Following its establishment in 1992, the non-profit Association of the ifk International Research Center managed the ifk from its inception the following year until the Research Center’s integration into the University of Arts and Design Linz in early 2015.
During this integration, the organization was transformed into a “friends’ association”; its name was changed accordingly, and its function shifted from managing the Research Center to supporting its activities.
The main goals of this Association are the enrichment of cultural studies within the Austrian academic landscape, the promotion of research across national borders, and the support of young scholars.
ifk Podcast »Kultur denken«The ifk Podcast is produced in collaboration with radio producers and science communicators. Based on the topics of the ifk conferences, each season presents several episodes on a specific topic.
ifk Lectures & Translations >>Current volumes of our series »ifk Lectures & Translations« published by Turia + Kant (Vienna/Berlin) are Umgebungsaufnahmen. Zur Epistomologie, Technik und Ästhetik akustischer Ökologien by Maren Haffke, Atmen beim Lesen. Bibliotheken im Industriezeitalter by Ulrich Johannes Schneider, Radikales Tierrecht. Zehn Fragen zum Antispezisismus by Jérôme Segal, and Nachkriegsschamanismus by Ulrich van Loyen.
Publication series »Schauplätze der Evidenz«Volume 1: Black/White as Evidence, »With black and White you can keep more of a distance«ed. by Monika Wagner, Helmut Lethen, Frankfurt/Main 2015.Volume 2: Pointing to Reality. On the Problem of Evidence in Cultural Studies. A Reader, ed. by Helmut Lethen, Ludwig Jäger, Albrecht Koschorke, Frankfurt/Main 2015.Volume 3: Agon and Ares. The War and the Games, ed. by Ernst Strouhal, Frankfurt/Main 2016.Volume 4: Auf Tuchfühlung. A History of Knowledge of the Sense of Touched. by Karin Harrasser, Frankfurt/Main 2017 (spring).
Sinnlich-übersinnliche Dinge. Versuchungen des Virtuellen19. – 21. Juni 2024
Elias Canetti egalitär20. – 22. März 2024
Alles bröckelt. Über das Leben in Ruinen und das Reparieren von Infrastrukturen17. – 19. Jänner 2024
Stadt Wien ifk Fellow: Alys GeorgeProjekt: »War, Gender, and the Novel in Austria, 1945–49«
Stadt Wien ifk Fellow: Michal KopečekProjekt: »The Politics of Rights in East Central Europe, 1970s–2010s«
Where are we now? Kulturwissenschaftlich arbeiten 1993–204314. – 16. June 2023
Tagung: Alltagsgeschichten von Flughäfen29. – 31. March 2023
Furthermore, in 2023 the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna - MA7 - funded the essay podcast series with ifk alumni: »800 voices« as well as the opening exhibition for the 30th anniversary of the institute and the cultural studies laboratory.
Stadt Wien ifk Fellow: David ShanklandProjekt: »Fluidität und Transformation in der alevitischen Bewegung in Österreich«
Stadt Wien ifk Fellow: Lena DražićProjekt: »Turbo-Folk und place: Bedeutungszuschreibungen an ein globalisiertes Musikgenre in Wien und Belgrad«
IFK_Live: Die Stärken der Schwäche. Gesellschaften in unruhigen Zeiten/The Virtues of Vulnerability14.-16. December 2022
IFK_Live: Tagung und Nachtung: Situiert im Globalen. Konflikte, Kosten, Atmosphären21. – 22. October 2022
IFK_Live: Verhandlungskunst. Praktiken der Diplomatie in der Literatur und den Künsten18. – 20. May 2022
IFK_Live: Geben und Schenken. Gabenökonomie im Horizont der Digitalisierung16. – 18. March 2022
Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Bettina Brandt Projekt: Österreichische Flüchtlinge in den Vereinigten Staaten und das Schicksal der im Nationalsozialismus zurückgebliebenen älteren Generation 1938–1946
Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Aris FioretosProjekt: »Die dünnen Götter«, Roman
City of Vienna/IFK Fellow: Abigail SusikProjekt: »Historical Urban Multilingualism in East Central Europe: Lodz around 1900
IFK_Live: Radikale Imagination. Cornelius Castoriadis zum 100. Geburtstag15. – 17. December 2021
Hermann Broch und die Österreichische Moderne1. – 2. June2021
IFK_Live: Geben und Schenken: Gabenökonomie im Horizont der Digitalisierung21.– 23. April 2021
Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Jan FellererProject: »Historical Urban Multilingualism in East Central Europe: Łódź around 1900«
Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Esther Kilchmann Projekt: »Sigmund Freud als Übersetzer. Praktiken des Wissenstransfers, der Kritik und der Mehrsprachigkeit«
IFK_Live: Universalsprachen, Kunstsprachen, Plansprachen: Träume und Utopien von einer Welt ohne Übersetzung18. – 20. November 2020
Conference: Coworking Materials. Für einen aktiven Materialismus7.– 9. October 2020
IFK_Live Conference: Translating the Present: Science Fiction and our Futures17. – 19. June 2020
Conference »California Dreaming: Richard Neutra and the Significance of Californian Modernity« – canceled1.– 3. April 2020
Tagung »Andere Arbeit«22. – 24. January 2020
Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Gabriele BrandstetterProjekt: »Movement and Metaphor – Tropen und Defigurationen im zeitgenössischen Tanz«
Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Michael JeismannProjekt: »Rand und Mitte - die losen Enden der Welt«
Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Bettina BrandtProjekt: »Österreichische Flüchtlinge in den Vereinigten Staaten und das Schicksal der im Nationalsozialismus zurückgebliebenen älteren Generation 1938–1946«
Projects kindly supported by MA 7/City of Vienna:
Conferences:- Against Life, Against the World, Against Myself. Figures of negativity- Huizinga Today. One Hundred Years of the Autumn of the Middle Ages- Athens - Tokyo. The Japan of the Philosophers- Canetti's Vienna. On the 25th anniversary of his death
City of Vienna/IFK_Urban Fellow: Mohammed Bamyeh
- Projects kindly supported by MA 7/City of Vienna:
Conferences:- Notation: Imagination and Translation- Food and Migration- Translation in Medicine- Edgar Zilsel: Geniereligion
City of Vienna/IFK_Urban Fellow: Sybille Krämer, Paul Weindling
- Relaunch of the IFK_Website
- International Research Network BTWH (Berkeley/Tübingen/Vienna/Harvard)
Conferences:- Utopian Visions and Visionary Art: Beethoven's "Spiritual Realm" Revisited.- Invisible third parties? Translation Practices in Psychotherapy and Psychoana- Momentary Recording - Snapshot: Smallest Unit of Time, Figure of Thought, Medial Practice- Apocalypse and Politics. On the topicality of Jacob Taubes- Lying to the Truth - Biography on the Threshold of Poetry and Truth
City of Vienna/IFK_Urban Fellow: Eve Blau, Birgit Mersmann
Conference:
- Red Vienna
City of Vienna/IFK_Urban Fellow: Aleida Assmann, Moishe Postone
International Research Network BTWH (Berkeley/Tübingen/Vienna/Harvard)
Conferences:- Liberation Footage- Empire, Socialism and Jews- Agon and Ares- The Brilliant Quartet of the Prussian Council of State
City of Vienna/IFK_Urban Fellow: Karl Schlögel
Association purpose according to statutes:»The purpose of the association, whose activities are non-profit, is to promote interdisciplinary research as well as postgraduate training of young scholars in the field of cultural studies, and for this purpose supports a research center.«
Association Board:Chairwoman: Dipl.-Kfm. Wilhelmine GoldmannVice Chairman: Dr. Ingo ZechnerTreasurer: Dr. Manfred PittioniProf. Dr. Moritz CsákyProf. Dr. Gabriella HauchMag. Dr. Günther Sandner
Auditors:Dr. Harald FiedlerHRi.R. Hon.-Prof. Dr. Lorenz Mikoletzky
Managing Director:Mag.a Viola Eichberger
Postal address:Reichsratsstraße 17/DG1010 ViennaAustria
Contact:friends@ifk.ac.at+43 664 524 81 92
ZVR number: 519811694