Lecture Series Theme: Gegenmacht wissen? Investigativer Aktivismus und öffentliche Intellektuelle heute
Rote Bar Volkstheater Wien Arthur-Schnitzler-Platz 1 1070 Wien Austria
Sponsored by: Global Mosse Lecture Series The Mosse Foundation Volkstheater Wien Stadt Wien Universität Wien
Chair: Burkhardt Wolf, Szilvia Gallai (Universität Wien) Comment: Barbara Tóth (Reporter ohne Grenzen, Falter)
Eliot Higgins is the founder of Bellingcat and the Brown Moses Blog. Eliot focuses on the weapons used in the conflict in Syria, and open source investigation tools and techniques. Barbara Tóth is a historian, book author, and journalist. She has worked since 2008 at “Falter.” She writes about politics, media, and history and currently is the head of the media department and the political book page. Szilvia Gellai was a fellow in the LOEWE research cluster “Architectures of Order” during the winter semester of 2020/2021. As part of her fellowship, she was exploring the metaphor of the glass house and other related transparent enclosures used by 20th century female writers (Hilda ‘H.D.’ Doolittle, Anaïs Nin, Sylvia Plath, Marlen Haushofer, Margaret Atwood, Angela Krauss, among others). Since March 2020, Szilvia Gellai has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of German Studies at the University of Vienna, where she has been working at the intersection of literary, media, and cultural studies. She previously worked at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. She received her PhD there in 2017 after completing a study on “Network Poetics in Contemporary Literature.” She studied fine arts at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz and German language and literature at Loránd Eötvös University in Budapest. In 2007/2008, she spent time at the Humboldt University in Berlin as an Erasmus and DAAD scholarship holder.Burkhardt Wolf is a Professor of Modern German Literature (with a special focus on literary and media theory) at the University of Vienna. He is the principal applicant for the ongoing international WEAVE research project “Bureaugraphie: Administration After the Age of Bureaucracy.” His research focuses on the history of discourse on violence, economics, and governmentality; the poetics of knowledge of affect; the cultural and media history of seafaring, and the cultural techniques and literary history of administration. In addition to positions at Humboldt University in Berlin and a multi-year Heisenberg Fellowship from the DFG, his academic career has included visiting professorships in Berlin, Munich, Santa Barbara, Bloomington, Beijing, and Berkeley.
