Program

16 October - 17 December 2026

Ausgehend von den exzessiv bewegten Lendentüchern Christi in dem Stil der Donauschule widmet sich die Ausstellung von Susanne Ristow dem Schleier als offener Bild- und Projektionsfläche. Die schwebenden und nicht selten erstaunlich erotischen Stoffe der Kreuzigungsdarstellungen von Mittelalter bis Barock erscheinen als flirrende Medienoberflächen voller Ambivalenz, Sinnlichkeit und Bewegung.

04 November 2026
17:30

The global rise of the radical right is one of the defining political developments of the twenty-first century. Existing explanations have rightly emphasised political-economic transformations such as deindustrialisation, precarity and downward social mobility. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of ethnographic engagement in eastern India, this lecture argues that these explanations capture only part of the story.

09 November 2026
18:15

The Palestinian citizens of Israel have always lived between a rock and a hard place, watching as their country goes to war against their nation. A lacuna in research on this group continues to this day—a group sometimes perceived by the Arab world at large as turncoats, sometimes recognized as the core of Palestinian steadfastness, but consistently overlooked for their active influence from within the Israeli parliamentary system.

16 November 2026
18:15

How to be an old woman? The lecture looks to contemporary fictional and autofictional texts for answers. Female old age has been traditionally maligned and associated with invisibility and marginality. Role models which go beyond the meek and harmless grandmother or the hag are sparse.

23 November 2026
18:15

Violence during childbirth has been gaining more attention over the past 20 years, with many women and birthers complaining about the circumstances under which they were made to give birth. In a highly medicalized and technologically led birth culture driven by capitalist logics of health care management, birth care can often become violent or be experienced as such.