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ICGP-Newsletter March 2026 (English Version below)
Liebe alle, dear all,
bevor die Frühjahrsferien beginnen, wünschen wir noch einen guten Semesterstart und freuen uns über die vielen Studierenden, die in diesem Sommersemester ihren Weg in unsere Lehrveranstaltungen gefunden haben. Vereinzelt sind noch Nachmeldungen möglich – etwa zur Ringvorlesung, deren Programm wir in diesem Newsletter veröffentlichen und zur dazugehörigen Übung. Außerdem wollen wir in diesem Newsletter auf den, im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung stattfindenden Workshop Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling hinweisen. Wir möchten alle noch einmal an den laufenden Gender|Queer|Diversität-Call von Kolleg*innen der Stabstelle Gleichstellung, Gender und Diversität erinnern sowie auf zwei Veranstaltungen mit den Kolleg*innen Maja Figge (ICGP) und Tatjana Nikolić (IKM) aufmerksam machen: Den Workshop Affektpolitik, Infrastruktur, Ästhetik und die Days of Attention - Student Protests in Serbia.
Programm veröffentlicht!
Gender-Studies Ringvorlesung: „Performing Challenges: Solidarities“
Auf unserer Internetseite findet sich nun das ausführliche Programm zur diesjährigen, als Symposium abgehaltenen Gender-Studies Ringvorlesung. 2026 liegt der Akzent auf Fragen nach den Bedingungen, Potentialen, Herausforderungen und Praktiken von Solidarität. Wir freuen uns auf Beiträge von internationalen Wissenschaftler*innen und Künstler*innen ebenso wie geschätzter Kolleg*innen der mdw.
Studierende haben bis 30. März die Möglichkeit die Ringvorlesung und die begleitende Übung als Lehrveranstaltung zu belegen. Zur Nachmeldung bedarf es einer kurzen Email mit Name und Matrikelnummer an icgp@mdw.ac.at.
Wir sind schon jetzt gespannt auf die Beiträge unserer Gäste und die gemeinsamen Diskussionen!
Programm
Dienstag, 16. Juni 2026
14.00-17.00 Mbongeni N. Mtshali & jackï job (Cape Town): Workshop: Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling, Part 1
Mittwoch, 17. Juni 2026
10.00-13.00 Mbongeni N. Mtshali & jackï job (Cape Town): Workshop: Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling, Part 2
14.15 Evelyn Annuß, Maja Figge (Vienna): Opening and Introduction: On Solidarities
14.30 Rosa Reitsamer (Vienna): Social Inequalities, Diversity and Solidarity in Higher Classical Music education
15.30 Artist Talk: Isabel Lewis (Tanzquartier Wien) in conversation with Philipp Hohmann)
16.30 Coffee
17.00 Christine Lang (Vienna): “Dramaturgies of Solidarity”: Feminist Aesthetics in Film
18.00 Luce de Lire (Berlin): Critique is over, morality is dead and surreal utopias is where it's at
Donnerstag, 18. Juni 2026
10.30 Mbongeni N. Mtshali (Cape Town): Unruly Allegiances: The Possibilities and Limits of post-apartheid Solidarity
11.30 Jasmin Degeling (Weimar) & Maja Figge: Postmigrant Practices of Infrastructuring Solidarity
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Lea Susemichel (Vienna): Unbedingte Solidarität
15.00 jackï job (Cape Town): Choreographing Rebellion
16.00 Coffee
16.30 Filmic Solidarities: Dialogues for a New Commons (Christina Stuhlberger & Clarissa Thieme)
Screening of detours while speaking of monsters and Artist Talk with Deniz Şimşek (Berlin)
18.00 Screening of Moby Dick or, A Whale and Artist Talk: Wu Tsang with Joshua Wicke
19.30 Reception (tbd.)
Anmeldung zum Workshop geöffnet: Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling
Im Kontext unserer Ringvorlesung können wir erneut Gäste vom Center for Theater, Dance & Performance Studies der Cape Town University bei uns am ICGP begrüßen. Mbongeni N. Mtshali und jackï job bieten in diesem Rahmen einen Workshop für Studierende der mdw und alle Interessierten an.
Anmeldungen erfolgen über icgp@mdw.ac.at, Arbeitssprache ist Englisch.
Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling
16. Juni 2026 14-17.00 Uhr, 17. Juni 2026 10-13.00 Uhr
This workshop explores choreo-scenographic composition. Participants will explore Butoh principles as a way to re-attune the body and cultivate sensory awareness, and devising techniques for individual and collective image-making that use the storied, intimate body to engage critically with the communal and political.
Mbongeni N. Mtshali is a performance maker, scholar, artist and teacher. He earned a Ph.D. in Performance Studies at Northwestern University as a Fulbright Scholar, and is currently Director of the Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Cape Town. Mbongeni’s research explores black queer/femme performance in South Africa as well as Africa and its diaspora more broadly, with a focus on how black queer/femme subjects use performance tactically, challenging nationally sanctioned repertoires of African respectability, cultural intelligibility and belonging.
jackï job is an artist-scholar with over 30 years of international experience in dance, choreography and theatre-making. A pioneer of Butoh in Africa and a leading practitioner in crafting decolonial performance strategies and scholarly inquiry. Ongoing research and creative works consider animism, animal-human embodiment, dance as philosophy, indigenous aesthetics, and transformation in their structure and delivery.
Gender|Queer|Diversität-Call der Stabstelle Gleichstellung, Gender und Diversität
Noch bis zum 19. April 2026 sind alle Angehörigen der mdw eingeladen, sich mit Ideen und Vorhaben für den Gender | Queer | Diversität-Call 2026 zu bewerben. Gesucht werden wissenschaftliche, künstlerische und/oder pädagogische Projektideen zu feministischen und diskriminierungskritischen Themen. Die Projekte sollen an der mdw umgesetzt und nachhaltig verankert werden.
Alle Informationen zum Call sowie zum Bewerbungsablauf finden sich unter: mdw.ac.at/ggd/programm/genderqueerdiversity-call-mdw/
Für individuelle Fragen und Beratungen steht das Team der GGD gerne zur Verfügung.
Affektpolitik, Infrastruktur, Ästhetik. Beiträge zu einigen Formen und Formationen der gegenwärtigen Faschisierung
26. März 2026 18:30 – 20:30
Institut für Theater- Film- und Medienwissenschaft, Universität Wien, Seminarraum 2H 558, UZA II, Josef-Holaubek-Platz
Unsere Gegenwart ist geprägt von zunehmenden Dynamiken des Techfaschismus, die uns nicht nur als Forschende betreffen. Die Veranstaltung zielt darauf einige der am Institut für Theater Film und Medienwissenschaft der Universität Wien unternommenen Versuche, diese Dynamiken zu analysieren, vorzustellen und ins Gespräch miteinander zu bringen sowie darüber nachzudenken, was das für alle, die am TFM-Institut studieren und forschen, bedeuten könnte.
Mit Präsentationen von Lena Bösch, Gideon Hempel, Maximilian Kaiser und Samuel Obernosterer
Moderation: Maja Figge und Stephan Trinkaus
Days of Attention - Student Protests in Serbia
Auf Initiative einer Gruppe von Studierenden und Dozierenden geschichtswissenschaftlicher Institute der Universität Wien finden im März und April 2026 die „Days of Attention – Student Protests in Serbia“ statt. In einer Reihe von Veranstaltungen gehen die Initator*innen und ihre Gäste der Frage nach, wie zivile Proteste die politische Praxis verändern können, wie Aktivismus von unten und ohne Führungspersonen funktioniert und welche Rolle Universitäten als Räume des demokratischen Engagements spielen können. Die Initiative ist weiter offen für Mitwirkende. Interessierte können sich per E-Mail melden.
Alle Informationen zur Initiative finden sich hier.
Die nächsten Veranstaltungen sind:
Mo., 13. April 2026, 18:30
Olja Triaška Stefanović (Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava): For Freedom: Fight against Corruption Students and State Violence in Serbia,
Di., 14. April 2026, 17:00-19:00
Dubravka Ugrešić Lecture mit Adriana Zaharijević, Postsocialist Feminism. The Conceptual Tools of Our Own
Mi., 15. April 2026, 15:00-17:00 & 19:00-20:30
Rethinking Politics: Student Protests in Serbia World Café mit Studierenden aus der Protestbewegung und anderen Gästen, u.a. mit Davud Delimeđac, Mila Jovanović, Natalija Petrović, Tatjana Rašić, Tamara Cvetković, Katarina Milisavljević (Blokada Beč), Barbi Marković (angefragt)
Mo., 4. Mai 2026, 14:00-17:00
Seminar von Tatjana Nikolić/Andrea Glauser: Repression against artists and cultural Workers: Serbian cultural sector in focus
(English version)
ICGP-Newsletter March 2026
Dear all,
Shortly before spring break we want to warmly wish you a great start to the semester and are delighted to welcome the many students who have joined our courses this summer semester. A limited number of places are still available – for example, in the lecture series, whose program we are presenting in this newsletter, as well as in the accompanying tuorial course. We would also like to draw your attention to the workshop Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling, which takes place as part of the lecture series. Furthermore we want to remind you of the ongoing Gender|Queer|Diversity Call from the Administrative Department of Equity, Gender and Diversity as well as highlight two events with our colleagues Maja Figge (ICGP) and Tatjana Nikolić (IKM): the workshop Affective Politics, Infrastructure, Aesthetics and the Days of Attention – Student Protests in Serbia.
Program now available!
Gender Studies Lecture Series: “Performing Challenges: Solidarities”
The full program for this year’s Gender Studies lecture series—held in the format of a symposium—is now available on our website. In 2026 the event will focus on the conditions, potentials, challenges, and practices of solidarity. We are looking forward to contributions from international scholars and artists, as well as from esteemed colleagues at mdw.
Students still have until March 30 to register for the lecture series and the accompanying tutorial as part of their coursework. To enroll, please send a short email including your name and student ID number to icgp@mdw.ac.at.
We are already very much looking forward to our guests’ contributions and to engaging discussions together!
Program
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
14.00-17.00 Mbongeni N. Mtshali & jackï job (Cape Town): Workshop: Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling, Part 1
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
10.00-13.00 Mbongeni N. Mtshali & jackï job (Cape Town): Workshop: Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling, Part 2
14.15 Evelyn Annuß, Maja Figge (Vienna): Opening and Introduction: On Solidarities
14.30 Rosa Reitsamer (Vienna): Social Inequalities, Diversity and Solidarity in Higher Classical Music education
15.30 Artist Talk: Isabel Lewis (Tanzquartier Wien) in conversation with Philipp Hohmann)
16.30 Coffee
17.00 Christine Lang (Vienna): “Dramaturgies of Solidarity”: Feminist Aesthetics in Film
18.00 Luce de Lire (Berlin): Critique is over, morality is dead and surreal utopias is where it's at
Thursday, June 18, 2026
10.30 Mbongeni N. Mtshali (Cape Town): Unruly Allegiances: The Possibilities and Limits of post-apartheid Solidarity
11.30 Jasmin Degeling (Weimar) & Maja Figge: Postmigrant Practices of Infrastructuring Solidarity
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Lea Susemichel (Vienna): Unbedingte Solidarität
15.00 jackï job (Cape Town): Choreographing Rebellion
16.00 Coffee
16.30 Filmic Solidarities: Dialogues for a New Commons (Christina Stuhlberger & Clarissa Thieme)
Screening of detours while speaking of monsters and Artist Talk with Deniz Şimşek (Berlin)
18.00 Screening of Moby Dick or, A Whale and Artist Talk: Wu Tsang with Joshua Wicke
19.30 Reception (tbd.)
Workshop registration open: Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling
As part of our lecture series, we are once again pleased to welcome guests from the Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies at the University of Cape Town to the ICGP. Mbongeni N. Mtshali and jackï job will offer a workshop for mdw students and anyone interested. Registration is via icgp@mdw.ac.at. The working language will be English.
Stuttering, Stumbling, Falling
June 16, 2026, 14:00–17:00
June 17, 2026, 10:00–13:00
This workshop explores choreo-scenographic composition. Participants will engage with principles of Butoh as a way of reattuning the body and cultivating sensory awareness, as well as with devising techniques for individual and collective image-making that draw on the intimate, storied body to critically engage with communal and political contexts.
Mbongeni N. Mtshali is a performance maker, scholar, artist, and teacher. He earned a Ph.D. in Performance Studies at Northwestern University as a Fulbright Scholar and is currently Director of the Centre for Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies at the University of Cape Town. His research focuses on Black queer/femme performance in South Africa and across its diaspora, with particular attention to how performance is used strategically to challenge dominant narratives of respectability, cultural legibility, and belonging.
jackï job is an artist-scholar with over 30 years of international experience in dance, choreography, and theatre-making. A pioneer of Butoh in Africa, they are a leading practitioner in developing decolonial performance strategies and scholarly approaches. Their ongoing work explores animism, animal-human embodiment, dance as philosophy, Indigenous aesthetics, and processes of transformation.
Gender | Queer | Diversity Call Office for Equal Opportunities, Gender and Diversity
All members of mdw are invited to submit proposals for the 2026 Gender | Queer | Diversity Call until April 19, 2026. The EGD-Team is looking for academic, artistic, and/or pedagogical project ideas addressing feminist and anti-discrimination topics. Projects should be implemented at mdw and have a sustainable impact.
Detailed information about the call and the application process can be found online:
mdw.ac.at/ggd/programm/genderqueerdiversity-call-mdw/
The EGD team is also happy to assist with individual questions and consultations.
Affective Politics, Infrastructure, Aesthetics. On forms and formations of contemporary fascization
March 26, 2026, 18:30–20:30
Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies, University of Vienna, Seminarraum 2H 558, UZA II, Josef-Holaubek-Platz
Our present is shaped by increasing dynamics of techno-fascism, which affect not only our research but also our broader social realities. This event brings together several analytical approaches developed at the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna, with the aim of opening up discussion and reflecting collectively on what these developments might mean for those of us studying and working in this field.
With presentations by Lena Bösch, Gideon Hempel, Maximilian Kaiser, and Samuel Obernosterer
Moderated by Maja Figge and Stephan Trinkaus
Days of Attention – Student Protests in Serbia
Initiated by a group of students and lecturers from history departments at the University of Vienna, the “Days of Attention – Student Protests in Serbia“ will take place in March and April 2026. Through a series of events, the organizers and their guests explore how civil protests can reshape political practice, how grassroots activism functions without central leadership, and what role universities can play as spaces for democratic engagement.
The initiative remains open to contributors, and interested participants are welcome to get in touch via email.
Further details and upcoming events are available online.
Mon, April 13, 2026, 18:30
Olja Triaška Stefanović (Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava): For Freedom: Fight against Corruption, Students and State Violence in Serbia
Tue, April 14, 2026, 17:00–19:00
Dubravka Ugrešić Lecture with Adriana Zaharijević: Postsocialist Feminism: The Conceptual Tools of Our Own
Wed, April 15, 2026, 15:00–17:00 & 19:00–20:30
Rethinking Politics: Student Protests in Serbia — World Café with students from the protest movement and other guests, including Davud Delimeđac, Mila Jovanović, Natalija Petrović, Tatjana Rašić, Tamara Cvetković, Katarina Milisavljević (Blokada Beč), Barbi Marković (invited)
Mon, May 4, 2026, 14:00–17:00
Seminar by Tatjana Nikolić / Andrea Glauser: Repression against Artists and Cultural Workers: The Serbian Cultural Sector in Focus
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