Author: Annika Kirbis

Annika Kirbis is a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity as part of the research group “Empires of Memory” and a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University. In her research she explores exclusionary effects of Vienna's imperial heritage, specifically in the context of rising right-wing populism, as well as processes of heritagisation, in particular the musealisation of migration (hi)stories and the potential of multispecies collaboration in heritage-making.

Annika Kirbis

Annika Kirbis is a doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity as part of the research group “Empires of Memory” and a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry at Utrecht University. In her research she explores exclusionary effects of Vienna's imperial heritage, specifically in the context of rising right-wing populism, as well as processes of heritagisation, in particular the musealisation of migration (hi)stories and the potential of multispecies collaboration in heritage-making.

Heritage out of Control Threads

Heritage out of Control: Introduction

January, 2022 / By Çiçek İlengiz, Serawit B. Debele and Annika Kirbis

Stirring the debates on what is worth preserving, what is dismissible and what needs to be dismantled, heritage has become […]

Heritage out of Control Threads

Heritage Out of Control: Musealising (Hi)stories of Migration

January, 2022 / By Annika Kirbis

Since the early 2000s, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the recruitment agreement between Austria and Turkey in 1964, there have