International Workshop 28–29 October 2021 at the Institute for Human Sciences, organised within the FWF Research Project M2947-G “Woman without a Name: Gender Identity in Sacrificial Stories” and co-organised by the Research Centre for Religion and Transformation

I spoke with Gabriela four days after seeing her work Altamira 2042, which took place during the Wiener Festwochen festival. I was still full of wonders and emotions. Want to have a share in the wonders and want to know what the verb “to amazonize” mean? Then…

The most obvious context for establishing a “woman-only” club is the process of carrying, delivering, and nursing children. Julia Kristeva speaks about the sacralization – and I dare add privatization and ultimately, and necessarily, fetishization – of motherhood. But no matter how unique and life-changing these processes are, and however complex they may be for the mother to process intellectually, it is surely crucial to include father.

Art is the focal point of Lenka’s work and life. She is both a practising artist and an art historian, so navigates the waters of both art and academia. Her holistic approach to art allows her to understand hermeneutical questions about her work not only consciously, rationally, but also unconsciously through the senses: for example, by building the methodology for her research on the interwar architecture of German-speaking architects with the help of the painting process.

I have enjoyed the coffee while recording my paper for the on-line seminar “Kierkegaard in France” organised by CRASSH in cooperation with the Faculty of Divinity and French Department, University of Cambridge, UK. The seminar kicked off on Wednesday May 7, 2021 (Kierkegaard’s birthday) and was carried on every Friday on until June 25.