The graduate conference "DEN FINGER IN DIE WUNDE LEGEN - Kritische Phänomenologien der Gewalt", which will take place at our institute on January 11/12. The aim of the conference is, on the one hand, to test the currently intensifying debate on so-called "critical phenomenology", particularly in the Anglo-American world, with regard to phenomena of violence. In addition, it is intended to open up a place of exchange for young phenomenological (violence) research at the Institute of Philosophy in Vienna. Based on concrete analyses of phenomena, the aim is to show how a phenomenology that sensitizes us to social, political and global problems can be constructively combined with descriptive, genealogical and critical theoretical elements and thus open up new insights for research into violence.

In addition to contributions from advanced Master's and doctoral students at our institute who are researching the phenomena of violence, we are also looking forward to the following three keynotes:

(1) Claudia Brunner, political scientist and associate professor at the Center for Peace Research and Peace Education, Institute for Educational Science and Educational Research at the University of Klagenfurt with the lecture "Structural, symbolic, normative - and epistemic: thinking violence further in colonial modernity"

(2) Pascal Delhom, Senior Lecturer at the Philosophical Seminar of the Europa-Universität Flensburg, with the lecture "Erlittene Gewalt. The question of access to the phenomena"

(3) Gerald Posselt, Senior Lecturer at our Institute, with the lecture: "Sign language of injuries: Intersections of linguistic and physical violence"

More detailed abstracts of the keynotes, the other lectures, the exact time schedule and background readings on the keynotes can be found here: phaenomenologie.univie.ac.at/forschung/graduiertenkonferenz-den-finger-in-die-wunde-legen/