Activities

Midterm-Conference "Food Charity, Welfare State Transformations, and Affective Economies: Critical Engagements" 

21 – 23 May 2025

WU Vienna

Team Members: Brigitte Bargetz, Jessica Gasior, Markus Griesser 
 

"Ideen-Reichtum": Pre-conference for young poverty researchers

15 – 16 April 2024 

Organization and moderation: Hannah-Maria Eberle, Markus Griesser, Anja Kerle, Alban Knecht

Center for Education St. Virgil, Salzburg as part of the 14th Poverty Conference (Austrian Anti Poverty Network)

Team Member: Markus Griesser

Book Presentation and Discussion: Discourses on Poverty and Social Work

14 March 2025
 

Presentation of the book "Discourses on Poverty. Perspectives from the Media, Politics and Social Work” (Bielefeld 2024)
with authors and the editors Anja Kerle, Fabian Kessl, and Alban Knecht.


Depot, Vienna

Team Member: Markus Griesser

Conference Hopeful Attachments on a Ruined Planet

9 – 11 October 2024
 

Presentation: We will all be disappointed in the end: Rethinking utopia from the affective and temporal politics of ruins

Brigitte Bargetz (WU Vienna) and Sara Minelli (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
 

Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies “Futures of Sustainability”, University of Hamburg

Team Member: Brigitte Bargetz

PhD Course: Critique, Care and Experimentation

6 – 8 May 2024


With Dorthe Staunæs (chair), Brigitte Bargetz, Malou Juelskjær, Nina Lykke, Erin Manning and Sverre Raffnsøe 


Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Campus Emdrup

Team Member: Brigitte Bargetz

Kick-Off-Workshop Research Project New Charity Economy Through the Lens of Affective Statehood”

30 November – 1 December 2023


Food Charity in Times of Crisis: Three Perspectives

With Fabian Kessl (University of Wuppertal), Hannah Lambie-Mumford (University of Sheffield) and Tiina Silvasti (University of Jyväskylä)

Moderation: Johanna Hofbauer (WU Vienna)

Public event: 30 November 2023, 16:00 – 18:00 (s.t.)

Room 6, Building AD, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna

WU Vienna

Team Members: Brigitte Bargetz, Jessica Gasior, Markus Griesser

Workshop Methoden der empirischen Affektforschung

9 – 10 November 2023


Presentation: Gefühle im Staat finden


Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Organization: Manuela Beyer (Dresden) and Christian Helge Peters (Halle)


Team Member: Brigitte Bargetz

Presentations and Discussion: Politik|en der Empathie. Welche Empathie braucht die Politik?

10 May 2023, 18:30 – 21:00


Presentation: Politiken der Empathie – Eine feministische Kritik


Gewölbesaal – Altes Kaufhaus, Florinsmarkt Koblenz (Germany)

Cooperation: ISSO-Institut, Universities Koblenz and Erfurt, Martin-Görlitz-Stiftung and Denkbares


Team Member: Brigitte Bargetz

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