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 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.
Vom gelungenen Verzicht
Verzicht hat oft einen schlechten Ruf. Obwohl er eine freiwillige Entsagung beschreibt, gilt er landläufig als aufoktroyierte »Spaßbremse« und wird häufig zum Gegenbegriff von Lebensfreude und Genussfähigkeit stilisiert – gerade auch in der Politik. Dabei ist Verzicht ein Thema, dem – allen Verdrängungsleistungen zum Trotz – existenzielle Bedeutung bei der Gestaltung unserer Zukunft zukommt.
Barely anyone living in Vienna remains unfamiliar with the narrative that the city affords a comfortable lifestyle. Public transportation, cleanliness, and medical care are said to contribute to that liveable life one allegedly has in Vienna. International indexes affirm this image by placing Vienna at the top of the list of most liveable cities worldwide.
Der südmexikanische Isthmus von Tehuantepec ist ein international bekannter Ort für Windenergieinvestitionen im Zuge des Europäischen Green Deal. Die Region ist aufgrund einer Landenge zwischen dem Golf von Mexiko und dem Pazifik eine der windreichsten weltweit.
More than a century after Freud’s Oedipus, the combination of psychiatry and Greek mythology is not quite common practice. Yet, recent decades have transported the goddesses Persephone and Demeter into modern mental health discourses. Since the 1980s, these myths have been turned into a parable of eating disorders.
We are facing a complex, entangled ecological crisis that is already causing the extinction of countless species and the destruction of habitats all over the world, as well as tens of millions of human deaths every year. With the crisis getting worse at an accelerating rate, there is a growing possibility that our current global civilization may collapse.
Diskursive Disruption. Ein Jahresrückblick
Jänner: Verzweiflung (11:31 min)
Februar: AKKA (18:49 min)
März: ›Reconquista‹ (21:07 min)
April: Engagierte Forschungsagenda (26:06 min)
Mai: Anything but Gender Studies (30:19 min)
Juni: Meinungsfreiheit (34:50 min)
Juli: Unendliches Chaos (37:52 min)
August: Angewandtes Wissen (40:45 min)
September: Zeit der Wissenschaft (43:38 min)
Oktober: Tanzende Könige (44: 47 min)
November: Arbeit im Jetzt (50:43 min)
Dezember: Kein Ende (53:16 min)
As a cinematic technique, montage produces meaning by linking discrete images and sounds into signifying and affective sequences. Solidarity, as a political imperative, seeks to unite distinct social actors—classes, movements, and peoples—in shared struggle.
How Islands Shape Lines, Signs and Scripts
This lecture showcases specific cases of ›island gaze‹, in which code-making, symbols, icons and geometric configurations were deployed into signs and scripts. It explores a set of studies from all over the world and from different periods of our cultural evolution.