This workshop celebrates the academic legacy of Cornelia Staritz (1980-2025). It engages with Cornelia’s major conceptual, methodological, and empirical contributions in the field of (heterodox) development economics. Throughout the past 25 years, Cornelia explored global power structures and agency in an ever-changing global political economy. As part of her prolific collaborations with institutions, scholars, and activists in Vienna and beyond, Cornelia sought to trace and explain uneven and combined development trajectories in the global economy, analyzing power relations and distributional struggles between firms, workers, and governments within and across different countries.

Thursday, 25 June 2026
Location: Alois Wagner Saal, ÖFSE
15.00-17.00 Opening: The academic legacy of Cornelia Staritz

Friday, 26 June 2026
Location: Alois Wagner Saal, ÖFSE
09.00-10.30 Panel 1: Consumption: Climate crisis, extractivism, and provisioning systems
11.00-12.30 Panel 2: Production: Global value chains, industrial policy, and labor struggles
13.30-15.00 Panel 3: Finance: Financialization and global inequality
15.15-16.00 Synthesis and closing session

Location: VHS Urania, 1010 Wien
18.00 Public Lecture by Isabella Weber “Economics in a global perspective”. In Memoriam Cornelia Staritz

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

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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