Media

In alphabetical order

Here you will find a selection of media appearances by ifk Fellows and the ifk Director in print, audio and multi-media as well as the updated book trailers for our series "ifk lectures & translations" published by Turia + Kant (Vienna/Berlin).The "ifk Materials" and "ifk Parabases" are partly out of print, but available in the ifk library. Please send inquiries to: losenicky@ifk.ac.at.

Talk Recordings

Maya Garcia: Erich von Stroheim & the Soviet Union. Unfulfilled Attractions

Erich von Stroheim’s consideration of a move to the USSR in 1934 remains an intriguing and mysterious detail in the Vienna-born American filmmaker’s biography. His meeting with Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein in 1930, which laid the groundwork for the considered relocation, is also a little-studied curiosity.
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2026

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Jennifer Portschy: Ties That Bind. Mothers & Children in Early Medieval Societies

Childhood, motherhood, and parent-child relationships are key social dynamics that fundamentally shape the structure and values of any society. They influence cultural norms and behavioral patterns and may also leave tangible traces in the archaeological record.
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2026

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Sofie Kronberger: Sensing Bodies, Reading Minds. Re-Configurations of Hearing & Listening under Data Capitalism

Understandings of the nature and use of hearing itself have never been constant, but have always been shaped by socio-political, cultural and economic factors. Amidst ongoing hypes of »more-than-human-knowledge«, AI and Big Data now promise to again shift biomedical understandings of hearing.
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2026

ifk Lectures & Translations

Den König fallen lassen. Versuch über die Nebenfigur

Stefanie Diekmann
Sie sind sehr viele, sie sind überall, sie haben unterschiedliche Gestalten und Funktionen, ihre Auftritte finden unter verschiedenen Vorzeichen statt, und ihre Verweildauer kann kurz oder erstaunlich lang sein. Was die Nebenfiguren bei aller Verschiedenheit indes gemeinsam haben, ist ihr paradoxaler Status im Feld der Wahrnehmung: bei voller Sichtbarkeit weitgehend unbeachtet zu bleiben. Was eine Beachtung der Nebenfigur bedeuten könnte, wie sie sich bislang gestaltet hat, und von welchen Prämissen und Aporien die Versuche gekennzeichnet sind, ihre Bedeutung zu würdigen, ist die zentrale Frage dieses Essays, der entsprechende Auftritte im Spektrum von Film, Tanz, Theater, Serie und Bildender Kunst untersucht.

Verlag: Turia & Kant
Weitere Informationen zu Stefanie Diekmann
2026

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Raymond Blankenhorn: A Delicate Task. Theaters of Diplomacy in Austria

Theater and diplomacy have always had something in common: an ambiguous relationship to ›truth‹. This lecture explores the entangled histories of theater and diplomacy over the course of the long 19th century in Vienna, a city on whose cultural and political stages these twin arts of representation came increasingly to mirror and distort one another.
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2026

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Ali Fawad: Antebellum to Postbellum. Evolution of Female Fiction in Pakistan, Iran, Afghanistan

How do Muslim female writers dispute and localize the rise of religious, cultural, and political conservatism? This talk examines the literary responses of female Muslim authors from Pakistan, Iran, and Afghanistan during and after the politicoreligious upheavals of the late 20th century.
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2026

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Malachi Hacohen: The Future of Jewish History. Catastrophe, Diaspora, and Exile

Recent Critiques of Zionism and Israel have highlighted the diasporic character of the Jewish people: the Jews have been a Diaspora for over 2500 years. Their current acceptance as citizens in nation states is a post-Holocaust exception, a blip on the historical screen. So is also the State of Israel.
Weitere Informationen zu Malachi Haim Hacohen
2026

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Juan Rivera: Pluriverse and Relationality from an Andean Ethnographic Perspective

How does the adoption of concepts such as good living and Pachamama—earth being present as a cosmological figure—allow for an understanding of those worlds that live partly outside the separation between nature and humanity? Do they make it possible to think beyond the episteme of modernity? How can we find and describe those communal foundations of the social life of marginalized Indigenous peoples without the postulate of the existence of a homogeneous block of relational and nondualist worlds?
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2026

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Mariya Donska: Transition als Translation. Oleksandr Averbuchs dekoloniale Praktiken

Die Lecture widmet sich den dekolonialen Praktiken Oleksandr Averbuchs, der als Autor, Übersetzer und Wissenschaftler Transitionen durchläuft, Zwischenräume und Verflechtungen schafft: vom Russischen hin zum Ukrainischen und zu intern mehrsprachigen Texten, zwischen Ländern und (Kultur-)Räumen sowie zwischen fiktionalem und dokumentarischem Schreiben.
Weitere Informationen zu Mariya Donska
2026

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Olga V. Solovieva: A Spiral of History. Iosif Trumpeldor, Nikolai Russel, Kōtoku Shūsui and the ›Hamadera Moment‹

The lecture follows the biographical and ideological trajectories of the Russian-Belarusian revolutionary Populist Nikolai Sudzilovski-Russel, the Japanese anarchist Kōtoku Shūsui, and the early Zionist activist Iosif Trumpeldor.
Weitere Informationen zu Olga V. Solovieva
2026

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Lhoussain Simour: Archives Through a Decolonial Lens. Moroccan Performers and Cultural Encounters in European Circuses (1820–1950)

This lecture presents a project exploring archival material through the lens of postcolonial and decolonial perspectives, focusing on Moroccan traveling troupes of performers in Europe from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
Weitere Informationen zu Lhoussain Simour
2026

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Armin Bergmeier: The Pastiche Past. Society, Heritage, and Place in the Premodern Period

This talk explores the potential of critical heritage studies to question ownership and the relationship between identity and material culture in the premodern Mediterranean as well as alternative ways of conceiving of heritage linked to place and geography.
Weitere Informationen zu Armin Bergmeier
2026

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Heike Paul: Vom gelungenen Verzicht

Verzicht hat oft einen schlechten Ruf. Obwohl er eine freiwillige Entsagung beschreibt, gilt er landläufig als aufoktroyierte »Spaßbremse« und wird häufig zum Gegenbegriff von Lebensfreude und Genussfähigkeit stilisiert – gerade auch in der Politik. Dabei ist Verzicht ein Thema, dem – allen Verdrängungsleistungen zum Trotz – existenzielle Bedeutung bei der Gestaltung unserer Zukunft zukommt.
Weitere Informationen zu Heike Paul
2026

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Catherine Raya Polishchuk: The Livability Apparatus. Establishing Vienna as Most Livable in the World

Barely anyone living in Vienna remains unfamiliar with the narrative that the city affords a comfortable lifestyle. Public transportation, cleanliness, and medical care are said to contribute to that liveable life one allegedly has in Vienna. International indexes affirm this image by placing Vienna at the top of the list of most liveable cities worldwide.
Weitere Informationen zu Catherine Raya Polishchuk
2026

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Lena Dege-Barron: Windparks in Südmexiko. Auswirkungen auf indigene Kinder und Möglichkeiten einer gerechteren Ausgestaltung

Der südmexikanische Isthmus von Tehuantepec ist ein international bekannter Ort für Windenergieinvestitionen im Zuge des Europäischen Green Deal. Die Region ist aufgrund einer Landenge zwischen dem Golf von Mexiko und dem Pazifik eine der windreichsten weltweit.
Weitere Informationen zu Lena Dege-Barron
2026

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Sophie Emilia Seidler: Persephone in the Time of Anorexia. Myth, Psychiatry, and Women’s Writing

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. Since the 1980s, these myths have been turned into a parable of eating disorders.
Weitere Informationen zu Sophie Emilia Seidler
2026

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Peter Gelderloos: From the Margins to the Future. Cultures that can Survive Eco-Apocalypse

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. With the crisis getting worse at an accelerating rate, there is a growing possibility that our current global civilization may collapse.
Weitere Informationen zu Peter Gelderloos
2026