Report on conference at University of Vienna in September 2025: "S c a n d a l ! Exploring the Scandalous: Scandal as a Catalyst of Progress?"
Professor Barbara Straumann of the English Department UZH co-chaired the international conference "S c a n d a l ! Exploring the Scandalous: Scandal as a Catalyst of Progress?"which took place from Wednesday, September 24th, to Friday, September 26th, 2025. This conference "brought together scholars from diverse disciplines at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna, to explore the concept of scandal in diverse Anglophone and German-speaking contexts of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries."