2026

The Institute of Natural Sciences and Technology in the Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Johannes Tichy's dissertation project "Pink halophilic and halotolerant biofilms on cultural heritage monument surfaces: investigation of structure and function through DNA and RNA sequencing".

The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Franzis Kabisch's dissertation project "Plot Twist Abortion — Images, Narratives, and Discourses on Abortion in German-Language Film and Television".

The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Hannah Katalin Grimmer's dissertation project "El arte del porvenir. The Art of Worlds to Come – Artistic Activism and Resisting Memory in Chile".

The Institute for Education in the Arts kindly invites you to the defense of Sophie Linggs dissertation project "Shitstorms, Self-Exploitation, Shadowbans: Social Media as a Workplace for Queer-Feminist Artists".

We cordially invite you to the Postdoc Get-together at the Academy which forms part of the Postdoc Appreciation Week Austria. The event aims to foster informal exchange and networking between colleagues in similar career stages.

The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of claudia* sandoval romero's dissertation project "Searching for Palenques between the Periphery and Center: A Relational Case Between the Photographic Work of Nora Aslan (AR) and Rochelle Costi (BR) and the Museological Framework".

We cordially invite everyone interested to attend the public short presentations in the Dr. phil. program, where doctoral candidates present their exposés to an academic advisory board.

We cordially invite everyone interested to attend the public short presentations in the Dr. phil. program, where doctoral candidates present their exposés to an academic advisory board.

The Center for Doctoral Studies welcomes all doctoral and PhD students to an open door event in the winter semester 2026/27.

This session will provide information about the call, the submission process and the fellowship.

We would like to invite all new doctoral students in the Doctor of Philosophy program to the Center for Doctoral Studies' Welcome Session which covers all important steps, milestones, dates, and deadlines.

The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of  Taha Ghanimi Fard's dissertation project "An Analysis of the Development of Animation in Iran".

The Institute of Natural Sciences and Technology in the Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Patrick Layton's dissertation project "Ancient Book Crafts: Contactless dating of leather bindings".

The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Mariel Rodríguez' dissertation project "Mestizaje(s): Race and Gender in Mexican Visual Cultures".

The Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Bahareh Zamani Hargalani's dissertation project "Mapping Otherness: A Postcolonial Critique of Subjectivation Processes in the West and non-West".