Hearing Professor for Transcultural Studies

Online via Zoom

The University of Applied Arts Vienna intends to establish a department with a professorship in the area of transcultural studies. The department aims at opening up access, critical for research and teaching, to current socio-cultural topics that are fought over on many fronts. The department is also to act as a link to postcolonial and decolonial perspectives. The idea is to teach a sound approach that reaches beyond national, social, and cultural relations along existing borders, and at the same time to open up current political possibilities for action in connection with scientific and artistic disciplines by recollecting the universal values of enlightenment. 

Thus, the new department of Transcultural Studies will seek to raise awareness for an appreciative approach to diversity, for the regard of the dynamics of transcultural processes, and for the critical discourse with power structures.

In addition, the new department is to also establish cross-connections to the already existing research fields at the Angewandte and develop a range of courses for all students. 

Hearing Professor for Transcultural Studies

Monday, June 15, 2020, 9.30 am – 5.00 pm 

Tuesday, June 16, 2020, 9.30 am – 5.00 pm

1 pm – 2.30 pm Break 

It is possible to participate virtually in the hearing for the Chair of Transcultural Studies. If you are interested, please register by email by June 12, 2020: kunsttheorie@uni-ak.ac.at. After registration, the zoom link and the programm will be sent by email. 

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