News

A New Edition of CIRAC CINEMA is out!

You are invited to the new CIRAC CINEMA edition!

Fighting the “Dementors”: Reconsidering (Culturally) Constructive Versions of Forgetfulnes

ENAS Quarterly 2025/4 Research in Conversation With Heike Hartung & Ulla Kriebernegg December 4, 2025 4:30-5:45 PM (CET, online) A talk and discussion format organized by the European Network in Aging Studies together with partner institutions in research and higher education.

Radio Interview with Dr. Angela Wegscheider (JKU) and Laura Hochsteiner (CIRAC)

Radio interview about Disability Studies (Austria) and the ALTER Conference in Innsbruck

November 24, 10:00: "Grandmother Wisdom": A Guest Lecture by Claudia J. Ford

Grandmother Wisdom: Ecocritical Insights of African American Women at the Intersection of Ecology, Culture, and Spirit Claudia J. Ford, PhD 24 November 2025, 10:00-11:30 (CET) HS 47.02, Heinrichstraße 78A/EG and https://uni-graz.zoom.us/j/61603794530

11.11.2025, 18:00

Demagogie und Desinformation: Diskursanalytische Überlegungen zur Gefährdung liberaler Demokratien

Master's Module "Health Humanities"

Start in Summer Semester 2026 Open to all Master level students

Encounters in Ultimate Situations. Philosophical Practice and Palliative Care in Dialog

Dying, death, and grief often lead to philosophical questions October 10–12, 2025, University of Graz

Nina De Bettin Padolin Awarded the Fulbright Dissertations Prize 2025

Dr. Nina De Bettin Padolin has been awarded the Fulbright Dissertation Prize 2025 by Fulbright and the AAAS

More news

Conference: SEE Aging Graz 2025

Transforming Representations of Aging in Southeast European Literature and Film

September 25–27, 2025

University of Graz

We Welcome Our New CIRAC Fellow, Dr. Heike Hartung!

International Guests at CIRAC

Visiting researchers from Hungary and Spain

Congrats to our new CIRAC Fellow!

CIRAC Fellow status awarded to Amelia DeFalco (University of Leeds, UK)

CIRAC Cinema: Die zärtliche Revolution

3rd showing

Die zärtliche Revolution (2024, director: Annelie Boroș, in German with English subtitles)

4th Austrian Online Inter- and Transdisciplinary Dis/Ability Research Workshop

Current research projects on Dis/Ability Studies in Austria will be presented and discussed during the DiStA research workshop 2025

Einladung zum Workshop am 13. Mai im Volkskundemuseum

Altes Ding!

Alltags-Dinge der Vergangenheit.

Alters-Dinge der Zukunft.

Wie möchten wir unsere Zukunft gestalten, in einer Zeit, die immer stärker…

CIRAC Cinema Movie Series

2nd showing

Feminism WTF (2023, directed by Katharina Mückstein)