Kick-off on April 28, 2026 at the University Library Klagenfurt
language: mainly English, contributions in German are welcome!
Participation is open to all interested parties free of charge. You are warmly invited to join in!
In-person meeting: 28.4.2026 | 12 noon – 2 pm | Unversity Library (L.o.o3)
12 noon | presentation of the BoJoClub Klagenfurt/Celovec (concept, aims, research project) by Mercedes de Luis Andrés
12.15 | words of welcome and short impulse talk from the library by Lydia Zellacher and Silvana Ouschan-Wurmitzer
12.30 – 2 pm | Malina (Ingeborg Bachmann) and The World of Yesterday (Stefan Zweig)
with contributions by Miha Kovač (on Stefan Zweig) and Claudia Mayr-Veselinović (on Stefan Zweig), and Angela Fabris (on Malina), followed by discussion and exchange with participants
Conclusio & outlook, introducing the follow-up webinar
Follow-up webinar: 28.4.2026 | 3 pm – 4.30 pm | online
3 pm | presentation and discussion with journalist Ruxandra Constantinescu, Alejandro Muñoz Aporta, Patricia Georgina Rico León and Stefanie Schlögl
3.45 pm | closing remarks from the library and outlook on the BoJoClub Klagenfurt/Celovec
Join: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/394573302513691?p=qguukZ55Pcz3D5QJuW
Meeting ID: 394 573 302 513 691
Passcode: mV3NL6rb
Contact/Info: mercedesdel [at] edu [dot] aau [dot] at | bojoclub.hypotheses.org
Mercedes de Luis Andrés is initiating the BoJoClub Klagenfurt Celovec as part of her research project on international book clubs with a journalistic focus. In cooperation with the university library, the framework for an innovative reading community is being created, whose exchange on literature will be supplemented by accompanying scientific studies. BoJoClub Klagenfurt/Celovec focuses on Carinthian history and identity and utilizes our research-based BoJoClub reading model + SPIRIT method. The book club is open to: all Austrian/international students & AAU employees as well as Klagenfurt residents who are interested in the following:
• Storytelling & journalism • Intercultural skills • Dialogue techniques • Digital disconnect
Bringing a new function to journalism: Research project focuses on book clubs in journalism culture – University Klagenfurt
Reading list:
April: Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers | Stefan Zweig
April: Malina | Ingeborg Bachmann
Ein Wortland. Eine Reise durch Kärnten, Slowenien, Friaul, Istrien und Dalmatien | Peter Handke
Die engen Mauern | Humbert Fink
Klagenfurt/Celovec: Es reicht!/Dost nam je! | Valentin Inzko
Deja que otros se jacten de las páginas que han escrito; yo estoy orgulloso de las páginas que he leído. JL Borges
“Let others boast of the pages they have written; I am proud of the pages I have read”
