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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 10d

Strong presence of @oeaw.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social RU Literary & Print Culture Studies last week at @univie.ac.at for the "Exploring the Scandalous" conference - great papers & great discussions!

Group photo of members of research unit Literary & Print Culture Studies, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities, at conference "Exploring the Scandalous"

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 12d

Great papers by @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social colleagues @diezypresse.bsky.social & Barbara Tumfart (on Bernhard’s Heldenplatz) & @ftb-oeaw.bsky.social‘s own @danielmilkovits.bsky.social, presenting on #Jelinek & quoting as a polemical practice! As ever, Austrian lit lends itself to a discussion of scandal

Daniel Milkovits at the lectern in front of a PPT projection of his presentation title slide "Copy, Paste, Scandal!"

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 13d

anglistik.univie.ac.at/scandal/

Scandal!: Exploring the Scandalous

anglistik.univie.ac.at

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 13d

Insightful interview with Sharon Marcus (@columbiauniversity.bsky.social), opening our conference on "Scandal as a Catalyst of Progress“ at @univie.ac.at, co-organised by @oeaw.bsky.social, @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social & University of Zurich
www.oeaw.ac.at/news/vom-wil...

www.oeaw.ac.at

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 13d

anglistik.univie.ac.at/scandal/

Scandal!: Exploring the Scandalous

anglistik.univie.ac.at

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · 29d

On 5 September 2025, literary scholar and theater director #ReinhardUrbach died.
www.ots.at/presseaussen...
On 28 Sept 1973, he accompanied #WHAuden to his last reading. In the night of 28-29 Sept, Auden died in his Vienna hotel room.
@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oegfl.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social

Wir trauern um Reinhard Urbach

Nachruf auf Reinhard Urbach (1939–2025)

www.ots.at

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Daniel Milkovits @danielmilkovits.bsky.social · Aug 30

In roughly one month, @victorianceleb.bsky.social (@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social), Barbara Straumann (Zurich) and Sylvia Mieszkowski (Vienna) will be hosting a conference on #scandal at @univie.ac.at. I'm excited to be there with a talk on quoting as a polemical practice within the Austrian literary field!

SCANDAL!
EXPLORING THE SCANDALOUS:
SCANDAL AS A CATALYST OF PROGRESS?
MT EMAIRE
University of Vienna, 24-26 September 2025
organised by Sandra Mayer, Barbara Straumann, Sylvia Mieszkowski & team
Keynote Speaker:
Sharon Marcus (Columbia University)
ANNENSIS
universitat wien
ÖAW
SENERSA
TURICENS
Universität
ZürichuzH
Lanis
https://anglistik.univie.ac.at/scandal/

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Aug 27

Another day, another #archive. This time: the manuscript collection of the #ViennaCityLibrary @wien.gv.at 🔎 📄 📃
Great vistas and great material!

@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social

Photo of door plate of Vienna City Library manuscript collection.

Stamp "EX BIBLIOTHECA CIVICA VINDOBONENSI" on Vienna City Library document folder.

Photo of Auden autograph letters in Vienna City Library manuscript collection.

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Dîlan Canan Çakir @dilan-c.bsky.social · Aug 21

Huhu, I’d love your help! Any favorite quotes on activism? Please send me quotes on activism (any language + source) for my research project on activism. All contributions will be credited =D

Current collection/database here:
dilancakir.github.io/whatisactivi...

#activism #litwiss #Aktivismus

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Aug 21

Summer is coming to an end, and we are back at the archive, this time at @oegfl.bsky.social - as always, exciting finds!
@oeaw.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social

The image shows a stack of black, marbled binders with metal rings, placed on a wooden surface. The binders have labels on the spine, with visible text and numbers. The labels include "A-32" and "A-XII," with handwritten dates such as "8.4.85" and "2.7.35." The labels also feature a price tag with "2,735" and "8,74" written in orange. The binders appear to be part of an organized filing system, possibly for archival or record-keeping purposes. The background is a plain white wall with a visible electrical outlet.

black-and-white photographs of W. H. Auden

a metallic plaque reading the "Österreichische Gesellschaft für Literatur" in black, with "2. Stock" (2nd floor)

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Aug 4

Some thoughts on how authors resort to autobio(mytho)graphy in order to deal with their complex status in the cultural imagination - available here, OA, in my article on the British poet #StephenSpender:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social

Writer, Work, and World(s): Stephen Spender as Autobio(mytho)grapher

The British poet Stephen Spender (1909–1995) is perhaps best known today as the chronicler of the 1930s ‘Auden Group’, a cosmopolitan public intellectual, and cultural activist. Throughout his life...

www.tandfonline.com

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Aug 4

Some thoughts on how authors resort to autobio(mytho)graphy in order to deal with their complex status in the cultural imagination - available here, OA, in my article on the British poet #StephenSpender:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
@fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social

Writer, Work, and World(s): Stephen Spender as Autobio(mytho)grapher

The British poet Stephen Spender (1909–1995) is perhaps best known today as the chronicler of the 1930s ‘Auden Group’, a cosmopolitan public intellectual, and cultural activist. Throughout his life...

www.tandfonline.com

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Jul 23

Thank you @adho-org.bsky.social @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social for a great #DH2025 conference!
Access our presentations here:
🌐 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
🌐 doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Onwards to @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social!
@acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @dhtech-community.bsky.social

View of the Tejo in Lisbon, with bridge and sailing boats

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Jul 16

Timo Frühwirth representing Auden in Austria Digital at the start of @dh2025lisbon.bsky.social in Lisbon! More from us in the course of this week! fedihum.org/@AAD_OeAW/11...

@oeaw.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social

Auden in Austria Digital (@[email protected])

Attached: 3 images What a brilliant start of #DH2025 here in #Lisbon with @[email protected] @dhtech Symposium on Monday! 😎 💻 @[email protected] @ACDHCH_OeAW @[email protected] @[email protected] ...

fedihum.org

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Jul 11

‼️ Important statement by the Elise Richter Network ‼️

eliserichter.net/index.php/20...

Statement des Elise-Richter-Netzwerks zu den Angriffen des ÖVP-Wissenschaftssprechers auf FWF-Projekte – Elise Richter Network

eliserichter.net

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elisa freschi @elisafreschi.bsky.social · Jul 9

Why looking for more information if you can just attack a scholarly project for your cheap propaganda?

"Es ist überflüssig, weitere Informationen über das Projekt einzuholen, um zur Erkenntnis zu gelangen, dass […] ein Lapsus bei der Fördergeldvergabe unterlief."

www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

ÖVP-Abgeordneter Taschner attackiert Uni und Wissenschaftsfonds: "Verbranntes Geld"

In einer Rede schmähte der ÖVP-Wissenschaftssprecher ein Forschungsprojekt. Der Uni-Rektor ist empört und ortet "billige Vorurteile". Wissenschaftsministerin Holzleitner betont Autonomie des FWF

www.derstandard.at

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Jul 7

We are grateful to all our brilliant contributors, reviewers, and copy-editors; as well as #DHd for supporting this project through their #OpenAccess #Publikationsfonds.

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Jul 7

2 years after our #DigitalBio2023" conference, we're excited to see the complete cluster "Life Narrative & the Digital" now online in the #EuropeanJournalOfLifeWriting:
ejlw.eu/announcement...

@fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @wscholger.bsky.social

table of contents of the cluster "Life Narrative and the Digital"
1. "Life Narrative and the Digital: Outlining the Contours of an Emerging Field" by Timo Frühwirth and Sandra Mayer, pages LDi-LDxi.
2. "Archiving Uncertainty: Leveraging Crowdsourcing Methodology in Documenting Personal Experiences of COVID-19" by Sanita Reinsone, Ilze Laksa-Timinska, Haralds Matulis, and Elvira Žvarte, pages LD1-LD34.
3. "The Evolution of Arabic Self-Expression in the Western Mediterranean: Using an Annotation Schema as a Comparative Framework" by Laila M. Jreis-Navarro, pages LD35-LD58.
4. "Finding Aids and Networked Biography: Stuart Hall and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies" by Katherine Parsons, pages LD59-LD86.
5. "The Digital Life Narrative of a Romanian Transgender Microcelebrity through the Lens of Networked Publics" by Alexandra Cotoc and Anamaria Radu, pages LD87-LD109.
6. "About Disputed Existences: Dys4ia's Conflicted Status between Game and Autobiography" by Felix Tenhaef, pages LD110-LD140.
7. "Narration Through Data: The Life and Relationships of a Fourteenth-Century Tuscan Merchant" by Emiliano Degl'Innocenti, Alessia Spadi, and Federica Spinelli, pages LD141-LD164.
8. "'To Bring Them into Dialog': A Conversation about Life Narrative and the Digital" by Caitriona Ní Dhúill, Anna Spitzbart, Christian Wachter, Florian Windhager, and Sandra Mayer, pages LD165-LD183.

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Jul 7

We are grateful to all our brilliant contributors, reviewers, and copy-editors; as well as #DHd for supporting this project through their #OpenAccess #Publikationsfonds.

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Jul 7

2 years after our #DigitalBio2023" conference, we're excited to see the complete cluster "Life Narrative & the Digital" now online in the #EuropeanJournalOfLifeWriting:
ejlw.eu/announcement...

@fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @wscholger.bsky.social

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Jun 16

Great opening of beautiful new archive/exhibion space/library of @qwien.bsky.social on 11 June with AAD project partner @andreasbrunner.bsky.social 🌈
#pridemonth #queerhistory #sappho

@hosiwien.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social @acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social

Photo of quotation by Sappho "Jemand, sage ich dir, wird sich an uns erinnern, auch in einer anderen Zeit" in entrance hall of new QWIEN buidling.

Selfie photo of head of QWIEN Andreas Brunner (middle) with members of the AAD team.

Photo of book shelves in library spaces of new QWIEN buidling.

Photo of event poster for opening of new QWIEN HQ on 11 June, saying "We're here, we're Qwien".

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · Jun 3

Glad to have you and so many other brilliant speakers on board for what is going to be a fantastic conference: anglistik.univie.ac.at/scandal/

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QWIEN - Zentrum für queere Kultur und Geschichte @qwien.bsky.social · May 8

Neues Qwien, neuer Vibe! 🌈
Wir haben nicht nur Räume umgebaut, sondern auch uns selbst: Gemeinsam mit @duo.wtf haben wir Identität und Auftritt von Qwien geschärft.
OUR VOICE. OUR SPACE. OUR STORY.
Selbstbewusst, laut, einladend – unser neues Erscheinungsbild ist da.
Grand Opening am 11. Juni!

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · May 22

Save the date: 11 June 2025 | #QWIEN #Vienna Center for #Queer #History | grand opening | Ramperstorffergasse 39, 1050 Vienna 🌈 🧡

www.qwien.at/2025/03/04/%...

@acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social

💜SAVE THE DATE. Eröffnung am 11.06.2025 💜 – QWIEN – Zentrum für queere Geschichte

Am 11. Juni ist es endlich soweit – das neue QWIEN öffnet seine Türen! 🥳Mit unseren neuen Räumlichkeiten wächst nicht nur unser Platz, sondern auch unsere Möglichkeiten: QWIEN wird zum queeren Kulturzentrum in Margareten!

www.qwien.at

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Sandra Mayer @victorianceleb.bsky.social · May 20

The AAD team has created a #Wikidata item for the 1969-74 Austrian journal Ver Sacrum (eds. #HildeSpiel & #OttoBreicha), which also published poetry by #WHAuden:

www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1345...

Please help us improve it. 🙏
@acdh-ch-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @fwf-at.bsky.social

Ver Sacrum. Neue Hefte für Kunst und Literatur

www.wikidata.org

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