Join us this winter semester for an exciting new series of lectures and workshops (both online and offline)! All events are open for anyone to join, no registration needed.

Identification bureaucracies have long enabled the criminalization of the state in Africa. Tunde Okunoye (University of the Witwatersrand) holds a workshop on the World Bank's ID4D program and the continuity of corruption in Nigeria. July 8, 12:30-14:00, Room C40.254 www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

How and why do human values matter to AI? Wendy Hui Kyong Chun (Simon Fraser University) reveals the importance of SSAH for understanding large language models as a posthuman writing technology. July 7, 6–8pm, Lecture Hall 3. www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

DeepPower, Flat World Theory and the Geoeconomics of AI Infrastructures: a talk with Ned Rossiter on AI infrastructures and the shift from training to operationalization. Tue, June 30, 18:00–20:00, C 40.530. Hybrid, in English. Contact cdcforum@leuphana.de for login. www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

The CDC invites you to 'Periodizations', a panel discussion with novelist Tom McCarthy and curator Inke Arns. How, why, and with what epistemic implications is history divided into epochs, ages, and eras? Fri, June 26, 7–9 pm, ICI Berlin. No registration necessary. www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

CDC Talk | Remembering by Design | Ranjit Singh Debates about digital welfare too often reduce data for services to a bargain: privacy traded for access. This talk reframes that bargain through memory practices in digital identification. June 23 / 2 – 4 pm / C40 www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

You're invited to a Climate Futures Talk by Juan Francisco Salazar (Western Sydney University): outer space as method, to highlight the violence of colonialism and racism. Tuesday, June 16th / 2 – 4 pm / *C40.146 — a new room*. Hybrid format. More info at: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

Book launch: The CDC invites you to the launch of Errant Intelligence by Clemens Apprich (University of Applied Arts Vienna), a new media theory of machine learning. Moderated by Vera Tollmann. Wednesday, June 10 / 6 – 7 pm / C25.019. More info: www.leuphana.de/zentren/cdc/...

The CDC invites you to the Climate Futures workshop with Juan Francisco Salazar. Using the film Cosmographies as a prompt, we discuss frameworks that blur the boundaries between research and storytelling. Wednesday, June 10 / 10 am – 12 pm / C12.101. More info: www.leuphana.de/zentren/cdc/...

The CDC invites you to the screening of "Cosmographies" (2025), with a talk with director Juan Francisco Salazar. Part of the Climate Futures event series. Tuesday, June 9 / 7 – 9 pm / SCALA cinema. More info at: www.leuphana.de/zentren/cdc/...

Workshop: The CDC invites you to "Rethinking the Landscape Image in an Age of Planetarity" with Lila Lee-Morrison (The Cooper Union, New York), exploring how satellite imaging and digital technologies produce new ways of seeing landscape and environment. More info: www.leuphana.de/zentren/cdc/...

The CDC warmly invites you to our upcoming Climate Futures Talk, where Lila Lee-Morrison (The Cooper Union, New York) traces the afterlives of declassified Cold War satellite images, and how disappearance produces the very basis of appearance. More info at: www.leuphana.de/zentren/cdc/...

Das CDC lädt zur Podiumsdiskussion über digitale Souveränität ein: Joseph Vogl (Princeton) diskutiert mit Bennke und Kalinka, kann ein Akteur Souveränität wirklich unhinterfragt beanspruchen? More info at: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

Workshop: The CDC invites you to our upcoming workshop "Digital Sovereignty and Its Differend," where Florian Dombois, Katia Schwerzmann and others will explore the contradictions of digital sovereignty through Lyotard's concept of the differend. More info at: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

The CDC would like to warmly invite you to our first talk of the semester where Edward King will trace a genealogy of digital twins through instances in which twinship has been evoked to emphasize the uncontrollable dynamics of technological systems. More info at: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

Join us this summer semester for an exciting new series of lectures and workshops (both online and offline)! All events are open for anyone to join, no registration needed.

Das CDC lädt herzlich ein zur Buchvorstellung von Maren Haffkes Umgebungsaufnahmen (Turia+Kant, 2025) am 27.01. von 14 bis 16 Uhr im Audiolab C11.215a an der Leuphana. Mehr Informationen unter: www.leuphana.de/zentren/cdc/...

The CDC would like to warmly welcome you to its last talk this year, where Joel McKim will question the epistemological and political implications of the technological turn towards “world modelling.” More info at: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

Unfortunately, tonight's talk with Wendy Chun on "Large Language Models and the Returns of Critical Theory" will not take place. However, we have already set a new date for the summer term for you to note down: July 7, 2026! Keep tuned for more information.

Next week, Seán Cubitt will join us again for his talk "On Beauty and Ecocritical Aesthetic Politics." The talk invites debate over making as the essence of beauty, a necessarily collaborative process responding to demands for an Anthropocene utopia. More info at: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

Join us for Seán Cubitt's talk "On Posthumous Media and Climate Change" next week, where he argues that media cultures enact a drama of melancholy and hope in the ecological continuity of body and world as they mourn the moment of their End. More information at: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

The Digital Media major, a joint degree organized by Hamburg Media School and the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, cordially invites you to its exhibition of their term and final projects! More info here: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

Join us this afternoon (2 to 4.15 pm) for our Climate Futures Workshop "Heat: A Media Ecological Approach to Climate Sensitivities" with Ayesha Omer and John Shiga! The event takes place in hybrid format. Find more info here: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

On Tuesday, November 18, our next Climate Futures Workshop takes place! The workshop presents a media ecological approach to climate sensitivities. With talks by Ayesha Omer and John Shiga. Moderation by Maren Haffke and Vera Tollmann. Find more info here: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

Join us for our first event this winter term! In her talk on Oct 21, 2-4 pm, Lisa Moravec explores how (self-)critical professional artists, working within and for the theatre have critically responded to what she terms the 'AI-isation' of societal operations. www.leuphana.de/en/research-...

To all friends of the CDC: This semester, we are again organizing a series of lectures and colloquia (both online and offline) that may be of interest to you – we hope to see many of you there!

CfP for Navigationen. Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturwissenschaften 2/26. »Technofascism« Glancing at current headlines, it is palpably clear that the utopian tech visions of the 1990s have morphed into something darker. Let's talk about the techno in technofascism - again.

Join us for the next CDC Climate Futures Talk, "Common-Sensing: The Politics of In/Visibility in an Age of Planetary Crisis", with @delfrothe.bsky.social on July 1, 2 to 4 pm in C40.530 at #Leuphana and on Zoom (contact us for details)! More information at: www.leuphana.de/en/research-...