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Priorities Under Pressure: Risk, Values, and Decision-Making in Complex Situations
Expert Insights: Online Lecture by Assoz. Prof. Mag. Dr. Anna Maria Kaiser
The Alumni Club of the University for Continuing Education Krems warmly invites you to an online lecture by Assoz. Prof. Dr. Anna Maria Kaiser, Head of the Center for Cultural Property Protection, as part of the Expert Insights series. This lecture series offers graduates the opportunity to engage with international experts on current topics in management, leadership, innovation, and societal responsibility.
Lecture Overview
Crises create clarity – often painful clarity. Under time pressure, with incomplete information, and with significant responsibility, decisions must be made that expose conflicting priorities: What do we save when we cannot protect or rescue everything?
Drawing on her extensive operational experience and military decision-making logic, Anna Kaiser demonstrates how to act in a structured and responsible manner in highly complex and uncertain situations. These dynamics become particularly tangible in the field of cultural property protection, where risks, values, and societal meaning are inseparably intertwined.
Relevance for Cultural Property Protection
Natural disasters, climate change, and human-made threats endanger not only human lives but also cultural heritage. When not everything can be protected at once, conflicting objectives emerge – and effective decision-making requires clear prioritisation.
This lecture highlights why cultural property protection is an essential component of responsible crisis management and at the same time a key mission of the Austrian Armed Forces.
About the Speaker
Anna Kaiser holds a PhD in ancient history. Through her military training she specialised in the protection of cultural property. She received her doctorate sub auspiciis praesidentis from the University of Vienna in 2013 with a dissertation on the Roman military. Since 2015, she has been a research associate and course director for the protection of cultural property at the Danube University Krems and has contributed significantly to the establishment and international positioning of the Center for Cultural Property Protection, which she has headed since 2023. She leads a number of EU projects on cultural property protection, climate change, conservation and sustainable use of cultural heritage. She teaches and lectures nationally and internationally on selected aspects of the broad topic of cultural heritage protection, with particular emphasis on sustainable implementation and the creation of interfaces between civilian stakeholders and various armed forces, especially the military.
Event Details
Expert Insights: Assoz.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Anna Kaiser
“Priorities Under Pressure: Risk, Values, and Decision-Making in Complex Situations”
Date: Wednesday, 25 March 2026
Time: 7:00–8:30 p.m.
Location: Online via Zoom
Lecture Language: German
Participation is free of charge (registration required).
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