Luzius Bernhard

All registrations to the ZKF I-II via Prof. Liz Haas -> https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2026S/S40684/ 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 19.0 ECTS

Liz Haas

Semester topic: War, Peace, Man We open a space to think about war, peace and man as modes of organization and as positions through which authority, ownership, and violence are arranged and justified. It asks how certain forms of order persist by remaining invisible, and why violence becomes explicit when these arrangements begin to fail. Working across philosophy, history and… 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 19.0 ECTS

Luzius Bernhard

ZKF 7+ – PRAXIS – PRE-DIPLOMA ZKF 7 is aimed at students who have already completed 6 ZKFs and are preparing for their diploma. Within this framework, students independently develop a project that either directly evolves into the diploma or takes the form of a project study that serves as a preparatory exercise for the diploma. To carry out the… 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 12.0 ECTS

Liz Haas

Semester topic: War, Peace, Man We open a space to think about war, peace and man as modes of organization and as positions through which authority, ownership, and violence are arranged and justified. It asks how certain forms of order persist by remaining invisible, and why violence becomes explicit when these arrangements begin to fail. Working across philosophy, history and… 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 12.0 ECTS

Luzius Bernhard

All registrations to the ZKF VIII via Prof. Liz Haas  -> https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/courses/2026S/S40686/ 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 10.0 ECTS

Liz Haas

ZKF 8 is intended for students who are preparing their diploma or already working on it. The focus is on individual supervision by the respective advisors, as well as on selected sessions that provide both content-related and organizational support. In addition to individual consultations, there are group sessions addressing study progress and spatial planning for the diploma, one session dedicated… 2025W/2026S, Individual Artistic Instruction, 10.0 ECTS

Jan Völker

Aus der zunehmenden Menge an Auseinandersetzungen mit den gegenwärtigen Formen des Kapitalismus sichten wir einzelne Beiträge und diskutieren Auszüge. Der Schwerpunkt liegt auf den Verquickungen von Technologie, Kapitalismus, Wissenschaft. 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Jan Völker

We continue our review of the critique of capitalism and its technological future: this time, however, we turn to practical considerations. Can there be a practice of critique? What practice is appropriate? Or is practice merely a displacement activity? 2026S, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Jan Völker

Der beginnende Kapitalismus fragt sich nach seiner Vorzeit: Wie und weshalb kam es zur gesellschaftlichen Ordnung des Staates, der die Natur und die Moral verknüpft und die sozialen Verhältnisse reguliert? Zwei Perspektiven stehen einander entgegen: Einmal die frühe des Staatstheoretikers Thomas Hobbes, der 1651 einen gewalttätigen Naturzustand postulierte, der der staatlichen Ordnung vorweggehe. Und einmal die spätere Version von Rousseau,… 2025W, scientific seminar, 4.0 ECTS

Silke Geppert

How did different identities dress in antiquity and the Middle Ages? Where did raw materials come from and how were they traded? What do we know about dress codes in antiquity and how do they live on in the Middle Ages? These and other questions of the material cultural history of textiles and clothing will be explored in this lecture… 2025W, Lecture, 2.0 ECTS

Silke Geppert

FASHION AND TEXTILE II From the Renaissance to the French Revolution How have different identities dressed since the Renaissance? Where did textile raw materials come from and how were they traded? What do we know about dress codes since the Renaissance and how do they live on to this day? These and other questions of the material cultural history of… 2026S, Lecture, 2.0 ECTS