Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	The Hijack	Tue, 25.05.2021, 20:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Marci Shore Sławomir Sierakowski Timothy Snyder Viktoras BachmetjevasFiona Hill, Martin Malek, Francois Heisbourg	The Hijack Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich Tue, 25.05.2021, 20:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Marci Shore Sławomir Sierakowski Timothy Snyder Viktoras BachmetjevasFiona Hill, Martin Malek, Francois Heisbourg Series: Panels and Discussions On 23 May, a Belarusian fighter plane intercepted Ryanair 4978 and forced the European commercial airliner to land in Minsk. The reporter Roman Protasevich (26), known for his coverage of pro-democracy protests, was then abducted by Belarusian authorities, along with the student Sofia Sapega (23). How can reporters be protected against the use of military force by dictators? And how should the EU react to the state hijacking of an aircraft bound from one EU capital to another? Given Russia’s dominant role in Belarus, might it bear responsibility? Read more
The Hijack Europe, Belarus, and the Abduction of Roman Protasevich Tue, 25.05.2021, 20:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Marci Shore Sławomir Sierakowski Timothy Snyder Viktoras BachmetjevasFiona Hill, Martin Malek, Francois Heisbourg Series: Panels and Discussions On 23 May, a Belarusian fighter plane intercepted Ryanair 4978 and forced the European commercial airliner to land in Minsk. The reporter Roman Protasevich (26), known for his coverage of pro-democracy protests, was then abducted by Belarusian authorities, along with the student Sofia Sapega (23). How can reporters be protected against the use of military force by dictators? And how should the EU react to the state hijacking of an aircraft bound from one EU capital to another? Given Russia’s dominant role in Belarus, might it bear responsibility? Read more
	Revisiting the Social History of Ethnic Violence in Rwanda	Tue, 25.05.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Giorgia DonàErin Jessee	Revisiting the Social History of Ethnic Violence in Rwanda Marginalized Voices and the Constellation of Genocide Narratives Tue, 25.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Giorgia DonàErin Jessee Series: Lecture In this lecture, Prof. Doná revisited the social history of ethnic violence in Rwanda by focusing on marginalized voices. She introduced the constellation of genocide narratives to conceptualize the relationship between public and personal narratives of violence and its legacy and to identify connections among varied stories. This chronicle from below challenges a social history of almost totalizing violence to speak of continuity, embeddedness and the everyday. In doing so, it problematizes the narrative of ruptures between the “old” (pre-genocide) and “new” (post-genocide) reality; challenges the overlap of ethnic and social identities; and records the complex legacy of ethnic violence, as an event and as narrative, on the social and narrative lives of the nation and its people. Read more
Revisiting the Social History of Ethnic Violence in Rwanda Marginalized Voices and the Constellation of Genocide Narratives Tue, 25.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Giorgia DonàErin Jessee Series: Lecture In this lecture, Prof. Doná revisited the social history of ethnic violence in Rwanda by focusing on marginalized voices. She introduced the constellation of genocide narratives to conceptualize the relationship between public and personal narratives of violence and its legacy and to identify connections among varied stories. This chronicle from below challenges a social history of almost totalizing violence to speak of continuity, embeddedness and the everyday. In doing so, it problematizes the narrative of ruptures between the “old” (pre-genocide) and “new” (post-genocide) reality; challenges the overlap of ethnic and social identities; and records the complex legacy of ethnic violence, as an event and as narrative, on the social and narrative lives of the nation and its people. Read more
	30 Debata Tischnerowska	Wed, 19.05.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Dariusz StolaAgata Bielik-Robson, Timothy Garton Ash, Aleksander Smolar	30 Debata Tischnerowska Aktualność myśli Marcina Króla Wed, 19.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Dariusz StolaAgata Bielik-Robson, Timothy Garton Ash, Aleksander Smolar Series: Panels and Discussions Debaty Tischnerowskie przez wiele lat prowadził prof. Marcin Król - historyk idei, filozof i publicysta, jeden z najbardziej wpływowych polskich intelektualistów ostatnich dekad. Odszedł od nas w 2020 r., ale pozostawił nam zapisy swych przemyśleń – liczne książki i artykuły. Dlatego najbliższą, trzydziestą już Debatę, poświęcimy aktualności myśli Marcina Króla. Do rozmowy na ten temat zaprosiliśmy troje wybitnych uczonych: Agatę Bielik-Robson, Timothy Garton Asha i Aleksandra Smolara; ich dyskusję poprowadzi Dariusz Stola. Read more
30 Debata Tischnerowska Aktualność myśli Marcina Króla Wed, 19.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Dariusz StolaAgata Bielik-Robson, Timothy Garton Ash, Aleksander Smolar Series: Panels and Discussions Debaty Tischnerowskie przez wiele lat prowadził prof. Marcin Król - historyk idei, filozof i publicysta, jeden z najbardziej wpływowych polskich intelektualistów ostatnich dekad. Odszedł od nas w 2020 r., ale pozostawił nam zapisy swych przemyśleń – liczne książki i artykuły. Dlatego najbliższą, trzydziestą już Debatę, poświęcimy aktualności myśli Marcina Króla. Do rozmowy na ten temat zaprosiliśmy troje wybitnych uczonych: Agatę Bielik-Robson, Timothy Garton Asha i Aleksandra Smolara; ich dyskusję poprowadzi Dariusz Stola. Read more
	Religious Fundamentalism and the Decline of Women’s Reproductive Rights in Central Europe	Mon, 17.05.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Amanda Coakley Dennis Patterson Ivan Vejvoda	Religious Fundamentalism and the Decline of Women’s Reproductive Rights in Central Europe A Lesson from Ireland Mon, 17.05.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Amanda Coakley Dennis Patterson Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia In the shadow of population decline some Central European states have turned their attention to curtailing women’s access to abortion and in the case of Poland, effectively outlawing it. These policy moves are not only the work of illiberal governments. They are also heavily linked to religious institutions who for decades have labelled women’s reproductive rights as enemy number one on the battlefield of moral values. Calling for a “return to traditional family values” is not the path to economic and social prosperity. Yet it is a clarion call sounded from Warsaw to Budapest. Furthermore, these moves are indicative of the Church’s desire to maintain its political as well as religious influence as a growing number of people in the region chose a more secular life. Read more
Religious Fundamentalism and the Decline of Women’s Reproductive Rights in Central Europe A Lesson from Ireland Mon, 17.05.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Amanda Coakley Dennis Patterson Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia In the shadow of population decline some Central European states have turned their attention to curtailing women’s access to abortion and in the case of Poland, effectively outlawing it. These policy moves are not only the work of illiberal governments. They are also heavily linked to religious institutions who for decades have labelled women’s reproductive rights as enemy number one on the battlefield of moral values. Calling for a “return to traditional family values” is not the path to economic and social prosperity. Yet it is a clarion call sounded from Warsaw to Budapest. Furthermore, these moves are indicative of the Church’s desire to maintain its political as well as religious influence as a growing number of people in the region chose a more secular life. Read more
	Decolonizing Forced Migration Studies: Lessons from Borderlands	Wed, 12.05.2021, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Nergis Canefe	Decolonizing Forced Migration Studies: Lessons from Borderlands Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Nergis Canefe and Ayşe Çağlar Wed, 12.05.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Nergis Canefe Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation was an exploration of forced migration studies seen from the lens of de-colonial theory and invited us to consider shifting the geographies of reason habitually marking the field. Starting with a foundational critique of moralism and privilege marking canonized understandings of migration, precarity, displacement and dispossession, it unpacked the complexity of an existential political commitment to redefining forced migration not from the core/recipient states and societies but from borderlands. This work thus contributed to a long and rich—yet also troubled and deeply contested—conversation between postcolonial studies and forced migration studies. Read more
Decolonizing Forced Migration Studies: Lessons from Borderlands Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Nergis Canefe and Ayşe Çağlar Wed, 12.05.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Nergis Canefe Series: Seminars and Colloquia This presentation was an exploration of forced migration studies seen from the lens of de-colonial theory and invited us to consider shifting the geographies of reason habitually marking the field. Starting with a foundational critique of moralism and privilege marking canonized understandings of migration, precarity, displacement and dispossession, it unpacked the complexity of an existential political commitment to redefining forced migration not from the core/recipient states and societies but from borderlands. This work thus contributed to a long and rich—yet also troubled and deeply contested—conversation between postcolonial studies and forced migration studies. Read more
	Alien Logic	Tue, 11.05.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder	Alien Logic The Universal Machine and the Psyche of the Social Apparatus Tue, 11.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Bronislaw Malinowski has shown with his ethnological studies that a supposedly primitive society can be of astonishing complexity, as well as why the structure of this order remains obscure to its members. Obviously, modern societies also suffer from system blindness – why else is digitization said to have chiliastic, diabolic, magical powers? In a continuation to his cultural-theoretical investigations on the genealogy and philosophy of the machine, Martin Burckhardt explores the question of how the self-enchantment of rationality can occur, and to what extent the operating system of the attention economy can be read as an outsourced unconscious. This, in turn, leads back to the point of departure: what perspective must a contemporary social anthropologist take in order to read the present? Read more
Alien Logic The Universal Machine and the Psyche of the Social Apparatus Tue, 11.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Martin Burckhardt Timothy Snyder Series: Lecture Bronislaw Malinowski has shown with his ethnological studies that a supposedly primitive society can be of astonishing complexity, as well as why the structure of this order remains obscure to its members. Obviously, modern societies also suffer from system blindness – why else is digitization said to have chiliastic, diabolic, magical powers? In a continuation to his cultural-theoretical investigations on the genealogy and philosophy of the machine, Martin Burckhardt explores the question of how the self-enchantment of rationality can occur, and to what extent the operating system of the attention economy can be read as an outsourced unconscious. This, in turn, leads back to the point of departure: what perspective must a contemporary social anthropologist take in order to read the present? Read more
	Fluid Zones of Hegemony	Mon, 10.05.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir	Fluid Zones of Hegemony Hydro-Scales, Cartographic Rule, and Place in North Cyprus Mon, 10.05.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Series: Seminars and Colloquia Based on a 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in north Cyprus, Ezgi Özdemir's doctoral dissertation studies water infrastructure in the Turkish-occupied territories of Cyprus, enduring patronage relations between the Turkish state and the de-facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), and emergent political subjectivities and collective identificatory practices of peoples in north Cyprus, which are contingent upon notions of exceptionality, non-recognition, and infrastructural and political dependence. For this, she looks specifically at the Turkish state-funded water pipeline from Turkey to north Cyprus—a megaproject that has since been privatized along with the transferred water and the local water resources of the north. Read more
Fluid Zones of Hegemony Hydro-Scales, Cartographic Rule, and Place in North Cyprus Mon, 10.05.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Ayşe Çağlar Ezgican Özdemir Series: Seminars and Colloquia Based on a 16-month ethnographic fieldwork in north Cyprus, Ezgi Özdemir's doctoral dissertation studies water infrastructure in the Turkish-occupied territories of Cyprus, enduring patronage relations between the Turkish state and the de-facto Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), and emergent political subjectivities and collective identificatory practices of peoples in north Cyprus, which are contingent upon notions of exceptionality, non-recognition, and infrastructural and political dependence. For this, she looks specifically at the Turkish state-funded water pipeline from Turkey to north Cyprus—a megaproject that has since been privatized along with the transferred water and the local water resources of the north. Read more
	Do We Need a Post-Covid Economic Revolution?	Sun, 09.05.2021, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Albena AzmanovaDaniel Gros, Harald Oberhofer, Lisa Herzog, Eric Frey	Do We Need a Post-Covid Economic Revolution? Europa im Diskurs - Debating Europe Sun, 09.05.2021, 11:00 Speakers: Albena AzmanovaDaniel Gros, Harald Oberhofer, Lisa Herzog, Eric Frey Series: Panels and Discussions The Covid-19-pandemic and the economic crisis it triggered is not only upsetting fiscal and social policies in most industrialized countries, but also the debate among economists about the role of the state, the future of work and the balance between necessary economic growth and the needs to fight global warming. How many of these new ideas will persist once the pandemic is over? Has the time for a new approach to economics finally arrived? Read more
Do We Need a Post-Covid Economic Revolution? Europa im Diskurs - Debating Europe Sun, 09.05.2021, 11:00 Speakers: Albena AzmanovaDaniel Gros, Harald Oberhofer, Lisa Herzog, Eric Frey Series: Panels and Discussions The Covid-19-pandemic and the economic crisis it triggered is not only upsetting fiscal and social policies in most industrialized countries, but also the debate among economists about the role of the state, the future of work and the balance between necessary economic growth and the needs to fight global warming. How many of these new ideas will persist once the pandemic is over? Has the time for a new approach to economics finally arrived? Read more
	Balaton. Novellen	Mon, 03.05.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Noémi Kiss	Balaton. Novellen Lesung und Gespräch mit Noémi Kiss Mon, 03.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Noémi Kiss Series: Lecture Ungarn in den 1980er-Jahren: Der Balaton, oder Plattensee, ist ein beliebtes Urlaubsziel. Hier liegen Menschen von beiden Seiten des „Eisernen Vorhangs“ einträchtig nebeneinander am Strand, durch den Mauerbau getrennte Familien machen gemeinsam Ferien. Read more
Balaton. Novellen Lesung und Gespräch mit Noémi Kiss Mon, 03.05.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Noémi Kiss Series: Lecture Ungarn in den 1980er-Jahren: Der Balaton, oder Plattensee, ist ein beliebtes Urlaubsziel. Hier liegen Menschen von beiden Seiten des „Eisernen Vorhangs“ einträchtig nebeneinander am Strand, durch den Mauerbau getrennte Familien machen gemeinsam Ferien. Read more
	Das Fremde hinter der Fremde	Tue, 27.04.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Ludger Hagedorn Michael Kegler Susann Urban	Das Fremde hinter der Fremde Tue, 27.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Michael Kegler Susann Urban Series: Lecture Mittlerweile gibt es viele AutorInnen, für die Englisch nicht die Muttersprache oder eine Muttersprache unter mehreren, sondern die Zweit-, oder Drittsprache ist. Ihre globalen Biografien und Lebensbrüche spiegeln sich nicht nur in ihren Themen wider. Sie schmuggeln ungewohnte Sprachbilder, Metaphern, Idiome in die englische Sprache – eine wunderbare Bereicherung und eine enorme Translationsherausforderung. Read more
Das Fremde hinter der Fremde Tue, 27.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ludger Hagedorn Michael Kegler Susann Urban Series: Lecture Mittlerweile gibt es viele AutorInnen, für die Englisch nicht die Muttersprache oder eine Muttersprache unter mehreren, sondern die Zweit-, oder Drittsprache ist. Ihre globalen Biografien und Lebensbrüche spiegeln sich nicht nur in ihren Themen wider. Sie schmuggeln ungewohnte Sprachbilder, Metaphern, Idiome in die englische Sprache – eine wunderbare Bereicherung und eine enorme Translationsherausforderung. Read more