Projects

Joint Projects

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
Internationale Tagung: Threads of Life – Textiles in Medicine and the Arts
Dienstag, 20.Juni 2023 | 10:00 bis 18:30 Uhr
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 Care
Interuniversity 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

‘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