Memorial Symposium for Cornelia Staritz - June 25/26 2026

The Symposium will be jointly organized by our department, ÖFSE, ViDSS, the Remass project, The Vienna Chamber of Labor, and Competence Centre for Infrastructure Economics, Public Services and Social Provisioning.

Progressive development economics in an era of geopolitics, affordability crisis and climate change

Celebrating the academic legacy of Cornelia Staritz

Date: June 25 – 26, 2026

Location: Alois Wagner Saal, C3 – Centrum für Internationale Entwicklung
Sensengasse 3, 1090 Vienna.

Organizing institutions: 
• Austrian Foundation for Development Research (ÖFSE)
• Department of Development Studies (IE), University of Vienna 
• Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ViDSS), University of Vienna 
• Resilience and Malleability of Social Metabolism (REMASS)
• Arbeiterkammer Wien 
• Kompetenzzentrum Alltagsökonomie 
Organizing team: 
• Emma Dowling, Annina Kaltenbrunner, Karin Küblböck, Felix Maile, Leonhard 
Plank, Miriam Rehm, Matthias Schnetzer, Bernhard Tröster, Aleksandra 
Wojewska 

Please register for the event via a short mail to: studienassistenz.ie@univie.ac.at

Outline and shedule of the Symposium.