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Vienna STS Talks - FutureSpace Talk by Julie Michelle Klinger

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 4th talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W: [cid:image001.jpg@01DB1FE6.0F050D10] FutureSpace Talks by Julie Michelle Klinger Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware October 24, 2024, 04:00 PM-05:00 PM Extractive Labor in Extraglobal Geographies. You can register for the talk here<https://futurespace-project.eu/futurespace-talk-registration/> Abstract Contemporary space activities rely on hardware, and hardware is comprised of minerals, metals, and materials wrested from the Earth by human labor. This embeds the extraglobal geographies in extractive supply chains and labour regimes on Earth, and shapes the manner in which the immensity of the cosmos is understood and engaged by diverse publics. Drawing on several examples from around the world, this talk presents a conceptual architecture for centering the politics of labor and land use in outer space geographies, while also reflexively examining the potential epistemic violence of using extractivism as a spatial analytic to link Earthly and outer space geographies. Biography Dr. Julie Michelle Klinger (she/her) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences at the University of Delaware, and a member of the International Standards Organization Technical Advisory Group 298: Rare Earth Supply Chain Transparency and Traceability. Dr. Klinger and her research team are supported by the National Science Foundation, The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the Ford Foundation to conduct grounded yet global-scope research on competing uses for energy-transition metals, materials, and infrastructures. She has published numerous articles on rare earth elements, natural resource use, environmental politics, and outer space, including the award-winning 2018 book Rare Earth Frontiers: From Terrestrial Subsoils to Lunar Landscapes. She holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Organiser Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Assist. Prof. STS Dep Vienna / PI "FutureSpace" & Joseph Popper (Postdoc Researcher, STS Dep Vienna / FutureSpace) Location online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.1> [cid:image002.png@01DB1FE6.0F050D10] Best wishes, Katrin Hackl _____________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Research Support & Communication Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-496007 [cid:image003.jpg@01DB1FE6.0F050D10]<https://sts.univie.ac.at/>

9 months, 2 weeks

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Reminder: Trans*formations talk by Eric Llaveria Caselles, October 18th 2024 - also ONLINE!

by Flora Löffelmann

Dear all, it is my pleasure to remind you of the third installment of the Trans*formations talk series, which will take place THIS FRIDAY. The talk is part of an event series organized by the Vienna Doctoral School of Philosophy at the Institute of Philosophy, University of Vienna, which provides insights into recent developments in trans* philosophizing. This time, Eric Llaveria Caselles, currently working at the Center for Interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies (ZIFG) at the Technical University Berlin, will give a talk titled "Epistemic Violence and Trans Theory. A Cartography of Minor Truths." When: Friday, October 18th 2024 15:00 - 16:30 Where: HS 3B, 3. Stock Neues Institutsgebäude (NIG), Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien (wheelchair accessible through main entrance elevator) If you want to follow the talk online, please join using the following link: https://univienna.zoom.us/j/67838003396?pwd=jmudw0UhAfnZdnkbYipm1ARVS0B28a.1 Kenncode: 0000 Abstract: For the transsexual subject to be able to emerge as a source of credible speech, a fundamental critique of the western epistemic and symbolic order had to gain traction. When Susan Stryker stood up at a Lesbian and Gay History conference in New York in 1995 and yelled “I am a transsexual and I am not sick!”, she reclaimed the participation of the transsexual intellectual in the production of truths, refuting discourses of dehumanization. This inaugural scene of Trans Studies places the undoing of epistemic violence as both a precondition and a fundamental commitment of trans theoretical practice. But what does this commitment to emancipatory forms of knowledge production entail? What are the contradictions of aspiring to anti-normative purity? What conversations can we build on the repeated condemnation of those reproducing symbolic violence? Does this commitment not miss the practical reason of cultural narratives? And is it possible to separate the epistemic violence from our sense of self, our needs and desires? Do the voices of trans people really hold the key to an emancipatory meaning? And if we betray the idea that we just need to let trans people speak, what then can hold the possibility of undoing epistemic violence? In this talk, I reflect on these questions based on my own research trajectory, which spans topics such as trans subcultural spaces, neuroscientific studies of (trans)gender identity and trans social reproduction in global capitalism. The talk traces the shifts of my theoretical practice by building a personal cartography of minor truths. I take the term “minor truths” from the title of a show by the artist Spence Messih. Their glasswork compositions and philosophical considerations introduce a phenomenological sensibility in my analysis, inspiring me to search for a language that reflects the inseparability of theoretical standpoint from affective states, social relationships and political conjunctures. In conversation with Messih’s work, the talk evolves in a non-linear motion connecting five modes of epistemic experience: abstraction, vulnerability, praxeology, dialogue and betrayal. Bio: Eric Llaveria Caselles is a PhD Candidate at the Center for Interdisciplinary Women and Gender Studies (ZIFG) at the Technical University Berlin. His recent publications explore the limitations of gender identity positivism and queer deconstructivism as the two main approaches to trans theory. His research builds on current trans Marxist proposals and historical materialist traditions of gender theory to set the groundwork for an alternative framework in Trans Studies. Poster Art Work credit: Spence Messih, Minor truths, 2022; Kiln formed glass, jarrah; Install: Murray Art Museum Albury | Commissioned by Murray Art Museum Albury | Collection: Art Gallery of NSW & Murray Art Museum Albury | Photo: Jeremy Weihrauch There will be snacks and drinks! Please feel free to forward this invitation to all who might be interested to partake. There is also a poster attached to this email! Looking forward to seeing you at the talk and all the best, Flora Löffelmann -- Flora Löffelmann, MA MA University assistant & doctoral candidate Department of Philosophy at University of Vienna Pronouns: they/them (for more info see: https://www.mypronouns.org/what-and-why/) Happy about a gender neutral "hello"!

9 months, 2 weeks

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Reminder + Update Semester Opening Event

by Vinzenz Fischer

Dear all, This is a Reminder and an Update to the Semester Opening Event for the EST Master! When? 17.10.2024, 18:30 Where? Hörsaal 3D, NIG 3rd Floor We have also reserved a table at the Wiener Deewan, so after our lively preparations for the next semester we want to invite you to enjoy the evening with us! Thanks to everybody that already responded! Please let me (Vinzenz, vinzenz.fischer(a)univie.ac.at) know if you want to join so I know roughly how many we are. We hope to see you there! Vinzenz and Philipp

9 months, 3 weeks

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Vienna STS Talks - FutureSpace Talk by David Valentine

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 2nd talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W: [cid:image001.jpg@01DB1027.07CE6F60] FutureSpace Talk by David Valentine 10.10.2024 16:00 - 17:00 We are thrilled to announce David Valentine's Talk on 10th October 2024, 4:00 pm When You Look at Earthrise, You Are Seeing the Wrong Thing (Or: An Autobiography of Earth) You can register for the talk here<https://futurespace-project.eu/futurespace-talk-registration/> Abstract Since the photograph Earthrise was taken - specifically, by NASA astronaut Bill Anders during Apollo 8's fourth lunar orbit on (the Earth equivalent of) December 24th, 1968 CE at 16:39:39.3 UTC- it has been analyzed exhaustively to reveal a broad range of general, universalizing, and uncompromising claims about Earth, humanness, and the future. These claims, however, are also often orthogonal to one another or even contradictory. (Here are a few: Earthrise shows a fragile biosphere endangered by human excess... or it demonstrates that human technological ingenuity can solve terrestrial problems with outer space resources... or it masks a militarized, nationalist project as a moment of sublime transcendence... or it shows that humanity is ready to leave Earth's cradle and spread life elsewhere in the cosmos....) This paper's concern, however, is not with these analyses nor with their contradictions, but rather with the curious fact of their common generality and universality despite the spatiotemporal precision and specificity of Earthrise's provenance. In this paper, I continue my ongoing project of thinking humanness from elsewhere in the cosmos to argue that Earth's fundamental conditions (its gravity, active core, radiation profile, magnetosphere, atmospheric chemistry, solar distance, and more) can sustain multiple-and even contradictory-generalized spatiotemporal analyses of the world, humanness, and the future without the specific autobiography of any individual terrestrial analyst of Earthrise being of relevance. Indeed, I will argue that Earthrise produces the aesthetic and embodied effect, for terrestrial viewers, of looking at Earth as if you were looking at it from Earth by obscuring the specific autobiographical moment of space-based viewing; the specific human-nonhuman assemblages and the simultaneous precision and compromise demanded by the always-contingent conditions of such viewing; and their radical non-equivalence to terrestrial spatiotemporal conditions. To put it another way: Any specific Terran could write an uncompromising and general autobiography of Earth without consequence to the whole world, a possibility that cannot be extended beyond its surface where the specificity of any act can be generally and immediately consequential. I will conclude by arguing that in looking at Earthrise from elsewhere in the cosmos, a non-Terran you would see not a general view of Earth, but rather, a specific example of how terrestrial humans are privileged to look at themselves in the multiple, contradictory, and uncompromising ways that their home world still sustains. Biography David Valentine is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. Organiser FutureSpace (ERC Starting Grant Project), Department of Science and Technology Studies Location online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.1> [cid:image002.jpg@01DB1027.07CE6F60] Best wishes, Katrin Hackl __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Drittmittelreferentin Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-49607 katrin.hackl(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:katrin.hackl@univie.ac.at> http://sts.univie.ac.at<http://sts.univie.ac.at/>

9 months, 3 weeks

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Vienna Science Studies Laboratory Reading Group

by Vinzenz Fischer

Dear all, We are happy to announce the Vienna Science Studies Lab Reading-Group Cycle of this academic year. The overall topic will be: Artefacts: confronting the bio-social. - There will be three sessions: 11.11.24 Langdon Winner (1980) - Do artefacts have politics? 15-16:30 27.1.25 Craver, C. F., & Dan-Cohen, T. (2024). Experimental artefacts. 15-16:30 28.4.25 Arina Aristarkhova (2016). - A feminist object 15-16:30 There is also the opportunity to do a work in progress meeting to discuss a paper draft you are interested in receiving feedback on. If you are interested in doing one, contact me (sophie.juliane.veigl(a)univie.ac.at) For now, please let us know whether you plan on attending the first meeting. If so, send us an email, and we'll forward the reading! Please feel free to share this invitation with others who might be interested! All the best, Olesya, Elis, and Sophie

9 months, 4 weeks

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Vienna STS Talks - INNORES Talk by Mike Michael

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 3rd talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W: [cid:image001.png@01DB14D0.42EA3540] INNORES Talk by Mike Michael 15.10.2024 17:00 - 18:30 We are thrilled to announce Mike Michaels's Talk on 15th October 2024, 5:00 pm Inventive problems and speculative things: What can (an ontologised) aesthetics offer STS and PEST, (and vice versa)? Abstract In this presentation I consider how an ontologised aesthetics might play a role in contemporary Science and Technology Studies (STS) and especially Public Engagement with Science and Technology (PEST), and vice versa. Drawing on the work of Whitehead and others, an ontologised version of aesthetics is outlined and related to STS and PEST. At base, the 'research event' of STS and PEST is understood as a process whereby heterogeneous elements 'aesthetically' combine to produce a cogent actual occasion. Re-visiting three empirical examples - the artistic controversy surrounding the nanotechnology Vantablack (the 'blackest black'), the enactment of the institutional 'defeat' of the London fatberg, and the use of lay metrology as a sociopolitical tool - the paper examines how technoscientific publics are 'aesthetically rendered aesthetic'. It is suggested that an STS/PEST attuned to 'speculative things' in material culture (e.g. respectively, Stuart Semple's 'the world's pinkest pink', Mike Thompson and Arne Hendriks floating fatberg, and Matty Benedetto's Vague Ruler) further opens up how aesthetics operates in the 'research event', not least by inventively problematising the parameters of both 'aesthetics' and 'publics'. Biography Mike Michael is a sociologist of science and technology, and a Professor of Sociology at the University of Exeter, UK. His research interests have touched on the public understanding of science, everyday life and technoscience, biomedical innovation and culture. Recently he has worked on lay metrology, design and speculative methodology. Major publications include Actor-Network Theory: Trials, Trails and Translations (Sage, 2017) and The Research Event: Towards Prospective Methodologies in Sociology (Routledge, 2021). Organiser Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikforschung Location Seminarraum STS, NIG, 1010 Wien, Universitätsstraße 7/II/6. Stock and online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.1> (Meeting ID: 632 5148 9007, Passcode: 789205) [cid:image002.jpg@01DB14D4.9F2BC630] Best wishes, Katrin Hackl __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Drittmittelreferentin Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-49607 katrin.hackl(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:katrin.hackl@univie.ac.at> http://sts.univie.ac.at<http://sts.univie.ac.at/>

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Invitation to the EST Opening Event

by Vinzenz Fischer

Dear students, researchers and teachers, To kick off the new semester we want to invite you to an Opening Event here at the Philosophy Institute! When? 17.10.2024, 18:30 Where? Hörsaal 3D, NIG 3rd Floor First our teachers Nils Güttler, Tarja Knuuttila and Max Fochler will give us a brief introduction into the idea behind the master’s program and how it came to be. Then we want to take some time to get to know each other in a different setting than the traditional classroom. We also want to hear your ideas about what we, as students, researchers and teachers, want to happen during the semester outside our classrooms. After eagerly getting to know each other, we could then move to a bar or café nearby. Please let me (Vinzenz, a11819352(a)unet.univie.ac.at) know if you want to join so I know roughly how many we are. We hope to see you there! Vinzenz and Philipp

10 months, 1 week

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Erdzugewandte Geschichte: Methodenworkshop mit Andrea Westermann

by Sebastian Felten

Liebe Studierende des MA HPS/EST, am 18.Oktober 2024 findet an der Uni Wien ein Methodenworkshop auf Deutsch statt, der von der sehr profilierten und viel zitierten Wissenshistorikerin Andrea Westermann (Zürich) geleitet wird. Es ist ein großer Gewinn, dass Westermann unserer Einladung gefolgt ist, um Wiener Studierenden den von ihr entwickelten Ansatz der “erdzugewandten Geschichte” zu vermitteln. Die Teilnehmendenzahl ist begrenzt, deshalb wollen wir euch an dieser Stelle persönlich einladen. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos. Wir bitten um eine kurze Anmeldung bzw. Interessenbekundung bis 25. September per Email (sebastian.felten(a)univie.ac.at <mailto:sebastian.felten@univie.ac.at>). Eine ausführliche Beschreibung findet ihr unten. Mit herzlichen Grüßen, Anna Echterhölter, Sebastian Felten, Nils Güttler ————— Erdzugewandte Geschichte: Methodenworkshop mit Andrea Westermann Ort: TBC Zeit: 18. Oktober 9:30-14:00 Kann Geschichte «erdzugewandter» als bisher üblich geschrieben werden? Also so, dass die Erde nicht nur als historischer Akteur Einzug in geschichtswissenschaftliche Analysen erhält, sondern auch als eine Kraft, die mehr als bloss historisch wirkt – nämlich erdsystemisch bzw. erdhistorisch? Dieser Workshop bietet ein close reading von historischem Quellenmaterial und Forschungszweigen, die in meinen Artikel „Enrichment and dilution in the Atacama mining desert: Writing History from an Earth-Centered Perspective” eingeflossen sind. Im zweiten Teil der Veranstaltung stehen dieser Aufsatz sowie sein Folgeartikel „Entirely new and very old water: Elemental shifts in the Atacama mining desert’s relations with the Pacific, the Andes, and Chile” im Mittelpunkt der Aufmerksamkeit. Die Diskussion der Texte und ihrer Machart ist schliesslich der Ausgangspunkt, um eigene und weitere Ideen für eine erdzugewandtere Geschichtswissenschaft vorzustellen oder zu entwickeln. Methodengeber und Untersuchungsgegenstand meiner Forschung zur Atacama Rohstoffwüste sind die Wissensfelder Ressourcenökonomie, Literatur, Geologie, Bergbaugeschichte, Geopolitik sowie Umwelt- und Gesellschaftsgeschichte. Andrea Westermann ist Sekundarschullehrerin in Zürich. Sie promovierte in Geschichte an der Universität Bielefeld mit einer Dissertation über Plastik und politische Kultur in Westdeutschland. Von 2017 bis 2020 war sie wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin und Leiterin des Pacific Regional Office des Deutschen Historischen Instituts Washington in Berkeley. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind die Geschichte der Geowissenschaften, Umweltgeschichte, Umweltmigration und die Geschichte der materiellen Kultur. Aktuell: https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/geschichte-eines-materials-wie-plastik-zum-p… Der Workshop wird organisiert von den Professuren für Wissenschaftsgeschichte (Anna Echterhölter, Sebastian Felten, Nils Güttler) an der Universität Wien und richtet sich an MA- und PhD-Studierenden in der Wissens- und Wissenschaftsgeschichte sowie verwandten Disziplinen.

10 months, 2 weeks

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Vienna STS Talks - FuturSpace Talk by David Valentine

by Katrin Hackl

We are happy to invite you to our 1st talk of the Vienna STS Talk Series in 2024W: [cid:image002.jpg@01DB044C.F2224780] FutureSpace Talk by Juan Francisco Salazar 19.09.2024 12:00 - 13:00 We are thrilled to announce Juan Francisco Salazar's Talk on 19th September 2024, 12:00 pm Critical imaginaries of outer space: futures otherwise You can register for the talk here<https://futurespace-project.eu/futurespace-talk-registration/> Abstract This presentation offers an overview of critical perspectives and methods that are crafting space futures otherwise. Against the backdrop of ongoing militarization and commercialization of outer space, it reflects on what might be the urgently needed ethical compasses for how such space futures can be imagined and put into practice at the intersection of climate emergencies and decolonization processes, and across speculative fiction and engaged social research. Biography Juan Francisco Salazar is a Sydney-based Chilean transdisciplinary researcher and filmmaker and currently Professor of Communications, Media and Environment at Western Sydney University. Organiser FuturSpace (ERC Starting Grant Project), Department of Science and Technology Studies Location online via zoom<https://univienna.zoom.us/j/63251489007?pwd=FBTgiIoQbHPTvmHhnjFwObba9mAGqZ.1> [cid:image003.jpg@01DB0450.CED28700] Best wishes, Katrin __________ Mag. Katrin Hackl Drittmittelreferentin Department of Science and Technology Studies University of Vienna Universitätsstraße 7 /II/ 6th floor (NIG) 1010 Vienna / Austria Tel.: 0043-1-4277-49607 katrin.hackl(a)univie.ac.at<mailto:katrin.hackl@univie.ac.at> http://sts.univie.ac.at<http://sts.univie.ac.at/>

10 months, 3 weeks

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Call for Abstracts: Workshop I: "Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics"

by Alexander Linsbichler

*Call for Abstracts:* *Workshop I: Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian EconomicsThe FWF ESPRIT research project “Adverse Allies: Logical Empiricism and Austrian Economics”, the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method (JKU Linz), the Institute Vienna Circle (University of Vienna), and the Vienna Circle Society host two workshops in 2025. The organizers seek submissions for contributed talks for the first workshop now.Deadline for Submissions: 31.10.2024* Notification: 30.11.2024 *Workshop I in Vienna: 12.02.-14.02.2025* Save the date for workshop II in Linz: 23.09.-25.09.2025 --- Logical empiricism and Austrian economics are arguably the two internationally most influential intellectual movements with Viennese roots. The Vienna Circle and the Austrian School have shaped the development of philosophical, scientific, and political debate in the 20th century. In the 21st century, logical empiricism has undergone extensive re-evaluation, while the Austrian School experiences another revival. Yet, despite numerous connections and interactions between the two movements, their relationship has captured surprisingly sparse attention in the historical and philosophical literature. If an account is provided at all, logical empiricists and Austrian economists are portrayed as philosophically, scientifically, and politically antithetical groups. Among the most frequently mentioned contrastive pairs of catchwords are empiricism vs apriorism, formal methods vs verbal reasoning, and socialism vs classical liberalism. Acknowledging the existence of disagreements between logical empiricism and the Austrian School, recent scholarship has challenged the received view of antithetical opposition by reconstructing hitherto neglected compatibilities and similarities between the two movements. This workshop aims to advance historical as well as systematic discussions on the relationship between logical empiricism and Austrian economics. Contributions that fruitfully inform contemporary debates in philosophy, methodology, politics, or the sciences are particularly welcome. *Topics for talks in workshop I include but are not limited to: * · pros and cons of formal methods in the social sciences (index numbers, models, …) · counterfactual reasoning and thought experiments (imaginary constructions, scientific utopianism, Robinsonades, …) · the socialist calculation debates · assessments of social welfare and universal basic income · notions of rationality, irrationality, and pseudorationality · justifications of praxeology · explications of the fundamental axiom of praxeology · the quest for certainty and fallibilism · origins and methodology of game theory · methodological reflections: rational reconstructions, … *The second workshop in Linz will focus on: · Karl Menger and Felix Kaufmann as mediators between LE and AE · common influences: Frege, Husserl, Kant, Mach, Wittgenstein · non-cognitivism, the fact/value distinction, and the ideal of value-neutrality · the principle of tolerance and polylogism · logical tolerance, methodological tolerance, political liberalism · logicism and the logic of action · naturalism vs antinaturalism, unity vs disunity of science, scientific pluralism and pseudorationality · essentialism and its discontents (Menger, Wieser, Neurath, Popper, Rothbard,…) · defenses of democracy in Viennese Late Enlightenment · expertise, education, and democracy* *Abstracts should be 300-400 words (including references, if needed) and submitted here: * https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5Mg7ThW9ufbzUkJcEk7ZodNnraJ7PuiZ… *Confirmed Speakers:* Erwin Dekker, Catherine Herfeld, Karl-Friedrich Israel, Reinhard Neck, Elisabeth Nemeth, Edoardo Peruzzi, Lukas Starchl, Richard Sturn, Adam Tamas Tuboly, Sophie Veigl, Igor Wysocki *Scientific Committee: *Alexander Linsbichler, Julian Reiss, Georg Schiemer, Friedrich Stadler *Queries:* Alexander Linsbichler (alexander.linsbichler(a)jku.at)

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