We would like to cordially invite you to the Salzburg lecture of the CIVIS Gender Studies Network Online Lecture Series. Ralph J. Poole (University of Salzburg) will present the lecture “Women in American Studies: History of a Discipline from a Gender Perspective”.

Professor Sirijit Sunanta is visiting Department of Sociology and Human Geography.

Australia is blessed by an extremely old ecosystem and a large biodiversity, especially in areas with extreme conditions caused by regularly occurring fires. To adjust to such environmental conditions plants have evolved various strategies. A particularly spectactular example is the seed storage and protection mechanism of the iconic Australian plant genus Banksia. Banksias can keep their seed on the plant for many years, building up a canopy stored seed bank. On the example of our research on these fascinating structures I will also talk about our collaboration with Austria and Australia and about the Max Planck Queensland Center for the Materials Science of Extracellular Matrices.