29 June 2026, 2 pm @Stadtkino Wien (Akademiestr. 13, 1010) — Film screening and conversation with Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Kamilla Peter and Vicenzo Straface. This event is presented as the final project of the PhD Seminar “How Can the Humanities Change the World?” at the University of Vienna. Find the event on Stadtkino website. Entrance fee € 7 – buy and reserve your tickets
17 June 2026, 15:00-19:00, FOTO ARSENAL WIEN — Organised and moderated by: Monika Pietrzak-Franger (University of Vienna) and Felix Hoffmann (Foto Arsenal Wien) Medicine has never been a purely scientific enterprise. It is deeply embedded in cultural imaginaries, visual regimes, and aesthetic practices: from anatomical atlases, hospital architecture, and early medical photography to contemporary imaging technologies, and artistic engagements with illness and care. This conference, held within the frame of both the Foto Arsenal Wien exhibition “Photo I Brut” and…
We are excited to announce this workshop which will bring together scholars, researchers and artists from different contexts and with varied backgrounds to imagine new pedagogical practices that include the body as archive of affective and sensory experiences and in this way contribute to new insights in teaching and learning. The idea of this workshop is to start building a community and to offer an inspiring space for thinking, learning and exchange, with an emphasis on practice and interdisciplinarity.We want…
Monika Pietrzak-Franger’s talk is part of this semester’s lecture series “Visual Culture, Photography and Medicine: Bodies, Technologies and the Politics of Seeing” and will be held on Wednesday, 20 May, 18:30-20:00 pm, at Hs.C1, Campus AAKH (Spitalgasse 2, 1090 Vienna). The effects of Long Covid remain palpable worldwide, despite the official ‘end of the pandemic’. This continues to raise questions about the individual, social and political dimensions of this condition. Long Covid is an exemplary case for a growing number…
The standard enlightenment representation of the human body is of a singular, upright, able-bodied, autonomous man. Dr. Nora Heidorn’s medical humanities and visual culture research project Being Horizontal is concerned with imagery of reclined and inclined bodies that contest this ideal. The philosopher Adriana Cavarero, whose book Inclinations: A Critique of Rectitude (2016) has informed my thinking, theorises inclination as a model of the subject that is mutually dependent with others and situated in its world. Being Horizontal collects images from the history of…
Dr. Nora Heidorn works as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department for British and American Studies at the University of Vienna and as an Assistant Curator for the exhibition Horizontal: The Politics and Poetics of the Sickbed at the Berlin Museum of Medical History. She makes exhibitions, public programmes, and collaborative creative projects, as well as publishing in academic and arts contexts. Her practice is led by transdisciplinary research investigating the complex politics of sexual reproduction, health, and care. She…
Im Sommersemester 2026 findet an der Medizinischen Universität Innsbruck unter der Leitung von Univ.-Prof.in Dr.in Sabine Ludwig, MSc, MA, eine Ringvorlesung zum Thema “Geschlecht und Diversität in der Medizin in den deutschsprachigen Ländern: ‘Gendermedizin’ neu gedacht” statt. Wann: donnerstags oder dienstags, 18.30-20.00 Uhr (Präsenz und per Livestream) Wo: Audimax, EG, Fritz-Priegl-Straße 3, 6020 Innsbruck Monika Pietrzak-Franger wird am Donnerstag, dem 11.6., einen Vortrag zum Thema “Leben mit Long Covid – Aspekte von Geschlecht und Diversität” halten. Webseite der Veranstaltung
“But You Don’t Look Sick” – Making the Invisible Visible — This year, two team members, Monika Pietrzak-Franger and Maria Morata Marco, will present their projects at Lange Nacht der Forschung on 24 April 2026 (17:00-23:00). Have you ever been told you look perfectly fine while having to actively manage pain? At our interactive station at LNF, we explore why the phrase “you don’t look sick” can be more of a burden than a compliment. Inspired by Christine Miserandino’s famous blog post under the same title and her formulation…
This summer term, stemming out of a close cooperation between University of Vienna and FOTO ARSENAL WIEN, this lecture series equips MA students with a theoretically grounded, media-literate understanding of how medicine operates as a cultural system of images, spaces, and narratives – and how these shape lived realities in powerful, often invisible ways. Medicine has never been a purely scientific enterprise. It is deeply embedded in cultural imaginaries, visual regimes, and aesthetic practices: from anatomical atlases, hospital architecture, and…
The summer term 2026 edition — How have visual cultures shaped our understanding of health, identity, and justice across time? From the woodcuts of 17th-century broadsheets to the fast-paced, algorithm-driven world of TikTok, the public sphere of health information has always been deeply intertwined with media, politics, and power. This lecture series, led by Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger, invites you to explore the ever-evolving relationship between health, visual representation, and societal inequities. Join us as we explore the ways medical…