Cooperations
Democracy Research Forum
PERSPECTIVE
Democracy is more than a state order and more than a buzzword. Democracy is formed discursively, experienced sensually and realized performatively. In this sense, a research focus on democracy research at the University of Graz is conceptualized as a forum, a place for research, teaching and public encounters and education. Based on social transformation processes and crises in the present and past and their (self-)critical problematization, humanities and cultural studies research and research-led teaching aim to strengthen the resilience of culture and society against anti-democratic challenges.
AIM
The Forum for Democracy Research
- conducts interdisciplinary, historical and systematic research into the conditions that have specifically promoted, hindered or accompanied democratization processes. It provides results for a better understanding of the overall social tasks and resistance that democracies are and have been confronted with;
- cultivates the democratic space of interpretation by reflecting and activating the exchange between society and science. It aims to productively unsettle and irritate in order to progress from there, situationally and perspectively, to ever new contexts and experiences and to enable new educational spaces of democracy. In this sense, the Forum for Democracy Research sees itself as a place for research, teaching and education as well as public participation.
The Forum is currently being realized as a university-wide task, led by the Workgroup for Democracy Research of the Faculty of Humanities. The kick-off event will take place from October 17 to 18 at the Graz Chamber of Labor.
PARTICIPANTS: The following researchers at the University of Graz are already cooperating in the implementation of the planned Democracy Research Forum .
Britta BRESER is Professor of Democracy Education at the University of Vienna and Lecturer in Civic Education and Political Didactics at the Department of History at the University of Graz.
Mariya DONSKA is Lecturer at the Department of Slavic Studies.
Katharina EISCH-ANGUS is Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology.
Christina KORAK is a PostDoc in the FWF project "Towards a Cosmovision Turn" at the Department of Translation Studies.
Gerald LAMPRECHT is Professor of Jewish History and Contemporary History at the Center for Jewish Studies.
Claudia LUCHETTI is Visiting Researcher at the Department of Philosophy in Tübingen. 2017-2022 Lecturer at the Department of Philosophy and Antiquity and 2022 Fellow at the Cluster of Excellence of the profile area Dimensions of Europeanization.
Laurin MACKOWITZ is a university assistant (PostDoc) at the Department of Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy.
Burkhard PÖTTLER is Associate Professor at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology.
Rafael Y. SCHÖGLER is Associate Professor at the Department of Translation Studies.
Leire URRICELQUI is a university assistant at the Department of Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy.
Heidrun ZETTELBAUER is Professor of Cultural and Gender History at the Department of History.
Chiara ZUANNI is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities, specializing in museology, at the Center for Information Modeling at the Department of History.