Events and lectures
Lecture profile
2026
Vanessa Thompson
Racial Capitalism. History, Critique, and Mobilisation of a Concept
Sebastian Schönbeck
Dictatorially Dictated Dreams. Ways of writing precarious personhood in times of total domination
Tina Hartmann
The patriarchy and the triumph of the female voice. Ingeborg Bachmann's novel "Malina" - an opera libretto for the Bachmann year.
2025
Ottmar Ette
Reading from his book: Mein Name sei Amo
2024
Caroline Sauter
La caresse d'une langue. Derrida (and) translation
Wolfgang Asholt
The Surrealist Manifesto and the Theory of the Avant-Garde
2023
Francesca Raimondi
(Un)disciplined work.
Oliver Precht
Politics of perception.
Tom Waibel
Mixing/mastication.
2022
Judith Kasper
Falling, trapping, reading.
Joseph Vogl
Capitalism and Resentment.
Isabell Lorey
Precarisation, care and queer debt.
Antonia Birnbaum
On the critique of violence.
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Possession is always unjust.
Samo Tomsic
Solidarity and the social bond.
2021
Erich Hörl
In the Epochless
Andrea Gremels
The Afro-Caribbean Surrealism
Iris Därmann
Fluchtlinien
Ruth Sonderegger (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)
"Towards the Abolition of Western Aesthetics. Fred Moten's confrontation with Theodor W. Adorno."
Organised by Katja Diefenbach and Pablo Valdivia. Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences. European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).
2019
Michaela Ott
Female articulations in essay films
Essay films thrive on exploratory search movements, personal handwriting, montages of disparate elements - in short, on the audiovisual formulation of a problem. It is no coincidence that filmmakers such as Angela Melitopoulos or Hito Steyerl like to choose this genre of expression, as it allows them to test the edges of what is socially agreed upon, precarious constructions of identity and types of collective speech and to formulate the sensibility of the respective time in a tentative and sketchy form.
2018
Gérard Raulet
Masterclass Benjamin and the French Intellectuals
Politics of the Ornament. Reflections on political representation.
Jacques Rancière
Masterclass "Aesthetics and Philosophy"
2017
Gianluca Solla, (Università di Verona)
Masterclass "The philosophers dream?"
Denis Thouard (Guest Heinrich-von-Kleist Institute)
Lecture/Workshop discussion "Does philosophy also have to become popular?"
Philippe Büttgen, sponsored by Pensées françaises contemporaines, (guest Heinrich-von-Kleist Institute)
Lecture: ""Religion and Globalisation" On the Critique of Religion Today".
2016
Anil Bhatti (Award Winner Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
Lecture: "Similarity, A Cultural-Theoretical Concept"
Sadik al-Azm (Guest Heinrich-von-Kleist Institute)
Lecture/Workshop Discussion with Anil Bhatti "Signatures of Pluricultural life forms"
Yoko Tawada (Guest Heinrich-von-Kleist Institute)
Lecture: "Europe and Foreigners"
2015
Chantal Marazia (Fellow Alexander von Humboldt Foundation)
Habilitation project: "Anatomies of Gesture. Towards a History of the Tic."
Danièle Cohn (Paris-Sorbonne I)
Colloquium "Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and the Dionysian"
2014
Denis Kambouchner (Paris-Sorbonne I)
Colloquium "Descartes Style. Reflections on a Historical Theme"
Stéphane Lojkine (Université Aix-Marseille)
Jacques Lezra (NYU Department of Comparative Literature)
Workshop with scientific guest lectures
11 - 12 September 2025, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
"Transversales Denken und Handeln" - "Kulturwissenschaftliche Paradigmen im Kontext der transatlantischen Versklavungsgeschichte"
Organisation: PD Dr. Andrea Gemels and Norah El Gammal
Co-sponsored by: Viadrina Center for Graduate Studies (VCGS) and Förderkreis Europa-Universität Viadrina e.V.
9 - 30 September 2022, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
"Politics of the Idyll"
A workshop within the framework of the DFG network "Politics of the Idyll", funded by the DFG and the VCGS
Conception and organisation: Pablo Valdivia and Michalina Golinczak
03 February 2015, Kleist Museum, Frankfurt (Oder)
Jörg Pose (Deutsches Theater Berlin)
Reading. Fyodor Dostoyevsky: Notes from the Cellar Hole
29 January 2015, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
Prof. Dr Denis Kambouchner (Paris-Sorbonne I)
"Descartes Style. Reflections on a Historical Theme"
20 - 21 November 2014, Berlin / Frankfurt (Oder)
"Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy and the Dionysian", organised by Danièle Cohn and Andrea Allerkamp.
The workshop focuses on "Readings of Nietzsche: qu'en est-il du dionysiaque?" and thus poses the question of the Dionysian.
24 - 26 September 2015, Kleist Museum, Frankfurt (Oder)
UNARTEN. Kleist und das Gesetz der Gattung
Conference organised by the HvK Institute in cooperation with the Kleist Museum and the young researchers network Cultural and Literary Animal Studies. Supported by the Viadrina Center B/ORDERS IN MOTION.
10 - 12 December 2014, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
"Paul Valéry: Für eine Epistemonologie der Potentialität"
Funded by the Viadrina Center for Graduate Studies.
26 - 28 June 2014, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
Schönes Denken – Baumgartens Epoche
Anniversary conference to mark the 300th birthday of Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten (1714-1762).