»Ankunft in Rom. Am ersten Juli. Zweihundertunddreißig Jahre und acht Monate nach Goethe.« Simon Strauß lässt seinen Protagonisten in Römische Tage auf der Suche nach alter Größe und einem dieser Größe angemessenen Lebensgefühl bürgerlicher Erhabenheit nach Rom reisen – und scheitern.
Die ersten gedruckten, regelmäßig erscheinenden Zeitungen kamen in Europa im frühen 17. Jahrhundert auf den Markt. Zeitgleich richtete Galileo Galilei das Fernrohr gegen den Himmel.
MUK meets ifk Lecture //
Die wechselseitige Verschränkung zwischen Schlaf- und Traumzuständen erfährt in Wissenschaft und Kunst, sowie in der Gesundheits- und Wellnessbranche eine erhöhte Aufmerksamkeit. Künstler*innen übersetzen diese Diskurse, sowohl in ihren wissenschaftlichen als auch in ihren populären Dimensionen.
How did approximately 1,000 Jews succeed in escaping from Axis-occupied Greece? How could they escape against all odds from a political and military context that drastically limited the agency of Jewish individuals and collectives? Which factors influenced them during their flight?
Representations of the Ottoman occur frequently throughout European visual culture during the early modern period. Stereotypes, repeated motifs and battle scenes abound across painting, sculpture and the decorative arts. Harder to decipher, however, is how portrayals of Ottomans were propagated within structures of performance culture.
How are experiences of migration articulated in the medium of photography? How do individuals envision their sense of Self, their subjectivity, and their social status in the new surroundings? How has photography been used (and continues to be used) to not only maintain transnational ties but also to build or depict community and identity across geographical locations?
Political Languages of Human Rights
Human rights as the political Grundbegriff of today’s world are open to all possible political interpretations. The peaceful revolutions of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe have been perceived, for good reason, as revolutions of human rights, which strengthened the legitimacy of Western-type liberal democracy and global neoliberal capitalism.
Combining archival data from the 1950s–1960s with contemporary ethnographic fieldwork, the lecture explores what happens when heritage matters involve making a decision about which environmental assemblages should be passed down, and which ones should be left ›in the past‹.
Theodor W. Adorno on Art and Judgment
In his lecture, Henry Pickford seeks to reconstruct Adorno’s understanding of the relationship between art and aesthetic experience on the one hand, and forms of cognitive judgment on the other.
The turn of the 20th century in Vienna saw the explosion of discursive and scientific appropriations of sexual difference based on new scientific paradigms of pathologization and hereditariness.