KULTUR DENKEN: Der Podcast des ifk. Die Befragung von Kultur, von Raymond Williams als »ganze Lebensweise« definiert, verzahnt Kulturwissenschaft mit gesellschaftlichen und politischen Fragestellungen. Das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten – theoretisch, empirisch, historisch, kunstbezogen – wird damit zu einer Praxis mit akademischen und außerakademischen Schauplätzen. Der Podcast nimmt beide Wirkungssphären ernst, indem er sowohl ihre Arbeitsweisen als auch die Rolle von Kulturwissenschaft in der Öffentlichkeit thematisiert. »Kultur denken«, der Podcast des ifk, entsteht in Zusammenarbeit mit Radiomacher*innen und Wissenschaftskommunikator*innen. Angelehnt an die Themen der ifk-Tagungen, präsentiert jede Staffel mehrere Episoden zu einer Fragestellung. Die erste Season von Julia Grillmayr und Hanna Ronzheimer, beleuchtet in 25-minütigen Features kulturwissenschaftliche Themen, Ideen und Diskussionen. Die Sendungen zielen darauf ab, kulturelles Wissen für Interessierte zu erschließen und so einen lebendigen Austausch zu fördern.
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»Kultur denken. Season 8 Episode 1: OLFAC with Silke Felber, Freda Fiala, Julia Ostwald
What does it mean to smell? What do odors enable us to sense, to know, to feel? How are perceptions, techniques, technologies, politics, and aesthetics of smell entangled with one another—and how might these relations be situated and theorized? At the heart of the symposium lies an exploration of the epistemic, affective, and political dimensions of olfaction— it asks what it means to think through smell.
The OLFAC Symposium, held in December 2025 at the ifk in Vienna, was organized by Silke Felber, Freda Fiala, and Julia Ostwald as part of the ERC Consolidator Project OLFAC. More information is available at olfac.kunstuni-linz.at.
Interviews/ Redaktion/ Moderation: Katharina Rahn
Sound Editing: Paul Jones
19 May 2026
»Kultur Denken. Season 8 Episode 2: OLFAC with Brandon Woolf
Garlic’s notorious smell—lingering on our breath and at our tables—has historically been weaponized by colonial and hegemonic powers as a means of othering and oppression. What might olfaction, and odor more broadly, offer as a lens ( a nostril?) through which to interrogate socio-political relations? How and when do we abandon our fellow citizens and living things because of their odor? What do we risk by actually smelling each other? What stinks about our civic lives, and how could they smell more like Bärlauchsuppe?
The OLFAC Symposium, held in December 2025 at the ifk in Vienna, was organized by Silke Felber, Freda Fiala, and Julia Ostwald as part of the ERC Consolidator Project OLFAC. More information is available at olfac.kunstuni-linz.at.
Interviews/ Redaktion/ Moderation: Katharina Rahn
Sound Editing: Paul Jones
19 May 2026
»Kultur Denken. Season 8 Episode 3: OLFAC with Hsuan L. Hsu
Sensory historians raise difficult questions about the viability of recovering or even reconstructing past scents and smellscapes. How might we understand odorous substances as a kind of material archive bearing traces of historical patterns of extraction, sensory labor, circulation, consumption, and interpretation while also intimating other possibilities: ecologies that exceed the world-making logics of racial and colonial capitalism?
The OLFAC Symposium, held in December 2025 at the ifk in Vienna, was organized by Silke Felber, Freda Fiala, and Julia Ostwald as part of the ERC Consolidator Project OLFAC. More information is available at olfac.kunstuni-linz.at.
Interviews/ Redaktion/ Moderation: Katharina Rahn
Sound Editing: Paul Jones
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