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03
October
2025
18:30
Specials
ifk
Welcome Reception
Wir begrüßen die neuen Fellows des Wintersemesters 2025/26 und FAXEN stellen ihre Publikation in der Edition Kunstuniversität Linz vor.
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06
October
2025
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Silvia Ferrara
How Islands Shape Lines, Signs and Scripts
This lecture will showcase specific cases of ›island gaze‹, in which code-making, symbols, icons and geometric configurations were deployed into signs and scripts.
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08
October
2025
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10
October
2025
Conference
ifk Arkade
Sensing Fungi. Invisible Agencies and the Underground
Fungi are everywhere. They colonize our bodies and environments, enrich food and medicine, provide sustainable materials, and some even withstand the most extreme conditions. With their refined perceptual capacities, fungi are masters of adaptation and collaboration, engaging in myriad forms of symbiosis.
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Mycena Albidocapillaris Group © Alison Pouliot
08
October
2025
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12
December
2025
Exhibition
ifk Arkade
SPORA. Rotting Unconscious
Fungi and rot carry the stigma of death and decay. However, mycelial networks are key agents in processes of soil formation and regeneration. Without fungi and rot, the very ground that nourishes us simply wouldn’t exist.
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08
October
2025
18:30
Vernissage
ifk Arkade
SPORA. Rotting Unconscious
Fungi and rot carry the stigma of death and decay. However, mycelial networks are key agents in processes of soil formation and regeneration. Without fungi and rot, the very ground that nourishes us simply wouldn’t exist.
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13
October
2025
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Anna Förster
Theory in (Non)Translation. On French Theory in the GDR
The history of French Theory is routinely depicted as an exclusively Western European and North American phenomenon. Yet in the state-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe, authors such as Lévi-Strauss, Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, or Derrida were read, discussed, and translated as avidly as in the ›West‹
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16
October
2025
18:30
Specials
ifk Arkade
Denkpausen mit Yvaat Weiss
Diese Ausgabe der Denkpausen widmet sich Yfaat Weiss’ Buch »
Verfehlte Mission. Das geteilte Jerusalem und die Vereinten Nationen«
.
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20
October
2025
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Lena Magnone
Helene Deutsch and the Transformation of Psychoanalysis
The eminent Polish-American psychoanalyst Helene Deutsch was the longest-living disciple of Sigmund Freud and one of the most fascinating figures among the entire cohort of Central European Jewish refugees who significantly impacted the postwar American intellectual landscape.
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Helene Deutsch in her office 1945, Egone Photo, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University
27
October
2025
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Bilge Firat
When a Pipe is not Just so. Affective Excess of an Unbuilt Gas Pipeline
After being initially proposed to transport natural gas from Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan to Austria through Turkey in 1998, the Nabucco pipeline project was ultimately abandoned in 2013.
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03
November
2025
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Olja Alvir
Resistant Feet. Exploring Revolutionary Imagery through Yugoslav Film
What are resistant feet? In the imagery of social struggle and progressive movements, it’s often the hand or fist that symbolizes resistance—gripping tools, shaking in unity, or being raised in triumph. But feet? They hardly feature at all.
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10
November
2025
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Martin Zeilinger
(Dis-)Continuities of Labor Exploitation in ›Arbeiterliteratur‹ and Video Games
This lecture presents ongoing research on the representation of labor relations in video games. It focuses in particular on work that occurs in the background of narrative action, and which is carried out by ›non-player characters‹ (NPCs).
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17
November
2025
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Sabrina Stranzl
Kollaborative Allianzen als Reibungen. Potenzial, Herausforderung, Widerspruch
Befasst mit der Frage: Sex_Arbeit als Care_Arbeit?! arbeitet Sabrina Stranzl in Kollaboration mit Forschungsakteur*innen innerhalb und außerhalb der akademischen Welt zusammen, wie der transdisziplinären Gesellschaft für Sexarbeits- und Prostitutionsforschung (GSPF), mit verschiedenen Sexarbeits-Selbstorganisationen und Fachberatungsstellen.
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24
November
2025
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Lorenz Hegel
Montage and Solidarity. From the Third International to Third World Revolution
As a cinematic technique, montage produces meaning by linking discrete images and sounds into signifying and affective sequences. Solidarity, as a political imperative, seeks to unite distinct social actors—classes, movements, and peoples—in shared struggle.
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Filmstill: Dziga Vertov, A Sixth Part of the World, USSR, 1926
26
November
2025
18:30
Specials
ifk Arkade
Ulrich Johannes Schneider & Andreas Brandtner
Baustelle Bibliothek. Bauen für’s »Atmen beim Lesen«
Im Gespräch mit Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Autor des Buchs »
Atmen beim Lesen. Bibliotheken im Industriezeitalter«
, gibt Andreas Brandtner, Direktor der Universitätsbibliothek Wien, Einblicke in den aktuellen Umbau der Bibliothek und lädt zu einem virtuellen Baustellenrundgang ein.
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Universitätsbibliothek Wien, Großer Lesesaal © Foto: M.Ellinger-R.Öhner
01
December
2025
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Robert Meunier
High-Throughput Research Cultures. Data Production in Today’s Life Sciences
Today, the most prestigious work in the life sciences is data-intensive research. Data is generated by high-throughput technologies, such as DNA sequencing, that can perform many measurements in parallel and in a short time.
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10
December
2025
18:30
Specials
ifk Arkade
Denkpausen mit Grzegorz Kwiatkowski
Grzegorz Kwiatkowski’s poetry volumes
brennend
(2023) and
ohne Orchester
(2024) deal with the Shoah in Poland in concise and direct, therein sometimes brutal language.
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15
December
2025
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Jeannie Moser
Diskursive Disruption. Ein Jahresrückblick
2025 beginnt als eine politische Realität, die sich selbst zu überholen scheint. Schon in den ersten Tagen setzt die autoritäre Zerstörung der Ordnung des Sag- und Denkbaren ein. Das Wort haben Spezialist*innen aggressiver Diskursmanöver.
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07
January
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Peter Gelderloos
From the Margins to the Future. Cultures That Can Survive Eco-Apocalypse
We are facing a complex, entangled ecological crisis that is already causing the extinction of countless species and the destruction of habitats all over the world, as well as tens of millions of human deaths every year.
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Ramat2StBoi @ Foto: Angela Llop
12
January
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Sophie Emilia Seidler
Persephone in the Time of Anorexia. Myth, Psychiatry, and Women’s Writing
More than a century after Freud’s Oedipus, the combination of psychiatry and Greek mythology is not quite common practice. Yet, recent decades have transported the goddesses Persephone and Demeter into modern mental health discourses.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Proserpine, Wikimedia Commons
19
January
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Lena Dege-Barron
Windparks in Südmexiko. Auswirkungen auf indigene Kinder und Möglichkeiten einer gerechteren Ausgestaltung
Der südmexikanische Isthmus von Tehuantepec ist ein international bekannter Ort für Windenergieinvestitionen im Zuge des Europäischen Green Deal.
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Lena Dege-Barron, Isthmus von Tehuantepec 2024
21
January
2026
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23
January
2026
Conference
ifk Arkade
Ageing Cultures, Ageing Concepts
Ageing relations are often understood at the intersection of other forms of othering: through the sociology of cohorts, through debates about ageism and ableism or as a specialty topic of those studying care. But what if we started noticing age as an inherent part of all relations?
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26
January
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Catherine Raya Polishchuk
The Livability Apparatus. Establishing Vienna as Most Livable in the World
Barely anyone living in Vienna remains unfamiliar with the narrative that the city affords a comfortable lifestyle. Public transportation, cleanliness, and medical care are said to contribute to that liveable life one allegedly has in Vienna.
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