International Research Center for Cultural Studies

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The International Research Center for Cultural Studies at the Art University Linz (IFK) in Vienna was a non-university and independent research college until 2011 with the aim of developing and promoting interdisciplinary forms of cultural analysis and cultural studies. Since January 1st 2015 the IFK has been a center of the Art University Linz .

Research and history

Founded in 1992 as an association, the IFK began its full operation in 1993 at Danhausergasse 1 in Vienna's 4th district . It promotes the internationalization of the Austrian human sciences by inviting Senior Fellows and Research Fellows who practice advanced forms of cultural studies as well as young cultural scientists as part of Junior Fellowships . The IFK works with a broad concept of culture that includes art , literature , architecture , sciences, media, lifestyles and everyday culture . Culture is not understood purely historically as the memory of a society , but understood as a medium for debating the future of a society, as a dynamic process that is shaped by life-world orientations as well as by political, social and economic framework conditions. At the end of the 1990s the IFK moved to Reichsratsstrasse 17 in Vienna's 1st district .

In 2010 a planned austerity package threatened more than 60 institutions in Austria that do scientific work independently of universities, including the IFK. Under Science Minister Karlheinz Töchterle , the IFK was connected to the University of Artistic and Industrial Design Linz in order to avoid deprivation of the essential basic subsidy for the center. The new name of the institution is IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies at the Art University Linz , the location remained in Vienna. "The institutional cooperation between the two institutions should create positive synergies both in terms of the research profile of the Linz University of Art and in teaching," said Helmut Lethen's broadcast. Since January 1st, 2015 the IFK is officially a center of the Art University Linz. The IFK tries to develop and publish new research approaches within the framework of research priorities.

From 1996 to 2004 the literary historian Gotthart Wunberg was head of the facility. From 2004 to 2007 the IFK was headed by the internationally renowned art historian and winner of the Premio Balzan Hans Belting . From October 2007 to February 2016 the German cultural scientist and essayist Helmut Lethen was director of the IFK. The current director is the cultural historian Thomas Macho .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.ufg.ac.at/IFK-Internationales-Forschungszentrum-Ku.8613.0.html
  2. ↑ (Outside) university research. In: fm4.orf.at. Retrieved December 1, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Non-university research fears for their existence. In: derStandard.at. November 4, 2010, accessed December 10, 2017 .
  4. ↑ http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20110511_OTS0203/karlheinz-toechterle-kunstuniversitaet-linz-und-ifk-buendeln-ihre-staerken-bild
  5. ↑ Research Center for Cultural Studies IFK docks at the Linz Art University. In: derStandard.at. May 11, 2011, accessed December 10, 2017 .
  6. ↑ http://www.ufg.ac.at/IFK-Internationales-Forschungszentrum-Ku.8613.0.html
  7. ^ Hans Belting : Premio Balzan 2015 per la storia dell'arte europea (1300-1700) . ( balzan.org [accessed May 14, 2018]).