Projects
Joint Projects
- Buchvorstellung und Gespräch an der Universität Hamburg, Institut für Liberal Arts & Sciences
Am 23. April wird Univ.-Prof. Dr. Monika Pietrzak-Franger ihr Buch “Scheinbar genesen – Leben mit Long Covid” am Institut für Liberal Arts & Sciences and der Universität Hamburg vorstellen. Weiterhin wird sie im Gespräch mit Prof. Dr. Sophie Witt (Institut für Liberal Arts & Sciences,Universität Hamburg) über den Alltag von betroffenen Personen mit Long Covid sprechen, sowie über das Buch selbst, welches anhand von Interviews und künstlerisch-dokumentarischem Fotomaterial aus Österreich und in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Betroffenen entstanden ist. Insgesamt soll… - Transitions & Transformations: Medical Humanities in Times of COVID-19
Edited by Anna M. Elsner and Monika Pietrzak-Franger - Internationale Tagung: Threads of Life – Textiles in Medicine and the Arts
Videos of the symposium of 20 June 2023 are now available [in German] - Post-Covid-19 Care: (Long) Covid & Society – Podcast
Have a listen to our new podcast “(Long) Covid & Society” hosted by the research teams of the “Post-Covid-19 Care” cluster project. - Literature and Medicine
Edited by Anna M. Elsner and Monika Pietrzak-Franger - Exhibition: Threads of Life
Opening: 13 Jun 2023, 19:00 – Running: 14 Jun 2023 – 14 Jul 2023 - Long Covid Care: Eine Podiumsdiskussion
Montag, 16. Januar 2023 18:30- 21:00 gesponsert von Campus Aktuell, veranstaltet im Rahmen von “Post-Covid-19 Care” - Resilience: An Explorative Workshop
A workshop sponsored by ÖAW, UW, MUW with Monika Pietrzak-Franger, Henriette Löffler-Stastka, Neil Vickers and Felix Tretter - Interuniversity Cluster: Post-COVID-19 CareInteruniversity clusterproject Department of English and American Studies & Department of Health Economics
- A Visiodemic – Pandemische Medienwelten und ihre Virulenz
Check out the fantastic results of our Student Workshop at the Internationale Akademie Traunkirchen - Viral Theatre Podcast
A podcast series based on the ‘Post- Covid-19 Art Worlds’ Conference - Covid Beyond Borders: Rethinking Medical Humanities at the Frontline
An interdisciplinary lecture series – watch the lectures and keynote speakers here
PhD & Post Doc Projects
- ‘Being Horizontal’ (monograph / habilitation project)
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… - ‘Embodying Long Covid – The Discursive Construction of a Health Movement’
Carina Hilmar’s PhD project focuses on Long Covid patient communities and the surrounding patient activism. - ‘Living Forever: Fictions of Radical Life Extension, 1878-1918’
James Aaron Green’s ÖAW-funded project examines literary thought experiments that pose the question, What would it mean to live forever? - ‘Making Sense: Deformity in Seventeenth-Century Texts’
Alina Lange’s PhD project explores early modern perceptions of the ‘deformed’ body. - ‘Face Time: The Semiotic Temporalities of Biometric Art’
In his doctoral research project, Devon Schiller proposes that biometric art that uses emotion recognition is fundamentally poly-temporal.
Publications