltr">According to this vision\, the 
 organic and inorganic worlds\, the tangible and the discursive\, the socia
 l and the political\, as well as the technological and the aesthetic const
 itute an environment intertwined with the self that expands the mind and d
 ecenters the subject. This recursive epistemology foregrounds context inst
 ead of atomization\, feedback instead of linear causalities.</p>\n<p dir="
 ltr">Upsetting the limited focus on Bateson’s immediate sphere of activi
 ty\, we welcome research on parallel and intersecting projects across disc
 iplines and political boundaries that share a common orientation toward th
 e subjectivity as distributed\, relational\, and ecological. Rather than c
 asting Bateson as an anomaly within Cold War rationality\, this conference
  asks how his ecological approach was itself situated within a broader dis
 cursive\, political\, social\, and techno-scientific environments. In this
  way\, it invites to decenter Bateson’s inquiry through various related 
 and simultaneous investigations into the environments of the self––nam
 ely\, the ecologies of mind––in the Cold War.</p>\n<p dir="ltr">Speake
 rs:<br />Ole Bogner\, David Bucheli\, Orit Halpern\, Ute Holl\, Olexii Kuc
 hanskyi\, Occitane Lacurie\, Svitlana Matviyenko\, Marie Rebecchi\, Magnus
  Rust\, Kamila Smagulova\, Elena Vogman.</p>\n<p dir="ltr">Program and abs
 tracts <a href="t3://file?uid=765">here</a>.</p>
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20261003
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UID:news358@eikones.philhist.unibas.ch
DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260910T170543
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261008T181500
SUMMARY:Forumsvortrag «Sound Art History und die klanglichen Dimensionen d
 es Ambos in Aachen» mit Joanna Olchawa
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UID:news354@eikones.philhist.unibas.ch
DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260901T115640
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261014T181500
SUMMARY:Media Studies and AI Literacies: Colloquium #6
DESCRIPTION:Mit:\\r\\nMartin AndreeInstitut für Medienkultur und Theater\,
  Universität zu Köln\\r\\n“Das Internet der Monopole. Implikationen f
 ür Demokratie\, Journalismus und Wissenschaft”\\r\\nDie digitale Transf
 ormation beschleunigt sich. Immer mehr Mediennutzung findet digital statt\
 , und ebenso verschieben sich auch immer mehr wirtschaftliche Transaktione
 n in die digitale Sphäre. Seit einigen Jahren erweist sich jedoch ein Asp
 ekt als problematisch. Denn fast alle digitalen Märkte weisen monopolisti
 sche Strukturen auf. Oft beherrscht ein Anbieter durch seine marktbeherrsc
 hende Stellung eine ganze Mediengattung. Diese monopolistischen Strukturen
  erzeugen erhebliche Folgeprobleme. Digitale Medienmonopole erodieren die 
 Medienfreiheit. Weil die Medien die Grundlage der westlichen Demokratien d
 arstellen\, ergeben sich massive Schäden für die freiheitliche Grundordn
 ung. Die digitalen Monopole formatieren aber auch unsere Wissensordnung ne
 u – mit erheblichen Kollateralschäden etwa für den Journalismus\, aber
  auch für die Wissenschaft sowie die Schnittstellen\, über die die Wisse
 nschaft in der Vergangenheit Orientierungen für die demokratischen Gesell
 schaften lieferte.\\r\\nModeration: Harun Maye\, Universität Basel\\r\\nG
 äste sind herzlich willkommen. Im Anschluss findet ein Apéro statt.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Mit:</p>\n<p>Martin Andree<br />Institut für Medienkultur un
 d Theater\, Universität zu Köln</p>\n<p>“<strong>Das Internet der Mono
 pole. Implikationen für Demokratie\, Journalismus und Wissenschaft</stron
 g>”</p>\n<p>Die digitale Transformation beschleunigt sich. Immer mehr Me
 diennutzung findet digital statt\, und ebenso verschieben sich auch immer 
 mehr wirtschaftliche Transaktionen in die digitale Sphäre. Seit einigen J
 ahren erweist sich jedoch ein Aspekt als problematisch. Denn fast alle dig
 italen Märkte weisen monopolistische Strukturen auf. Oft beherrscht ein A
 nbieter durch seine marktbeherrschende Stellung eine ganze Mediengattung. 
 Diese monopolistischen Strukturen erzeugen erhebliche Folgeprobleme. Digit
 ale Medienmonopole erodieren die Medienfreiheit. Weil die Medien die Grund
 lage der westlichen Demokratien darstellen\, ergeben sich massive Schäden
  für die freiheitliche Grundordnung. Die digitalen Monopole formatieren a
 ber auch unsere Wissensordnung neu – mit erheblichen Kollateralschäden 
 etwa für den Journalismus\, aber auch für die Wissenschaft sowie die Sch
 nittstellen\, über die die Wissenschaft in der Vergangenheit Orientierung
 en für die demokratischen Gesellschaften lieferte.</p>\n<p>Moderation: Ha
 run Maye\, Universität Basel</p>\n<p>Gäste sind herzlich willkommen. Im 
 Anschluss findet ein Apéro statt.</p>\n\n
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261014T200000
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UID:news364@eikones.philhist.unibas.ch
DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260910T214602
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261016
SUMMARY:Digital Simulations & Sites of Destruction
DESCRIPTION:Modern media technologies\, including 360° cameras\, VR headse
 ts\, and haptic devices\, have greatly expanded opportunities for individu
 als around the globe to digitally explore sites of destruction. Museums an
 d galleries use these technologies to give visitors the chance to see\, he
 ar\, and feel historic landscapes of oppression. Artists and activists exp
 loit these same tools to inform political leaders about contemporary cases
  of atrocity. Nevertheless\, the specific affordances and special challeng
 es posed by digital simulations of sites of destruction remain poorly unde
 rstood. This workshop brings together leading scholars from Switzerland\, 
 the UK\, and the US for discussion of these issues.\\r\\nSpeakersDr. Victo
 ria Walden (University of Sussex)Dr. Amy Sodaro (CUNY Borough of Manhattan
  Community College)Dr. David Simon (Yale University)Dr. Mykola Makhortykh 
 (Universität Bern)
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Modern media technologies\, including 360° cameras\, VR head
 sets\, and haptic devices\, have greatly expanded opportunities for indivi
 duals around the globe to digitally explore sites of destruction. Museums 
 and galleries use these technologies to give visitors the chance to see\, 
 hear\, and feel historic landscapes of oppression. Artists and activists e
 xploit these same tools to inform political leaders about contemporary cas
 es of atrocity. Nevertheless\, the specific affordances and special challe
 nges posed by digital simulations of sites of destruction remain poorly un
 derstood. This workshop brings together leading scholars from Switzerland\
 , the UK\, and the US for discussion of these issues.</p>\n<p>Speakers<br 
 />Dr. Victoria Walden (University of Sussex)<br />Dr. Amy Sodaro (CUNY Bor
 ough of Manhattan Community College)<br />Dr. David Simon (Yale University
 )<br />Dr. Mykola Makhortykh (Universität Bern)</p>
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UID:news362@eikones.philhist.unibas.ch
DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260910T211844
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261020T181500
SUMMARY:Both/And: Madeleine Lemaire Through a Queer Lens
DESCRIPTION:Throughout her career\, Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928) painted h
 undreds of works depicting women in various states of dress—and undress
 —and companionship with other women. These images tended to receive posi
 tive notice in both exhibitions and the popular press\, with no recorded c
 ommentary on the purported appropriateness of a so-called “woman artist
 ” representing seemingly Sapphic scenes. Yet today it remains common to 
 hear that “women artists” on the whole did not paint such images\, and
  when they did\, such images were rarely if ever sexualized. In this prese
 ntation\, Ringelberg will share a number of these images and ask the audie
 nce to rethink the mental frameworks that cause us to be unable to see the
 m in their complexity.\\r\\nKirstin Ringelberg is Professor of Art History
  in the Department of History & Geography at Elon University in North Caro
 lina. Their book Redefining Gender in American Impressionist Studio Painti
 ngs: Work Place/Domestic Space was re-released in paperback in 2017. Recen
 t articles include “Reading Cisheteronormativity into the Art Historical
  Archives” in Arts\, spring 2024\, “Trans visibility and trans viabili
 ty: a Roundtable\,” co-edited\, with Jill Casid and Cyle Metzger\, in th
 e Journal of Visual Culture in 2022\, and “Prismatic Views: a look at th
 e growing field of transgender art and visual culture studies\,” co-auth
 ored with Cyle Metzger in the Journal of Visual Culture in 2020. In 2024\,
  Ringelberg was the Every Page Foundation Fellow at the Clark Art Institut
 e\, for work on their book-length project Chez Madeleine Lemaire: Gender a
 nd Genre in the Queer Belle Époque (in progress). \\r\\nInformation on t
 he workshop “Toute La Flore Vivante”: Floral Still Life’s Gender Pot
 ential [https://eikones.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/ev
 ent-details/toute-la-flore-vivante-floral-still-lifes-gender-potential/] w
 ith Kirstin Ringelberg the following day. 
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Throughout her career\, Madeleine Lemaire (1845-1928) painted
  hundreds of works depicting women in various states of dress—and undres
 s—and companionship with other women. These images tended to receive pos
 itive notice in both exhibitions and the popular press\, with no recorded 
 commentary on the purported appropriateness of a so-called “woman artist
 ” representing seemingly Sapphic scenes. Yet today it remains common to 
 hear that “women artists” on the whole did not paint such images\, and
  when they did\, such images were rarely if ever sexualized. In this prese
 ntation\, Ringelberg will share a number of these images and ask the audie
 nce to rethink the mental frameworks that cause us to be unable to see the
 m in their complexity.</p>\n<p>Kirstin Ringelberg is Professor of Art Hist
 ory in the Department of History &amp\; Geography at Elon University in No
 rth Carolina. Their book <i>Redefining Gender in American Impressionist St
 udio Paintings: Work Place/Domestic Space </i>was re-released in paperback
  in 2017. Recent articles include “Reading Cisheteronormativity into the
  Art Historical Archives” in <i>Arts</i>\, spring 2024\, “Trans visibi
 lity and trans viability: a Roundtable\,” co-edited\, with Jill Casid an
 d Cyle Metzger\, in the <i>Journal of Visual Culture</i> in 2022\, and “
 Prismatic Views: a look at the growing field of transgender art and visual
  culture studies\,” co-authored with Cyle Metzger in the <i>Journal of V
 isual Culture</i> in 2020. In 2024\, Ringelberg was the Every Page Foundat
 ion Fellow at the Clark Art Institute\, for work on their book-length proj
 ect <i>Chez Madeleine Lemaire: Gender and Genre in the Queer Belle Époque
 </i> (in progress).<br />&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Information on the workshop <a hr
 ef="https://eikones.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/event-
 details/toute-la-flore-vivante-floral-still-lifes-gender-potential/">“To
 ute La Flore Vivante”: Floral Still Life’s Gender Potential</a> with K
 irstin Ringelberg the following day.<br />&nbsp\;</p>
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261020T194500
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:news363@eikones.philhist.unibas.ch
DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260910T211244
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261021T093000
SUMMARY:“Toute La Flore Vivante”: Floral Still Life’s Gender Potentia
 l
DESCRIPTION:The workshop will bring participants into shared discussion of 
 how art history has supported false taxonomical binarisms—in gender\, ge
 nre\, style\, and content—and how we might undo these to have a richer 
 understanding of both art and life. Readings will include essays by Ringel
 berg (two of which unpublished) as well as texts by David J. Getsy and Emm
 a Heaney. In the second part of the workshop\, participants will have the 
 opportunity to contribute specific questions related to their own research
  that resonate with the workshop’s readings and themes.\\r\\nTo attend t
 he workshop\, please send an email to lesbiangaze-kunsthist@unibas.ch [mai
 lto:lesbiangaze-kunsthist@unibas.ch] (limited number of participants).\\r\
 \nMore information on Both/And: Madeleine Lemaire Through a Queer Lens [ht
 tps://eikones.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/event-detail
 s/evening-lecture-by-kirstin-ringelberg-both-and-madeleine-lemaire-through
 -a-queer-lens/]\, the evening lecture by Kristin Ringelberg on October 20\
 , 2026.\\r\\n\\r\\nReadings:– Ringelberg\, Kirstin. “Reading Cishetero
 normativity into the Art Historical Archives.” Arts 13\, Nr. 3 (2024): 8
 9. https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13030089 [https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13030
 089]– Ringelberg\, Kirstin. “Beyond Sex and Gender Binaries: The Flora
 l Still Lives of Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928).” [draft]– Ringelberg
 \, Kirstin. “Introduction.” Chez Madeleine Lemaire: Gender and Genre i
 n the Queer Belle Époque (in progress) [draft]– Getsy\, David J. “Cap
 acity.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 1\, no. 1–2 (May 2014): 47
 –49.– Heaney\, Emma. “Introduction: Sexual Difference without Cisnes
 s.” In Feminism Against Cisness\, edited by Emma Heaney\, 1–33. Durham
 \, NC: Duke University Press\, 2024.Kirstin Ringelberg is Professor of Art
  History in the Department of History & Geography at Elon University in No
 rth Carolina. Their book Redefining Gender in American Impressionist Studi
 o Paintings: Work Place/Domestic Space was re-released in paperback in 201
 7. Recent articles include “Reading Cisheteronormativity into the Art Hi
 storical Archives” in Arts\, spring 2024\, “Trans visibility and trans
  viability: a Roundtable\,” co-edited\, with Jill Casid and Cyle Metzger
 \, in the Journal of Visual Culture in 2022\, and “Prismatic Views: a lo
 ok at the growing field of transgender art and visual culture studies\,”
  co-authored with Cyle Metzger in the Journal of Visual Culture in 2020. I
 n 2024\, Ringelberg was the Every Page Foundation Fellow at the Clark Art 
 Institute\, for work on their book-length project Chez Madeleine Lemaire: 
 Gender and Genre in the Queer Belle Époque (in progress).
X-ALT-DESC:<p>The workshop will bring participants into shared discussion o
 f how art history has supported false taxonomical binarisms—in gender\, 
 genre\,&nbsp\;style\, and content—and how we might undo these to have a 
 richer understanding of both art and life. Readings will include essays by
  Ringelberg (two of which unpublished) as well as texts by David J. Getsy 
 and Emma Heaney. In the second part of the workshop\, participants will ha
 ve the opportunity to contribute specific questions related to their own r
 esearch that resonate with the workshop’s readings and themes.</p>\n<p>T
 o attend the workshop\, please send an email to <a href="mailto:lesbiangaz
 e-kunsthist@unibas.ch">lesbiangaze-kunsthist@unibas.ch</a> (limited number
  of participants).</p>\n<p><br />More information on <a href="https://eiko
 nes.philhist.unibas.ch/de/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/event-details/evening-
 lecture-by-kirstin-ringelberg-both-and-madeleine-lemaire-through-a-queer-l
 ens/">Both/And: Madeleine Lemaire Through a Queer Lens</a>\, the evening l
 ecture by Kristin Ringelberg on October 20\, 2026.</p>\n\n<p>Readings:<br 
 />– Ringelberg\, Kirstin. “Reading Cisheteronormativity into the Art H
 istorical Archives.” <i>Arts</i> 13\, Nr. 3 (2024): 89. <a href="https:/
 /doi.org/10.3390/arts13030089">https://doi.org/10.3390/arts13030089</a><br
  />– Ringelberg\, Kirstin. “Beyond Sex and Gender Binaries: The Floral
  Still Lives of Madeleine Lemaire (1845–1928).” [draft]<br />– Ringe
 lberg\, Kirstin. “Introduction.” <i>Chez Madeleine Lemaire: Gender and
  Genre in the Queer Belle Époque</i> (in progress) [draft]<br />– Getsy
 \, David J. “Capacity.” <i>TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly </i>1\, 
 no. 1–2 (May 2014): 47–49.<br />– Heaney\, Emma. “Introduction: Se
 xual Difference without Cisness.” In <i>Feminism Against Cisness</i>\, e
 dited by Emma Heaney\, 1–33. Durham\, NC: Duke University Press\, 2024.<
 br /><br />Kirstin Ringelberg is Professor of Art History in the Departmen
 t of History &amp\; Geography at Elon University in North Carolina. Their 
 book <i>Redefining Gender in American Impressionist Studio Paintings: Work
  Place/Domestic Space </i>was re-released in paperback in 2017. Recent art
 icles include “Reading Cisheteronormativity into the Art Historical Arch
 ives” in <i>Arts</i>\, spring 2024\, “Trans visibility and trans viabi
 lity: a Roundtable\,” co-edited\, with Jill Casid and Cyle Metzger\, in 
 the <i>Journal of Visual Culture</i> in 2022\, and “Prismatic Views: a l
 ook at the growing field of transgender art and visual culture studies\,
 ” co-authored with Cyle Metzger in the <i>Journal of Visual Culture</i> 
 in 2020. In 2024\, Ringelberg was the Every Page Foundation Fellow at the 
 Clark Art Institute\, for work on their book-length project <i>Chez Madele
 ine Lemaire: Gender and Genre in the Queer Belle Époque</i> (in progress)
 .</p>\n\n
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261021T123000
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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260911T120528
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261022
SUMMARY:Energetic Transfers: Technics\, Ethics\, and Production
DESCRIPTION:Energetic Transfers investigates twentieth-century modernity an
 d technics with particular attention to the relationship between labor\, e
 thics\, and the physical sciences. This symposium explores how conceptions
  of energetic transfer—the displacement of subject and object positions 
 with respect to an electromotive force—might be productive for experimen
 tal thinking in aesthetics\, philosophy\, and radical politics. It seeks t
 o excavate the longstanding affective\, political\, or intersubjective nat
 ure of energetic transfers that the modern sciences have rendered nearly i
 nvisible\, and that are routinely subject to capitalist capture. Exploring
  a broad spectrum of biopolitical relations and subjectivities as well as 
 the sensorium of the nervous system\, the symposium investigates which sci
 entific\, theoretical\, and speculative ideas in energy politics\, theorie
 s\, and technics have been discontinued and which persist. It also explore
 s which energetic transfers evade scientific and aesthetic representation 
 and how they might relate to the work of philosophers\, activists\, artist
 s\, and filmmakers. \\r\\nOrganized in collaboration with the NOMIS Found
 ation and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Energetic Transfers investigates twentieth-century modernity 
 and technics with particular attention to the relationship between labor\,
  ethics\, and the physical sciences. This symposium explores how conceptio
 ns of energetic transfer—the displacement of subject and object position
 s with respect to an electromotive force—might be productive for experim
 ental thinking in aesthetics\, philosophy\, and radical politics. It seeks
  to excavate the longstanding affective\, political\, or intersubjective n
 ature of energetic transfers that the modern sciences have rendered nearly
  invisible\, and that are routinely subject to capitalist capture. Explori
 ng a broad spectrum of biopolitical relations and subjectivities as well a
 s the sensorium of the nervous system\, the symposium investigates which s
 cientific\, theoretical\, and speculative ideas in energy politics\, theor
 ies\, and technics have been discontinued and which persist. It also explo
 res which energetic transfers evade scientific and aesthetic representatio
 n and how they might relate to the work of philosophers\, activists\, arti
 sts\, and filmmakers.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Organized in collaboration with the N
 OMIS Foundation and the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.</p>
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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260910T205051
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T181500
SUMMARY:Filling the Blanks: Heinrich Seuse\, Meister Eckhart\, and the Nuns
  of St. Walburg
DESCRIPTION:This lecture pairs two seemingly unrelated bodies of material
 —a Dominican friar's devotional treatise of around 1330 and a set of new
 ly identified drawings by Benedictine nuns in Bavaria some 170 years later
 —to explore how late medieval religious writers and artists gave materia
 l form to an experience defined by its resistance to representation: mysti
 cal union with God. The first half examines Heinrich Seuse's Büchlein de
 r ewigen Weisheit\, showing how the friar structures his text around inter
 woven metaphors of writing and needlework\, punning on the Latin textus 
 to cast reading as a kind of embroidery performed on the "fleshly tables o
 f the heart." Seuse repeatedly stages his own work as incomplete—a visio
 n short ten meditations\, a thread of three unequal strands\, an embroider
 ed image missing its background—so that readers\, needle or pen in hand\
 , are enlisted to finish what he left deliberately unfinished\, becoming c
 oauthors of a text designed to carry the aura of his living presence.\\r\\
 nThe second half turns to a remarkable\, newly surfaced drawing from the c
 onvent of St. Walburg in Eichstätt\, in which Christ's side wound opens o
 nto a house-like interior populated by personified virtues attending an al
 legorical Nativity. Drawing on the convent's library\, which bound Seuse's
  sermons together with those of Eckhart and Tauler\, the lecture argues th
 at this image gives startlingly literal pictorial form to Meister Eckhart'
 s doctrine of the Gottesgeburt in der Seele—the birth of God in the sou
 l—a teaching Eckhart himself insisted could be reached only by abandonin
 g every image. The nun-artist's willingness to draw what Eckhart's own apo
 phatic theology seemed to forbid representing offers a final\, unexpected 
 answer to Seuse's invitation to "fill in the blanks": where his readers we
 re asked to complete a metaphorical textile\, the St. Walburg nun complete
 s it literally\, translating text and doctrine alike into an image that da
 res to show what its theological source claimed could only be experienced 
 in blindness.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>This lecture pairs two seemingly unrelated bodies of material
 —a Dominican friar's devotional treatise of around 1330 and a set of new
 ly identified drawings by Benedictine nuns in Bavaria some 170 years later
 —to explore how late medieval religious writers and artists gave materia
 l form to an experience defined by its resistance to representation: mysti
 cal union with God. The first half examines Heinrich Seuse's&nbsp\;<i>Büc
 hlein der ewigen Weisheit</i>\, showing how the friar structures his text 
 around interwoven metaphors of writing and needlework\, punning on the Lat
 in&nbsp\;<i>textus</i>&nbsp\;to cast reading as a kind of embroidery perfo
 rmed on the "fleshly tables of the heart." Seuse repeatedly stages his own
  work as incomplete—a vision short ten meditations\, a thread of three u
 nequal strands\, an embroidered image missing its background—so that rea
 ders\, needle or pen in hand\, are enlisted to finish what he left deliber
 ately unfinished\, becoming coauthors of a text designed to carry the aura
  of his living presence.</p>\n<p>The second half turns to a remarkable\, n
 ewly surfaced drawing from the convent of St. Walburg in Eichstätt\, in w
 hich Christ's side wound opens onto a house-like interior populated by per
 sonified virtues attending an allegorical Nativity. Drawing on the convent
 's library\, which bound Seuse's sermons together with those of Eckhart an
 d Tauler\, the lecture argues that this image gives startlingly literal pi
 ctorial form to Meister Eckhart's doctrine of the&nbsp\;<i>Gottesgeburt in
  der Seele</i>—the birth of God in the soul—a teaching Eckhart himself
  insisted could be reached only by abandoning every image. The nun-artist'
 s willingness to draw what Eckhart's own apophatic theology seemed to forb
 id representing offers a final\, unexpected answer to Seuse's invitation t
 o "fill in the blanks": where his readers were asked to complete a metapho
 rical textile\, the St. Walburg nun completes it literally\, translating t
 ext and doctrine alike into an image that dares to show what its theologic
 al source claimed could only be experienced in blindness.</p>
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261103T200000
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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260911T120258
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20261105
SUMMARY:Moderne Kunst als Lebensaufgabe
DESCRIPTION:Die moralischen Erwartungen an Künstler*innen haben in der Geg
 enwart an Gewicht gewonnen und werden mitunter gegen die künstlerische Au
 tonomie aufgewogen. Rückblickend auf die europäische Moderne seit der Ro
 mantik zeigt sich indes\, dass der Prozess der ästhetischen Autonomisieru
 ng nicht rundweg zur Entwertung moralischer Kategorien führte. Diese wurd
 en vielmehr auf das Kunstwerk selbst übertragen\, wie die Untersuchungen 
 von Michael Fried\, Stanley Cavell oder Robert Pippin zu Authentizität un
 d (Selbst-)Betrug zeigen. Ein Kunstwerk als «falsch» zu bezeichnen\, ohn
 e dem Künstler damit notwendigerweise zu unterstellen\, er habe es in bet
 rügerischer Absicht angefertigt\, ist ein genuin modernes ästhetisches U
 rteil. Es beruht auf zumindest zwei Voraussetzungen: Erstens\, dass (Selbs
 t-)Betrug bzw. Authentizität nicht an einzelnen Handlungen\, sondern am g
 esamten Bildungsprozess des Subjekts hervortreten\; und dass im Kunstwerk 
 dieser Bildungsprozess zum Ausdruck kommt. \\r\\nWenn Subjektivität durc
 h expressive Tätigkeit ausgebildet wird\, wie Charles Taylor in «Sources
  of the Self» für die Moderne annimmt\, so ist das je einzelne Werk nur 
 eine Episode in diesem Prozess\, der das Leben in seiner Totalität umfass
 t. Kunst wird so zur Lebensaufgabe. Gemeint ist damit aber nicht die Hinga
 be der Künstler*innen an die Kunst als Beruf und an ihre besonderen profe
 ssionellen Fertigkeiten. Das Kunstwerk\, obwohl immer auch ein Artefakt\, 
 bringt zugleich zum Ausdruck\, was nicht als Fertigkeit gemeistert wird\, 
 sondern dem Subjekt vielmehr im Leben und der Kunstproduktion als Kraft wi
 derfährt (vgl. Christof Menke\, «Die Kraft der Kunst»). \\r\\nKunst al
 s Lebensaufgabe fordert das Subjekt daher als ganzes\, in seiner Totalitä
 t\, d.h. sowohl als tätiges wie auch leidendes Wesen. Ob sie gelingt oder
  scheitert\, ist dabei eine Frage\, die sich nicht erst im Rückblick bean
 tworten lässt – vom Standpunkt des abgeschlossenen Gesamtwerks und dami
 t des Todes. Sie stellt sich vielmehr in der Mitte des Lebens vor jedem ei
 nzelnen Kunstwerk\, insofern dieses seine Bedeutung vor dem Horizont der b
 ereits vollendeten und der erst zu schaffenden Werke erhält. \\r\\nDiese
  Perspektive auf das Kunstwerk wirb ein neues Licht auf die Frage nach dem
  Verhältnis von Ästhetik und Ethik. Denn sie legt nahe\, dass die Idee e
 iner genuin ästhetischen Betrachtung des Lebens\, als eines Lebens in der
  Möglichkeitsform\, wie Kierkegaard das Ästhetische deutet\, der ethisch
 en Betrachtung des Lebens nicht entgegensteht\, sondern untrennbar mit ihr
  verwoben ist. Denn was auch immer das Kunstwerk darstellt\, so bezeugt es
  doch die Suche nach einer Einheit\, die sich dem Individuum mehr „zeigt
 “ als von ihm geschaffen wird. Iris Murdoch nennt dies die „Souveräni
 tät des Guten“. Der Workshop verfolgt das Ziel\, diese hier knapp anged
 euteten Zusammenhänge von Kunst und Leben\, Ausdruck und Totalität in ph
 ilosophisch-systematischer wie auch in kunsthistorischer Hinsicht näher z
 u bestimmen.\\r\\nAnmeldung per Email an Larissa Dätwyler [mailto:larissa
 .daetwyler@unibas.ch?subject=Workshop%20Moderne%20Kunst%20als%20Lebensaufg
 abe].\\r\\nVortragendeStina Bäckström (Stockholm): Expression of charact
 er in life and in literature.Larissa Dätwyler (Basel): Dieter Roths ‘Mo
 ral Luck’Luca Illetterati (Padua): 'Die richtige Perspektive': Kunst als
  Erfahrung von Grenzen.Andrea Kern (Leipzig)Markus Klammer (Basel)Rahel Vi
 llinger (Zürich): Umgang mit dem Nicht-Machbaren. Kunst bei ValéryBarbar
 a Wittmann (Berlin)Ralph Ubl (Basel)\\r\\nHeike-Karin Föll (Berlin) Disku
 tantin 
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Die moralischen Erwartungen an Künstler*innen haben in der G
 egenwart an Gewicht gewonnen und werden mitunter gegen die künstlerische 
 Autonomie aufgewogen. Rückblickend auf die europäische Moderne seit der 
 Romantik zeigt sich indes\, dass der Prozess der ästhetischen Autonomisie
 rung nicht rundweg zur Entwertung moralischer Kategorien führte. Diese wu
 rden vielmehr auf das Kunstwerk selbst übertragen\, wie die Untersuchunge
 n von Michael Fried\, Stanley Cavell oder Robert Pippin zu Authentizität 
 und (Selbst-)Betrug zeigen. Ein Kunstwerk als «falsch» zu bezeichnen\, o
 hne dem Künstler damit notwendigerweise zu unterstellen\, er habe es in b
 etrügerischer Absicht angefertigt\, ist ein genuin modernes ästhetisches
  Urteil. Es beruht auf zumindest zwei Voraussetzungen: Erstens\, dass (Sel
 bst-)Betrug bzw. Authentizität nicht an einzelnen Handlungen\, sondern am
  gesamten Bildungsprozess des Subjekts hervortreten\; und dass im Kunstwer
 k dieser Bildungsprozess zum Ausdruck kommt.<br />&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Wenn Sub
 jektivität durch expressive Tätigkeit ausgebildet wird\, wie Charles Tay
 lor in «Sources of the Self» für die Moderne annimmt\, so ist das je ei
 nzelne Werk nur eine Episode in diesem Prozess\, der das Leben in seiner T
 otalität umfasst. Kunst wird so zur Lebensaufgabe. Gemeint ist damit aber
  nicht die Hingabe der Künstler*innen an die Kunst als Beruf und an ihre 
 besonderen professionellen Fertigkeiten. Das Kunstwerk\, obwohl immer auch
  ein Artefakt\, bringt zugleich zum Ausdruck\, was nicht als Fertigkeit ge
 meistert wird\, sondern dem Subjekt vielmehr im Leben und der Kunstprodukt
 ion als Kraft widerfährt (vgl. Christof Menke\, «Die Kraft der Kunst»).
 <br />&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Kunst als Lebensaufgabe fordert das Subjekt daher al
 s ganzes\, in seiner Totalität\, d.h. sowohl als tätiges wie auch leiden
 des Wesen. Ob sie gelingt oder scheitert\, ist dabei eine Frage\, die sich
  nicht erst im Rückblick beantworten lässt – vom Standpunkt des abgesc
 hlossenen Gesamtwerks und damit des Todes. Sie stellt sich vielmehr in der
  Mitte des Lebens vor jedem einzelnen Kunstwerk\, insofern dieses seine Be
 deutung vor dem Horizont der bereits vollendeten und der erst zu schaffend
 en Werke erhält.<br />&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Diese Perspektive auf das Kunstwerk
  wirb ein neues Licht auf die Frage nach dem Verhältnis von Ästhetik und
  Ethik. Denn sie legt nahe\, dass die Idee einer genuin ästhetischen Betr
 achtung des Lebens\, als eines Lebens in der Möglichkeitsform\, wie Kierk
 egaard das Ästhetische deutet\, der ethischen Betrachtung des Lebens nich
 t entgegensteht\, sondern untrennbar mit ihr verwoben ist. Denn was auch i
 mmer das Kunstwerk darstellt\, so bezeugt es doch die Suche nach einer Ein
 heit\, die sich dem Individuum mehr „zeigt“ als von ihm geschaffen wir
 d. Iris Murdoch nennt dies die „Souveränität des Guten“. Der Worksho
 p verfolgt das Ziel\, diese hier knapp angedeuteten Zusammenhänge von Kun
 st und Leben\, Ausdruck und Totalität in philosophisch-systematischer wie
  auch in kunsthistorischer Hinsicht näher zu bestimmen.</p>\n<p>Anmeldung
  per Email an <a href="mailto:larissa.daetwyler@unibas.ch?subject=Workshop
 %20Moderne%20Kunst%20als%20Lebensaufgabe">Larissa Dätwyler</a>.</p>\n<p>V
 ortragende<br />Stina Bäckström (Stockholm): Expression of character in 
 life and in literature.<br />Larissa Dätwyler (Basel): Dieter Roths ‘Mo
 ral Luck’<br />Luca Illetterati (Padua): 'Die richtige Perspektive': Kun
 st als Erfahrung von Grenzen.<br />Andrea Kern (Leipzig)<br />Markus Klamm
 er (Basel)<br />Rahel Villinger (Zürich): Umgang mit dem Nicht-Machbaren.
  Kunst bei Valéry<br />Barbara Wittmann (Berlin)<br />Ralph Ubl (Basel)</
 p>\n<p>Heike-Karin Föll (Berlin) Diskutantin<br />&nbsp\;</p>
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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260913T101547
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261109T181500
SUMMARY:Curating War and Peace: Jan Bloch and the Creation of the World’s
  first Peace Museum
DESCRIPTION:NOMIS Lecture by Paul Morrow
X-ALT-DESC:NOMIS Lecture by Paul Morrow
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261109T200000
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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260901T115829
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T181500
SUMMARY:Media Studies and AI Literacies: Colloquium #7
DESCRIPTION:Mit:\\r\\nPatrick McCrayDepartment of History\, University of C
 alifornia\, Santa Barbara \\r\\n“Power\, Corruption\, and Lies: Joe Wei
 zenbaum and the Myth of ‘Thinking Machines’”\\r\\nThe publication in
  1976 of Joseph Weizenbaum’s book Computer Power and Human Reason marked
  a high-water mark in early critiques of artificial intelligence and the c
 omputer scientists promoting it. At the same time\, his book appeared in t
 he midst of considerable pessimism about the supposed inescapable power of
  large technological systems. Patrick McCray's talk will explore the backg
 round of these critiques as well as the history of Weizenbaum’s influent
 ial book (which has its 50th anniversary this year). Along the way\, he wi
 ll consider Weizenbaum’s influence on expert and public debates about wh
 at computers (and computer scientists) should and shouldn’t do\, critiqu
 es which are even more salient today.\\r\\nModeration: Magnus Rust\, Unive
 rsität Basel\\r\\nGäste sind herzlich willkommen. Im Anschluss findet ei
 n Apéro statt.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Mit:</p>\n<p>Patrick McCray<br />Department of History\, Univ
 ersity of California\, Santa Barbara&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>“Power\, Cor
 ruption\, and Lies: Joe Weizenbaum and the Myth of ‘Thinking Machines’
 ”</strong></p>\n<p>The publication in 1976 of Joseph Weizenbaum’s book
  <i>Computer Power and Human Reason </i>marked a high-water mark in early 
 critiques of artificial intelligence and the computer scientists promoting
  it. At the same time\, his book appeared in the midst of considerable pes
 simism about the supposed inescapable power of large technological systems
 . Patrick McCray's talk will explore the background of these critiques as 
 well as the history of Weizenbaum’s influential book (which has its 50<s
 up>th</sup> anniversary this year). Along the way\, he will consider Weize
 nbaum’s influence on expert and public debates about what computers (and
  computer scientists) should and shouldn’t do\, critiques which are even
  more salient today.</p>\n<p>Moderation: Magnus Rust\, Universität Basel<
 /p>\n<p>Gäste sind herzlich willkommen. Im Anschluss findet ein Apéro st
 att.</p>
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261111T200000
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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260910T170449
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261112T181500
SUMMARY:Forumsvortrag «Art\, Economy\, and Nature in Medieval Norwich» mi
 t Jessica Barker
DESCRIPTION:Preisverleihung des Hanna Levy-Deinhard Preises (Beste Masterar
 beit)
X-ALT-DESC:Preisverleihung des Hanna Levy-Deinhard Preises (Beste Masterarb
 eit) 
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DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260901T120013
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261202T181500
SUMMARY:Media Studies and AI Literacies: Colloquium #8
DESCRIPTION:Mit:\\r\\nVinzenz HedigerCinémathèque suisse\, Centre de rech
 erche et d'archivage\, Penthaz\\r\\n“Wahrscheinlichkeitsmaschinen im Arc
 hiv”\\r\\nEinmal abgesehen davon\, dass die sogenannte künstliche Intel
 ligenz auf einem Diebstahl geistigen Eigentums beruht\, neben dem die Kuns
 traubzüge des römischen Reiches als harmlose Souvenir-Shopping-Ausflüge
  erscheinen\, und abgesehen davon\, dass zum Beispiel in Irland 93% der er
 neuerbaren Energie in den Betrieb von Datencentern fließt und damit die V
 orzüge der Dekarbonisierung gleich wieder aufgehoben werden\, sowie abges
 ehen davon\, dass LLMs zur Erzeugung von Sachverhalten neigen\, für die e
 s weder Quellen noch Belege gibt: Wozu sind Wahrscheinlichkeitsmaschinen i
 m Archiv gut? Dieser Vortrag skizziert zwei oder drei mögliche Antworten\
 , formuliert aus der Innenperspektive eines der bedeutendsten Medienarchiv
 e der Welt. \\r\\nModeration: Sarine Waltenspül\, Universität Luzern\\r
 \\nGäste sind herzlich willkommen. Im Anschluss findet ein Apéro statt.
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Mit:</p>\n<p>Vinzenz Hediger<br />Cinémathèque suisse\, Cen
 tre de recherche et d'archivage\, Penthaz</p>\n<p><strong>“Wahrscheinlic
 hkeitsmaschinen im Archiv”</strong></p>\n<p>Einmal abgesehen davon\, das
 s die sogenannte künstliche Intelligenz auf einem Diebstahl geistigen Eig
 entums beruht\, neben dem die Kunstraubzüge des römischen Reiches als ha
 rmlose Souvenir-Shopping-Ausflüge erscheinen\, und abgesehen davon\, dass
  zum Beispiel in Irland 93% der erneuerbaren Energie in den Betrieb von Da
 tencentern fließt und damit die Vorzüge der Dekarbonisierung gleich wied
 er aufgehoben werden\, sowie abgesehen davon\, dass LLMs zur Erzeugung von
  Sachverhalten neigen\, für die es weder Quellen noch Belege gibt: Wozu s
 ind Wahrscheinlichkeitsmaschinen im Archiv gut? Dieser Vortrag skizziert z
 wei oder drei mögliche Antworten\, formuliert aus der Innenperspektive ei
 nes der bedeutendsten Medienarchive der Welt.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Moderation: S
 arine Waltenspül\, Universität Luzern</p>\n<p>Gäste sind herzlich willk
 ommen. Im Anschluss findet ein Apéro statt.</p>
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261202T200000
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BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:news360@eikones.philhist.unibas.ch
DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260910T170357
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20261203T181500
SUMMARY:Forumsvortrag «Agon und Mimikry – Zur Bildlichkeit mittelalterli
 cher Spielsteine» mit Tobias Frese
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