Gesundheitstag 2019
VeranstaltungsortAula | AAUVeranstalter Gesundheitsmanagement, Sicherheit & BarrierefreiheitBeschreibungKontaktMarlene Starc (marlene.starc@aau.at)
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APL 2019 | Truth, fiction, illusion – worlds and experience
VeranstaltungsortAlpen-Adria-Universität KlagenfurtVeranstalter Institut für Medien- und KommunikationswissenschaftAPL und TCSBeschreibungCan anything further be said about truth? While contemporary worries about a post-truth world reinforce both ordinary and traditional senses of the word, a philosophical tradition that for centuries has not failed to put truth into question or critique finds itself in a situation echoing that faced by the Greeks at the dawn of philosophy.Few would have dreamt, only a few years ago, that we would once again have such a compelling concern with the facts, with truth. But today’s authoritarian populism has returned us to questions of the fragility of truth. These questions have cast deep divisions in contemporary life. Tensions between truth and falsity, between the fictional and the fictitious, and between reality and illusion haunt contemporary experience. Social and cultural thought have for a long period questioned assumptions of ‘objective’ experience, but such assumptions continue to predominate in the homo economicus of today’s neoclassicism and neoliberalism. As prevalent is the fragmentation into worlds, subjective worlds, national worlds, the worlds of human and nonhuman beings. Such worlds are at the same time territories, digital platforms, communities, indeed in some cases commons. To what extent are such worlds themselves constituted through truths or fictions, through narratives? To what extent does this mean a break with representation altogether, whether in art, in literature, in politics? Or to what extent does it entail a radical rethinking of what representation is?Tracing a line of thought from Nietzsche to Deleuze and beyond, one discovers in the objection to a pervasive “will to truth” the demand that thought be regarded instead as a form of creation. The oppositions through which truth has traditionally been understood (true and false, truth and error) do not apply, for instance, when one considers the literary text, where the question of whether there exists a natural or necessary correspondence with the world event remains a matter of conjecture.Vortragende(r)Donnerstag, 30.5., 10:40 Jeff Malpas (University of Tasmania) “Where Hegel Meets the Chinese Gulls’: World, Experience, and Place in the Work of Kenneth White“, HS ADonnerstag, 30.5., 15:20 Stuart Elden (University of Warwick) “Foucault, Shakespeare & the Oath“, HS AFreitag, 31.5., 13:00 Maria Margaroni (University of Cyprus)“Catherine Malabou and the End of Psychoanalytic Fictions”, HS AFreitag, 31.5., 16:20 Bernard Stiegler (Centre Georges-Pompidou Paris) “Debt in the Age of Modern Technology”, HS AFreitag, 31.5., 18:00 Filmscreening “Supercargo” + “CSL”, HS 1Samstag, 1.6., 11:00 Dialogue between Mbembe & Stiegler, HS ASamstag, 1.6., 17:20 Achille Mbembe (University of Witwatersrand)“Critique of Black Reason and the Politics of Enmity”, HS A KontaktUniv.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Winter (rainer.winter@aau.at)
The surface lexical layer of identity: Elites in negotiation with speakers
VeranstaltungsortN.0.45Veranstalter Institut für Anglistik und AmerikanistikBeschreibungFocusing on Slavic languages, Danko Šipka provides a systematic approach to lexical indicators of cultural identity, postulating the following three layers: deep, exchange, and surface. The deep layer pertains to culture-specific words, divisions, and features that are generally not subject to change and intervention. The exchange layer includes lexical markers of cultural influences resulting from lexical borrowing, which situates the speakers into various cultural circles. This layer is subject to gradual changes and some limited level of intervention from linguistic elites is possible. The present lecture focuses on the surface layer, encompasses the processes and consequences of lexical planning. It is subject to abrupt changes and it is shaped in constant negotiation between linguistic elites and general body of speakers. The author proposes an epistemological construct for the study of the maneuvers linguistic elites are pursuing in enforcing authority and national unity and the consequences of such maneuvers. Concrete measures within this construct such as prominence, volume, and acceptance indicators, as well as lexical fragmentation, vertical, and horizontal distance are elaborated upon.Vortragende(r)Dr. Danko ŠipkaKontaktLisa Ditz (anglistik@aau.at)
“Why can’t we just move on? The past is the past, so why keep bringing it up?“: Deconstructing Mythological Sites of Memory in the U.S.
VeranstaltungsortHS 10Veranstalter Institut für Anglistik und AmerikanistikBeschreibungExplaining the importance of the EJI Legacy Museum and National Memorial, Bryan Stevenson states, “Our nation’s history of racial injustice casts a shadow across the American landscape. This shadow cannot be lifted until we shine the light of truth on the destructive violence that shaped our nation, traumatized people of color, and compromised our commitment to the rule of law and to equal justice.” Monuments, specifically plantation houses and Civil War reenactments, construct narratives of American history that obscure the shadow of racial injustice that covers America. Authors and artists from the nineteenth century through the present have worked to counter these false narratives of American history. This presentation will examine some of the ways that these creators bring the shadow of racial injustice into the light in literature, music, film, and visual art by showing how we need to reconsider sites of memory if America ever hopes to move forward from its long history of racial repression. I will discuss how these creations work in correlation with physical sites of memory such as the Whitney Plantation, the EJI Legacy Museum and National Memorial, and even sites like Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to disrupt and counter the false narratives perpetuated by sites such as the White House of the Confederacy, Oak Alley Plantation, and the Shack Up Inn. Ultimately, my presentation will answer the question countless American students ask when studying American literature and encountering narratives that differ from the myths that continue to populate the American psyche: “Why can't we just move on? The past is the past, so why keep bringing it up?"Vortragende(r)Dr. Matthew TeutschUniversity of BergenKontaktAssoc. Prof. Dr. Alexa Weik von Mossner (Alexa.WeikvonMossner@aau.at)
Arbeits- und sozialversicherungsrechtliche Fragestellungen
VeranstaltungsortUniversität KlagenfurtHörsaal CVeranstalter Fakultät für WirtschaftswissenschaftenBeschreibungQualifizierte und motivierte MitarbeiterInnen sind ein entscheidender Wettbewerbsfaktor. Nach der erfolgreichen Phase der Unternehmensgründung besteht oft Bedarf, MitarbeiterInnen zur Unterstützung im Unternehmen einzustellen. Bei der Personaleinstellung sind zahlreiche gesetzliche und kollektivvertragliche Regelungen zu beachten.Ziel dieser Einheit ist es, die TeilnehmerInnen mit den arbeitsrechtlichen Grundsätzen der Personalrekrutierung vertraut zu machen. Es werden die rechtlichen Möglichkeiten von Mitarbeiterbeschäftigung auf selbständiger und unselbständiger Basis erörtert. Sozialversicherungsrechtliche Gesichtspunkte runden diesen Abend ab.Vortragende(r)Mag. Sabrina Habernik (Wirtschaftskammer Kärnten)KontaktPatrick Gregori BSc. MSc. (Patrick.Gregori@aau.at)
