Witnessing

The BA CDC Lab is the central study area in the CDS program, where cross-disciplinarity is practiced in a research-based project and a scientific paper. Building on this year's CDS research focus Witnessing, the lab combines input sessions, peer presentations and individual mentoring. It offers the opportunity to work either individually or collaboratively.

During the lab, we will engage with various approaches to witnessing as well as with neighboring concepts such as testimony and evidence from heterogeneous perspectives that arise from the following key readings:

• Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub, Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History (1992)
• Carlo Ginzburg, Threads and Traces: True False Fictive (2012)
• Sybille Krämer and Sigrid Weigel (eds.), Testimony/Bearing Witness. Epistemology, Ethics, History and Culture (2017)
• Kia Lindroos and Frank Möller (eds.), Art as Political Witness (2017)
• Kelly Oliver, Responsible Subjects and Witnessing, in: Response Ethics (2018)
• Michael Richardson, Nonhuman Witnessing: War, Data, and Ecology after the End of the World (2024)
• Michael Richardson and Magdalena Zolkos (eds.), Witnessing the Anthropocene. Issue 4, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 28 (2023).
• Kerstin Schankweiler, Verena Straub, and Tobias Wendl (eds.), Image Testimonies: Witnessing in Times of Social Media (2018)
• Susan Schuppli, Material Witness: Media, Forensics, Evidence (2020)

For details, see the syllabus on the Cloud.

Access key readings here: https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/cloud/index.php/f/23930428