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.
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.
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?
Die Lecture widmet sich den dekolonialen Praktiken Oleksandr Averbuchs, der als Autor, Übersetzer und Wissenschaftler Transitionen durchläuft, Zwischenräume und Verflechtungen schafft: vom Russischen hin zum Ukrainischen und zu intern mehrsprachigen Texten, zwischen Ländern und (Kultur-)Räumen sowie zwischen fiktionalem und dokumentarischem Schreiben.
Recent Critiques of Zionism and Israel have highlighted the diasporic character of the Jewish people: the Jews have been a Diaspora for over 2500 years. Their current acceptance as citizens in nation states is a post-Holocaust exception, a blip on the historical screen. So is also the State of Israel.
The lecture follows the biographical and ideological trajectories of the Russian-Belarusian revolutionary Populist Nikolai Sudzilovski-Russel, the Japanese anarchist Kōtoku Shūsui, and the early Zionist activist Iosif Trumpeldor.