Events

The workshop aims to make a significant contribution to the field of contemporary cultural history by investigating both material and immaterial cultural practices, and exploring how meanings circulate in society.

In contemporary capitalist societies the provisioning of domestic work has undergone and continues to undergo substantial transformations. These transformations include the externalization, commodification, and commercialization of socially reproductive labor. This keynote shows that practices encouraged by digitally mediated marketplaces can perpetuate the…

In this keynote, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll will give us insights into the methodological thoughts behind her work on colonial histories through contemporary art. Her art practice involves montaging words and images within films and installations that voice alternate histories through texts and performances.

The decades following the First World War were a period of political, social, and economic transformation for Central and Eastern Europe. The seminar looks at the role of foreign aid in Romania between 1918 and 1940, as it explores the interrelation between state building and non-governmental humanitarianism in the interwar period.

In this third history and social sciences festival, high-ranking voices from science, politics, civil society, art and culture will examine these various dimensions of and debates on "green transformations". These lectures, debates and panel discussions will be accompanied by an attractive cultural program.

As a counter-narrative to the dominant environmental violence, this keynote draws on recent art-activist production in Bosnia and Herzegovina and discusses and analyzes the extent to which it intervenes in the socio-environmental dynamics of ethnic authoritarian governance.

It is in cities that our future can be decided. This panel joins scholars with practitioners of urban planning and climate transformation to discuss local perspectives and solutions for a global problem.

The panel brings together scholars working on ecology and environmental activism in history, anthropology, international relations and cultural studies, from a feminist perspective. How are the labors of “green transformation(s)” gendered? And what kind of gendered political demands, tensions and cooperations might such transformations bring in a global…

What role can nuclear energy play in green transformation, if any? In this roundtable discussion, the panelists analyze the paradoxes that emerged from the roll-out of nuclear energy production on the one hand, and its governance on the other.

Climate change and environmental degradation are problems that affect all of Europe, yet the continent seems divided over the nature of the issue and the necessary instruments to mitigate and adapt. This panel brings together experts from the social sciences, from policymaking, and from civil society, to discuss this question and its implications for the…

Vom burgenländischen Neusiedler See bis in die Hochtäler der Tiroler Alpen: Längst machen zunehmende Wetteranomalien deutlich, dass die globale Erwärmung Österreichs vielfältige Lebensräume gravierend verändert und damit auch seine Wirtschaft maßgeblich beeinflusst – von der Industrie bis zum Gastgewerbe.