ifk NOW 02/26
Das ifk NOW ist das Printmagazin des ifk. Es erscheint 2x jährlich und informiert über das Semesterprogramm und die ifk Fellows.
The term ›Eurasian steppe peoples‹ conjures up a homogenous image of mounted warriors wielding bows and arrows and the famous Attila the Hun. However, the various peoples from the Eurasian steppe of the Pre-Mongolian era were more diverse than such stereotypes allow.
Über die Rolle von Frauen und Kindern im frühen Mittelalter ist wenig bekannt. Bioarchäologische Analysen liefern neue Einblicke. In oberösterreichischen Gräbern des 8. bis 10. Jahrhunderts finden sich etwa immer häufiger Kinder. Daran lasse sich ablesen, dass sich die Vorstellung von Mutterschaft und Kindheit damals verändert habe, schreibt Jennifer Portschy in einem Gastbeitrag science.orf.at.
Childhood, motherhood, and parent-child relationships are key social dynamics that fundamentally shape the structure and values of any society. They influence cultural norms and behavioral patterns and may also leave tangible traces in the archaeological record.
Understandings of the nature and use of hearing itself have never been constant, but have always been shaped by socio-political, cultural and economic factors. Amidst ongoing hypes of »more-than-human-knowledge«, AI and Big Data now promise to again shift biomedical understandings of hearing.
Theater and diplomacy have always had something in common: an ambiguous relationship to ›truth‹. This lecture explores the entangled histories of theater and diplomacy over the course of the long 19th century in Vienna, a city on whose cultural and political stages these twin arts of representation came increasingly to mirror and distort one another.
How do Muslim female writers dispute and localize the rise of religious, cultural, and political conservatism? This talk examines the literary responses of female Muslim authors from Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan during and after the politicoreligious upheavals of the late 20th century.
Der in Wien geborene Stummfilmregisseur Erich von Stroheim hat 1934 überlegt, aus den USA in die Sowjetunion zu ziehen. Die Hintergründe seien bis heute nicht ganz klar, sagt Maya Garcia. Doch unerfüllte Sehnsüchte dürften dabei eine wichtige Rolle gespielt haben, schreibt Garcia in einem Gastbeitrag für science.orf.at.
Erich von Stroheim’s consideration of a move to the USSR in 1934 remains an intriguing and mysterious detail in the Vienna-born American filmmaker’s biography. His meeting with Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein in 1930, which laid the groundwork for the considered relocation, is also a little-studied curiosity.
How does the adoption of concepts such as good living and Pachamama—earth being present as a cosmological figure—allow for an understanding of those worlds that live partly outside the separation between nature and humanity? Do they make it possible to think beyond the episteme of modernity? How can we find and describe those communal foundations of the social life of marginalized Indigenous peoples without the postulate of the existence of a homogeneous block of relational and nondualist worlds?