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Long Night of Research | U12

How much non:rest does a library need?

We’ll be exploring this question for a whole night at our U12 station!

Embark on a journey through the university library. Exciting hands-on stations await you in our non-rest area: Try your hand at making paper, painting initials, crafting and drawing with a 3D pen. Visit our Karl Popper archive and marvel at the oldest and most valuable treasures in our treasure chamber. A large book flea market also awaits you.

Visit our points of interest:

Aula: Book flea market

Level 1: Infopoint (stamp pass, gifts, information material and much more)

Level 2:

– Paper drawing
– Painting with a 3D pen
– Handicrafts (bookmarks, buttons and much more)
– Our oldest object

Level 3: Karl Popper archive

We look forward to seeing you!

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Book flea market

For the Long Night of Research 2024, the UBK is once again organizing its big book flea market!

On Thursday, 23.5. and Friday, 24.5. from 9.00 – 17.00 you can browse, rummage and buy again – at kilo prices:

1/2 kilo of books for 1 euro!

As always, the flea market is located in the assembly hall in front of the library entrance.

On Thursday, mainly textbooks and academic literature will be on sale, followed on Friday by fiction, children’s/young adult literature, illustrated books and general specialist literature.

There is something for everyone – guaranteed!

We are happy when our books find a new home!

Reduced opening hours around “Pentecost” (May 18-21)

Sat, May 18 – Mon, May 20 2024 the library will be CLOSED!
Tue, May 21: The library will be open from 08:30 to 16:00.

University members have unrestricted access to the library‘s reading rooms.

All registered users have unrestricted access to the library‘s reading rooms.

Registration for the 24-hour library is possible via the campus system under “My settings” >> 24-hour library.
Please register at least one day before you plan to use this service for the first time. Accounts are activated every day at midnight.7

Es ist ein Wald über die Sache gewachsen … | Z gozdom preraščeno …

Photography and literature exhibition on the Loibl concentration camp | Fotografska in literarna razstava o koncentracijskem taborišču na Ljubelju.

Where | Kje: Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt|Celovec (AAU), Klagenfurt University Library | Univerzitetna knjižnica v Celovcu (LV-Lounge, level 2), 07.05.2024-31.06.2024

Curators | Kuratorke: ELENA MESSNER | TINA PERISUTTI | DANA RAUSCH

The cooperation partners – Institute for Slavic Studies of the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, WerkStattMuseum|delavnicaMUZEJ in the Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Haus, University Library Klagenfurt of the AAU, Institute for History of the AAU and Robert-Musil-Institute for Literary Research|Carinthian Literature Archive of the AAU invite you:

Exhibition opening on May 7, 2024, 6 pm – on the occasion of the liberation of the prisoners of the Loibl concentration camp from the power of the SS on the day before the surrender of the German Wehrmacht.

Odprtje razstave 7. maja 2024 ob 18. uri – ob dnevu osvoboditve ljubeljskega koncentracijskega taborišča dan pred kapitulacijo nacistične vojske v Evropi.

Plakat zur Ausstellung

Salutations | Pozdravne besede:

Lydia Zellacher (Head of Klagenfurt University Library)

Cristina Beretta (Institute of Slavic Studies, head of departement)

Short historical inputs | Zgodovinski input:

Alexandra Pulvermacher (Institute for History)

Sissi Rausch (WerkStattMuseum/delavnicaMUZEJ Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Haus)

Moderation: Edith Bernhofer (Robert-Musil-Institute for Literary Research|Carinthian Literature Archive)

Diskusije | Discussions:

Exhibiting concentration camp literature – how(so)?|Zakaj in kako razstavljati literaturo o koncentracijskih taboriščih? Diskusija s kuratorkama|Discussion with the curators Tina Perisutti and Elena Messner. Moderation: Cristina Beretta

How does a historical material become a theatrical performance?/Kako prevesti historično gradivo v odrsko predstavo? Pogovor z Marjanom Štikrom (gledališki ustvarjalec). Conversation with Marjan Štikar (Theater maker). Moderation: Tina Perisutti

On the trail of the perpetrators. The significance of the prisoners for the prosecution and the memory of the Loibl concentration camp. Conversation with Lisa Rettl (Contemporary historian, exhibition curator,
therapist) and Peter Pirker (kärnten.museum)

About the exhibition | O razstavi

Razstava-instalacija umetniških fotografij in citatov iz literarnih besedil ponuja vpogled v del dolgo časa zamolčane zgodovine Koroške. Kakor dejansko zaraščeni gozd na izkrčenem terenu koncentracijskega taborišča na Ljubelju, tako je – podobna gozdu iz množice listov – narasla tudi literatura, ki v romanih, dramah, pismih, spominih in poeziji iz Avstrije, Francije, Češke, Slovenije in Srbije nudi intenziven in vznemirjajoč vpogled v „gradbišče smrti“.

Leta 1943 je SS na Ljubelju zgradila podružnico koncentracijskega taborišča Mauthausen z lokacijama na obeh straneh prelaza. Danes sta na slovenski strani spominsko obeležje in skrbno urejen muzej. Na severni strani se po zaslugi uspešnega spominskega dela Komiteja Mauthausen Kärnten|Koroška s spominskimi ploščami, talnimi ploščami, umetniškimi posegi in vodenimi ogledi intenzivno obravnava vprašanje suženjskega dela na bivšem gradbišču predora. Umetniška razstava in njen spremljevalni program se posvečata tudi vprašanju, ali ne bi bil že skrajni čas, da koncentracijskemu taborišču-dvojčku sledi sodobni muzej-dvojček, ki bi se s svojimi muzejskimi sredstvi zoperstavil težnji po pozabi.

Curated and designed by Elena Messner, Dana Rausch and Tina Perisutti, the exhibition uses artistic photographs and quotes from literary texts to provide an insight into a part of Carinthia’s long-hidden history. It shows that literature – a forest of leaves that has grown just as much as the actual sprawling forest surrounding the cleared concentration camp site at Loibl|Ljubelj – is capable of providing intensive insights into the “construction site of death”, with novels, plays, letters, memories and poems from Austria, France, the Czech Republic, Slovenia and Serbia.

In 1943, the SS set up a satellite camp of the Mauthausen concentration camp at Loibl|Ljubelj with sites on both sides of the pass. Today there is a memorial and a carefully designed museum on the Slovenian side. On the north side, thanks to the successful commemorative work of the Mauthausen Committee Carinthia/Koroška, the slave labor at the tunnel construction site is intensively addressed by means of plaques, floor panels, artistic interventions and guided tours. The artistic exhibition and its supporting program are also dedicated to the question of whether it might not be time for the former twin concentration camp to be followed by a current twin museum in order to counter the urge to forget in a museum setting.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

https://www.werkstattmuseum.at/wald_dt-0

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Robert Musil im Spannungsfeld zwischen Psychologie und Phänomenologie

Hrsg.: Artur R. Boelderl, Barbara Neymeyr; De Gruyter: Berlin/Boston, 2024 (Untersuchungen zur Deutschen Literaturgeschichte, Bd. 170)

To be found in the reading corner

This interdisciplinary conference volume examines the significance of psychology and phenomenology in Robert Musil’s work. The focus is on Gestalt psychology and psychoanalysis as well as phenomenological philosophy and neurophenomenology. The contributions explore the interdiscursive fields of tension systematically and from a cultural-historical perspective. In this way, they open up new insights into Musil’s poetics, which also makes philosophy and psychology fruitful in literary terms.

You find items of the recommended work in the reading corner (12) as well as in the open stacks (12-266.Musi.2 | can be borrowed!) mit der Signatur I 657748.

Buchcover von Barbara Neymeyr: Schillers Moralästhetik als verfehlte Kant-Kritik und die >Kalokagathia

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Barbara Neymeyr: Schillers Moralästhetik als verfehlte Kant-Kritik und die ›Kalokagathia‹-Idee 2023 (Literatur und Philosophie, Bd. 6)

To be found in the open stacks

The book critically analyzes Schiller’s moral aesthetics as a supposedly more moderate alternative to Kant’s moral ethics. Turning away from current research theses, it is shown that Schiller’s objections to Kant, as well as those of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, are based on misjudgments and that Schiller’s own design even implies a moral rigorism against his will. In addition, Schiller’s conception of ‘grace’ and ‘dignity’ contains inconsistencies, the cause of which is investigated. Beyond the problem-oriented systematic analyses, a cultural-historical horizon-building reveals how much Schiller and Hölderlin are influenced by the ancient ideals of ‘kalokagathia’ and ‘sympatheia’, which differ fundamentally from Kant’s philosophy.

In her book, Prof. Dr. Barbara Neymeyr uses systematic analyses and cultural-historical horizon-building to show the extent to which Schiller’s moral aesthetics not only prove to be a misguided critique of Kant, but also how far removed his concept is from Kant’s ethics. These findings offer a new perspective on the philosophical tradition and encourage us to reflect on the supposed alternatives to the ethics of duty. With her work, Neymeyr makes a valuable contribution to the Kant Year 2024 and beyond.

You find the recommended book in the open stacks (12-264.Schi.2) with the booknumber I 628793 and it can be borrowed!

www.canva.com (Lizenznehmerin UBK)

Game of Chairs

Chair casting in the non-rest area on level 2

More comfort for your studies: the UBK is buying new chairs.

Test our samples and help decide:

Go to the non-rest area.
Sit down.
Choose your darlings.
Make a mark next to your favourites!

From April 17 to 30, the chair candidates will be available for you to try out all around the clock in the non-rest area. Sit down, choose your favorites and make a mark next to them on the pinboard.

From Monday to Friday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., we are also available to answer your questions and receive your suggestions in person in the non-rest area. You are also welcome to give us feedback on the new seating in the reading rooms at any time via e-mail or the feedback box directly at the chair casting!

Come along, we look forward to your opinion!

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Science books of the year 2024

We present outstanding scientific non-fiction books from the categories of science & technology, medicine & biology, humanities/social and cultural sciences and junior science books.

To the science books of the year 2024

The concept SCIENCE BOOK OF THE YEAR is a cooperation between the Ministry of Science and the publishing house Buchkultur.

The titles can all be borrowed for 30 days and can be found on the wall shelves in the LV Lounge on level 2 of the University Library.

Enjoy reading – stay curious!

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40. Symposium zur Geschichte Millstatts und Kärntens. Hrsg. von Sabine Seelbach. Frank & Timme: Berlin, 2024

To be found in the reading corner

The results of the 40th symposium “The History of Millstatt and Carinthia” reflect the region’s rich and varied cultural history. The authors engage with it from various perspectives: landscape, architecture, art, codicology and science history. Their discussions lead from the question whether the Oldenburg (near Spittal) was Carinthia’s largest stronghold to the journey taken by illuminated parchments from Italy to Millstatt, an example of international mediaeval book culture. They prove how prominent texts have been identified with the help of Millstatt parchment fragments, a fact that raises new questions about the literature canon in monasteries. The correspondence between anthropologist Felix von Luschan and Carlo de Marchesetti allows insights into science history around 1900. Very close to contemporary debates is the analysis of Felix von Luschan’s portrait collection, which permits the re-evaluation of anthropological portrait photography of other cultures.

Of particular interest is Ulrich Seebach’s contribution: he talks about his most recent research in Klagenfurt University Library’s parchment fragments, several of which he was able to identify and describe for the first time.

Missale Fragment PE 52

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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.

To be found in the reading corner

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.