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    Queerness in Ancient Egypt
    17.07.2023
    Archaeological Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) , works on gender archaeology which deals with sexuality and gender roles in prehistoric and ancient societies. Researching Gender in Antiquity In your opinion, what makes gender archaeology so fascinating? Uroš Matić: The question of gender and sexuality is very relevant today. That’s why it is important to look at the past and expose power relations between the different genders. Throughout history we can ...
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    Byzantium was for centuries a hub for migration
    03.06.2020
    The entire history of mankind is a history of migration. For thousands of years, people have left their homes to set foot elsewhere, whether forced or voluntary. This is evidenced by the historical migrations of the 19 th and 20 th centuries as well as the so-called "Migration Period" in Western Europe from the 4 th to 6 th centuries. What is less well known is that, between the 4 th and the 15 th century, the Byzantine Empire was a central hub for mobility between the three ...
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    Summer School: Sprache als philosophisches und religiöses Instrument in Südasien
    07.07.2025
    Das Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismuskunde der Universität Wien und das Institut für Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der ÖAW laden zur "2025 Eurasia Summer Academy – Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia" ein, einem einwöchigen Intensivkurs, der sich den vielfältigen Rollen der Sprache in den philosophischen und religiösen Traditionen Südasiens widmet: Sprache als Kommunikationsmittel, als spirituelles Instrument, als Mittel ...
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    Summer School: Mantras zwischen Sprache, Ritual und Materialität
    06.07.2026
    zueinander? Das sind einige Fragen der Mantra-Forschung, die bei der "2026 Eurasia Summer Academy – Vienna Summer School on the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia" im Zentrum stehen. Die Summer School wird vom Institut für Kulturgeschichte und Geistesgeschichte Asiens der ÖAW und dem Institut für Südasien-, Tibet- und Buddhismusstudien der Universität Wien veranstaltet und wird als EurAsia Summer Academy des Exzellenzclusters "Eurasian Transformations" angeboten. Die ...
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    Die Marie Curies des Mittelmeers
    21.01.2025
    Molecular Plant Biology (GMI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Stephan Kloos | Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Katharina Wessely | Entrepreneur and independent researcher James Jennings | University of Graz, Chair of the Marie Curie Alumni Association (MCAA) Austria Chapter Silvia Hufnagel | The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies and The Institute for Medieval Research (IMAFO) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences ...
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    HOFBURG VIENNA´S ILLUSTRIOUS 800-YEAR HISTORY EXPLORED
    27.09.2018
    humanities research projects of the Second Republic, around 40 scientists from diverse institutions and disciplines under the auspices of the Institute of History of Art and Musicology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) have dedicated themselves to the nearly 800-year history of the Vienna Hofburg, focusing on its architectural history. Using state-of-the-art scientific methods, they uncovered new details of the medieval origins of the residence as a rectangular ...
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    Award for OeAW honorary member Gerald Holton
    21.05.2021
    Holton, who grew up in Vienna and was driven out by the National Socialists, receives the award for "seminal contributions to the history of 19 th and 20 th century science in which he has shown a special sensitivity to cultural, philosophical, and sociological and gender contexts". Seminal contributions to the history of science Holton, Professor of Physics and History of Science at Harvard University, developed "a reasoned analysis of the complex phenomenon of ...
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    Young Academy Science Day 2024
    26.09.2024
    Talks by the Young Academy (in English) Katharina Wiedlack: Gender, Disability and Questions of Standardization, Categorization and Measurability from a Cultural Studies Perspective Ljiljana Radonić: “Small-Scale Holocausts”, the Holocaust/Genocide Template and Victim Competition Peter Szmolyan: Dynamics of Multi-Scale Systems Nina Klimburg-Witjes: Scale-Jumping on/off Earth or: How to Follow a Rocket Around Anaïs Angelo: How Many Women are Enough? Postcolonial Insights on ...
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    Young Academy Science Day 2024
    26.09.2024
    Talks by the Young Academy (in English) Katharina Wiedlack: Gender, Disability and Questions of Standardization, Categorization and Measurability from a Cultural Studies Perspective Ljiljana Radonić: “Small-Scale Holocausts”, the Holocaust/Genocide Template and Victim Competition Peter Szmolyan: Dynamics of Multi-Scale Systems Nina Klimburg-Witjes: Scale-Jumping on/off Earth or: How to Follow a Rocket Around Anaïs Angelo: How Many Women are Enough? Postcolonial Insights on ...
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    Photography as Collective Memory
    26.05.2025
    my work evolved into something more curatorial—it became a collaborative process of building a visual history. My path as a photographer began differently. When I first went to Kurdistan in 1991, it was simply to take photographs. But over time, my work evolved into something more curatorial—it became a collaborative process of building a visual history. The book Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History marked that transition. It wasn’t just documentation anymore; it became a way ...