ifk Friends

Association of Friends of the ifk International Research Centre for Cultural Studies

Following its establishment in 1992, the non-profit Association of the ifk International Research Center managed the ifk from its inception the following year until the Research Center’s integration into the University of Arts and Design Linz in early 2015.

During this integration, the organization was transformed into a “friends’ association”; its name was changed accordingly, and its function shifted from managing the Research Center to supporting its activities.

The main goals of this Association are the enrichment of cultural studies within the Austrian academic landscape, the promotion of research across national borders, and the support of young scholars.

 

Publications and projects supported by the association:

ifk Lectures & Translations >>
In the course of this year, the new volumes of our series «ifk Lectures & Translations» will be published by Turia + Kant (Vienna/Berlin). After Askese als Beruf  by Antonio Lucci (2019, translated by Federica Romanini), we now have: Träumende Schwestern by Magaly Tornay, Sich im Weltraum orientieren by Jörg Kreienbrock, Tod und Herrschaft von Mohammed A. Bamyeh (translated by Brita Pohl), Alles über das Fliegen by Nils Güttler, Molekularbiologie, Archäologie by Stefanie Samida, Kannibalogie by Melanie Strasser, Japonismen der Theorie von Wolfgang Hottner/Henning Trüper, Land ohne Übel by Hélène Clastres, nicht bewusst by Marie-Luise Angerer, Lesende Dämonen by Jakob Moser, Weltsprache ohne Worte by Günther Sandner and Spiel mit Einsatz by Anna Luhn.

Publication series »Schauplätze der Evidenz«
Volume 1: Black/White as Evidence, »With black and White you can keep more of a distance«
ed. by Monika Wagner, Helmut Lethen, Frankfurt/Main 2015.
Volume 2: Pointing to Reality. On the Problem of Evidence in Cultural Studies.
A Reader, ed. by Helmut Lethen, Ludwig Jäger, Albrecht Koschorke, Frankfurt/Main 2015.
Volume 3: Agon and Ares. The War and the Games, ed. by Ernst Strouhal, Frankfurt/Main 2016.
Volume 4: Auf Tuchfühlung. A History of Knowledge of the Sense of Touch
ed. by Karin Harrasser, Frankfurt/Main 2017 (spring).

 

Conferences and Fellows supported by MA7 and the association:

2023>>

Where are we now? Kulturwissenschaftlich arbeiten 1993–2043
14. –  16. June 2023

Tagung: Alltagsgeschichten von Flughäfen
29. –  31. March 2023

Furthermore, in 2023 the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna - MA7 - funded the essay podcast series with ifk alumni: »800 voices« as well as the opening exhibition for the 30th anniversary of the institute and the cultural studies laboratory.

 

Stadt Wien ifk Fellow: David Shankland
Projekt: »Fluidität und Transformation in der alevitischen Bewegung in Österreich«

Stadt Wien ifk Fellow: Lena Dražić
Projekt: »Turbo-Folk und place: Bedeutungszuschreibungen an ein globalisiertes Musikgenre in Wien und Belgrad«

 

2022>>

IFK_Live: Die Stärken der Schwäche. Gesellschaften in unruhigen Zeiten/The Virtues of Vulnerability
14.-16. December 2022

IFK_Live: Tagung und Nachtung: Situiert im Globalen. Konflikte, Kosten, Atmosphären
21. – 22. October 2022

IFK_Live: Verhandlungskunst. Praktiken der Diplomatie in der Literatur und den Künsten
18. – 20. May 2022

IFK_Live: Geben und Schenken. Gabenökonomie im Horizont der Digitalisierung
16. – 18. March 2022

 

Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Bettina Brandt
Projekt: Österreichische Flüchtlinge in den Vereinigten Staaten und das Schicksal der im Nationalsozialismus zurückgebliebenen älteren Generation 1938–1946

Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Aris Fioretos
Projekt: »Die dünnen Götter«, Roman

City of Vienna/IFK Fellow: Abigail Susik
Projekt: »Historical Urban Multilingualism in East Central Europe: Lodz around 1900

 

2021>>

IFK_Live: Radikale Imagination. Cornelius Castoriadis zum 100. Geburtstag
15. – 17. December 2021

Hermann Broch und die Österreichische Moderne
1. – 2. June2021

IFK_Live: Geben und Schenken: Gabenökonomie im Horizont der Digitalisierung
21.– 23. April 2021

 

Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Jan Fellerer
Project: »Historical Urban Multilingualism in East Central Europe: Łódź around 1900«

Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Esther Kilchmann
Projekt: »Sigmund Freud als Übersetzer. Praktiken des Wissenstransfers, der Kritik und der Mehrsprachigkeit«

 

2020>>

IFK_Live: Universalsprachen, Kunstsprachen, Plansprachen: Träume und Utopien von einer Welt ohne Übersetzung
18. – 20. November 2020

Conference: Coworking Materials. Für einen aktiven Materialismus
7.– 9. October 2020

IFK_Live Conference: Translating the Present: Science Fiction and our Futures
17. – 19. June 2020

Conference »California Dreaming: Richard Neutra and the Significance of Californian Modernity« – canceled
1.– 3. April 2020

Tagung »Andere Arbeit«
22. – 24. January 2020

 

Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Gabriele Brandstetter
Projekt: »Movement and Metaphor – Tropen und Defigurationen im zeitgenössischen Tanz«

Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Michael Jeismann
Projekt: »Rand und Mitte - die losen Enden der Welt«

Stadt Wien/IFK_Fellow: Bettina Brandt
Projekt: »Österreichische Flüchtlinge in den Vereinigten Staaten und das Schicksal der im Nationalsozialismus zurückgebliebenen älteren Generation 1938–1946«

 

2019>>

Projects kindly supported by MA 7/City of Vienna:

Conferences:
- Against Life, Against the World, Against Myself. Figures of negativity
- Huizinga Today. One Hundred Years of the Autumn of the Middle Ages
- Athens - Tokyo. The Japan of the Philosophers
- Canetti's Vienna. On the 25th anniversary of his death

 

City of Vienna/IFK_Urban Fellow: Mohammed Bamyeh

 

2018>>

- Projects kindly supported by MA 7/City of Vienna:

 

Conferences:
- Notation: Imagination and Translation
- Food and Migration- Translation in Medicine
- Edgar Zilsel: Geniereligion

City of Vienna/IFK_Urban Fellow: Sybille Krämer, Paul Weindling

 

2017>>

- Relaunch of the IFK_Website

- International Research Network BTWH (Berkeley/Tübingen/Vienna/Harvard)

 

Projects kindly supported by MA 7/City of Vienna:

 

Conferences:
- Utopian Visions and Visionary Art: Beethoven's "Spiritual Realm" Revisited.
- Invisible third parties? Translation Practices in Psychotherapy and Psychoana
- Momentary Recording - Snapshot: Smallest Unit of Time, Figure of Thought, Medial Practice
- Apocalypse and Politics. On the topicality of Jacob Taubes
- Lying to the Truth - Biography on the Threshold of Poetry and Truth

City of Vienna/IFK_Urban Fellow: Eve Blau, Birgit Mersmann

 

2016>>

- International Research Network BTWH (Berkeley/Tübingen/Vienna/Harvard)

- Projects kindly supported by MA 7/City of Vienna:

Conference:

- Red Vienna

 

City of Vienna/IFK_Urban Fellow: Aleida Assmann, Moishe Postone

 

2015>>

International Research Network BTWH (Berkeley/Tübingen/Vienna/Harvard)

Projects kindly supported by MA 7/City of Vienna:

Conferences:
- Liberation Footage
- Empire, Socialism and Jews
- Agon and Ares
- The Brilliant Quartet of the Prussian Council of State

 

City of Vienna/IFK_Urban Fellow: Karl Schlögel

 

Association

Association purpose according to statutes:
»The purpose of the association, whose activities are non-profit, is to promote interdisciplinary research as well as postgraduate training of young scholars in the field of cultural studies, and for this purpose supports a research center.«

 

Association Board:
Chairwoman: Dipl.-Kfm. Wilhelmine Goldmann
Vice Chairman: Dr. Ingo Zechner
Treasurer: Dr. Manfred Pittioni
Prof. Dr. Moritz Csáky
Prof. Dr. Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat
Prof. Dr. Gabriella Hauch
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arnold Schmidt

 

Auditors:
HR Mag. Dr. Roman Gröger
HRi.R. Hon.-Prof. Dr. Lorenz Mikoletzky

 

Managing Director:
Mag.a Viola Eichberger

 

Postal address:
Reichsratsstraße 17/DG
1010 Vienna
Austria

E-mail:
friends@ifk.ac.at

 

ZVR number: 519811694