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2026
07
January
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Peter Gelderloos
From the Margins to the Future. Cultures That Can Survive Eco-Apocalypse
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.
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Ramat2StBoi @ Foto: Angela Llop
12
January
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Sophie Emilia Seidler
Persephone in the Time of Anorexia. Myth, Psychiatry, and Women’s Writing
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.
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Proserpine, Wikimedia Commons
19
January
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Lena Dege-Barron
Windparks in Südmexiko. Auswirkungen auf indigene Kinder und Möglichkeiten einer gerechteren Ausgestaltung
Der südmexikanische Isthmus von Tehuantepec ist ein international bekannter Ort für Windenergieinvestitionen im Zuge des Europäischen Green Deal.
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Lena Dege-Barron, Isthmus von Tehuantepec 2024
21
January
2026
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23
January
2026
Conference
ifk Arkade
Ageing Cultures, Ageing Concepts
Ageing relations are often understood at the intersection of other forms of othering: through the sociology of cohorts, through debates about ageism and ableism or as a specialty topic of those studying care. But what if we started noticing age as an inherent part of all relations?
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26
January
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Catherine Raya Polishchuk
The Livability Apparatus. Establishing Vienna as Most Livable in the World
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.
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07
March
2026
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28
March
2026
Exhibition
ifk Arkade
Olga Shcheblykina. Things I Tried to Keep
Things I Tried to Keep
is a spatially expansive assemblage of existing and newly produced works and personal belongings that come together in a dense, multilayered mise en scène. The exhibition is not conceived as a classical presentation of works, but as a temporary archive, storage, or depot that highlights an in-between state hovering between structure and disorientation.
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09
March
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Heike Paul
Vom gelungenen Verzicht
Der Vortrag beleuchtet Verzichtssemantiken und -erzählungen in der 250-jährigen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte der USA und rekonstruiert eine Chronologie von Verzichtsszenarien im kulturellen Imaginären.
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16
March
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Armin Bergmeier
The Pastiche Past. Society, Heritage, and Place in the Premodern Period
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.
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18
March
2026
18:30
Lecture
Wien Museum
Alys George
Die verwundete Stadt. Wien 1945 in Wort und Bild
Nach dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs im Mai 1945 war Wien, wie viele europäische Städte, von massiven Zerstörungen geprägt. In der Literaturwissenschaft setzte sich dennoch früh die Ansicht durch, dass Österreich keine eigene Form der Trümmerliteratur hervorgebracht habe.
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23
March
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Lhoussain Simour
Archives Through a Decolonial Lens. Moroccan Performers and Cultural Encounters in European Circuses (1820–1950)
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.
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25
March
2026
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27
March
2026
Conference
ifk Arkade
possessed
This conference follows the traces of possession in spaces, bodies and relationships, inquiring into the good and bad spirits that ownership spawns and the feedback that develops between possession and obsession.
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13
April
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Olga V. Solovieva
A Spiral of History. Iosif Trumpeldor, Nikolai Russel, Kōtoku Shūsui and the ›Hamadera Moment‹
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 whose lives overlapped for about six months in the Hamadera camp in Japan.
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20
April
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Malachi Haim Hacohen
The Future of Jewish History. Catastrophe, Diaspora, and Exile
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.
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27
April
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Mariya Donska
Transition als Translation. Oleksandr Averbuchs dekoloniale Praktiken
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.
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04
May
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Ali Fawad
Antebellum to Postbellum. Evolution of Female Fiction in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan
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.
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09
May
2026
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29
June
2026
Exhibition
ifk Arkade
connected. Ausstellung der Siebdruckwerkstatt der Kunstuni Linz
Neun Künstlerinnen, verbunden durch einen gemeinsamen Ort des Arbeitens, Lehrens und Lernens, treten in einen Polylog ein: Jennifer Eder, Ursula Guttmann, Julia Gutweniger, Sarah Konjic, Larissa Leverenz, Andrea Lüth, Magdalena Maller, Ophelia Pauline Reuter und Julia Witzeneder.
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11
May
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Juan Rivera
Pluriverse and Relationality from an Andean Ethnographic Perspective
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?
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18
May
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Maya Garcia
Erich von Stroheim & the Soviet Union. Unfulfilled Attractions
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.
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20
May
2026
18:30
Specials
Magdalena Schrefel
Denkpausen mit Magdalena Schrefel
»Susan Sontag sagt, dass es die Metaphern sind, die Krankheiten so interessant machen. Metaphern sind Bilder, die helfen können. Aber ist Krieg das richtige Bild für das, was mir widerfährt?«
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27
May
2026
18:30
Specials
ifk Arkade
Maja Osojnik & Eva Reiter
Trembling Skins. Membranes of Music Making Bodies
In der MUK meets ifk Lecture denken die beiden international tätigen und in Wien lebenden Komponistinnen und Instrumentalistinnen Maja Osojnik und Eva Reiter über Klang als choreografisches Mittel nach, das auf die sozialen, kommunikativen und aisthetischen Kompetenzen der Mitwirkenden setzt.
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01
June
2026
18:15
Lecture
Tekla Aslanishvili
The Mountain Speaks to the Sea. Mapping New Energy Geographies
The multimedia lecture-performance interlaces text with excerpts from the author’s experimental documentary and archival photo, phono, and film materials to trace shifting sociotechnical orders surrounding infrastructures of energy production and transit in the South Caucasus.
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08
June
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Raymond Blankenhorn
A Delicate Task. Theaters of Diplomacy in Austria
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.
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10
June
2026
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12
June
2026
Conference
ifk Arkade
Aufhören. Können
Zum Auftakt des ifk Schwerpunkts
Vor den letzten Dingen
widmet sich die Konferenz den Schwierigkeiten und Freuden des Aufhörens.
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15
June
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Sofie Kronberger
Sensing Bodies, Reading Minds. Re-Configurations of Hearing & Listening under Data Capitalism
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.
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22
June
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Jennifer Portschy
Ties That Bind. Mothers & Children in Early Medieval Societies
This lecture presents preliminary results from a bioarchaeological case study on the social significance of childhood, motherhood, and care in the Early Middle Ages. It examines burials dated to the 6th–9th centuries CE in present-day Upper Austria.
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24
June
2026
18:30
Specials
ifk Arkade
Denkpausen mit Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky ist ein ukrainisch-US-amerikanischer Dichter und Übersetzer. Er unterrichtet Schreiben an der Princeton University und betätigt sich auch als Herausgeber.
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29
June
2026
18:15
Lecture
ifk Arkade
Sandra Wabnitz
Matters of Life and Death in Eurasian Steppe Peoples’ Societies, 4th-9th Centuries
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.
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