Rising Voices

The Faculty of Social Sciences and the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ViDSS) warmly invite Faculty members, students, alumni*ae and friends to Rising Voices 2025: Learn about award-winning teaching and doctoral research and celebrate with us the fifth birthday of the ViDSS!

17:00 Welcome address

Manuela Baccarini, Vice Rector for Research and International Affairs
Michaela Pfadenhauer, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences

17:15 A glimpse into award-winning research and teaching & award ceremony

sowi:doc Awards 2024

Introduction: Folker Hanusch, Vice Dean for Career Development and International Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences
Hannah Greber, dissertation: “Immersive journalism – The future of the news?
Ina Tessnow-von Wysocki, dissertation: “Science-policy interfaces for ocean protection”
Teresa Weikmann, dissertation: “Getting real with fakes: Characteristics and consequences of ‘deepfakes’ in democracies”

Univie Teaching Award Social Sciences 2025

Introduction: Petra Dannecker, Vice Dean for Educational Affairs, Faculty of Social Sciences
Christa Markom, course “Antidiskriminatorische kollaborative Anthropologie zwischen Studierenden und Lehrenden”
Marketa Bajgerova Verly, course “International politics and development: War, memory and politics in East Asia”
Paul Just, course “Qualitative Methoden”

18:45 Reception and ViDSS Birthday Party

With “The Sound of Social Science”

Registration

Please register for the event no later than 25 May 2025. Attendance is limited to first-come, first-served.

Please note that after submitting the form, you will receive an email with a link to confirm your registration. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please contact vds-sosci@univie.ac.at.