The Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (Berlin) will be hosting a workshop focused on Walter Benjamin and Animals. VAS' own Carlo Salzani will be giving the keynote presentation, which is tentatively titled Bestial Relationships: Benjamin’s Animals Between Shame and Redemption. If this workshop is of interest consider applying. The deadline for applications is 31 May 2026. Below you can find all the details of the call, all of which have been directly taken fro

A poster I designed for the event. On Halloween, I attended the Multi-Species Poetry Event at the Fledermaus Station Österreich (Vienna Bat Station), as part of a larger international public philosophy project organized by Mara-Daria Cojocaru , philosopher and poet. Notes from a Biscuit Tin brings together researchers, philosophers, animal caretakers, and artists from around the world to explore different animal species through research, storytelling, and poetry. While othe

In August 2025, one of the last summer nights before autumn was set to arrive and I find myself standing with my children in front of the Botanical Garden in Vienna, ready to encounter a species most of us rarely pay attention to and often have ambiguous feelings about: the bat. Rym „Batwoman“ Nouioua, an expert from the University of Vienna, is taking a small group of scholars and their children on a nature walk to listen and learn about bats.

Between May 15-16, at the Messerli Research Institute in Vienna, an international and interdisciplinary research project named “Contested Moral Framings: Human and Animal Life”, funded by AKTION, hosted a workshop titled “Toward an Understanding of Framing in Animal Ethics.”