Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’	Mon, 03.04.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny	Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Mon, 03.04.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Examining a number of different European national contexts, Luiza Bialasiewicz argued in this talk that without a grounded and democratic geopolitics, other geopolitical stories will inevitably rush in to fill the void to help EU citizens make sense of the vertigo of the current moment. Such geopolitical stories include the conspiratorial geopolitical imaginations fed by extremist parties and movements, but not solely. They also increasingly manifest themselves across a range of issue areas and spaces: most visibly in urban contexts, where they have begun to frame various forms of contestation, including protests against refugee reception. Read more
Grounding a ‘Geopolitical Europe’ Mon, 03.04.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Luiza Bialasiewicz Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Examining a number of different European national contexts, Luiza Bialasiewicz argued in this talk that without a grounded and democratic geopolitics, other geopolitical stories will inevitably rush in to fill the void to help EU citizens make sense of the vertigo of the current moment. Such geopolitical stories include the conspiratorial geopolitical imaginations fed by extremist parties and movements, but not solely. They also increasingly manifest themselves across a range of issue areas and spaces: most visibly in urban contexts, where they have begun to frame various forms of contestation, including protests against refugee reception. Read more
	Documenting Refugees from Eastern Europe	Thu, 30.03.2023, 09:00	Conferences and Workshops	Kamil Ruszała Philipp TherKatarzyna Nowak, Christoph Augustynowicz	Documenting Refugees from Eastern Europe Thu, 30.03.2023, 09:00 Speakers: Kamil Ruszała Philipp TherKatarzyna Nowak, Christoph Augustynowicz Series: Conferences and Workshops The conference was opened by an introductory lecture by Philipp Ther, discussing the exile of yesterday and today, with particular emphasis on the contemporary situation. The lecture was followed by three thematic panels: 1) discussing migration during both world wars in Europe; 2) presenting the Ukrainian experience of refugeedom, both in the past and present; 3) presenting projects documenting contemporary wars and refugeedom. Read more
Documenting Refugees from Eastern Europe Thu, 30.03.2023, 09:00 Speakers: Kamil Ruszała Philipp TherKatarzyna Nowak, Christoph Augustynowicz Series: Conferences and Workshops The conference was opened by an introductory lecture by Philipp Ther, discussing the exile of yesterday and today, with particular emphasis on the contemporary situation. The lecture was followed by three thematic panels: 1) discussing migration during both world wars in Europe; 2) presenting the Ukrainian experience of refugeedom, both in the past and present; 3) presenting projects documenting contemporary wars and refugeedom. Read more
	Elections in Finland: Between Happiness and the Russo-Ukrainian War	Tue, 28.03.2023, 09:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic	Elections in Finland: Between Happiness and the Russo-Ukrainian War Tue, 28.03.2023, 09:00 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic Series: Seminars and Colloquia Finland holds elections on 2 April 2023. The campaign focuses on domestic issues, but the war in Ukraine cannot be ignored. The seminar addressed both domestic and security issues. Does Finland fear the spillover of the Russo-Ukrainian War? How does the war affect the elections? Read more
Elections in Finland: Between Happiness and the Russo-Ukrainian War Tue, 28.03.2023, 09:00 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaVeera Luoma-aho, Iro Särkkä, Mirjana Tomic Series: Seminars and Colloquia Finland holds elections on 2 April 2023. The campaign focuses on domestic issues, but the war in Ukraine cannot be ignored. The seminar addressed both domestic and security issues. Does Finland fear the spillover of the Russo-Ukrainian War? How does the war affect the elections? Read more
	Christ the Savior – Orthodoxy’s Ground Zero	Mon, 27.03.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Lucy Ash Misha Glenny	Christ the Savior – Orthodoxy’s Ground Zero Mon, 27.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Lucy Ash Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Using stories of individual priests, individual churches and individual cities, Ash traced the story of the Russian Orthodox Church back to its roots one thousand years ago and to show that, whatever the violent and extreme changes of political power, those at the top of the church have done whatever it takes to curry favor. Read more
Christ the Savior – Orthodoxy’s Ground Zero Mon, 27.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Lucy Ash Misha Glenny Series: Seminars and Colloquia Using stories of individual priests, individual churches and individual cities, Ash traced the story of the Russian Orthodox Church back to its roots one thousand years ago and to show that, whatever the violent and extreme changes of political power, those at the top of the church have done whatever it takes to curry favor. Read more
	Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War	Thu, 23.03.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko	Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War Thu, 23.03.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Lecture Based on original data from a nationwide survey and a series of focus group discussions in different parts of the country, Kulyk demonstrated that not only has Ukrainian identity become more salient compared to other attachments, but it has also come to mean a stronger embrace of beliefs that have traditionally been associated with Ukrainian ethnic belonging. Read more
Ukrainian Identity in the Time of War Thu, 23.03.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Mariia ShynkarenkoVolodymyr Kulyk, Mariia Shynkarenko Series: Lecture Based on original data from a nationwide survey and a series of focus group discussions in different parts of the country, Kulyk demonstrated that not only has Ukrainian identity become more salient compared to other attachments, but it has also come to mean a stronger embrace of beliefs that have traditionally been associated with Ukrainian ethnic belonging. Read more
	Consolation: Art and Ritual	Tue, 21.03.2023, 18:00	Lecture	Richard Sennett Ludger Hagedorn	Consolation: Art and Ritual Tue, 21.03.2023, 18:00 Speakers: Richard Sennett Ludger Hagedorn Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Richard Sennett explored the difference between artistic and ritual performances in the work of consolation, the need of the living to reconcile themselves to the death of others. Read more

	Music in Flight: The "Jewish Express" and the Bolivian Cantata	Mon, 20.03.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Andrea Orzoff Ludger Hagedorn	Music in Flight: The "Jewish Express" and the Bolivian Cantata Mon, 20.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Andrea Orzoff Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk presented in Bolivian miniature the larger arguments of Andrea Orzoff’s book manuscript, Music in Flight: Migration from Hitler’s Europe and Musical Politics in Latin America. The author begun with the story of Erich Eisner, a Prague German who directed Bolivia’s national orchestra, examining the ironies of Eisner’s Bolivian career. Through Eisner, Orzoff visited the chaotic mass migration to Bolivia, the country’s troubled modernization, and the dissemination of scientific racism and eugenics-inflected antisemitism to Latin America. Read more
Music in Flight: The "Jewish Express" and the Bolivian Cantata Mon, 20.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Andrea Orzoff Ludger Hagedorn Series: Seminars and Colloquia This talk presented in Bolivian miniature the larger arguments of Andrea Orzoff’s book manuscript, Music in Flight: Migration from Hitler’s Europe and Musical Politics in Latin America. The author begun with the story of Erich Eisner, a Prague German who directed Bolivia’s national orchestra, examining the ironies of Eisner’s Bolivian career. Through Eisner, Orzoff visited the chaotic mass migration to Bolivia, the country’s troubled modernization, and the dissemination of scientific racism and eugenics-inflected antisemitism to Latin America. Read more
	Dialogues for Tomorrow: Russia – A Society in Meltdown	Wed, 15.03.2023, 19:00	Panels and Discussions	Philipp BlomNina Khrushcheva	Dialogues for Tomorrow: Russia – A Society in Meltdown Wed, 15.03.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Philipp BlomNina Khrushcheva Series: Panels and Discussions Philipp Blom and political scientist Nina Khrushcheva in Conversation Sequel of our discussion series Dialogues for Tomorrow. This semester historian, journalist, and author Philipp Blom invites renowned, innovative, intelligent, and provocative international guests to talk about transformation, reasonable change, necessary steps, and new conceptual spaces. Read more
Dialogues for Tomorrow: Russia – A Society in Meltdown Wed, 15.03.2023, 19:00 Speakers: Philipp BlomNina Khrushcheva Series: Panels and Discussions Philipp Blom and political scientist Nina Khrushcheva in Conversation Sequel of our discussion series Dialogues for Tomorrow. This semester historian, journalist, and author Philipp Blom invites renowned, innovative, intelligent, and provocative international guests to talk about transformation, reasonable change, necessary steps, and new conceptual spaces. Read more
	Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities	Mon, 13.03.2023, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar	Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities Mon, 13.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this colloquium, Achilles Kallergis discussed environmental mobility in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. It considered environmental mobility in the broader context of the region's urbanization. Drawing on evidence from participatory research in Accra, Dar es Salaam, Freetown, and Monrovia, Kallergis discussed the role of low-income urban neighborhoods as receiving areas simultaneously shaped by frequent, recurring mobility and immobility. Read more
Contradictions in the Governance of Environmental Mobility: Evidence from African Cities Mon, 13.03.2023, 16:00 Speakers: Achilles Kallergis Ayşe Çağlar Series: Seminars and Colloquia In this colloquium, Achilles Kallergis discussed environmental mobility in the context of sub-Saharan Africa. It considered environmental mobility in the broader context of the region's urbanization. Drawing on evidence from participatory research in Accra, Dar es Salaam, Freetown, and Monrovia, Kallergis discussed the role of low-income urban neighborhoods as receiving areas simultaneously shaped by frequent, recurring mobility and immobility. Read more
	The Sahel and Africa’s Future in a World of Geopolitical Confrontation	Wed, 08.03.2023, 18:30	Panels and Discussions	Ivan VejvodaEmanuela Claudia Del Re	The Sahel and Africa’s Future in a World of Geopolitical Confrontation Wed, 08.03.2023, 18:30 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaEmanuela Claudia Del Re Series: Panels and Discussions Violence and instability have been on the rise in the Sahel region of Africa over the last three years. Moreover, Russia’s multi-pronged penetration in the Sahel has made the region into a new zone of geopolitical confrontation over political influence and control of valuable resources. How does, and how should, the European Union act to stabilize and improve the situation? Read more
The Sahel and Africa’s Future in a World of Geopolitical Confrontation Wed, 08.03.2023, 18:30 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaEmanuela Claudia Del Re Series: Panels and Discussions Violence and instability have been on the rise in the Sahel region of Africa over the last three years. Moreover, Russia’s multi-pronged penetration in the Sahel has made the region into a new zone of geopolitical confrontation over political influence and control of valuable resources. How does, and how should, the European Union act to stabilize and improve the situation? Read more