Friday 15 May 2026, 18:00, QueerMuzeum Warschau: A panel looking back at 20 years of iQt Berlin and InterAlia: Journal of Queer Studies, asking about former and current activities and queer politics.
Continue reading
Workshop Monday 11 May 2026, 16:00 – 19:30, ICI-Berlin.
In honour of Teresa de Lauretis (29 November 1938 – 2 February 2026) the ICI-Berlin in collaboration with the iQt is organizing a collective reading of early texts of one of the most important voices of feminist film- and media studies, psychoanalysis and Queer Theory.
30 March, 2026 – a symposium on possibilties and limits of conceptual activism: What does it mean to do politics with concepts? Do concepts nonetheless imply embodied practices and material relations? Which concepts are interesting from queer and trans theoretical and political perspectives? How can conceptual activism advance trans*versal justice and keep critical movement against domination alive?
Continue reading
Annotated program (bios, abstracts, concepts) of Conceptual Activism, March 30, 2026 (11-21h) at ICI Berlin.
Continue reading
Book presentation, artist talk and video screenings with Naomi Rincón-Gallardo,
Performances, talking bodies, more videos and a party – celebrating the 20th anniversary of the iQt – Institute for Queer Theory!
Friday 13 March, 2026, 7 pm, FMP1 q*SALON,
Franz-Mehring-Platz 1, 10243 Berlin (Ostbahnhof)
The exhibition Desbatismos/Debaptism, curated by Fer Noguiera, diasszz und ísis bravo, presents art works and performance, which resulted from “Studies in Visual Poetics.” Accompanied by a program of activating seminars and panel discussions, Desbatismos will also extend to Berlin.
Continue reading
Queer Cohabitations seeks to bring together discrete discussions and formulate a new parlance about trans and post-human ecologies, precarity of queer lives, racialized capitalism, and authoritarianism, about loss of (bio-)diversity and of democracy, as well as calls for climate and planetary justice. It seeks to help people forming a community where there is none and forge ties with the many, where it is fragmented. Under the banner of Queer Cohabitations, we seek to ‘demand the impossible’ – a polity for all to live and thrive together.
Continue reading