Current research project, funded by the FWF Austrian Science Fund:
The Interpretation of Childbirth in Early Modern Spain II
Pregnancy, childbirth, the grim and wonderful business of procreation: these topics are related to all other fields of society.
In 17th century Spain childbirth was accompanied and guided by symbols, rituals, images and stories.
It is this cultural side of obstetrics we propose to explore assuming that the body cannot be explained without the mind.
Project no.: FWF PAT 2471824
Funding period: May 1, 2025 – April 30, 2029
Online journal
Avisos de Viena. Viennese Cultural Studies
Chief editors
Wolfram Aichinger, Sabrina Grohsebner, Fernando Sanz-Lázaro
Editorial Staff
Hannah Fischer, Tamara Hanus, Karolina Kaniewska, Varvara Rytsk
Collaborators
Clara Bonet Ponce, Walburga Plunger, Jesús M. Usunáriz, Carlos Varea, Sophie Winklehner
Associated Investigators
Wiki Anwari, Giuseppe Pio Cascavilla, Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha, José Antonio Fernández Fernández, Hannah Fischer, Karin Fuchs, Francisco José García Pérez, Lisa Heilig, Valentna Hillbrandt, Nere Jone Intxaustegi, Sabine K., Nina Kremmel, Kurt Kriz, Christopher Laferl, Rocío Martínez López, Marie-France Morel, Luis A. Moreno Príncipe, Hannah Mühlparzer, María Ortega Máñez, Dorina Nemeth, Pilar Panero García, Gerhard Poppenberg, Alvaro Ramirez, Fernando Rodríguez-Gallego, Antonio Sánchez Jiménez, Freya Schuen, Christian Standhartinger, Marie Stockinger, María Cristina Tabernero Sala, Beatriz Villegas, Katharina Webinger, Alexandra Wögrath
Aichinger, W., Varea, C. (ed.), Bonet, C., Fernández Fernández, J. A., Fischer-Monzón, H. M. A., Foscati, A., Fuchs, K., Grohsebner, S., Hanus, T., Heilig, L., inxaustegi, J. N., Kremmel, N., Kriz, K., Martínez, R., Mühlparzer, H., Panero García, P., Sanz-Lázaro, F., Standhartinger, C., Standhartinger, C. J., Stockinger, M., Usunáriz, J. M. & Alexander, S., Culturas del parto en España y Europa (siglos XV a XVIII): Una historia cultural del parto, In: Museo Virtual de Ecologia Humana, 1 Mar 2022.
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Aichinger, W., Aichinger, W., Caramanzana, J., Carasa, L., Fernández Fernández, J. A., Fischer-Monzón, H. M. A., Grohsebner-Abramovich, S., Heilig, L., Herrnhofer, A. S., Kaniewska, K., Menslin, F., Panero García, P., Plunger, W., Rytsk, V., Sanz-Lázaro, F., Varea, C., & Winklehner, S., Parir, llorar y llorar: una nodriza de Gredos y un expósito de Madrid a mediados del siglo XIX, In: Museo Virtual de Ecologia Humana, 2025.
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Recent publications
Aichinger W, Lepuri A. (2025) «Rrëfimtaria biografike, poetike dhe akademike» / Biographical, poetic, and academic storytelling. ExLibris. Nov 15; 8(361), p. 2-3. Interview
Aichinger W, Grohsebner-Abramovich S. (2025) Childbirth in Early Modern Spain. agora: Wiener philologisch-kulturwissenschaftliche Studien, Vol. 3, Wien: Praesens Verlag. doi: 10.23783/9783706912815
Aichinger, Wolfram & Plunger, Walburga. (2025). Grandmother, Birth Assistant, Godmother. Grandparents and Newborns in a Spanish Mountain Village (Pedro Bernardo, Ávila, 1850-1861). Memoria y Civilización. 28. p. 211-240. 10.15581/001.28.1.007.