Liebe Interessent*innen,

gerne machen wir Sie auf die folgende Veranstaltung aufmerksam:

Change of Scale: Leopardi and the Measure of Modernity

Das Symposium findet am 02. Juli 2026 von 10:30 bis 20:30 Uhr im ICI Berlin Institute for Culture statt.

Die Veranstaltung findet in englischer Sprache statt: 

"From the micro to the macro and vice versa, modernity appears to have brought about multiple changes of scale in the way humans measure, map, and make sense of the world. At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Italian poet and philosopher Giacomo Leopardi offered extraordinary insights into these changes of scale and their implications for the modern world. It is no coincidence that sociologist and cultural historian Paul Gilroy identifies Leopardi’s cosmopolitanism as a precursor to the planetary solidarity he advocates in Postcolonial Melancholia (2004), nor that philosopher Eugene Thacker turns to Leopardi, among others, to conceive a cosmic pessimism of a ‘world-without-us’ in Infinite Resignation (2018). Engaging with Leopardi from the perspective of the shifts in scale implied by these and other concepts sheds new light on his work and brings it into dialogue with current debates on spatial, temporal, and social scales."

Eine Anmeldung für die Teilnahme ist ab dem 18. Juni möglich. 

Weitere Informationen sowie das Programm finden Sie auf der Website des ICI: www.ici-berlin.org/events/change-of-scale/?ff_reloaded=1#regform