Sabine Hark, Johanna Hofbauer. "Die ungleiche Universität. Diversität, Exzellenz und Anti-Diskriminierung". A must-read, if you are interested in universities' image campaigns, using fashionable terms like "diversity" and "inclusion". www.passagen.at/gesamtverzei...

Career alternatives for Art Historians. Part 1: Build a house en miniature

"YOU ARE PRIVILEGED. Just reading this sentence makes you part of the 85% of the world population that is literate and 20% that understand English." Ruben Pater, The Politics of Design. ... Working on Disability Studies and Information Design makes me think about basic issues. And it's so true!

1/12 2020 starteten wir in der AG Arbeitsbedingungen Kunstwissenschaft des Ulmer Vereins (AG AK) eine Umfrage, um die prekären Arbeitsbedingungen in unserem Feld sichtbar zu machen. Jetzt, 2024, stellen wir die Ergebnisse vor: "Prekäre Karrieren" - ein erschreckender Blick auf unseren Arbeitsalltag.

Today is the "International Day of Disabled Persons". Just think a bit about "inclusion" and what inclusive systems actually mean. Including everyone. Especially : Including and accommodating people who have historically been excluded (as because of their ability). Are we really including everyone?

Und weiter geht die Diskussion! Warum piktografische Genderneutralität historisch betrachtet eben keine Genderneutralität ist! Beate Hausbichler sieht dies jedenfalls anders... www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Auch ich, in meinem zarten Alter von 40+, werde nach wie vor als "wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs" bezeichnet... ganz automatisch fällt mir da das Lied ein: "Forever Young / I want to be, forever young... oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

Annual Conference, PHRC25, CfP: "Photography, Value, History": What is the history of photography’s value a history of? Is it a labour and economic history? An institutional history of museum cataloguing systems and art market pressure? photographichistory.wordpress.com/annual-confe...

www.derstandard.at/story/300000... Neue "geschlechtsneutrale Piktogramme" in Wiener Öffis oder viel eher: zurück zum Ursprung --> Male as Norm. Daher lesen wir nun die vermeintlich schwangere Frau als "Mann mit Bierwampe". Prost!

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Gender Pay Gap im Kunst- und Kulturbereich in Ö... Schlimmer geht's nicht. www.bmkoes.gv.at/kunst-und-ku...

If you are in Vienna and interested in the history of icons/symbols/pictograms, come and join us. Presentation by Hisayasu Ihara! www.akbild.ac.at/de/institute...

Neulich in der Otto Wagner Kirche am Steinhof...

Neulich im AKH (Allgemeines Krankenhaus Wien)...

CFP: "Women in Photography". It's time to think about what inclusion/exclusion, categorizations and historiography actually means for photohistorical research! Who is Moholy-Nagy? Laszlo or Lucia? Lucia or Laszlo? Lucia Moholy-Nagy or Laszlo? britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blo...