Further Activities of the Center

Conferences, lectures, lecture series and events at a glance

Conferences

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Guest Lectures

  • Jäger, Ludwig (Aachen): "Das Spiel der Skripturen. 'Practices of reuse' (Genette) and the problem of transcription", 24.01.2019.
  • Bronk, Richard (European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science): "Uncertain futures and the role of imagination and narratives in economics", 13.03.2019.
  • Lagaay, Alice (Hamburg): "Process and Performance. On practices, formats and perspectives of art-as-research and science-as-art", 18.03.2019.
  • González, Garcia Macarena (Chile): "Emotional Literacy Agendas for Children. Mapping Emotional Repertories in Children's Literature", 27.06.2019.
  • Schäfer, Hilmar (HU Berlin): "Schreiben als Wissenspraxis", 05.10.2020.
  • Bachmann-Medick, Doris (Justus Liebig University Giessen): "Kulturelle Übersetzung - Eine Dreierbeziehung?", 26.04.2022.
  • Nachtergael, Magali (University of Bordeaux Montaigne): "Performing Texts, Staging Literature: Voices & Bodies in Motion", 13.10.2022
  • Illouz, Eva (Hebrew University Jerusalem/EHESS Paris): "Emotions as commodities. How authenticity became hijacked by consumer culture", 29.3.2023

Lectures

Bletsas, Marina

Arguing with Proverbs. Paremiological Argumentation in Italian and French Public Discourse, for: 3rd European Conference on Argumentation, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 26.06.2019.

Tempus in Italian Constitutional Court Rulings, for: XXXVI Romance Studies Conference, University of Kassel, 01.10.2019.

The Metaphorical Conceptualization of WOMAN in Italian Legislative Discourse, for: RaAM 2019 Specialized Seminar, Université de Liège, 17.05.2019.

Introduction for the students, for: Interdisciplinary lecture series "Kulturthema: Verwandtschaften", 5.10.2020. (together with Mario Huber)

Felfe, Robert

"...like a person groping around in the dark." Bernard Palissy: potter, researcher, author. Keynote/evening lecture: Spring School: "Practices of Knowledge", ZfKW University of Graz, 01.03.2021 (online)

Summary and outlook. DFG Workshop: Order and aura of courtly things, Residenzschloss Dresden, 15-17.07.2021

Dimensions of the Maritime in the Topocosmos of Early Modern Kunstkammern. Conference: "The Sea and the Chamber. Maritime themes in art chambers of the early modern period", Augsburg 05-07.11.2021

Atlantis around 1850: Traces and speculations on the history of life. Guest lecture research colloquium "meteora", University of Trier, 10.12.2021 (online)

Mehrfache Bildursachen - Problem und Versprechen bildnerischer Praktiken in Frühneuzeit und Moderne, for: Lecture series: KunstMachen. Practices, Procedures, Cognitive Processes, Institute for Art Studies and Historical Urban Studies, TU Berlin, 16.12.2020.

Perspectiva. An Art of Unfolding and Spatial Action?, Workshop: Projection and Design. On the archaeology of arrows and arrow signs, IFK Vienna, 27.01.2022.

Ernst Kris and the "Stil rustique", Evening Lecture/Vischer Lectures, University of Stuttgart, 01.02.2022.

Co-operative Art techniques - before and at the Beginning of Modernity, Opening lecture Graduate Conference: The Automated Condition. Manifestations and Narratives in Art, Literature and Culture, Conference, Department of German, Princeton University and Center for Cultural Studies, University of Graz, 13.05.2022.

Gencarelli, Angela

The 'end of nature'. The extinction of species in contemporary literature and culture. Lecture series "Cultural theme: Animals", Graz. 6.12.2021.

Bestiaries of the modern age. Project presentation at the research colloquium of the Leibniz Center for Literary and Cultural Research, Berlin (online), 15.02.2021.

Literary zoo of modernity. Franz Blei's satirical re-foundation of the bestiary genre. Lecture on the occasion of the conference Franz Blei. Work - Network - Ideas, Brussels, 02.06.2022.

Opening lecture at the conference Doing Genre. Praxeological perspectives on genres and genre dynamics. Graz, 06.10.2022.

Gritzner, Karoline

Permanent crisis in Howard Barker's recent drama, for: Theatre of Crisis: Aesthetic Responses to a Cross-Sectional Condition, CDE (The German Society for Contemporary Drama in English), Bildungshaus Mariatrost, Graz, 21.06.2019.

Subjective dispossession in the theater of the immanent sublime, for: TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) Annual Conference, University of Exeter, 05.09.2019.

The Movement of the Other in the Writing Scenes of Hélène Cixous, for: Movement Scenarios 1800/2000. Theories and Writing Practices of Physical and Emotional Movement (Organization: Rita Rieger), Graz, 23.01.2020.

Recovering the claims of the sublime through theater's material mode of thinking, for: Research stay at the Centre for Performance Philosophy, University of Surrey (UK), 30.01.2020.

Thinking through theater: materiality, expression, the sublime, for: Thinking through Art: aesthetic perspectives on contemporary practices (organization: Karoline Gritzner), Graz, 06.11.2020. (Postponed to 07.05.2021)

"Thinking Through Theatre: Materiality, Expression, the Sublime. On Castellucci's La Vita Nuova (2018)", for: Online Workshop "Thinking Through Art. Aesthetic Perspectives on Contemporary Practices", 07.05.2021.

Huber, Mario

Introduction to: TextVerHandlungen: Literary Studies praxeologically, for: Graduate Symposium, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 24.01.2019. (together with Alena Heinritz and Dimitri Smirnov)

One goes into the archive, the other does not. Praxeological Reflections on the "Concept" of Cabaret and the Collections of the Austrian Cabaret Archive, for: Int. conference Logics of the Collection. The archive between strategy and momentum, StifterHaus, Linz, 24.04.2019.

Introduction for the students, for: Interdisciplinary lecture series "Kulturthema: Verwandtschaften", 5.10.2020. (together with Marina Bletsas)

Snapshot and Wage Table. The Importance of Facts in the Reports of Hugo von Kupffer (1853-1928) and Max Winter (1870-1937). International Conference: Writing Facts, Nov. 10-12, 2021, University of Graz, Nov. 12, 2021.

Melancholy in the cabaret archive. For: Stored feelings. Affects in the Archive, Literaturhaus, Krems an der Donau, 13.10.2022.

Gender and humor. Introduction. For: Gender and Humor, University of Graz, 11.11.2022.

Knaller, Susanne

Creativity, for: Lecture series Kulturthema: Kreativität, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 14.10.2019. (together with Stephan Moebius)

Aesthetic Realisms in the Modern Age. Proposals for a current definition, Keynote for: Gustave Courbet and the Narratives of Modern Painting, Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich Carl Friedrich von Siemens Stiftung, 27.03.2019.

Concepts of Reality in Modernity, for: Digital Day, Austrian Society for the Study of the 18th Century, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 08.01.2019.

When Law meets Literature: The Emotional Value of Literary Texts, for: The Values of Literature, Justus Liebig University Giessen, University of Giessen, 21.06.2019.

Kultur-Text-Handlung, Symposium PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Giessen, 27.01.2020. (together with Gero von Roedern and Riccardo Schöfberger)

Liminal Texts, Workshop Twilight Zones. Liminal Texts 1880-1940, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 20.10.2020.

The seeing of seeing. Images in Modernity, University of Graz. 23.11.2022.

Moebius, Stephan

Creativity, for: Lecture series Cultural Theme: Creativity, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 14.10.2019. (together with Susanne Knaller)

Sociological turning points: The Transformations of the Sociological Field in Germany since the 1980s, for: '1989' - Soziologiegeschichte einer Wendezeit" of the Section History of Sociology of the German Sociological Association (DGS) at the DGS Sociology Congress "Great Transformations", Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 25. 09. 2019.

History of sociology around 1990, for: Research colloquium "Gesellschaftsanalyse und Gesellschaftskritik", Institute of Sociology, LMU Munich, 22.01.2020.

Writing Social Facts: Between 'petit fait-alisme' and Constructivism, for: International Conference: Writing Facts, Nov. 10-12, 2021, University of Graz, 11.11.2021. (together with Martin Strauss)

Laudatory speech for Hans Joas, on the occasion of the awarding of the prize for an outstanding scientific life's work to Hans Joas at the 41st Congress of the German Sociological Association in Bielefeld, Sept. 30, 2022.

Pichler, Doris

The concept of text between the disciplines, for: TextVerHandlungen, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 25.01.2019.

The memory of justice: beyond the Nuremberg trials or the thin line of justice, for: Making Justice Visible: The Mediatization of the World War II War Crimes Trials, German Historical Institute Warsaw, Vilnius Branch, 26.09.2019.

Rieger, Rita

Escribanos - Poetas - Marisabidillas: 'Escenas de escritura' en "Los españoles pintados por sí mismos", for: XXII Congreso de la Asociación alemana de hispanistas, Sección Cult_4: Prensa y literatura en el mundo hispanohablante (siglos XVIII al XXI) 28.-30.03.2019, Freie Universität Berlin, 28.03.2019.

Text constellations and movement scenarios. Methodological reflections on the analysis of dance texts, for: Spring School in the framework of the DP "History and Sociology of Social and Cultural Sciences" on the topic "Arts of Science - Science of Arts" (18.3.-21.3.2019), University of Graz, 20.03.2019.

The Mediterranean In and By Literature. Towards a Conceptualization of Mediterranean Literature through (trans)cultural writing practices, for: A Sea of Literatures: Theories, Concepts, and Methods of Mediterranean Literary Studies, 10-12.10.2019, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 11.10.2019.

Violence in Dance: Jean-George Noverre's dance-aesthetic reflections in "Lettres sur la Danse" (1760/1803 and 1804) on "Médée", for: 10th Public Interdisciplinary Theatre Workshop Graz: Spaces of Action and Visualization of Violence and Death in Ancient and Modern Theatre, 25-26.06.2020, Karl-Franzens-University Graz. (postponed)

Collaborative authorship. Artistic-scientific writing in Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's and Bojana Cvejić's "A Choreographer's Score", for: Schreiben, Text und Autorschaft - Zur Thematisierung, Inszenierung und Reflexion von Schreibprozessen in ausgewählten Medien und historischen Selbstzeugnissen, 26.-28.02.2020, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, 28.02.2020.

Methodological considerations on the analysis of movement discourses of modernity, for: Interdisciplinary symposium: Bewegungsszenarien 1800/2000. theories and writing practices of physical and emotional movement, 23-24.01.2020, Karl-Franzens-University Graz, 23.01.2020.

Réécriture visuelle des textes littéraires et poétiques dans les programs de ballet de Jean-Georges Noverre, for: Écrire la danse et danser l'écrit - Écrivains, danseurs et chorégraphes entre les arts (Section 11 of the XII. Kongress des Frankoromanistenverbands "Entscheidungswege - Au carrefour des idées"), 23.-26.09.2020, University of Vienna. (Francoromanist conference canceled, section 11 postponed)

Of queens, bees and drones. Alternative family concepts in Miguel de Unamuno's "La tía Tula", for: International Conference: Fragile Marriages. Alternative Conceptualizations of Sociality in Partnerships in Romania around 1900, 1-3 Dec. 2021, University of Vienna, 01.12.2021.

Iterative Modes of Writing Facts in Louis de Cahusac's "La Danse ancienne et moderne ou Traité historique de la danse", for: International Conference: Writing Facts, Nov. 10-12, 2021, University of Graz, Nov. 12, 2021.

Paul Valéry: 'Ego scriptor'. Schreiben im Spannungsfeld von Lust und Kalkül, for: Forms, Practices, Dynamics of Literary Writing. Perspektiven einer diachronen Schreibforschung vom Spätmittelalter bis zur klassischen Moderne, 06.-08.10.2021, University of Osnabrück, 08.10.2021.

Jean-Georges Noverre et l'écriture de la danse: Une relation complexe entre la chorégraphie, les programs de ballets et l'écriture des "Lettres sur la Danse et sur les Ballets", for: Écrire la danse et danser l'écrit. Écrivains, danseurs et chorégraphes entre les arts. Writers, dancers and choreographers between the arts. International conference, June 14-16, 2021, University of Augsburg, 14.06.2021.

Genre-constitutive functions of writing in 18th century dance theories. Lecture for: Doing Genre. Praxeological Perspectives on Genres & Genre Dynamics, October 6-7, 2022, University of Graz, October 6, 2022.

Violence in dance. Jean-Georges Noverre's dance-aesthetic reflections in Lettres sur la Danse (1760 and 1803/1804) on Médée. Lecture for: 10th Public Interdisciplinary Theatre Workshop Graz: Spaces of Action and Visualization of Violence and Death in Ancient and Modern Theatre, 30.06.-1.07.2022, University of Graz, 01.07.2022.

Medea's revenge. Emotion- and representation-theoretical considerations on forms of staging hatred in Corneille's tragedy and Noverre's tragic ballet, for: Feindschaft - Verachtung: Inszenierungsformen des Hasses im Drama (1600-1800), Institute for General and Comparative Literature, Johann Wolfang Goethe University Frankfurt, March 16-17, 2023.

L'œuvre comme application et son potentiel de transformation chez Paul Valéry: des Cahiers à Poésie et pensée abstraite, for : Poétique de l'incomplétude, Plurielles, University of Bordeaux Montaigne, 06.-07.04.2023.

Time-spaces of revenge in Noverre's tragic ballet The Avenged Agamemnon, for: 11th Public Interdisciplinary Theater Workshop Graz: Stagings of Revenge and Spaces of Nonviolence in Ancient and Modern Theater, University of Graz, 22-23/06/2023.

von Roedern, Gero

National Socialism, Language and Reality. An Exploration of Ego-documents, for: Symposium PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Giessen, 27.01.2020.

Children, siblings, relatives. Roles and Functions in Letters from the National Socialist Era. Graz (online). 11.01.2021.

On the state of research? Letters from the Reich Labor Service. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon (online). 20.01.2021.

Catholicism, youth and masculinity in the diary of Bernhard Tölle (1942). Università degli Studi di Bergamo (online). 20.05.2021.

'Fragt denn da ein junger Mensch nach' - Does a young person ask about that. Grappling with life in the Reichsarbeitsdienst. A diary from 1942. Vienna (online). 11.06.2021.

Writing 'Volksgemeinschaft' into Fact. Letters from the Reich Labor Service. International Conference: Writing Facts, Nov. 10-12, 2021, University of Graz. 11.11.2021.

"Staying in the fairway"? Martha Kraicziczek in the RAD in Pomerania in 1943. Lecture for: European PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies, 5th Symposium, Coventry, 10.02.2022.

In Zwischenräume - Theoretical considerations on spatial constellations in letters from the RAD. Lecture for: European PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies, 6th Symposium, Stockholm, 20.05.2022.

Self-Motivation in Times of Trouble? Reading Letters from National Socialist Organizations from 1936 and 1942. Lecture for: European PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies, Final Conference, 26.10.-28.10.2022, Rauischholzhausen, 27.10.2022.

Schöfberger, Riccardo

Kultur-Text-Handlung, Symposium PhDnet Literary and Cultural Studies, University of Giessen, 27.01.2020.

"I didn't want a used me". Father-son relationships and masculinities in selected works of contemporary Austrian and Italian literature, for: Interdisciplinary lecture series "Kulturthema: Verwandtschaften", WS 2020/21, University of Graz, 23.11.2020.

"Because they are all sensual with you". Male Alterity in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's 'Katzelmacher' (1968/69) and Pier Paolo Pasolini's 'Teorema' (1968), for: Gender Forum, University of Graz, 11-13.03.2020. (Postponed)

'Solid as Zuckärwürfäl, liquid as Zuckärwassär'. Male identities in Marco Missiroli's 'Atti osceni in luogo privato' and Robert Menasse's 'Don Juan de la Mancha'. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisboa (online). 11.02.2021.

'Out of Time to Be the First New Men'. Representations of Fluid Masculinity in Late 1970s Bologna. University of Pennsylvania (online). 12.03.2021.

Strange Heroes, Lonely Secret Agents: Male Figures in Selected Works by Clemens J. Setzʼ. House of Literature Graz (online). 16.04.2021.

'Non faremo più in tempo a essere i primi uomini nuovi': Representations of fluid masculinity in Italian works of the late 1970s. Università degli Studi di Bergamo (online). 21.05.2021.

Rewriting Gender? (De)constructions of Masculinities Between Scientific Discourse and Literary Practice. International Conference: Writing Facts, Nov. 10-12, 2021, University of Graz. 11.11.2021.

'Masculinity' from a Comparative Perspective. University of Gießen. 13.12.2021.

1968-1975: Anatomy = destiny? Feminist (de)constructions of gender-related 'facts'. University of Warwick. 10.02.2022.

Fluid Restoration, Firm Innovation. Dichotomies of 'male domination' (1984-1993). University of Stockholm. 19.05.2022.

Troubled Men in a Time of Troubling Men: The 'Crisis of Masculinity' at the Turn of the Millennium. University of Giessen. 27.10.2022.

Boyish Fathers, Outgrown Sons: The Crisis of (Anti)Authoritarian Masculinities in Italian and German Literature around 2010. German-Italian Center for European Dialogue. 14.12.2022.

Schubert, Mona

Open Circuits. Conceptual Art and the Agency of the Camera, The Automated Condition. Manifestations and Narratives in Art, Literature and Culture, Conference, Department of German, Princeton University and Center for Cultural Studies, University of Graz, 13.05.2022.

Struhal, Eva

Idea, acutezza, ingegno: Early modern concepts of creativity in comparison, for: Interdisciplinary lecture series on the cultural topic: CREATIVITY, University of Graz, 25.11.2019.

'Precetti': Thoughts on the Relationship between Artistic Theory and Practice from Vasari to Baldinucci, for: Vasari, Armenini, Zuccari. Intelligenza, Giudizio, Disegno, Rome, Accademia di San Luca, 12.12.2019.

Statement: Forms of thinking the new in Venetian art literature of the Cinque and Seicento, for: Multitemporalities, Heterochronies, Novantiquitates, FU Berlin, 04.04.2019.

Lecture Series

  • Cultural topic: Creativity. Interdisciplinary lecture series (WS 2019/20).
  • Cultural topic: Relationships. Interdisciplinary lecture series (WS 2020/21).
  • Cultural topic: ANIMALS - beasts, relatives, cultural actors?  Interdisciplinary lecture series (WS 2021/22).

Doctoral Colloquia and Excursions

  • PhD Workshop "Mind Games: Perception in Words, Worlds, and Frames" (in cooperation with the focus on perception, funded by the Doctoral Academy, 18.06.2024)
  • Susanne Knaller/Günther Höfler: Scientific excursion to Venice "Italian Travels. Mythos Venedig - eine kulturwissenschaftliche Spurensuche" (18.05.-24.05.2019).
  • Workshop seminar by Christian Schärf (Hildesheim): Creative writing (autography/autobiography) (November 2019 and January 2020).

Promotion of Young Talent

  • Symposium European PhDnet, University of Graz, 22-24.10.2018. (Susanne Knaller)
  • Spring School as part of the DP "History and Sociology of Social and Cultural Sciences" on the topic "Arts of Science - Science of Arts" (18.03.-21.03.2019). (Stephan Moebius and Susanne Knaller)
  • Spring School "Practices of Knowledge", as part of the doctoral program "Sociology and History of Social and Cultural Studies" (cooperation with the Institute of Sociology), University of Graz, 01.-03.03.2021. (Stephan Moebius and Susanne Knaller)
  • Spring School "National Traditions in the Social and Cultural Sciences", as part of the doctoral program "Sociology and History of the Social and Cultural Sciences" (cooperation with the Institute of Sociology), University of Graz, 25.-26.04.2022).
  • Symposium of the European PhDnet "Literary and Cultural Studies" (09.-11.05.2024)

Science to Public

Huber, Mario (ed.): GESAMTkabarettWERK: A loose series of texts that illuminate the entire cabaret scene - with contributions from the scene. Graz. Austrian Cabaret Archive. 2022 (together with Iris Fink)

Further Conferences at a Glance