HuK Forum
HuK-Forum
The aim of the HuK-Forum is to bring interested people at the University of Graz into dialogue with each other and, in particular, to facilitate access to the research network for people who are new to the University of Graz.
The HuK Forum takes place (unless otherwise stated) on Tuesdays from 18:00 to 19:30 at the Resowi, SZ 15.22, Building G, 2nd floor, Universitätsstraße 15, 8010 Graz.
Next events:
17.06.2025 “Disarmament as a peace strategy?” - Book presentation and discussion (Abstract)
- ATTENTION: Different room than usual: RESOWI, LS 15.02, Building C, first floor, Universitätsstraße 15, 8010 Graz
Sommer semester 2025
11.03.2025 “Thinking after Brexit: framing psychosocial and media environments in UK politics” Vortrag von Iain MacRury (Abstract)
08.04.2025 “People like us?’ Responses to Racialization and Othering in a New Immigration Context” Vortrag von Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky (Abstract)
06.05.2025 “Everyday life under German occupation: power, gender and space” lecture by Maria Fritsche (Abstract)
Winter semester 2024/25
22.10.2024 Against Affect and for Emotion, talk by Helena Flam, Universität Leipzig (Abstract)
12.11.2024 The Wo/Man Card? The US Election in Light of Gendered Culture Wars, talk by Julia Roth (Abstract)
ACHTUNG anderer Raum: HS 111.21 (Beethovenstr. 8, 2. Stock)!
14.01.2025 Who let the Docs out? - Field reports from doctoral students in the research network ‘Heterogeneity and Cohesion’ (Abstract)
19.03.2024 Life Unlimited: Legal, anthropological, and physical considerations on the human condition in Yugoslav literature, Lecture by Tatjana Petzer, Professor of Slavic Literary and Cultural Studies, Department of Slavic Studies, University of Graz(Abstract)
16.04.2024 Critical (Peace) Research at the University and in the Public Sphere, Lecture by Claudia Brunner, University of Klagenfurt(Abstract)
14.05.2024 Guest lecture by Univ.-Prof. Dr Ulrike Zartler (cooperation with GSU)
11.06.2024 Networking and end of the semester together in the HuK with snacks and drinks
17.10.2023 "Semesterwelcome - reunion and networking in the HuK with snacks and drinks"
21.11.2023 "Visualising left-behindness. How to study sensitive and hard-to-reach social phenomena?", talk by Ludmila Wladyniak, Assistant Professor at the Charles University, Faculty of Humanities and researcher at the Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences(Abstract)
12.12.2023 "Simulated Inequality: Social Policy and Distribution in the Focus of Agent-Based Analyses", organised by the Cluster Social Policy and Distribution(Abstract)
23.1.2024 "Abolish Property: Black Feminism Revisited", talk by Prof. Dr Sabine Bröck, University of Bremen(Abstract)
6.6.2023 "Climate Migration Fiction", talk byClaudia Sadowski-Smith, Professor of English and American Studies at Arizona State University(Abstract)
3.5.2023 "Challanges, Paradoxes and the Emotionality of Democracy", talk byNicolas Demertzis, Professor of Political Sociology and Communication, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens(Abstract)
25.4.2023 "What do we mean by social relevance of research?" Impulses from the research network Heterogeneity and Cohesion(Abstract)
18.4.2023 Book presentation: "Social cohesion in crisis. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Heterogeneity and Cohesion in Modern Societies", Keynote: Alexander Bogner, ÖAW, "Science and Democracy in Crisis" (Abstract)
21.3.2023 "Interdisciplinary work...but how?" Panel discussion on practical experiences, opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary work(abstract)
17.1.2023 "Who is speaking there? Multilingualism as a methodological challenge in qualitative research": Roundtable organised by the "Language and Plurality" cluster in cooperation with the "Migration" cluster(abstract)
6.12.2022"Lines of development in the care debate - care as work and the contributions of care ethics" organised by the clusters "Gender" and "Aging, Demography & Care"(abstract & flyer)
8.11.2022 "Stream, scroll, (re)tweet" - Cultural and Digital Capital as Indicators of Media Literacies in Croatia organised by the cluster "Media and their Counterpublics" (Abstract)
11.10.2022 "Western Hemispheric Studies: Inter-American Research and Teaching" organised by the cluster "The Americas" (Abstract)
3.5.2022: "You are not alone!"On the role of NGOs in the enforcement of anti-discrimination law: Assoc. Prof. Dr Emma Lantschner (Centre for South East European Studies) and Daniela Grabovac (Styrian Anti-Discrimination Agency) in conversation.(Abstract)
22.3.2022: "War in Ukraine: Panel discussion and debate" in cooperation with the Institute of Slavic Studies and the profile-building area "Dimensions of Europeanisation"(abstract)(event report)
15 March 2022: Keynote speeches and discussion on "Current distribution policy challenges" organised by the cluster 'Social Policy and Distribution' (Online)(Abstract)
6 Dec 2021: Guest lecture by Suzan Ilcan: "Syrian Experiences of Displacement and Precarious Living in Turkey" organised by the Cluster 'Human Rights, Democracy, Diversity and Gender (MDDG)'(Abstract)
30.11.2021: Prerecorded Lecture Screening (online): "Reflections on the Digital Turn: Ethics, Algorithms, and Archives" (Sharon Block, University of California-Irvine) & Live Q&A Session with Sharon Block (Cluster 'Media and their Counterpublics') (Abstract)
9.11.2021: Keynote speech by Christiane Berth on "Food and Revolution. Fighting Hunger in Nicaragua, 1960-1993" (Cluster 'Political Cultures and Systems') (Abstract)
19.10.2021: Guest lecture and panel discussion by Sandra Torres on "Caring democracy: the role that theoretically-astute understandings of ethnicity and race must play" as part of the "2nd Interdisciplinary Doctoral Symposium Aging and Care. Special Issue: Migration " of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Aging and Care Research and the clusters "Aging, Demography and Care" and "Migration"(Abstract)
22 June 2021: "¡No pasarán! - They shall not pass! Recent studies on communication in the Spanish Civil War" (Cluster "Language and Plurality")(Abstract)
8.6.2021: "Auf den Spuren des Gender Pay Gap" Presentation of the project 'Gender Pay Gap' in the framework of the Elisabeth-List-Fellowship-Programme for Gender Research (Cluster "Social Policy and Distribution") (Abstract)
4.5.2021: Cluster Gender - Book presentations (Abstract)
20 April 2021: Keynote speech by Sabine Haring-Mosbacher and Karin Scaria-Braunstein: "Heterogeneity and Cohesion in the Corona Pandemic" (Abstract)
9 March 2021: "Western Hemispheric Studies: Inter-American Research and Teaching" (Christian Cwik, Roberta Maierhofer, Barbara Ratzenböck) (Abstract)
1.12.2020: Presentation of the anthology "un_übersetzt! The promise of translation and its dark sides" by the interdisciplinary working group on translation concepts (Cluster ' Language and Plurality')
17/11/2020: Presentation of the cluster 'Media and their counter-publics' (Silvia Schultermandl & Zorica Siročić)
10.11.2020: Presentation of the anthology "Foreign Countries of Old Age: East and Southeast European Perspectives on Aging" by Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl and Oana Hergenröther and introduction of the newly appointed Professor of Health Care Ethics, Martina Schmidhuber (Cluster'Aging, Demography & Care')
20.10.2020: Guest lecture by Bilgin Ayata: "Affective Citizenship: Migration and Belonging in Contemporary Europe" (Abstract)
16.6.2020: Evening organised by the cluster 'The Americas' (Roberta Maierhofer) - postponed due to COVID-19
26 May 2020: Evening organised by the cluster 'Political Cultures and Systems'(Werner Suppanz & Maximilian Lakitsch) - postponed due to COVID-19
21.4.2020: Evening organised by the cluster 'Aging, Demography & Care' (Ulla Kriebernegg & Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl) - postponed due to COVID-19
10.3.2020: 'Urban research as social research' (Johanna Rolshoven)
21.1.2020: Guest lecture by Naif Bezwan: How did the authoritarian regime formation in Turkey come about? Circumstances, causes and lessons learnt (Abstract)
10 Dec 2019: Book launch of the European Yearbook on Human Rights 2019, combined with a lecture byNils Muižnieks (former Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe) (poster)
26/11/2019: 'Get together' in the research network Heterogeneity and Cohesion (HuK)