The Climate of Society: 28th Congress of the Austrian Association for Sociology

30 June –  2 July 2025

Presentation: "Cause I'm happy…"? Volunteering for Food Banks in Austria in the Context of Recent Transformations of the Welfare State

Brigitte Bargetz and Markus Griesser (WU Vienna)
 

University of Graz
Team Members: Brigitte Bargetz, Markus Griesser

Midterm-Conference Research Project "New Charity Economy and Affective Statehood"

21 – 23 May 2025

"Food Charity, Welfare State Transformations, and Affective Economies: Critical Engagements" 

Organizers: Brigitte Bargetz, Markus Griesser, and Jessica Gasior

Support: Fynn Schröder
 

WU Campus, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna

Team Members: Brigitte Bargetz, Jessica Gasior, Markus Griesser
 

More information: Program

Registration by May 16, 2025 incl. the day(s) of attendance: Jessica Gasior (contact.foodcharity@wu.ac.at)

ESPAnet Austria 7. Research Conference Social Policy Analysis 

24 – 25 April 2025 

Presentation: Freiwilligenarbeit im Kontext von Food Charity-Einrichtungen in Österreich: aktueller Stand und widersprüchliche Verhältnisse

Brigitte Bargetz and Markus Griesser (WU Vienna)

Department of Sociology, University of Innsbruck

Team Members: Brigitte Bargetz, Markus Griesser

Book Presentation and Discussion: Discourses on Poverty and Social Work

14 March 2025
 

Presentation of the book "Discourses on Poverty. Perspectives from the Media, Politics and Social Work” (Bielefeld 2024)

With the authors and the editors Anja Kerle, Fabian Kessl, and Alban Knecht.

Depot, Vienna

Team Member: Markus Griesser

Conference: Hopeful Attachments on a Ruined Planet

9 – 11 October 2024
 

Presentation: We will all be disappointed in the end: Rethinking utopia from the affective and temporal politics of ruins

Brigitte Bargetz (WU Vienna) and Sara Minelli (Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin)
 

Humanities Centre for Advanced Studies "Futures of Sustainability", University of Hamburg

Team Member: Brigitte Bargetz

PhD Course: Critique, Care and Experimentation

6 – 8 May 2024

With Dorthe Staunæs (chair), Brigitte Bargetz, Malou Juelskjær, Nina Lykke, Erin Manning and Sverre Raffnsøe 

Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Campus Emdrup

Team Member: Brigitte Bargetz

"Ideen-Reichtum": Pre-conference for young poverty researchers

15 – 16 April 2024 

Organization and moderation: Hannah-Maria Eberle, Markus Griesser, Anja Kerle, Alban Knecht

Center for Education St. Virgil, Salzburg as part of the 14th Poverty Conference (Austrian Anti Poverty Network)

Team Member: Markus Griesser

Kick-Off-Workshop Research Project “New Charity Economy Through the Lens of Affective Statehood”

30 November – 1 December 2023

Food Charity in Times of Crisis: Three Perspectives

With Fabian Kessl (University of Wuppertal), Hannah Lambie-Mumford (University of Sheffield) and Tiina Silvasti (University of Jyväskylä)

Moderation: Johanna Hofbauer (WU Vienna)

Public event: 30 November 2023, 16:00 – 18:00 (s.t.)

Room 6, Building AD, Welthandelsplatz 1, 1020 Vienna

WU Vienna

Team Members: Brigitte Bargetz, Jessica Gasior, Markus Griesser

Workshop: Methoden der empirischen Affektforschung

9 – 10 November 2023

Presentation: Gefühle im Staat finden

Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Organization: Manuela Beyer (Dresden) and Christian Helge Peters (Halle)

Team Member: Brigitte Bargetz

Presentations and Discussion: Politik|en der Empathie. Welche Empathie braucht die Politik?

10 May 2023, 18:30 – 21:00

Presentation: Politiken der Empathie – Eine feministische Kritik

Gewölbesaal – Altes Kaufhaus, Florinsmarkt Koblenz (Germany)

Cooperation: ISSO-Institut, Universities Koblenz and Erfurt, Martin-Görlitz-Stiftung and Denkbares

Team Member: Brigitte Bargetz