Kalender - IFK

06 März 2026

18:30

Vernissage

ifk Arkade

Welcome Reception & Vernissage

Wir begrüßen die neuen Fellows des Sommersemesters 2026 und feiern die Vernissage der Ausstellung von Olga Shcheblykina »Things I Tried to Keep«.

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07 März 2026

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28 März 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 März 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 März 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 März 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 März 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 März 2026

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27 März 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 Mai 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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08 Mai 2026

18:30

Vernissage

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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09 Mai 2026

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29 Juni 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Mai 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 2026

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12 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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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