Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect	Mon, 22.01.2024, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Clemena Antonova Yavor Siderov Marlene Laruelle	Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect Fellows' Colloquium with Marlene Laruelle Mon, 22.01.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Yavor Siderov Marlene Laruelle Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation discussed the different forms of challenges that liberalism is facing today. It looked at the structural causes that weaken liberalism or contest its hegemonic status in the Global North. It also analyzed an amplifying feedback loop, that is, that illiberalism is not the cause weakening liberal values but a product of this weakening, which it accelerates. Read more
Liberalism Challenged: Debating the Causes That Weaken Liberalism, and Illiberalism’s Amplifying Feedback Loop Effect Fellows' Colloquium with Marlene Laruelle Mon, 22.01.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Clemena Antonova Yavor Siderov Marlene Laruelle Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation discussed the different forms of challenges that liberalism is facing today. It looked at the structural causes that weaken liberalism or contest its hegemonic status in the Global North. It also analyzed an amplifying feedback loop, that is, that illiberalism is not the cause weakening liberal values but a product of this weakening, which it accelerates. Read more
	Is There a Chance for Peace in the Middle East?	Sun, 21.01.2024, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Misha GlennyGudrun Harrer, Dahlia Scheindlin, Alexander Schallenberg, Rula Hardal	Is There a Chance for Peace in the Middle East? Debating Europe Sun, 21.01.2024, 11:00 Speakers: Misha GlennyGudrun Harrer, Dahlia Scheindlin, Alexander Schallenberg, Rula Hardal Series: Panels and Discussions A prominent international panel discussed this and related questions on Sunday, 21 January, on the stage of Vienna’s Burgtheater. Read more
Is There a Chance for Peace in the Middle East? Debating Europe Sun, 21.01.2024, 11:00 Speakers: Misha GlennyGudrun Harrer, Dahlia Scheindlin, Alexander Schallenberg, Rula Hardal Series: Panels and Discussions A prominent international panel discussed this and related questions on Sunday, 21 January, on the stage of Vienna’s Burgtheater. Read more
	Tunisia: After the Terror	Mon, 15.01.2024, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Dalia Mikulska Ayşe Çağlar	Tunisia: After the Terror Fellows' Colloquium with Dalia Mikulsk Mon, 15.01.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Dalia Mikulska Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation aimed to explore the societal schism in Tunisia between conservative (Muslim) and liberal factions. Following a constitutional coup in 2021 that concentrated substantial power in the hands of the president, Tunisia is ostensibly more secure, but is grappling with authoritarian regression, a deepening economic crisis, and a broader erosion of human rights. The speaker showed how the specter of the terrorist threat is leveraged to justify violations. Read more
Tunisia: After the Terror Fellows' Colloquium with Dalia Mikulsk Mon, 15.01.2024, 16:00 Speakers: Dalia Mikulska Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation aimed to explore the societal schism in Tunisia between conservative (Muslim) and liberal factions. Following a constitutional coup in 2021 that concentrated substantial power in the hands of the president, Tunisia is ostensibly more secure, but is grappling with authoritarian regression, a deepening economic crisis, and a broader erosion of human rights. The speaker showed how the specter of the terrorist threat is leveraged to justify violations. Read more
	Radikale Wende	Wed, 13.12.2023, 19:00	Panels and Discussions	Philipp BlomLena Schilling	Radikale Wende Weil wir eine Welt zu gewinnen haben Wed, 13.12.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Philipp BlomLena Schilling Series: Panels and Discussions Die Diskussionsreihe "Dialogues for Tomorrow " beleuchtet kritisch die Gegenwart aus verschiedenen Perspektiven, um ein besseres Verständnis für die Zukunft zu schaffen. Gemeinsam mit dem Bruno Kreisky Forum und dem Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) lädt die Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (AIL) Expert:innen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen ein, um über die Herausforderungen der Zukunft zu diskutieren. Read more
Radikale Wende Weil wir eine Welt zu gewinnen haben Wed, 13.12.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Philipp BlomLena Schilling Series: Panels and Discussions Die Diskussionsreihe "Dialogues for Tomorrow " beleuchtet kritisch die Gegenwart aus verschiedenen Perspektiven, um ein besseres Verständnis für die Zukunft zu schaffen. Gemeinsam mit dem Bruno Kreisky Forum und dem Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (IWM) lädt die Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien (AIL) Expert:innen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen ein, um über die Herausforderungen der Zukunft zu diskutieren. Read more
	Geopolitical Talks: The Archipelago World. A New Geopolitical Order	Wed, 13.12.2023, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan KrastevNader Mousavizadeh	Geopolitical Talks: The Archipelago World. A New Geopolitical Order Wed, 13.12.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevNader Mousavizadeh Series: Panels and Discussions The global order is fragmenting into an archipelago world. A world where globalization is a story of fragmentation and not integration, and where capital, technology, talent, goods and services all become weaponized. This shift must be seen as structural, secular and not cyclical. Businesses and organizations must understand and act on fast-evolving sets of risks and opportunities. This session helped attendees, who are simultaneously shapers of global trends and subject to them, to begin to understand opaque risk landscapes across geographies, how to identify opportunities and how to operate in ambiguity while minimizing downside risks. Read more
Geopolitical Talks: The Archipelago World. A New Geopolitical Order Wed, 13.12.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevNader Mousavizadeh Series: Panels and Discussions The global order is fragmenting into an archipelago world. A world where globalization is a story of fragmentation and not integration, and where capital, technology, talent, goods and services all become weaponized. This shift must be seen as structural, secular and not cyclical. Businesses and organizations must understand and act on fast-evolving sets of risks and opportunities. This session helped attendees, who are simultaneously shapers of global trends and subject to them, to begin to understand opaque risk landscapes across geographies, how to identify opportunities and how to operate in ambiguity while minimizing downside risks. Read more
	Nichts kommt zweimal vor. Eine neue Biographie über Wisława Szymborska zu ihrem 100. Geburtstag	Mon, 11.12.2023, 19:00	Lecture	Marta Kijowska, Martin Pollack	Nichts kommt zweimal vor. Eine neue Biographie über Wisława Szymborska zu ihrem 100. Geburtstag Mon, 11.12.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Marta Kijowska, Martin Pollack Series: Lecture Gespräch mit der Autorin von "Nichts kommt zweimal vor. Wisława Szymborska – eine Biographie". Kijowska nähert sich in ihrer Biografie einer faszinierenden Persönlichkeit, deren Gedichte bis heute berühren. Das Gespräch mit der Autorin führte Martin Pollack. Read more
Nichts kommt zweimal vor. Eine neue Biographie über Wisława Szymborska zu ihrem 100. Geburtstag Mon, 11.12.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Marta Kijowska, Martin Pollack Series: Lecture Gespräch mit der Autorin von "Nichts kommt zweimal vor. Wisława Szymborska – eine Biographie". Kijowska nähert sich in ihrer Biografie einer faszinierenden Persönlichkeit, deren Gedichte bis heute berühren. Das Gespräch mit der Autorin führte Martin Pollack. Read more
	An Aromatic Trail through the Centuries: The Damascene Rose as Art, Economics, and Anthropology on the Silk Road and Beyond	Mon, 11.12.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Yavor Siderov Ayşe Çağlar	An Aromatic Trail through the Centuries: The Damascene Rose as Art, Economics, and Anthropology on the Silk Road and Beyond Fellows' Colloquium with Yavor Siderov Mon, 11.12.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Yavor Siderov Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Rosa Damascena, itself a cultivar, is frequently described as the "queen of scents." Despite its name, which suggests a Syrian origin, it may have been selected in Persia. Its derivatives—attar, oil, and rose water—have become an indelible part of Islam and Hinduism. Read more
An Aromatic Trail through the Centuries: The Damascene Rose as Art, Economics, and Anthropology on the Silk Road and Beyond Fellows' Colloquium with Yavor Siderov Mon, 11.12.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Yavor Siderov Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia The Rosa Damascena, itself a cultivar, is frequently described as the "queen of scents." Despite its name, which suggests a Syrian origin, it may have been selected in Persia. Its derivatives—attar, oil, and rose water—have become an indelible part of Islam and Hinduism. Read more
	Ukrainian Storybox: Voices of War	Wed, 06.12.2023, 20:30	Visual and Performing Arts	Gunnar Dedio, Kseniya Kharchenko	Ukrainian Storybox: Voices of War this human world - International Human Rights Film Festival Wed, 06.12.2023, 20:30 Speakers: Gunnar Dedio, Kseniya Kharchenko Series: Visual and Performing Arts A travelling video lightbox reveals the heart of the war in Ukraine. With the Storybox, we hear the unfiltered voices of Ukrainians, especially women, who waver between the war front and everyday struggles between flight and home. Read more
Ukrainian Storybox: Voices of War this human world - International Human Rights Film Festival Wed, 06.12.2023, 20:30 Speakers: Gunnar Dedio, Kseniya Kharchenko Series: Visual and Performing Arts A travelling video lightbox reveals the heart of the war in Ukraine. With the Storybox, we hear the unfiltered voices of Ukrainians, especially women, who waver between the war front and everyday struggles between flight and home. Read more
	Psychoanalytic Anthropology between Universal Aspirations and Eurocentric Limitations	Tue, 05.12.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Ivan Vejvoda Slobodan Markovich	Psychoanalytic Anthropology between Universal Aspirations and Eurocentric Limitations Tue, 05.12.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Slobodan Markovich Series: Lecture This lecture focused on five psychoanalytic concepts and their contemporary applications: the psychoanalytic construct of human nature, the importance of the unconscious, causes of human violence, sexual fluidity, and culture and identity. To what extent are these notions, defined in psychoanalytic terms, used by current researchers? Read more
Psychoanalytic Anthropology between Universal Aspirations and Eurocentric Limitations Tue, 05.12.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Slobodan Markovich Series: Lecture This lecture focused on five psychoanalytic concepts and their contemporary applications: the psychoanalytic construct of human nature, the importance of the unconscious, causes of human violence, sexual fluidity, and culture and identity. To what extent are these notions, defined in psychoanalytic terms, used by current researchers? Read more
	We Will Not Fade Away - My ne zgasnemo	Mon, 04.12.2023, 18:00	Visual and Performing Arts	Alisa Kovalenko, Kseniya Kharchenko	We Will Not Fade Away - My ne zgasnemo this human world - International Human Rights Film Festival Mon, 04.12.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Alisa Kovalenko, Kseniya Kharchenko Series: Visual and Performing Arts At first glance, the movie may appear to be a teenage road movie, but it is, in reality, a tender and simultaneously poignant portrait of lost youth. This story captures the voices of teenagers from Ukrainian front-line territories. Their childhood unfolded amidst the Russian-Ukrainian War, which the world has overlooked since 2014 — a movie by Alisa Kovalenko, who will be in discussion with Kseniya Kharchenko after the screeing. Read more
We Will Not Fade Away - My ne zgasnemo this human world - International Human Rights Film Festival Mon, 04.12.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Alisa Kovalenko, Kseniya Kharchenko Series: Visual and Performing Arts At first glance, the movie may appear to be a teenage road movie, but it is, in reality, a tender and simultaneously poignant portrait of lost youth. This story captures the voices of teenagers from Ukrainian front-line territories. Their childhood unfolded amidst the Russian-Ukrainian War, which the world has overlooked since 2014 — a movie by Alisa Kovalenko, who will be in discussion with Kseniya Kharchenko after the screeing. Read more