Semester Programme
Every semester the CDC organises its public programme, a series of events related to current research projects. Coherent topics and themes are developed collectively and reflect the problems and questions CDC researchers are dealing with. The central ‘spine’ of the semester themes is formed by the CDC Talks, Colloquia, Workshops, and Panels. We also plan and organise event formats such as symposia, as well as a variety of more experimental and open conversations, that take place during the semester or in the term break.
Video recordings of past events are available on Vimeo. You can see the current semester programme below.
CENTRE FOR DIGITAL CULTURES – SUMMER TERM 2026
12.05., 13:30–15:00, Online
Smartness as Wealth Talk
Glitch Twins: An Alternative Genealogy to Digital Twinning
Edward King (University of Bristol)
21.05., 10:00–18:00 & 22.05., 10:00–11:30, C5.326
Workshop (in German and English)
Digitale Souveränität im Widerstreit
Mit Vorträgen von Florian Dombois (ZHdK), Katja Schwenzmann (RUB) und anderen
Organisiert von Johannes Bennke (Filmuniversität Babelsberg) und Claus Pias (Leuphana)
21.05., 18:00–19:30, C5.326
Podiumsdiskussion (in German)
Digitale Souveränität im Widerstreit
Mit Joseph Vogl (Princeton University)
26.05., 14:00–16:00, C40.530
Climate Futures Talk
Dis/appearance and the Evidentiary Aesthetics of Satellite Imagery: The Repurposing of Satellite Images from Reconnaissance to Environmental Monitoring
Lila Lee-Morrison (The Cooper Union, New York)
02.06., 14:00–16:00, C40.530
Climate Futures Workshop
Rethinking the Landscape Image in an Age of Planetarity
Lila Lee-Morrison (The Cooper Union, New York)
09.06., 19:00–21:00, SCALA cinema
Climate Futures Screening
“Cosmographies” (2025)
Film screening and talk with the director Juan Francisco Salazar
10.06., 10:00–12:00, C12.101
Climate Futures Workshop
A Poetics of Tomorrowing: Research as Storytelling
Juan Francisco Salazar (Western Sydney University)
10.06., 18:00–19:00, C25.019
Book Launch
Errant Intelligence: A Media Theory of Machine Learning
Clemens Apprich (University of Applied Arts Vienna)
16.06., 14:00–16:00, C40.530
Climate Futures Talk
Outer Space Futures Otherwise
Juan Francisco Salazar (Western Sydney University)
23.06., 14:00–16:00, C40.530
Talk
Remembering by Design: Memory Practices in Digital Identification
Ranjit Singh (Data & Society, New York)
24.06., 19:00–21:00, ici Berlin
Panel Discussion
Stanford-Leuphana Summer Academy on Periodization
Tom McCarthy (Novelist, Berlin), Adrian Daub (Stanford University), and others
07.07., 18:00–20:00, Lecture Hall 3
Lecture
Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver)
