Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History
The IKT researches how societies deal with their past on a local, national, and global level, how collective memory emerges, and how identities, practices, and norms are generated through knowledge production. Anti-Semitism is particularly studied in its contemporary manifestations.
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The IKT researches how societies deal with their past on a local, national, and global level, how collective memory emerges, and how identities, practices, and norms are generated through knowledge production. Anti-Semitism is particularly studied in its contemporary manifestations.

Events

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Thu, 15.06.2023

FORSCHUNGSPROJEKT - ANATOMIE EINER METROPOLE

Pionierjahre des Bauens mit Eisenbeton, Wien 1890-1918, jour fixe culture studies

Sat, 24.06.2023

Gottfried von Einem und Lotte Ingrisch Fest Melos und Logos

In Kooperation von Internationaler Gottfried von Einem und Lotte Ingrisch Gesellschaft, Gesellschaft der Freunde der ÖAW und…

Wed, 28.06.2023

Das Wiener Kärtnertortheater 1728-1748

Lecture and book presentation with live music, in cooperation with the Austrian Music Society

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(Web) Exhibitions

UPCOMING

19.04.2022

Online exhibition. Stephansdom and Pummerin

Aufstieg zweier Nationalikonen

Thu, 15.10. – 31.05.2023

The Vienna Model of Radicalisation. Austria and the Shoah

outdoor exhibiton Vienna, Heldenplatz, October 15, 2021 to April 8, 2022; then at Pater-Pius-Platz in Vienna-Floridsdorf until May 31, 2023.

02.09.2020

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.

Recent publications

Neuerscheinungen

More recent publications

Attila Bombitz; Christoph Leitgeb; Lukas Marcel Vosicky (Hg.)

Frachtbriefe

Zur Rezeption österreichischer Gegenwartsliteratur in Mitteleuropa

Peter Stachel (ed.)

Carl Goldmark

Leben-Werk-Rezeption

Annarita Franza, Johannes Mattes, Giovanni Pratesi (eds.)

COLLECTIO MINERALIUM

The catalog of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold II’s mineralogical collection

LII/2021, 2. sub volume

SPRACHKUNST

A journal for literary studies

Klaus Berg (†), Annette Langenhorst, Gabriele Davidsmeyer (eds.)

“A Lidl und a Tanc” oder “There’s no Business like Showbusiness”

Eine Dokumentation der konzessionierten professionellen Theater im Warschauer Ghetto

Andrea Sommer-Mathis, Reinhard Strohm (eds.)

Das Wiener Kärntnertortheater 1728–1748

Vom städtischen Schauspielhaus zum höfischen Opernbetrieb

Tim Corbett, Herausgeber

Special Issue: Empire & (Post )Colonialism in Austrian Studies

Journal of Austrian Studies 56/2 (Summer 2023)

The Institute in the media

More Media Reports

Salzburger Nachrichten 02/08/23

Historikerin über geschützte NS-Villen: "Es spielt keine Rolle, ob der Ort öffentlich ist". Salzburger Nachrichten

scilog 02/06/23

Die Donau im Erzählfluss

der Standard 01/26/23

ÖAW startet Forschungsschwerpunkt zu Antisemitismus

Kurier 01/26/23

Wie Forscher dem Antisemitismus jetzt zu Leibe rücken wollen

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