Postponed: Celebration for Academy Member Andre Gingrich

on the occasion of our Founding Director's retirement

Programme:

WELCOMING REMARKS

Oliver Jens Schmitt | President of the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Bert G. Fragner | former director of the Institute for Iranian Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Stephan Kloos | interim director of the Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Musical Interlude - Sonja Siegert

LAUDATORY ADDRESSES

Gabriele vom Bruck | Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS

University of London

The epistemological significance of time: doing anthropology on a mountain

Ulf Hannerz | Stockholm University, member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Austrian Academy of Sciences

In the Global Swirl: the Work of a Versatile Anthropologist

Musical Interlude - Noura Kamal and Mehmet Emir

LAUDATORY ADDRESSES

Christina Lutter | History Department, University of Vienna

Was mittelalterliche Gemeinschaften zusammenhält: Szenen einer interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit

Johann Heiss | Institute for Social Anthropology of the Austrian Academy of

Sciences

Remembrance and Transitions

Musical Interlude - Sonja Siegert

Wine Reception