Innsbruck Venues:
FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT BRENNER-ARCHIV im Georg-Trakl-Turm,
Josef-Hirn-Straße 5 (10. Stock)
HÖRSAAL 3 im Geiwi-Turm, Innrain 52d (EG)
Vienna Venues:
SEMINARRAUM 2 des ÖAW Institut für Iranistik, Georg-Coch-Platz 2, 1010 Wien (3. Stock)
HÖRSAAL 1 der UNIVIE Abteilung für Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft,
Sensengasse 3a, 1090 Wien
| Mon, 12 Oct 2026 Hörsaal 3 | ROBERT ROLLINGER (University of Innsbruck) Empires Through the Ages: Imperial Networks and Borderlands |
| Tue, 20 Oct 2026 FI Brenner-Archiv | JEHAN HILLEN (University of Innsbruck) Oil as a Medieval Weapon – The Mysterious Byzantine Liquid Fire |
| Tue, 3 Nov 2026 Seminarraum 2 | YAROSLAV HRYTSAK (Catholic University Lemberg) The Great Unknown/Silenced Groups: The Workers in the Oil Industry |
| Tue, 10 Nov 2026 Hörsaal 3 | ERICH KISTLER (University of Innsbruck) More than Oil. Grain Diplomacy in Multipolar Third-Century BCE Western Sicily |
| Tue, 24 Nov 2026 Hörsaal 3 | FLORIAN SCHWARZ (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Oil, Empire, Nation Building and a New World Order. The Poetics and Politics of Oil in Iran, 1908-1946 |
| Mon, 30 Nov 2026 Seminarraum 2 | ALIREZA FAKHRKONANDEH (University of Southampton) Towards a Poetics of the Pipelines: An Infrastructural Analysis of the Figure of the Pipeline |
| Tue, 15 Dec 2026 FI Brenner-Archiv | CHRISTINE FRANK (University of Innsbruck) On the Oil Trail: From Robert Musil’s Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften to Ingeborg Bachmann’s Franza Fragment |
| Tue, 12 Jan 2027 FI Brenner-Archiv | ALEXANDER ETKIND (Central European University) From Salt to Vodka to Oil: Resource Transitions in Russian Imperial History |
| Mon, 18 Jan 2027 Seminarraum 2 | MILAD ABEDI (University of Innsbruck) Black, Inflammable, and Mobile: Tracing New Persian naft ‘oil’ from Old Iranian Contact to Early New Persian (1000 BCE–900 CE) |
| Thu, 21 Jan 2027 Hörsaal 1 | GRAEME MACDONALD (University of Warwick) “Where the smoke and flames are.” Oil in World Literature |
