Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	The “Sunny” Side Of The Holocaust. Dr. Endre Szántó’s Photo Album From His Forced Labour Service, 1940	Mon, 29.11.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	András Lénárt Ludger HagedornIngo Zechner	The “Sunny” Side Of The Holocaust. Dr. Endre Szántó’s Photo Album From His Forced Labour Service, 1940 Mon, 29.11.2021, 16:00 Speakers: András Lénárt Ludger HagedornIngo Zechner Series: Seminars and Colloquia “Millions of images taken by SS propaganda teams and a smaller number of photographs taken by victims, bystanders and liberators have survived.” This is possibly the most cited sentence on the topic of Holocaust photography, written by Sybil Milton (Images of the Holocaust, 1986). However, in the case of Hungary only hundreds of images are known, and the systematic exploration of these is yet to take place. Read more
The “Sunny” Side Of The Holocaust. Dr. Endre Szántó’s Photo Album From His Forced Labour Service, 1940 Mon, 29.11.2021, 16:00 Speakers: András Lénárt Ludger HagedornIngo Zechner Series: Seminars and Colloquia “Millions of images taken by SS propaganda teams and a smaller number of photographs taken by victims, bystanders and liberators have survived.” This is possibly the most cited sentence on the topic of Holocaust photography, written by Sybil Milton (Images of the Holocaust, 1986). However, in the case of Hungary only hundreds of images are known, and the systematic exploration of these is yet to take place. Read more
	Russia’s Foreign Policy After COVID-19: Continuity and Change	Wed, 24.11.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan KrastevAndrey Kortunov	Russia’s Foreign Policy After COVID-19: Continuity and Change Wed, 24.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevAndrey Kortunov Series: Panels and Discussions In this next Geopolitical Talk with IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev, Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), discussed how although the pandemic has not produced any radical changes in Putin’s foreign policy, there are nevertheless some new nuances: an increased focus on the domestic agenda; greater pragmatism in dealing with allies and adversaries, with an emphasis on top level personal diplomacy; fewer major international proposals, with more sensitivity to the alleged foreign interference into political processes in Russia. This trend to self-isolation notwithstanding, Kortunov addressed how it is still possible to observe some openings for collaboration between Russia and the West. Read more
Russia’s Foreign Policy After COVID-19: Continuity and Change Wed, 24.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevAndrey Kortunov Series: Panels and Discussions In this next Geopolitical Talk with IWM Permanent Fellow Ivan Krastev, Andrey Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), discussed how although the pandemic has not produced any radical changes in Putin’s foreign policy, there are nevertheless some new nuances: an increased focus on the domestic agenda; greater pragmatism in dealing with allies and adversaries, with an emphasis on top level personal diplomacy; fewer major international proposals, with more sensitivity to the alleged foreign interference into political processes in Russia. This trend to self-isolation notwithstanding, Kortunov addressed how it is still possible to observe some openings for collaboration between Russia and the West. Read more
	The Future of Belarus in Europe	Tue, 23.11.2021, 12:00	Panels and Discussions	Katherine Younger Wojciech PrzybylskiSviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Christian Ultsch, Franak Viačorka	The Future of Belarus in Europe Tue, 23.11.2021, 12:00 Speakers: Katherine Younger Wojciech PrzybylskiSviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Christian Ultsch, Franak Viačorka Series: Panels and Discussions What is the place of Belarus on the Western political agenda? How does the current situation impinge on future cooperation? Over the past year Belarus has made its mark Europeans’ mental map as a country with a vibrant civil society and the potential for democratic change. Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s authoritarian regime, in power for the last 27 years, has thwarted every attempt at change. He lost the presidential election in August 2020 and is holding society hostage domestically. He has also begun to threaten the EU. Unprecedented pressure is being put on the European block through the weaponization of refugees and migrants from MENA countries, who are brought on purpose to the borders of the EU by the regime. The European Union is seeking ways to respond to this most serious of challenges. That response entails weighing risks and opportunities for the future of the continent. What will the future hold for Belarus in Europe? Read more
The Future of Belarus in Europe Tue, 23.11.2021, 12:00 Speakers: Katherine Younger Wojciech PrzybylskiSviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Christian Ultsch, Franak Viačorka Series: Panels and Discussions What is the place of Belarus on the Western political agenda? How does the current situation impinge on future cooperation? Over the past year Belarus has made its mark Europeans’ mental map as a country with a vibrant civil society and the potential for democratic change. Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s authoritarian regime, in power for the last 27 years, has thwarted every attempt at change. He lost the presidential election in August 2020 and is holding society hostage domestically. He has also begun to threaten the EU. Unprecedented pressure is being put on the European block through the weaponization of refugees and migrants from MENA countries, who are brought on purpose to the borders of the EU by the regime. The European Union is seeking ways to respond to this most serious of challenges. That response entails weighing risks and opportunities for the future of the continent. What will the future hold for Belarus in Europe? Read more
	The Death and Rebirth of Democratic Internationalism: Controversies and Possibilities	Mon, 22.11.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Claus Offe Ludger Hagedorn Micheline Ishay	The Death and Rebirth of Democratic Internationalism: Controversies and Possibilities Mon, 22.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Claus Offe Ludger Hagedorn Micheline Ishay Series: Lecture The current nationalist wave has dampened hopes of managing an array of global challenges: economic, social, environmental, and public health emergencies, along with planning for the long-term impacts of technological innovations in fields like artificial intelligence and bioengineering. This lecture addressed how a new internationalism could reinvigorate policies promoting global governance based on universal human rights. It addressed three questions: what can we learn from past internationalist movements toward a liberal global order? How did the neoliberal order, established after the Cold War, lead to today’s chronic crises? What are possibilities for a future and robust internationalism encompassing three levels: civil society, the state, and global governance? Read more
The Death and Rebirth of Democratic Internationalism: Controversies and Possibilities Mon, 22.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Claus Offe Ludger Hagedorn Micheline Ishay Series: Lecture The current nationalist wave has dampened hopes of managing an array of global challenges: economic, social, environmental, and public health emergencies, along with planning for the long-term impacts of technological innovations in fields like artificial intelligence and bioengineering. This lecture addressed how a new internationalism could reinvigorate policies promoting global governance based on universal human rights. It addressed three questions: what can we learn from past internationalist movements toward a liberal global order? How did the neoliberal order, established after the Cold War, lead to today’s chronic crises? What are possibilities for a future and robust internationalism encompassing three levels: civil society, the state, and global governance? Read more
	The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict	Thu, 18.11.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Mark Leonard	The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict Thu, 18.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Mark Leonard Series: Panels and Discussions In today’s world, many of the forces that were supposed to bring the world together have ended up driving us apart. Trade, technology, the internet and travel promised to create a global village, but they are also giving countries a reason to fight one another, the opportunity to struggle and an arsenal of new weapons, from cyber-attacks and sanctions to fake news and weaponised vaccines. Building on the argument from his new book, The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict, Mark Leonard, unveils how connectivity has fragmented our societies, politics and made people focus more on what divided them rather than what they hold in common and why this interdependence makes conflict cheaper and more likely in international relations. As the contemporary five big forces driving interdependence – the economy, infrastructure, technology, migration, and international institutions – are being turned into a weapon and change how the topography of power looks like, can we take steps to disarm connectivity and avoid catastrophe? Read more
The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict Thu, 18.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Mark Leonard Series: Panels and Discussions In today’s world, many of the forces that were supposed to bring the world together have ended up driving us apart. Trade, technology, the internet and travel promised to create a global village, but they are also giving countries a reason to fight one another, the opportunity to struggle and an arsenal of new weapons, from cyber-attacks and sanctions to fake news and weaponised vaccines. Building on the argument from his new book, The Age of Unpeace: How Connectivity Causes Conflict, Mark Leonard, unveils how connectivity has fragmented our societies, politics and made people focus more on what divided them rather than what they hold in common and why this interdependence makes conflict cheaper and more likely in international relations. As the contemporary five big forces driving interdependence – the economy, infrastructure, technology, migration, and international institutions – are being turned into a weapon and change how the topography of power looks like, can we take steps to disarm connectivity and avoid catastrophe? Read more
	Symposium: Belarus in Contemporary Europe	Wed, 17.11.2021, 10:00	Conferences and Workshops	Andriej Moskwin Clemena Antonova Pavel BarkouskiHenadz Korshunou, Anton Saifullayeu, Olga Shparaga, Aleksandr Raspopov	Symposium: Belarus in Contemporary Europe Protecting Identity Wed, 17.11.2021, 10:00 Speakers: Andriej Moskwin Clemena Antonova Pavel BarkouskiHenadz Korshunou, Anton Saifullayeu, Olga Shparaga, Aleksandr Raspopov Series: Conferences and Workshops For many years, Belarus was confined to the sidelines of European history. It was only with the presidential election of 2020 and the huge accompanying wave of social protests that the country became a widespread topic of discussion. The symposium “Belarus in Contemporary Europe: Saving an Identity” aimed to initiate a more in-depth debate on the current situation in Belarus and to consider how it might develop. Particular emphasis will be placed on the notion that Belarus is a country with a rich history and culture that has been a part of Europe and has maintained close relations with the rest of the continent for many centuries. Read more
Symposium: Belarus in Contemporary Europe Protecting Identity Wed, 17.11.2021, 10:00 Speakers: Andriej Moskwin Clemena Antonova Pavel BarkouskiHenadz Korshunou, Anton Saifullayeu, Olga Shparaga, Aleksandr Raspopov Series: Conferences and Workshops For many years, Belarus was confined to the sidelines of European history. It was only with the presidential election of 2020 and the huge accompanying wave of social protests that the country became a widespread topic of discussion. The symposium “Belarus in Contemporary Europe: Saving an Identity” aimed to initiate a more in-depth debate on the current situation in Belarus and to consider how it might develop. Particular emphasis will be placed on the notion that Belarus is a country with a rich history and culture that has been a part of Europe and has maintained close relations with the rest of the continent for many centuries. Read more
	Belarus: A Land that Rests on Three “Whales”	Mon, 15.11.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Andriej Moskwin Clemena AntonovaDessislava Gavrilova-Krasteva	Belarus: A Land that Rests on Three “Whales” Mon, 15.11.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Andriej Moskwin Clemena AntonovaDessislava Gavrilova-Krasteva Series: Seminars and Colloquia In Poland, as in many European countries, Belarus is a country with a rather low profile. It was only the events of 2020 that demonstrated that there is a significant, strong civic community in Belarus demanding reform. In this context, research on various aspects of Belarusian literary life, culture and art is vital: it will serve not only to demonstrate Belarus’s rich literary and artistic output, but also the achievements of the process of Europeanization, which is crucial for the future of the country. Such activities are especially important now, as Belarusian culture is being repressed by the authorities and its representatives are either unable to work or are forced to emigrate. Read more
Belarus: A Land that Rests on Three “Whales” Mon, 15.11.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Andriej Moskwin Clemena AntonovaDessislava Gavrilova-Krasteva Series: Seminars and Colloquia In Poland, as in many European countries, Belarus is a country with a rather low profile. It was only the events of 2020 that demonstrated that there is a significant, strong civic community in Belarus demanding reform. In this context, research on various aspects of Belarusian literary life, culture and art is vital: it will serve not only to demonstrate Belarus’s rich literary and artistic output, but also the achievements of the process of Europeanization, which is crucial for the future of the country. Such activities are especially important now, as Belarusian culture is being repressed by the authorities and its representatives are either unable to work or are forced to emigrate. Read more
	Identität, Diversität, Postkolonialismus: Neue Herausforderungen für das Übersetzen von Literatur	Tue, 09.11.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Lutz Kliche Michael Kegler Susann Urban	Identität, Diversität, Postkolonialismus: Neue Herausforderungen für das Übersetzen von Literatur Tue, 09.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Lutz Kliche Michael Kegler Susann Urban Series: Lecture Über viele Jahre ist das Übersetzen im Literaturbetrieb – bei Verlagen, im Feuilleton, bei Autorinnen und Leserinnen – nicht seiner Bedeutung entsprechend gewürdigt worden. Während dieses Defizit glücklicherweise langsam korrigiert und die zentrale Rolle wahrgenommen wird, die das Übersetzen für die Entstehung internationaler Literatur spielt, sehen sich die Übersetzenden mit neuen Herausforderungen konfrontiert: Aktuelle Debatten um Identität, Diversität und das viel zitierte „Gendern“, die Ausdruck allgemeiner sprachlicher Verunsicherung sind, betreffen gerade auch die Arbeit der Literaturübersetzenden. Read more
Identität, Diversität, Postkolonialismus: Neue Herausforderungen für das Übersetzen von Literatur Tue, 09.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Lutz Kliche Michael Kegler Susann Urban Series: Lecture Über viele Jahre ist das Übersetzen im Literaturbetrieb – bei Verlagen, im Feuilleton, bei Autorinnen und Leserinnen – nicht seiner Bedeutung entsprechend gewürdigt worden. Während dieses Defizit glücklicherweise langsam korrigiert und die zentrale Rolle wahrgenommen wird, die das Übersetzen für die Entstehung internationaler Literatur spielt, sehen sich die Übersetzenden mit neuen Herausforderungen konfrontiert: Aktuelle Debatten um Identität, Diversität und das viel zitierte „Gendern“, die Ausdruck allgemeiner sprachlicher Verunsicherung sind, betreffen gerade auch die Arbeit der Literaturübersetzenden. Read more
	Ukraine and the Borders of Europe	Mon, 08.11.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Volodymyr Yermolenko	Ukraine and the Borders of Europe Essays in Ukrainian and European Intellectual History Mon, 08.11.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia Volodymyr Yermolenko explored how evolving ideas and imagination of Europe in the 18th-20th centuries shaped evolving ideas and imagination of Ukraine, in particular the image of Ukraine as the “big frontier”. Moving beyond the geographical sense of border/frontier inherent in Ukraine’s name, the focus here is on the mental and geo-philosophical aspect: the evolution of the mental borders of Europe and the concepts, metaphors, and imagination of Europe that shaped and reshaped how Ukraine and the Ukrainian lands have been seen in intellectual history, both from within and from without. Read more
Ukraine and the Borders of Europe Essays in Ukrainian and European Intellectual History Mon, 08.11.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Katherine Younger Ludger Hagedorn Volodymyr Yermolenko Series: Seminars and Colloquia Volodymyr Yermolenko explored how evolving ideas and imagination of Europe in the 18th-20th centuries shaped evolving ideas and imagination of Ukraine, in particular the image of Ukraine as the “big frontier”. Moving beyond the geographical sense of border/frontier inherent in Ukraine’s name, the focus here is on the mental and geo-philosophical aspect: the evolution of the mental borders of Europe and the concepts, metaphors, and imagination of Europe that shaped and reshaped how Ukraine and the Ukrainian lands have been seen in intellectual history, both from within and from without. Read more
	Healing the World? – German Foreign Policy between High Aspirations and Competing Imperatives	Tue, 02.11.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan KrastevThomas Bagger	Healing the World? – German Foreign Policy between High Aspirations and Competing Imperatives Tue, 02.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevThomas Bagger Series: Panels and Discussions German foreign policy is strongly informed by a historically grounded optimism in global convergence. But the self-confidence of finally being on the right side of history is shattered by recent crises and the re-emergence of geopolitical conflict. Calls for a more decisive German leadership role in Europe tend to overlook the competing imperatives at the core of Germany’s interests and ambitions. Read more
Healing the World? – German Foreign Policy between High Aspirations and Competing Imperatives Tue, 02.11.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevThomas Bagger Series: Panels and Discussions German foreign policy is strongly informed by a historically grounded optimism in global convergence. But the self-confidence of finally being on the right side of history is shattered by recent crises and the re-emergence of geopolitical conflict. Calls for a more decisive German leadership role in Europe tend to overlook the competing imperatives at the core of Germany’s interests and ambitions. Read more