Further Activities of the Centre

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

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.

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)