May 18th, 2025
Arts-based research event: Lecture and Readings on the occasion of the day of Kurdish Language (May 15th)
kex – Kunsthalle Exnergasse, WUK
Lecture by Dr. Agnes Grund (University of Graz): “Sprachverwendungsprofile und transnationale Biografien. Leben in und mit Bezeyni-Kurdisch”
Readings by Sipel Taha, Aljeen Hasan, and Hüseyin A. Şimşek
April 9, 2025: Workshop “Encounters with the Ethnographic Archive”
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Multidisciplinary Approaches to Researching, Representing, and Exhibiting Photographs –
Examples from Central and Southeastern Europe and Kurdish Regions
This workshop examines critical approaches to engaging with visual archives in the
21st century, emphasizing processes of reinterpretation and rediscovery. It focuses on
photographic archives created across various historical periods, regions and contexts,
shaped by different production histories and socio-political conditions. Through a
series of case studies, the workshop will explore how photographs – be they private,
un/sighted, or official – have been produced, archived, collected, used and exhibited.
The focus is on the uncovering and critical engagement with existing private and
public photographic archives.
With contributions by
- Vida Bakondy (historian, Institute for Habsburg and Balkan Studies/ÖAW, Vienna)
- Radovan Cukić (curator, Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade)
- Elizabeth Edwards (visual and historical anthropologist, Prof. Emerita of Photographic History at De Montfort University, Leicester)
- Katarina Matiasek (curator, Photoinstitut Bonartes, Vienna)
- Susan Meiselas (artist and photographer, New York)
- Robert Pichler (historical anthropologist and photographer, Institute for Habsburg
and Balkan Studies/ÖAW, Vienna) - Maria Six-Hohenbalken (social anthropologist, Institute for Social Anthropology/ÖAW, Vienna)
- Martina Trognitz (linguist and archaeologist, Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage/ÖAW, Vienna)
- Eva Tropper (curator, Museum Joanneum, Graz)