Events

The PhD in Practice program at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Luis Ortiz' dissertation project “The Mountains Travel. Stations of Migrant Territorialities”.

Defense

An event organized by the IKW, organized by Jens Kastner in collaboration with Eva Schörkhuber and Andreas Pavlic.

Lecture

The first edition of the Bourdieu Lectures will take place on 19–20 November 2025 at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, under the title Gender – Domination – Visuality. This conference is a joint initiative by the University of Bielefeld,  Zeppelin University (Friedrichshafen), University of Education Freiburg and Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, in close cooperation with the Fondation Bourdieu.

Conference

Art historian Evan Neely will be presenting on the work of African American landscape painter Robert S. Duncanson. One of three lectures on the legacy of colonial histories in North America; the privatization of nature and land; and the logic of the plantation and enclosure on contemporary life in the series Nature and Sovereignty organized by Alena Williams, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in Winter Semester 2025/26.

Lecture

Three talks on the legacy of colonial histories in North America; the privatization of nature and land; and the logic of the plantation and enclosure on contemporary life organized by Alena Williams, Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies in Winter Semester 2025/26.

Legacies of the Plantation
K. Wayne Yang, Professor of Ethnic Studies & Provost of John Muir College, Co-founder, Indigenous Futures Institute, University of California, San Diego
Monday, 13.10. 2025, 17h

From Plantations to Invasive Infrastructures: Kanaka Maoli Mobilization for 'Āina
Architectural Historian Kelema Moses, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies and Planning and Member, Indigenous Futures Institute, University of California, San Diego
Friday, 17.10.2025, 11h

North of Robert Duncanson’s Canvas
Art Historian Evan Neely, Associate Chair, History of Art and Design, Pratt Institute, New York
Wednesday, 3.12.2025, 11h

Lecture series

An event hosted by the IKW, organized by Jens Kastner.

Book presentation