Die Künstlerin Monika Pichler verschmilzt visuell und stofflich die Ferne mit dem Alltag, die Erinnerung mit der Reise, den Verlust ihrer Tochter mit der Wüste, die häusliche Gemütlichkeit mit dem Krieg, den Karfiol mit den Pariser Katakomben, Kissen mit Büchern, Druckverfahren mit Malerei oder Wolken mit Satin. Sie bedient sich dabei des Prinzips der Montage, das sie nicht nur formal und ästhetisch, sondern auch inhaltlich einsetzt.
In the 17th Eric Wolf Lecture, Tania Murray Li builds on Eric Wolf's lecture »Facing Power–Old Insights, New Questions« to outline the multiple formations of power that shape the conditions of life in Indonesia’s plantation zone and then draws on ethnographic research to explore how these powers are encountered or »faced« by particular interlocutors, and the actions and reflections that follow.
While the seemingly straightforward adjective »post-Yugoslav« has been popular across disciplines since the 1990s, what exactly it is that makes something »post-Yugoslav« is still a point of contention. This lecture will probe the applicability of the designation of post-Yugoslav« when it comes to contemporary queer literature and arts.
Everyone seems to be angry these days, but female anger in particular is surfacing in unprecedented forms and shades. Numerous examples from politics, theory, art, and literature speak to the proliferation of female rage. Together with scholars, activists, artists, and writers, the conference explores the complexities and ambiguities of this emotion at a time when female anger is all the rage.
Mit Karin Harrasser als neue Direktorin des ifk werden auch die nächsten Jahre das unbedrängte, kulturwissenschaftliche Arbeiten und der interdisziplinäre Austausch der ifk Fellows im Zentrum stehen.
ifk Junior Fellow Abroad Davide Gnoato is one of the panelists at the International Research Workshop held from 19–20 March 2025 at the University of Amsterdam researching »City Pop« and/or Japanese popular music of the 1970s and 1980s and attempting to trace this decades-spanning, global process as an example of cultural production transitioning cultures, temporalities and technologies. aihr.uva.nl
Cultural Science, a multidisciplinary journal for the study of more-than-human culture, invites submissions for a special issue titled »With or Without Agency? More-than-human beings in science and traditional figurations.« The issue focuses on relational understandings of agency in contexts such as ecosystems, indigenous cosmologies, and biological sciences. Contributions are welcome from fields including literature, art, philosophy, history, religion, ethology, and biology until June 2025. sciendo.com
The conference at the University of Copenhagen from 12–14 February brings together scholars from history, art (history), cultural studies and sociology - including ifk Junior Fellow Abroad Olga Schubert – to share research and perspectives on this significant but under-researched transnational phenomenon. engerom.ku.dk