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    The Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History

    The Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the OeAW is a research facility of the humanities, combining basic research with innovative international theoretical approaches. Research is focused on the following key question: how are memory, identity and knowledge generated, represented and communicated within complex social and cultural constellations by means of narrative, staging and translation?

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The Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the OeAW is a research facility of the humanities, combining basic research with innovative international theoretical approaches. Research is focused on the following key question: how are memory, identity and knowledge generated, represented and communicated within complex social and cultural constellations by means of narrative, staging and translation?

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Events

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Mon, 19.04. – 21.04.2021

Überlebendenverbände

Conference (online) : Erinnerungsgemeinschaften und politische Akteure im Kalten Krieg

Thu, 22.04.2021

Evolution of early memory practices in post-genocide Rwanda (1994-2004)

jour fixe: discussing culture studies with David Mwambari (King’s College London)

Thu, 06.05.2021

Enlightenment and Statistics: Mitigation and Adaptation in Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy

Jour fixe Culture Studies with Tibor Bodnár-Király (Austrian Academy of Sciences)


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Exhibitions

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Thu, 03.09. – 15.11.2020

Letzte Orte vor der Deportation

Kleine Sperlgasse, Castellezgasse, Malzgasse. District Office Leopoldstadt, 1020 Vienna.

Wed, 02.09. – 02.09.2030

Trilingual ONLINE EXHIBITION - Divided Memory

Geteilte Erinnerungen - Rozdělené Vzpomínky - Rozdelené Spomienky, curated by Georg Traska

Thu, 20.08.2020

Online exhibition - Topography of the Shoa in the 18th district of Vienna

WÄHRING - Places and Fates. Curated by Eleonore Lappin-Eppel and Dieter J. Hecht.

Fri, 27.03.2020

Online Exhibition Schulgespräche. Junge Muslim*innen in Wien

curated by Georg Traska (IKT)

Recent publications

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Neuerscheinungen

Franz Leander Fillafer

Aufklärung habsburgisch

Staatsbildung, Wissenskultur und Geschichtspolitik in Zentraleuropa 1750-1850

Daniel Graziadei, Michael Rössner (eds.)

La narración entre lo fantástico y la posmodernidad

Adolfo Bioy Casares y Julio Cortázar

LI/2020, 2. sub volume

SPRACHKUNST

A journal for literary studies

Lászlo Levente Balogh & Christoph Leitgeb (Hg.)

Opfermythen in Zentraleuropa

Geschichte, Kulturwissenschaft, Literaturwissenschaft