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GITS November/December Newsletter
Donnerstag, 20. November 2025
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November & December 2025
The semester is slowly drawing to a close, but we have a few more events coming up!
As you might know, the Center for Inter-American Studies (C.IAS) is now part of the Graz School of Interdisciplinary Transnational Studies (GITS) alongside the Centre for South East European Studies (CSEES). We will have our GITS Kickoff Event on December 1, 2025 and an open house GITS Christmas Party on December 5, 2025 - we welcome you to join us! Find all the info below.
Best wishes from the team!
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Extended Call for Papers - Camps Conference 2026
Following the conferences from 2022 and 2024, the 3rd Graz/Puerto Rico International Conference on Human Rights is entitled "Camps, Belonging, and Abolition Democracy" and will be held in June 2026 at the University of Graz, organized by the Center of Inter-American Studies (University of Graz, Austria) and the Institute of Caribbean Studies together with the Department of English (University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus, Puerto Rico).
The deadline for the CfP is on January 19, 2026! Please send applications to camps2026(at)uni-graz.at
All infos on the conference and the CfP can be found through the Camps Conference website.
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Tuesday, 25.11.2025
CSEES Brown Bag Lecture
Harald Heppner
“Modern Times with a delay. The beginning of the transition in Europe's Southeast”
This lecture, based on a publication currently in print, is a plea for paying attention to the 18th century: it was already then that the transition began which is understood as a process of Europeanization and continues to the present day.
more info here
1.00-2.00 PM
SR 111.41 - Beethovenstraße 8, 4th floor
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Wednesday, 26.11.2025
Guest Lecture - C.IAS Spotlight Talk
Anita Krainer & Johannes Waldmüller
“Inter-Culturality under Threat: An Analysis of Repression and the Constitutional Reform in Ecuador”
Interculturality as a key concept of coexistence based on indigenous relational territoriality is a cornerstone of Ecuadors’ constitution. The Carta Magna from 2008 recognises nature as a legal subject, enshrines the Sumak Kawsay (Buen Vivir, The Good Life) as a guiding principle in 99 articles and guarantees ample collective rights including bilingual intercultural education …
more info here
6.00-7.30 PM
C.IAS - Schubertstraße 21/ground floor
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Monday, 01.12.2025
Lecture and Kickoff Event
Ruth Wodak
“Driving on the Right” – Analyzing Far-right Rhetoric
Much research illustrates that formerly taboo subjects and expressions in mainstream discourse are being accepted increasingly ('normalization') and have become part and parcel of mainstream politics (Bevelander & Wodak 2019; Wodak 2021, 2022; Wodak & Rheindorf 2022, 2026). Such normalization goes hand in hand with a certain ‘shamelessness’ …
more info here
5.00-7.00 PM
Unicorn, Conference Deck - Schubertstraße 6a, 8010 Graz
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Tuesday, 02.12.2025
Exhibition and Guided Tour
C.IAS and the Austro-American Society for Styria (ÖAG) are organizing a guided tour for the exhibition by Diego Bianchi Errores Irreales and Celina Eceiza Ofrenda. For more infos and to reserve your spot, please write to centeramericas@uni-graz.at.
5.00-6.00 PM
HALLE FÜR KUNST - Burgring 2, 8010 Graz
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Friday, 05.12.2025
GITS Christmas Party
We are hosting an open house Chritmas party - everyone is welcome! Bring your colleagues, friends, and family for fun, food, and drinks! Christmas cookies or sweet treats are also welcome.
starting at 11 AM until open end
GITS - Schubertstraße 21/ground floor
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Tuesday, 09.12.2025
CSEES Brown Bag Lecture
Nina Žnidaršič
“Autonomy of Journalism and the Journalist’s Action in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia”
The lecture will present the results of extensive doctoral research on the autonomy of journalism and journalist’s action in the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1963–1992). The research examines the relations between the internal logic of journalistic institutions and the external logic of the socio-political system, demonstrating that the autonomy of journalism is neither univocal nor predetermined …
more info here
1.00-2.00 PM
SR 111.21 - Beethovenstraße 8/4th floor
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Tuesday, 09.12.2025
Guest Lecture - HuK Forum
Yasemin Besen-Cassino
"Serving up Politics: Effects of Political Polarization on Service Sector Workers in the United States"
Saying “Merry Christmas” or “Happy Holidays,” the decisions to mask or not to mask during the recent Covid-19 pandemic, allowing the homeless to stay in stores or calling the police or simply displaying the Pride flag during Pride month have all become points of contention in retail and service sector jobs …
more info here
5.00-6.30 PM
SZ 15.22, RESOWI Section G - Universitätsplatz 15, 2nd floor
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Contact
Center for Inter-American Studies
Graz School of Interdisciplinary Transnational Studies
University of Graz, Austria
Schubertstraße 21/ground floor on the right
+43 (0)316 380 8213
centeramericas@uni-graz.at
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