Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Die Lieblinge der Justiz	Mon, 26.04.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Yuri AndrukhovychCornelius Hell	Die Lieblinge der Justiz Lesung und Gespräch mit Juri Andruchowytsch Mon, 26.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Yuri AndrukhovychCornelius Hell Series: Lecture Die Lieblinge der Justiz, das sind Verbrechen und Verbrecher, echte und vermeintliche: Bohdan Staschynskyj zum Beispiel, ein KGB-Agent und Auftragskiller. Oder Mario, der Kolonialwarenhändler aus Kolomea im östlichen Hinterland der k. und k. Monarchie. Juri Andruchowytsch entfaltet in seinem neuen Buch »Die Lieblinge der Justiz. Parahistorischer Roman in achteinhalb Kapiteln« ein die Jahrhunderte umspannendes Panorama von Mord, Liebe und Verrat, von der Monstrosität des Verbrechens und der Justiz. Read more
Die Lieblinge der Justiz Lesung und Gespräch mit Juri Andruchowytsch Mon, 26.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Yuri AndrukhovychCornelius Hell Series: Lecture Die Lieblinge der Justiz, das sind Verbrechen und Verbrecher, echte und vermeintliche: Bohdan Staschynskyj zum Beispiel, ein KGB-Agent und Auftragskiller. Oder Mario, der Kolonialwarenhändler aus Kolomea im östlichen Hinterland der k. und k. Monarchie. Juri Andruchowytsch entfaltet in seinem neuen Buch »Die Lieblinge der Justiz. Parahistorischer Roman in achteinhalb Kapiteln« ein die Jahrhunderte umspannendes Panorama von Mord, Liebe und Verrat, von der Monstrosität des Verbrechens und der Justiz. Read more
	In Memory of the “Festival Age” (1987–1994)	Mon, 19.04.2021, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Marci Shore Yuri Andrukhovych	In Memory of the “Festival Age” (1987–1994) Was it Indeed a Phenomenon? Mon, 19.04.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Marci Shore Yuri Andrukhovych Series: Seminars and Colloquia The essay Yuri Andrukhovych currently works on is an attempt at a consistent recollection and a fairly objective reconstruction of several significant cultural events that fundamentally influenced Ukrainian society nearly three decades ago. The final years of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the first years of independent Ukraine came together into what was essentially an uninterrupted festival of artistic events that were new for their time, or at the very least a clear alternative to the ossified official culture. A radical renewal of cultural discourses and values through poetry, rock music, visual and performance art became an ineluctable part of sociopolitical changes at that break of eras. How did it begin in Ukraine, and why did it end? What has been preserved in memory? What has been swallowed up by oblivion? Was the “festival age” a continuation of, or a supplement to, the East European velvet alternatives? Read more
In Memory of the “Festival Age” (1987–1994) Was it Indeed a Phenomenon? Mon, 19.04.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Marci Shore Yuri Andrukhovych Series: Seminars and Colloquia The essay Yuri Andrukhovych currently works on is an attempt at a consistent recollection and a fairly objective reconstruction of several significant cultural events that fundamentally influenced Ukrainian society nearly three decades ago. The final years of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and the first years of independent Ukraine came together into what was essentially an uninterrupted festival of artistic events that were new for their time, or at the very least a clear alternative to the ossified official culture. A radical renewal of cultural discourses and values through poetry, rock music, visual and performance art became an ineluctable part of sociopolitical changes at that break of eras. How did it begin in Ukraine, and why did it end? What has been preserved in memory? What has been swallowed up by oblivion? Was the “festival age” a continuation of, or a supplement to, the East European velvet alternatives? Read more
	Capitalism, Alone	Thu, 15.04.2021, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Shalini RanderiaBranko Milanovic	Capitalism, Alone Books in Perspective Thu, 15.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Shalini RanderiaBranko Milanovic Series: Panels and Discussions We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In Capitalism, Alone, leading economist Branko Milanović explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism. Surveying the varieties of capitalism, he asks: How did capitalism become the dominant system in all parts of the world? And what needs to change for capitalism to deliver a more equitable future? Read more
Capitalism, Alone Books in Perspective Thu, 15.04.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Shalini RanderiaBranko Milanovic Series: Panels and Discussions We are all capitalists now. For the first time in human history, the globe is dominated by one economic system. In Capitalism, Alone, leading economist Branko Milanović explains the reasons for this decisive historical shift since the days of feudalism and, later, communism. Surveying the varieties of capitalism, he asks: How did capitalism become the dominant system in all parts of the world? And what needs to change for capitalism to deliver a more equitable future? Read more
	Forced Migration, the Antinomies of Mobility, and the Autonomy of Asylum	Wed, 14.04.2021, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe ÇağlarNicholas de Genova	Forced Migration, the Antinomies of Mobility, and the Autonomy of Asylum Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Nicholas de Genova and Ayse Çağlar Wed, 14.04.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarNicholas de Genova Series: Seminars and Colloquia Rather than seeing the ever more devious reaction formations of border policing and militarization, migrant detention, immigration enforcement, and deportation by state powers as if these were purely a matter of control, it is instructive to situate this economy of power in relation to the primacy, autonomy, and subjectivity of human mobility on a global (transnational, intercontinental, cross- border, postcolonial) scale. This is true, I contend, as much for refugees as for those who come to be derisively designated to be mere “migrants.” If we start from the human freedom of movement and recognize the various tactics of bordering as reaction formations, then the various tactics of border policing and forms of migration governance can be seen to introduce interruptions that temporarily immobilize and decelerate human cross-border mobilities with the aim of subjecting them to processes of surveillance and adjudication. Indeed, it is this dialectic that reconstitutes these mobilities as something that comes to be apprehensible, alternately, as “migration,” or “asylum-seeking,” or the “forced migration” of “refugees” in flight from persecution or violence – which is to say, as one or another variety of target and object of government. Yet, even under the most restricted circumstances and under considerable constraint, these human mobilities exude a substantial degree of autonomous subjectivity whereby migrants and refugees struggle to appropriate mobility. Even against the considerable forces aligned to immobilize their mobility projects, or to subject them to the stringent and exclusionary rules and constrictions of asylum, the subjective autonomy of human mobility remains an incorrigible force. Read more
Forced Migration, the Antinomies of Mobility, and the Autonomy of Asylum Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Nicholas de Genova and Ayse Çağlar Wed, 14.04.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarNicholas de Genova Series: Seminars and Colloquia Rather than seeing the ever more devious reaction formations of border policing and militarization, migrant detention, immigration enforcement, and deportation by state powers as if these were purely a matter of control, it is instructive to situate this economy of power in relation to the primacy, autonomy, and subjectivity of human mobility on a global (transnational, intercontinental, cross- border, postcolonial) scale. This is true, I contend, as much for refugees as for those who come to be derisively designated to be mere “migrants.” If we start from the human freedom of movement and recognize the various tactics of bordering as reaction formations, then the various tactics of border policing and forms of migration governance can be seen to introduce interruptions that temporarily immobilize and decelerate human cross-border mobilities with the aim of subjecting them to processes of surveillance and adjudication. Indeed, it is this dialectic that reconstitutes these mobilities as something that comes to be apprehensible, alternately, as “migration,” or “asylum-seeking,” or the “forced migration” of “refugees” in flight from persecution or violence – which is to say, as one or another variety of target and object of government. Yet, even under the most restricted circumstances and under considerable constraint, these human mobilities exude a substantial degree of autonomous subjectivity whereby migrants and refugees struggle to appropriate mobility. Even against the considerable forces aligned to immobilize their mobility projects, or to subject them to the stringent and exclusionary rules and constrictions of asylum, the subjective autonomy of human mobility remains an incorrigible force. Read more
	Borders and Mobility	Mon, 05.04.2021, 14:30	Lecture	Ranabir SamaddarNasreen Chowdhory	Borders and Mobility with Ranabir Samaddar and Nasreen Chowdhory Mon, 05.04.2021, 14:30 Speakers: Ranabir SamaddarNasreen Chowdhory Series: Lecture It is difficult to define the concept of the border with rigour and precision; it is easier to make sense of it as an institution and a practice with the help of associated concepts, such as boundary, frontier, borderlands, etc. The border as a mode to protect and delimit a territory is old. Read more
Borders and Mobility with Ranabir Samaddar and Nasreen Chowdhory Mon, 05.04.2021, 14:30 Speakers: Ranabir SamaddarNasreen Chowdhory Series: Lecture It is difficult to define the concept of the border with rigour and precision; it is easier to make sense of it as an institution and a practice with the help of associated concepts, such as boundary, frontier, borderlands, etc. The border as a mode to protect and delimit a territory is old. Read more
	Capitalism on Edge	Mon, 29.03.2021, 18:00	Lecture	Albena Azmanova Ludger Hagedorn Wolfgang Merkel	Capitalism on Edge How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia Mon, 29.03.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Albena Azmanova Ludger Hagedorn Wolfgang Merkel Series: Lecture Albena Azmanova’s new book Capitalism on Edge puts precarity at the root of such social pathologies as the rise of populism and the inability of liberal democracies to effectively manage crises. The author observes that, while we have been discussing the crisis of capitalism in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown, neoliberal capitalism has mutated into a new form, “precarity capitalism”, marked by the massification of political, economic and psychological insecurity. Read more
Capitalism on Edge How Fighting Precarity Can Achieve Radical Change Without Crisis or Utopia Mon, 29.03.2021, 18:00 Speakers: Albena Azmanova Ludger Hagedorn Wolfgang Merkel Series: Lecture Albena Azmanova’s new book Capitalism on Edge puts precarity at the root of such social pathologies as the rise of populism and the inability of liberal democracies to effectively manage crises. The author observes that, while we have been discussing the crisis of capitalism in the aftermath of the 2008 financial meltdown, neoliberal capitalism has mutated into a new form, “precarity capitalism”, marked by the massification of political, economic and psychological insecurity. Read more
	Marginalized (not only) in Times of Lockdown	Mon, 22.03.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Alison Smale Ludger Hagedorn Noémi Kiss	Marginalized (not only) in Times of Lockdown Culture, Periphery and the East-West-Imbalance Mon, 22.03.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Alison Smale Ludger Hagedorn Noémi Kiss Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent months, culture and the arts have suffered severely under pandemic-related restrictions. While artists, freelancers, independent projects, and even publicly funded cultural institutions are struggling for economic survival, we easily overlook the fact that—also in “normal times”—the autonomy of culture is increasingly being called into question. With respect to the immediate effects of this political and economic pressure on the arts, there is a major divide between cultural centers and those operating on the periphery. Most heavily affected by the asymmetric consequences of these pressures are not the trend-setter elites in cultural centers, or the publicly funded (non-)artists on the semi-peripheries, but all those who do not move to the cultural capitals. That is, those who decide to uphold cultural projects on the periphery—where they are most direly needed. Within Europe, there is also a significant East-West divide, not only in terms of the distribution of funding, but also in regard to the autonomy of art. This talk dealt with the situation of cultural actors on the periphery, confronted with emigration, poverty, de-/nationalization, walls, borders, ghettos, diseases, regime changes, and a new intra-European colonization. Read more
Marginalized (not only) in Times of Lockdown Culture, Periphery and the East-West-Imbalance Mon, 22.03.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Alison Smale Ludger Hagedorn Noémi Kiss Series: Seminars and Colloquia In recent months, culture and the arts have suffered severely under pandemic-related restrictions. While artists, freelancers, independent projects, and even publicly funded cultural institutions are struggling for economic survival, we easily overlook the fact that—also in “normal times”—the autonomy of culture is increasingly being called into question. With respect to the immediate effects of this political and economic pressure on the arts, there is a major divide between cultural centers and those operating on the periphery. Most heavily affected by the asymmetric consequences of these pressures are not the trend-setter elites in cultural centers, or the publicly funded (non-)artists on the semi-peripheries, but all those who do not move to the cultural capitals. That is, those who decide to uphold cultural projects on the periphery—where they are most direly needed. Within Europe, there is also a significant East-West divide, not only in terms of the distribution of funding, but also in regard to the autonomy of art. This talk dealt with the situation of cultural actors on the periphery, confronted with emigration, poverty, de-/nationalization, walls, borders, ghettos, diseases, regime changes, and a new intra-European colonization. Read more
	“We Are All Refugees”: Informal Settlements and Camps as Converging Spaces of Global Displacements	Wed, 17.03.2021, 17:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Ayşe ÇağlarFaranak Miraftab	“We Are All Refugees”: Informal Settlements and Camps as Converging Spaces of Global Displacements Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Faranak Miraftab and Ayse Çağlar Wed, 17.03.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarFaranak Miraftab Series: Seminars and Colloquia Faranak Miraftab presented her most recent work in which she relationally theorizes realities of those living in slums and in camps in the era of intensified global displacements. Read more
“We Are All Refugees”: Informal Settlements and Camps as Converging Spaces of Global Displacements Seminar Series on Forced Migration with Faranak Miraftab and Ayse Çağlar Wed, 17.03.2021, 17:00 Speakers: Ayşe ÇağlarFaranak Miraftab Series: Seminars and Colloquia Faranak Miraftab presented her most recent work in which she relationally theorizes realities of those living in slums and in camps in the era of intensified global displacements. Read more
	Crimes Without Punishments and Damaged Collective Identities	Mon, 15.03.2021, 16:00	Seminars and Colloquia	Jerko Bakotin	Crimes Without Punishments and Damaged Collective Identities The Example of the Dvor Massacre Mon, 15.03.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Jerko Bakotin Series: Seminars and Colloquia The lecture briefly presented the circumstances of the massacre committed in the town of Dvor during the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm, which crushed the secessionist Serb Republic of Krajina. In the early afternoon of August 8, 1995, nine (possibly ten) mentally ill and handicapped people were executed in Dvor’s primary school, where they had found shelter. Twenty-five years after the massacre, the killers have still not been prosecuted and it is even unclear to which army they belonged. In the vicinity there were both Croatian and Serbian units, while the Bosnian Army was only a few kilometers away. In addition, the massacre happened in front of Danish UN soldiers, whose base was on the school’s playground a mere 20 meters away from the massacre. Read more
Crimes Without Punishments and Damaged Collective Identities The Example of the Dvor Massacre Mon, 15.03.2021, 16:00 Speakers: Jerko Bakotin Series: Seminars and Colloquia The lecture briefly presented the circumstances of the massacre committed in the town of Dvor during the Croatian Army’s Operation Storm, which crushed the secessionist Serb Republic of Krajina. In the early afternoon of August 8, 1995, nine (possibly ten) mentally ill and handicapped people were executed in Dvor’s primary school, where they had found shelter. Twenty-five years after the massacre, the killers have still not been prosecuted and it is even unclear to which army they belonged. In the vicinity there were both Croatian and Serbian units, while the Bosnian Army was only a few kilometers away. In addition, the massacre happened in front of Danish UN soldiers, whose base was on the school’s playground a mere 20 meters away from the massacre. Read more
	Die Impfung - Ein knappes Gut?	Sun, 14.03.2021, 11:00	Panels and Discussions	Shalini RanderiaKatharina T. Paul, Barbara Prainsack, Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt	Die Impfung - Ein knappes Gut? Europa im Diskurs - Debating Europe Sun, 14.03.2021, 11:00 Speakers: Shalini RanderiaKatharina T. Paul, Barbara Prainsack, Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt Series: Panels and Discussions „Niemand ist sicher, bevor wir alle sicher sind“, warnen internationale Organisationen vor dem allerorts aufgekommenen Impfnationalismus. Denn mit den nun verfügbaren Covid-Impfstoffen stellen sich neue drängende Fragen: Wer bestimmt, welche Länder und Bevölkerungsgruppen überhaupt Zugang zu einem Impfstoff erhalten? Brauchen wir eine globale Impfstrategie, um den Wettlauf gegen die Ausbreitung von Mutationen zu gewinnen? Welche Lehren können wir aus früheren Pandemien und der Geschichte von Impfungen ziehen? Read more
Die Impfung - Ein knappes Gut? Europa im Diskurs - Debating Europe Sun, 14.03.2021, 11:00 Speakers: Shalini RanderiaKatharina T. Paul, Barbara Prainsack, Ursula Wiedermann-Schmidt Series: Panels and Discussions „Niemand ist sicher, bevor wir alle sicher sind“, warnen internationale Organisationen vor dem allerorts aufgekommenen Impfnationalismus. Denn mit den nun verfügbaren Covid-Impfstoffen stellen sich neue drängende Fragen: Wer bestimmt, welche Länder und Bevölkerungsgruppen überhaupt Zugang zu einem Impfstoff erhalten? Brauchen wir eine globale Impfstrategie, um den Wettlauf gegen die Ausbreitung von Mutationen zu gewinnen? Welche Lehren können wir aus früheren Pandemien und der Geschichte von Impfungen ziehen? Read more