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Manuel Ludwig Lexer: Collaborating with ambitious young professionals like Mohamed is particularly exhilarating

Manuel Ludwig Lexer is a Senior Manager at Infineon Technologies. In our interview, he shared his perspective on mentoring Mohamed Salem, one of the Technology Scholarship holders and AAU alumnus, and his path from intern to full-time employee of the company.

Prof. Kyandoghere Kyamakya: The success of scholarship recipients is envisioned to elevate Klagenfurt as a renowned hub for technological education and innovation

Academic supervisor of Technology Scholarship holders studying Master’s degree programme in Information and Communication Engineering, Prof. Kyandoghere Kyamakya offers his viewpoint on the pivotal role of the scholarship programme in shaping the future of both students and the regional ICT labour market. Read more →

Mohamed Salem: My Technology Scholarship was a catalyst for an incredible journey of personal and professional transformation

Last year we had the pleasure to introduce Mohamed Salem, a Technology Scholarship holder from Egypt, who successfully graduated from the Master’s degree in Information and Communications Engineering at AAU. We take now the opportunity to interview him again to follow up on his career development in the Carinthian ICT sector and reflect on how he has benefited from his experience as a Technology Scholarship holder.

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Literarische Aushandlungen von Liebe und Ökonomie. Hrsg. von Paul Keckeis, Gerda E. Moser †, Viktoria Take-Walter. De Gruyter: Berlin, 2020.

The book deals with the eternally gripping constellation of love and economy and collects contributions from the Middle Ages to the present: the focus is on literature of the High and Late Middle Ages; 1800 and 1900 as the end of eras; realism and contemporary literature. Spanning epochs and genres, aesthetic and historical (dis)continuities that are hardly ever targeted by specific research become tangible for the reader.

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The contributions to the volume in question date back to an international conference – “Liebe & Ökonomie. Literarische Aushandlungen” – held in November 2020 at Klagenfurt University. The social relevance of the topic is reflected in recent philosophical as well as cultural and social-economic interest. Starting with Alain Badiou’s “Lob der Liebe” and ending with Slavoj Zizek’s “love is evil”, from the poetry of love to its sociology, the interdependence between love and economy owes its particular topicality not least to the fact that “mutual penetration of capitalism, sexuality, gender relations and technology” within the conditions of our “hyper-networked modernity” (Eva Illouz) is exceptionally evident.

The publication collects contributions dating from the Middle Ages to the present:

Emphasis is on the literature of the High and Late Middle Ages; 1800 and 1900 as the end of eras; realism and contemporary literature. The marked interconnectedness between epochs and genres makes aesthetic and historical (dis)continuities that are hardly ever targeted by specific research become tangible for the reader. Re-readings and close readings of “classic” and contemporary (also popular) texts, the contributions address aesthetic and political potentials unfolding in the fictional configuration of the battleground of love and economy, examine various concepts of love in the course of history or their cultural otherness, put gender-theoretical perspectives in question and ask for text strategies in the conflict area of aesthetic and social order.