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Tag: Cultural Studies

Projects

6 February 2023

Danubian narratives

The second longest river in Europe, the Danube, flows through more countries than any other river in the world. The research project “Reading the Danube” explores the eventful history of this river in literature, photography and films over the past 100 years. Continue reading “Danubian narratives”

Projects

2 January 2023

Hip-Hop yes, McDonalds no

This year hip-hop turns 50. A publication zeroes in on the Austrian offshoots of this global culture, from Falco to Money Boy, Yasmo and beyond. “Hip-Hop in Austria” traces the history and musical development of an amazingly diverse and successful scene. Continue reading “Hip-Hop yes, McDonalds no”

Projects

12 September 2022

What biofictions tell us about gender

Fiction often reveals more about the time in which it was written than about the time in which it is set. Julia Lajta-Novak knows that this rule applies especially to biographical fiction. This English literary scholar investigates novels and films about historical women artists by analysing the language, structure and reception of countless works with […] Continue reading “What biofictions tell us about gender”

Projects

29 August 2022

Art criticism in the era of social media

While there is no accounting for taste, it is perhaps possible to explain and understand taste. In her project “Aesthetic Practice and the Critical Faculty”, the philosopher Iris Laner explores what aesthetic education means at school and for our everyday lives. This much is undisputed: being trained in how to deal with images can facilitate […] Continue reading “Art criticism in the era of social media”

Projects

26 April 2021

Corona Fictions – what literature can tell us about the future

The way we tell stories about crises impacts our individual and collective actions. In a newly launched basic research project Yvonne Völkl, a literary and cultural studies scholar, explores the narrative function of the coronavirus pandemic with the support of the population. Using the example of the pandemic, she investigates how literary narrative patterns influence […] Continue reading “Corona Fictions – what literature can tell us about the future”

Projects

28 September 2020

One hundred years of Carinthian plebiscite

In October 2020, Carinthia will celebrate the centenary of the plebiscite deciding whether Lower Carinthia should remain part of Austria. For the same amount of time, this event has served as a reference point for discourse and assimilation endeavours. In a transdisciplinary project combining theatre and science, researchers are seeking new leverage on the burden […] Continue reading “One hundred years of Carinthian plebiscite”

On the road

17 October 2018

Palm trees, the ocean and a fear of mass hysteria

By Johanna Braun

Johanna Braun is exploring the phenomenon of hysteria and its social implications. In her temporary elective hometown Los Angeles, the cultural scholar and Schrödinger fellow has seen her research topic attain an unparalleled order of magnitude and great topicality. – A travelogue about close-up research. Continue reading “Palm trees, the ocean and a fear of mass hysteria”

Interview & Opinion

4 September 2018

Memory as an agent of social cohesion

Interview: Ingrid Ladner

Aleida Assmann’s work focuses on the cultures of memory and of forgetting. In an interview on the occasion of the FWF’s 50th anniversary, the cultural studies scholar explains why we need memory, why the Internet undermines credibility, and why we should remember humane virtues. Continue reading “Memory as an agent of social cohesion”

Portrait

21 June 2018

Not between, but on two stools

Von Margit Schwarz-Stiglbauer

The expert in European Ethnology, Silke Meyer, on Tyrolean houses in Turkey, Turkish powdered soup in Fulpmes and why carrying debt makes you an entrepreneurial spirit in the USA but a loser in Germany. Continue reading “Not between, but on two stools”

Projects

7 December 2015

A post-Soviet art boom

The quality and quantity of contemporary art museums as well as the development of state-of-the-art infrastructure in Russian museums and art institutions have increased significantly over the last 20 years. A project funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF provides the first extensive research on new and remodelled museum buildings as well as on patrons, […] Continue reading “A post-Soviet art boom”

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