Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Ideological Fluidity of Collective National Rights	Mon, 28.03.2022, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Adam Sitze Oskar Mulej	Ideological Fluidity of Collective National Rights The Case of Interwar National Minority Activism in Europe Mon, 28.03.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Adam Sitze Oskar Mulej Series: Seminars and Colloquia Conferring collective rights to various kinds of subnational groups has been and remains a controversial subject. A legal device for empowering ethnic and other minorities, collective rights may also present a solid challenge for liberal polities and are often perceived as potentially encroaching on individual liberty, legal equality, as well as national sovereignty. Read more
Ideological Fluidity of Collective National Rights The Case of Interwar National Minority Activism in Europe Mon, 28.03.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Adam Sitze Oskar Mulej Series: Seminars and Colloquia Conferring collective rights to various kinds of subnational groups has been and remains a controversial subject. A legal device for empowering ethnic and other minorities, collective rights may also present a solid challenge for liberal polities and are often perceived as potentially encroaching on individual liberty, legal equality, as well as national sovereignty. Read more
	Benefizabend mit Andrej Kurkow	Thu, 24.03.2022, 19:30	Other	Andrei Kurkov	Benefizabend mit Andrej Kurkow Lesung und Gespräch zur Lage in der Ukraine Thu, 24.03.2022, 19:30 Speakers: Andrei Kurkov Series: Other Der ukrainische Schriftsteller Andrej Kurkow las aus einigen seiner literarischen Werke und war im Gespräch über die Situation in der Ukraine. Read more

	The Limits of Migration Control	Tue, 22.03.2022, 18:00	Lecture	Dariusz Stola Ivan Vejvoda Ranabir Samaddar	The Limits of Migration Control What We Can Learn from Polish Communists (now that they are gone) Tue, 22.03.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Dariusz Stola Ivan Vejvoda Ranabir Samaddar Series: Lecture Thanks to a historically unprecedented system of police control, transnational mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of its kind and a unique experiment in the limits of the state control of mobility. This lecture presented some of the conclusions of Stola’s research project on migrations from communist Poland. These migrations underwent a marked evolution, from the movement of millions of people in the 1940s; to almost nil under the non-exit policy of the early 1950s; to the reemergence and gradual expansion of transnational mobility, especially within the Soviet bloc, between 1956 and 1980; to mass population flows in the late 1980s. Each trip outside the bloc, and indeed each trip abroad for most of the duration of communist rule, required applying for a permit from the Security Service. This procedure resulted in an archival collection of passport files that fills some 60 kilometers of shelf space. Despite the constraints, more than two million people eventually left Poland for good, and temporary movements occurred on a mass scale, pioneering forms of mobility that continued well after 1989. This lecture shed light on the key factors and currents of migration in communist Poland, as well as the evolution of the migration regime, from early imitation of the Soviet model to its eventual implosion. Read more
The Limits of Migration Control What We Can Learn from Polish Communists (now that they are gone) Tue, 22.03.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Dariusz Stola Ivan Vejvoda Ranabir Samaddar Series: Lecture Thanks to a historically unprecedented system of police control, transnational mobility from European communist states is probably the best documented social phenomenon of its kind and a unique experiment in the limits of the state control of mobility. This lecture presented some of the conclusions of Stola’s research project on migrations from communist Poland. These migrations underwent a marked evolution, from the movement of millions of people in the 1940s; to almost nil under the non-exit policy of the early 1950s; to the reemergence and gradual expansion of transnational mobility, especially within the Soviet bloc, between 1956 and 1980; to mass population flows in the late 1980s. Each trip outside the bloc, and indeed each trip abroad for most of the duration of communist rule, required applying for a permit from the Security Service. This procedure resulted in an archival collection of passport files that fills some 60 kilometers of shelf space. Despite the constraints, more than two million people eventually left Poland for good, and temporary movements occurred on a mass scale, pioneering forms of mobility that continued well after 1989. This lecture shed light on the key factors and currents of migration in communist Poland, as well as the evolution of the migration regime, from early imitation of the Soviet model to its eventual implosion. Read more
	The ‘Authoritarian International’	Mon, 21.03.2022, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ludger Hagedorn Martin Krygier Ricardo Pagliuso Regatieri	The ‘Authoritarian International’ Contemporary Far-Right Wing and Politics of Irrationality: Brazil in a Global Context Mon, 21.03.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Martin Krygier Ricardo Pagliuso Regatieri Series: Seminars and Colloquia Ricardo Regatieri offered a Zeitdiagnose of the contemporary world focusing on lies and conspiracy theories in the age of internet, and showed how the political and communicational environment has been fertile for the rise of far-right wing leaders, parties and movements on the global level. Following that, he presented five key elements of bolsonarismo, pointing out its political rhetoric and practical consequences. He proposed that Bolsonaro and bolsonarismo can only be properly understood when considered in the intersection between global tendencies and local drivers. Read more
The ‘Authoritarian International’ Contemporary Far-Right Wing and Politics of Irrationality: Brazil in a Global Context Mon, 21.03.2022, 16:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Martin Krygier Ricardo Pagliuso Regatieri Series: Seminars and Colloquia Ricardo Regatieri offered a Zeitdiagnose of the contemporary world focusing on lies and conspiracy theories in the age of internet, and showed how the political and communicational environment has been fertile for the rise of far-right wing leaders, parties and movements on the global level. Following that, he presented five key elements of bolsonarismo, pointing out its political rhetoric and practical consequences. He proposed that Bolsonaro and bolsonarismo can only be properly understood when considered in the intersection between global tendencies and local drivers. Read more
	War in Europe – Again	Sun, 20.03.2022, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Dariusz Stola Ivan Vejvoda Serhii PlokhiiChristine Ockrent, Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook	War in Europe – Again Debating Europe - Europa im Diskurs Sun, 20.03.2022, 11:00 Speakers: Dariusz Stola Ivan Vejvoda Serhii PlokhiiChristine Ockrent, Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook Series: Panels and Discussions Diplomatic efforts between the US, Europe and Russia have failed dismally. Russia has invaded Ukraine, a sovereign European nation, with a massive military onslaught. An independent European country is being subjected to an attempt at recolonization. The world order created after 1989 has been disrupted and Europe is on the back foot. Europe and the United States are responding through sanctions and support to Ukraine. Some are calling this “Putin’s war”. How far will Russia go? Is the intent regime change in Kyiv? Is Ukraine the endgame? Will it end up in a quagmire with fierce civil resistance? Is the West’s response adequate to the challenge? Is this a second Cold War? And is Putin “isolating” Europe by strengthening his alliance with China? What is the future of Europe’s geopolitical promise of being a strategic actor? Read more
War in Europe – Again Debating Europe - Europa im Diskurs Sun, 20.03.2022, 11:00 Speakers: Dariusz Stola Ivan Vejvoda Serhii PlokhiiChristine Ockrent, Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook Series: Panels and Discussions Diplomatic efforts between the US, Europe and Russia have failed dismally. Russia has invaded Ukraine, a sovereign European nation, with a massive military onslaught. An independent European country is being subjected to an attempt at recolonization. The world order created after 1989 has been disrupted and Europe is on the back foot. Europe and the United States are responding through sanctions and support to Ukraine. Some are calling this “Putin’s war”. How far will Russia go? Is the intent regime change in Kyiv? Is Ukraine the endgame? Will it end up in a quagmire with fierce civil resistance? Is the West’s response adequate to the challenge? Is this a second Cold War? And is Putin “isolating” Europe by strengthening his alliance with China? What is the future of Europe’s geopolitical promise of being a strategic actor? Read more
	Digital Humanism	Thu, 17.03.2022, 18:00	Lecture	Hannes Werthner Ludger Hagedorn Nena MočnikHenriette Spyra, Michael Wiesmüller	Digital Humanism A New Fellowship Program in Cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Climate Action Thu, 17.03.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Hannes Werthner Ludger Hagedorn Nena MočnikHenriette Spyra, Michael Wiesmüller Series: Lecture A New Fellowship Program in Cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Climate Action Read more

	European Strategic Autonomy - What Now in the Western Balkans	Tue, 15.03.2022, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ioannis Armakolas	European Strategic Autonomy - What Now in the Western Balkans A Europe's Futures Event Tue, 15.03.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Ioannis Armakolas Series: Panels and Discussions The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a watershed moment for the European Union’s geopolitical ambitions. It also brings the Western Balkans back on the strategic map. In this region in Europe, uncompleted reform processes, persisting socio-economic fragilities, ethnonational and bilateral issues and stalled EU accession perspectives have lastingly fuelled key vulnerabilities, which external actors, like Russia, have been keen on exploiting. What is the impact, actual and potential, of the Russian war in Ukraine on the Western Balkans? How to align the enlargement policy with the EU’s crucial quest for strategic autonomy? What are Member states’ national perspectives on these important questions? Read more
European Strategic Autonomy - What Now in the Western Balkans A Europe's Futures Event Tue, 15.03.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Ioannis Armakolas Series: Panels and Discussions The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a watershed moment for the European Union’s geopolitical ambitions. It also brings the Western Balkans back on the strategic map. In this region in Europe, uncompleted reform processes, persisting socio-economic fragilities, ethnonational and bilateral issues and stalled EU accession perspectives have lastingly fuelled key vulnerabilities, which external actors, like Russia, have been keen on exploiting. What is the impact, actual and potential, of the Russian war in Ukraine on the Western Balkans? How to align the enlargement policy with the EU’s crucial quest for strategic autonomy? What are Member states’ national perspectives on these important questions? Read more
	The Future of Work: Is Artificial Intelligence a New Road to Serfdom?	Tue, 15.03.2022, 18:00	Lecture	Robert Skidelsky	The Future of Work: Is Artificial Intelligence a New Road to Serfdom? Lecture and Discussion with Lord Robert Skidelsky Tue, 15.03.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Robert Skidelsky Series: Lecture In contemporary discussions about the future of artificial intelligence we often lose our heads. While economists offer bleak predictions of mass job losses and a deepening of already widespread precarity, Silicon Valley utopians insist that new technologies are bringing us ever closer together and will one day deliver us from work, disease and poverty. But when human life is reduced to a set of rational processes waiting to be optimized, we risk losing sight of the irreducible quality of human experience. The talk shed new light on the dream of machinery and the entailed dichotomy of liberation versus control. With his characteristic attention to the subtleties of the human condition, Robert Skidelsky offered a challenging account of what it means to pursue the good life in the age of the machines. Read more
The Future of Work: Is Artificial Intelligence a New Road to Serfdom? Lecture and Discussion with Lord Robert Skidelsky Tue, 15.03.2022, 18:00 Speakers: Robert Skidelsky Series: Lecture In contemporary discussions about the future of artificial intelligence we often lose our heads. While economists offer bleak predictions of mass job losses and a deepening of already widespread precarity, Silicon Valley utopians insist that new technologies are bringing us ever closer together and will one day deliver us from work, disease and poverty. But when human life is reduced to a set of rational processes waiting to be optimized, we risk losing sight of the irreducible quality of human experience. The talk shed new light on the dream of machinery and the entailed dichotomy of liberation versus control. With his characteristic attention to the subtleties of the human condition, Robert Skidelsky offered a challenging account of what it means to pursue the good life in the age of the machines. Read more
	Der Krieg ist wie Giftmüll im Fluss	Fri, 11.03.2022, 19:30	Other	Raphaela Edelbauer, Milena Michiko Flašar, Karl-Markus Gauß, Sabine Gruber, Maja Haderlap, Tanja Maljartschuk, Barbi Markovic, Doron Rabinovici, Christoph Ransmayr, Robert Schindel, Ferdinand Schmalz, Franz Schuh	Der Krieg ist wie Giftmüll im Fluss Stimmen für die Ukraine Fri, 11.03.2022, 19:30 Speakers: Raphaela Edelbauer, Milena Michiko Flašar, Karl-Markus Gauß, Sabine Gruber, Maja Haderlap, Tanja Maljartschuk, Barbi Markovic, Doron Rabinovici, Christoph Ransmayr, Robert Schindel, Ferdinand Schmalz, Franz Schuh Series: Other Österreichische Autorinnen und Autoren lesen Texte von Literatinnen und Literaten aus der Ukraine, aber auch aus Belarus und Russland. Diese literarischen Stimmen zeugen von der Gegenwart des Krieges gegen die Ukraine, vom Mut der Menschen, der Solidarität und der Poesie trotz allem. Read more
Der Krieg ist wie Giftmüll im Fluss Stimmen für die Ukraine Fri, 11.03.2022, 19:30 Speakers: Raphaela Edelbauer, Milena Michiko Flašar, Karl-Markus Gauß, Sabine Gruber, Maja Haderlap, Tanja Maljartschuk, Barbi Markovic, Doron Rabinovici, Christoph Ransmayr, Robert Schindel, Ferdinand Schmalz, Franz Schuh Series: Other Österreichische Autorinnen und Autoren lesen Texte von Literatinnen und Literaten aus der Ukraine, aber auch aus Belarus und Russland. Diese literarischen Stimmen zeugen von der Gegenwart des Krieges gegen die Ukraine, vom Mut der Menschen, der Solidarität und der Poesie trotz allem. Read more
	War in Ukraine and Universal Values	Fri, 11.03.2022, 17:00	Panels and Discussions	Philipp Blom Serhii Plokhii Timothy Snyder	War in Ukraine and Universal Values Fri, 11.03.2022, 17:00 Speakers: Philipp Blom Serhii Plokhii Timothy Snyder Series: Panels and Discussions On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, launching a full-scale war of aggression. This war is the product of imperialism rooted in historical fantasy, intended to deny Ukraine the fundamental right to exist. It is enabled by the Putin regime’s longstanding assault on the very notion of truth. While Ukrainians are left to defend their country, what is at stake goes far beyond the borders of Ukraine. Read more
War in Ukraine and Universal Values Fri, 11.03.2022, 17:00 Speakers: Philipp Blom Serhii Plokhii Timothy Snyder Series: Panels and Discussions On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine, launching a full-scale war of aggression. This war is the product of imperialism rooted in historical fantasy, intended to deny Ukraine the fundamental right to exist. It is enabled by the Putin regime’s longstanding assault on the very notion of truth. While Ukrainians are left to defend their country, what is at stake goes far beyond the borders of Ukraine. Read more