Wednesday Seminars

Lecture series of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Wednesday 5 pm, Übungsraum, IKSA, NIG, Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien, 4th Floor

The Wednesday Seminars are the regular lecture series of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology. Every Wednesday during the semester current research as well as controversial and relevant questions from within the discipline and the general public are picked out and examined in expert talks.
The lecture series is open to contributions from within the wider discipline of anthropology and beyond.
The talks serve as impulses for an intellectual exchange between the presenter and the audience.
The Wednesday Seminars are a forum that introduces our guests (guest professors and visiting scholars) and encourages resident researchers to present their current work to the scholarly community.

In the academic year 2025/26, the seminar series is organized by Greca Meloni and Ria-Maria Adams. 

hybrid event

The seminars are held in a hybrid format - registration is not required.

Summer Term 2026

>>> Semester programme (PDF) - will be published soon!

  • 11.03.2025 Philip Wight 
    Arctic Artery: The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System and the World it Made
  • 18.03.2026 Joanie Willett
    More than Human Peripheries, Peripheralisation, and the Mattering of Left Behind Regions

  • 25.03.2026 Letizia Bonanno
    Socioeconomic Decline, Political Narratives and the Affordances of 'Small Talk' at a 'Bar dello Sport' in Taranto (Southern Italy)

  • 22.04.2026 Insa Lee Koch
    When Liberal Anti-Racism Is Not Enough: Thinking from UK’s Modern Slavery Laws About Authoritarian Statemaking in the European Metropole 

  • 29.04.2026 Rosa Cordillera A. Castillo
    Reparations Beyond the Human? Rethinking (Post)Conflict Repair and Justice through an Ecocentric Lens
  • 06.05.2026 Ebru Kayaalp
    Buildings-as-Risk, Buildings-at-Risk: The Multiple Enactments of Seismic Risk in Istanbul

  • 20.05.2026 Alessandra Mezzadri
    Decolonizing Social Reproduction and Global Capitalism Narratives

  • 27.05.2026 Claire Bullen
    Exploring and Narrating the Street: Notes from across the Mediterranean

  • 10.06.2026 Ammara Maqsood
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  • 17.06.2026 Neha Vora
    Multispecies Ecologies of Migrant Homemaking in the United Arab Emirates

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