Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History
The Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History is the OeAW’s only transdisciplinary basic research institution in the humanities, social and cultural sciences. Our fundamental research question is: How are collective memory and collective identities generated, communicated and represented through knowledge production, narrative and translation?
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The Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History is the OeAW’s only transdisciplinary basic research institution in the humanities, social and cultural sciences. Our fundamental research question is: How are collective memory and collective identities generated, communicated and represented through knowledge production, narrative and translation?

Events

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Wed, 11.01.2023

VWI goes to the IKT

Violeta Davoliūtė. The Holocaust Perpetrator in Local Memory. Case Studies from Lithuania in European Perspective

Thu, 23.02.2023

jour fixe Kulturwissenschaften

with Thomas Eder and Karoly Kokai - save the date

Thu, 16.03.2023

War Opa revolutionär?

Wie kamen Veteranen und ZeitzeugInnen in Wissenschaft und Unterricht in beiden Deutschlands? A jour fixe Culture Studies with…

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(Web) Exhibitions

Tue, 19.04.2022

Stephansdom und 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

The Institute in the media

More media reports

ORF 2 11/06/22

Novemberpogrome

Profil 11/04/22

Akademie der Wissenschaften: Immer ganz unpolitisch

ORF III 10/26/22

Der Nationalfeiertag und seine Geschichte

derStandard 10/26/22

Wiener Heldenplatz: Rufe nach Debatte über Umgestaltung

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