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.
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.
Der südmexikanische Isthmus von Tehuantepec ist ein international bekannter Ort für Windenergieinvestitionen im Zuge des Europäischen Green Deal.
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?
Der aktuelle Call für ifk Junior Fellowships für das akademische Jahr 2026/27 ist gestartet und läuft bis 25. Jänner 2026. Die Fellowships richten sich an Dissertant*innen mit interdisziplinären Forschungsprojekten aus dem Bereich der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften und/oder der Kunst, die sich kulturwissenschaftlicher Fragestellungen und Verfahren bedienen. Zum Call
Following the successful launch of ICGP—an mdw institution for interdisciplinary research and teaching in gender studies at the interface of performance and theater studies, film and media studies, and musicology—this summer the second opening from 10–12 December focuses on dragging, racialization, and today’s political challenges in diverse geographical, historical, and performative contexts. The program includes Evelyn Annuß’s Inaugural Lecture on Dirty Dragging; an International Symposium, as well as a presentation of the first ICGP publications. www.mdw.ac.at/icgp
The first international symposium of the ERC project OLFAC from 3–5 December at the ifk explores the Intervening Performativity of Smell. It brings together an international constellation of scholars and artists to explore the many ways in which smell intervenes in cultural, aesthetic, and political formations. While the OLFAC project investigates smell as a performative force at the intersection of sensory politics and aesthetics, the symposium opens an expanded field of inquiry: one that invites participants to critically engage with olfaction across disciplinary, methodological, and sensorial thresholds. olfac.kunstuni-linz.at
Academy in Exile is pleased to announce its 2025 fellowship program funded by the Mellon Foundation. AiE invites scholars at risk to apply for five available fellowships (12 months) at TU Dortmund University and the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI) Essen. Eligible are scholars from any country who have a PhD in the humanities, social sciences, or law, and who are at risk because of their academic work and/or civic engagement in human rights, democracy, and the pursuit of academic freedom. The new application deadline is 30 November 2025. You can find the call for applications here: academy-in-exile.eu.
Sport spielte seit der Wende zum 20. Jahrhundert immer wieder eine wichtige Rolle für feministische Kämpfe. Geschlechterpolitische Forderungen nach Teilhabe, Gleichberechtigung, Sichtbarkeit und Repräsentation sind ungebrochen aktuell. Einige dieser Debatten rund um »Physical Feminism« werden anlässlich der Buchpräsentation von »Sport und Feminisimus. Gesellschaftspolitische Geschlechterdebatten vom Fin de Siècle bis heute« herausgegeben von Georg Spitaler und Petra Sturm im Campus Verlag am 27. November vorgestellt und diskutiert. kosmostheater.at