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Wir begrüßen die neuen Fellows des Sommersemesters 2026 und feiern die Vernissage der Ausstellung von Olga Shcheblykina »Things I Tried to Keep«.
Things I Tried to Keep is a spatially expansive assemblage of existing and newly produced works and personal belongings that come together in a dense, multilayered mise en scène. The exhibition is not conceived as a classical presentation of works, but as a temporary archive, storage, or depot that highlights an in-between state hovering between structure and disorientation.
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Der Vortrag beleuchtet Verzichtssemantiken und -erzählungen in der 250-jährigen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte der USA und rekonstruiert eine Chronologie von Verzichtsszenarien im kulturellen Imaginären.
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This talk explores the potential of critical heritage studies to question ownership and the relationship between identity and material culture in the premodern Mediterranean as well as alternative ways of conceiving of heritage linked to place and geography.
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Nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Mai 1945 war Wien, wie viele europäische Städte, von massiven Zerstörungen geprägt. In der Literaturwissenschaft setzte sich dennoch früh die Ansicht durch, dass Österreich keine eigene Form der Trümmerliteratur hervorgebracht habe.
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This lecture presents a project exploring archival material through the lens of postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, focusing on Moroccan traveling troupes of performers in Europe from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
This conference follows the traces of possession in spaces, bodies and relationships, inquiring into the good and bad spirits that ownership spawns and the feedback that develops between possession and obsession.