|
Czernowitz as a Cultural Palimpsest
|
|
Seminars and Colloquia
|
Clemena AntonovaIgor Pomerantsev
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
|
|
Judges Under Pressure
|
|
Seminars and Colloquia
|
Ivan VejvodaJudy Dempsey
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Two members of the European Union. Two members of NATO. They couldn't be more different.
Poland and Romania are undergoing transformations that could have a profound effect on the rule of law, particularly on the role of independent judges.
Romania has been consistently criticized by reformers, by human rights activists and by organizations trying to combat the rampant corruption for the weak rule of law and for the constant interference by the political elites in the judiciary.
Since 1989, the country's transformation has been long, complicated and delayed by vested interests and indeed the old guard. Its history and culture do play a role in delaying the transformation. But the past cannot be used as an excuse to postpone a long overdue institutionalization of the rule of law and make the judiciary genuinely independent.
As for Poland, it was supposed to be a kind of model for other countries making the transformation from communism to democracy. But since 2005, a year after Poland joined the European Union, Law and Justice, a nationalist, conservative party, has been doing everything possible to overturn the gains of the post-1989 period.
Its first stint in power was too short-lived for the party to achieve its goal: adapting the law to implement its agenda. But since 2015, it has chiseled away at the fundamental aspects of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary.
There are a lot of "whys" with regard to what is happening in Poland and Romania. This will be the topic of my presentation on 4 November.
Read more
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Two members of the European Union. Two members of NATO. They couldn't be more different.
Poland and Romania are undergoing transformations that could have a profound effect on the rule of law, particularly on the role of independent judges.
Romania has been consistently criticized by reformers, by human rights activists and by organizations trying to combat the rampant corruption for the weak rule of law and for the constant interference by the political elites in the judiciary.
Since 1989, the country's transformation has been long, complicated and delayed by vested interests and indeed the old guard. Its history and culture do play a role in delaying the transformation. But the past cannot be used as an excuse to postpone a long overdue institutionalization of the rule of law and make the judiciary genuinely independent.
As for Poland, it was supposed to be a kind of model for other countries making the transformation from communism to democracy. But since 2005, a year after Poland joined the European Union, Law and Justice, a nationalist, conservative party, has been doing everything possible to overturn the gains of the post-1989 period.
Its first stint in power was too short-lived for the party to achieve its goal: adapting the law to implement its agenda. But since 2015, it has chiseled away at the fundamental aspects of the rule of law and the independence of the judiciary.
There are a lot of "whys" with regard to what is happening in Poland and Romania. This will be the topic of my presentation on 4 November.
Read more
|
|
Letters to Enver Hoxha
|
|
Seminars and Colloquia
|
Nikolai AntoniadisMiloš Vec
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
|
|
People of the Mountain
|
|
Seminars and Colloquia
|
Ivan VejvodaKapka Kassabova
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
For millennia, the people of the Mesta Valley have lived in an intimate relationship with their environment. Kapka Kassabova's enquiry is into the nature of this relationship as it survives today, after a succession of mass traumas in the 20th century have made their mark. They include political persecution during Communism, economic upheaval in the wake of the collapse of the planned economy, environmental degradation during and after Communism, migration, endemic state corruption, climate change, and a generational shift from a traditional, agricultural way of life towards a globalised, digitalised, uprooted way of life. His focus is on the Pomak (indigenous Muslim) and mixed villages here. An interesting phenomenon can be observed: permanent emigration is rare. These communities are held together by invisible factors that cannot be accounted for by pure economics.
The villages of the Mesta Valley are remarkable for several things: their exceptionally rich biosphere where some of Europe’s cleanest foods, animals, and medicinal herbs thrive; their rich tradition of cultural syncretism; their existential endurance in the face of trauma, and the fact that they export the greatest amount of cheap seasonal labour to Western Europe – the fruit pickers, planters, and builders on whom the wealthier European economies depend.
Read more
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
For millennia, the people of the Mesta Valley have lived in an intimate relationship with their environment. Kapka Kassabova's enquiry is into the nature of this relationship as it survives today, after a succession of mass traumas in the 20th century have made their mark. They include political persecution during Communism, economic upheaval in the wake of the collapse of the planned economy, environmental degradation during and after Communism, migration, endemic state corruption, climate change, and a generational shift from a traditional, agricultural way of life towards a globalised, digitalised, uprooted way of life. His focus is on the Pomak (indigenous Muslim) and mixed villages here. An interesting phenomenon can be observed: permanent emigration is rare. These communities are held together by invisible factors that cannot be accounted for by pure economics.
The villages of the Mesta Valley are remarkable for several things: their exceptionally rich biosphere where some of Europe’s cleanest foods, animals, and medicinal herbs thrive; their rich tradition of cultural syncretism; their existential endurance in the face of trauma, and the fact that they export the greatest amount of cheap seasonal labour to Western Europe – the fruit pickers, planters, and builders on whom the wealthier European economies depend.
Read more
|
|
Homo Itinerans
|
|
Lecture
|
Alessandro MonsuttiAyşe ÇağlarShalini Randeria
|
Series: Lecture
|
Series: Lecture
|
|
Learning From the Prespa Agreement
|
|
Seminars and Colloquia
|
Ioannis ArmakolasIvan Vejvoda
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
|
|
US Elections 2020
|
|
Panels and Discussions
|
Ivan Vejvoda
|
Series: Panels and Discussions
|
Series: Panels and Discussions
|
|
US Elections 2020
|
|
Panels and Discussions
|
Ivan VejvodaSteven Erlanger, Eva Nowotny, Raimund Löw
|
Speakers: Ivan VejvodaSteven Erlanger, Eva Nowotny, Raimund Löw
Series: Panels and Discussions
|
Speakers: Ivan VejvodaSteven Erlanger, Eva Nowotny, Raimund Löw
Series: Panels and Discussions
|
|
Who is Telling Us What? Why? And How?
|
|
Seminars and Colloquia
|
Alison SmaleIvan Vejvoda
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
|
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
|
|
The Problem of Religious Art in Modernity
|
-
|
Conferences and Workshops
|
Oleg TarasovTatiana LevinaMaria Taroutina, petra carlsson, George Pattison, Lilia Sokolova, Nikita Balagurov, Viktoria Lavriniuk, Thomas Nemeth
|
-
Speakers: Oleg TarasovTatiana LevinaMaria Taroutina, petra carlsson, George Pattison, Lilia Sokolova, Nikita Balagurov, Viktoria Lavriniuk, Thomas Nemeth
Series: Conferences and Workshops
|
-
Speakers: Oleg TarasovTatiana LevinaMaria Taroutina, petra carlsson, George Pattison, Lilia Sokolova, Nikita Balagurov, Viktoria Lavriniuk, Thomas Nemeth
Series: Conferences and Workshops
|