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Liberalism in Crisis: Between Totalitarian Responses and Progressive Dreams |
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Panels and Discussions |
Adam RamsayIvan KrastevIvan VejvodaShalini RanderiaVenelin GanevJacques Rupnik, Ana Blazeva, Katerina Kolozova |
Series: Panels and Discussions
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Series: Panels and Discussions
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Manufactured Alienation |
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Seminars and Colloquia |
Adam RamsayIvan KrastevIvan Vejvoda |
The Construction of Political Distrust and the Rise of Oligarch Power
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Construction of Political Distrust and the Rise of Oligarch Power
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Freedom and Solidarity |
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Seminars and Colloquia |
Piotr KubasiakWojciech Bonowicz |
Józef Tischner’s Life and Thinking
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Józef Tischner’s Life and Thinking
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Award Ceremony for the Inaugural Emma Goldman Awards |
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Visual and Performing Arts |
Cornelia KlingerMieke VerlooShalini RanderiaFlorian Duijsens |
Series: Visual and Performing Arts
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Series: Visual and Performing Arts
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Becoming .... |
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Seminars and Colloquia |
Ayşe ÇağlarLucy Ashton |
Experiences of Unaccompanied Young Afghans in Austria
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Experiences of Unaccompanied Young Afghans in Austria
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Facing Post-Truth in Central-Eastern Europe |
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Seminars and Colloquia |
Arvydas GrišinasLudger Hagedorn |
Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The main challenge that post-truth poses, as the concept itself suggests, is the alleged end of centrality of the idea of truth in politics. Central and Eastern Europe finds itself in a political culture where claims, ideas and utterances must no longer necessarily be grounded in proven empirical facts, in order to be held true by the broader public. This situation, however, is by no means new or unheard of. In this regard, it resembles Soviet social reality, where officially held narratives also had scant empirical grounding. Furthermore, while it were Central-Eastern European dissidents who problematized these issues and set out to successfully counter them, resulting in the events of 1989, the same dissident heritage is also used nowadays to promote agendas of populist illiberal regimes in the region. The talk explored the prospects and challenges to utilizing the dissident heritage to tackling these contemporary issues.
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Historical Heritage and Contemporary Challenges
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The main challenge that post-truth poses, as the concept itself suggests, is the alleged end of centrality of the idea of truth in politics. Central and Eastern Europe finds itself in a political culture where claims, ideas and utterances must no longer necessarily be grounded in proven empirical facts, in order to be held true by the broader public. This situation, however, is by no means new or unheard of. In this regard, it resembles Soviet social reality, where officially held narratives also had scant empirical grounding. Furthermore, while it were Central-Eastern European dissidents who problematized these issues and set out to successfully counter them, resulting in the events of 1989, the same dissident heritage is also used nowadays to promote agendas of populist illiberal regimes in the region. The talk explored the prospects and challenges to utilizing the dissident heritage to tackling these contemporary issues.
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The Dangers of Digital Democracy |
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Panels and Discussions |
Ingrid Brodnig, Franco Berardi, John Frank, Eric Frey |
Speakers: Ingrid Brodnig, Franco Berardi, John Frank, Eric Frey
Series: Panels and Discussions
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Speakers: Ingrid Brodnig, Franco Berardi, John Frank, Eric Frey
Series: Panels and Discussions
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Religion and Revolution |
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Lecture |
Clemena AntonovaGayle Lonergan |
Two Projects of Modernity in Early 20th Century Russia
Series: Lecture
While the “Russian religious renaissance” at the beginning of the 20th century and the political fervour, which culminated in the October Revolution of 1917, took place at the same period, these two developments are rarely studied alongside each other. In their joint book presentations, the two speakers considered a tradition of religious philosophy, on the one hand and the political history of the early years of the Bolshevik Party, on the other as two responses to the crisis of modernity. Interestingly, with all their differences, the religious and the Marxist-Leninist projects – both of which displayed utopian and illiberal features – shared common concerns and themes. It is, thus, not surprising that some of the most prominent religious thinkers had started as Marxists. It is exactly these common themes that can be relevant to contemporary debates on the critical issues of the early 21st century.
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Two Projects of Modernity in Early 20th Century Russia
Series: Lecture
While the “Russian religious renaissance” at the beginning of the 20th century and the political fervour, which culminated in the October Revolution of 1917, took place at the same period, these two developments are rarely studied alongside each other. In their joint book presentations, the two speakers considered a tradition of religious philosophy, on the one hand and the political history of the early years of the Bolshevik Party, on the other as two responses to the crisis of modernity. Interestingly, with all their differences, the religious and the Marxist-Leninist projects – both of which displayed utopian and illiberal features – shared common concerns and themes. It is, thus, not surprising that some of the most prominent religious thinkers had started as Marxists. It is exactly these common themes that can be relevant to contemporary debates on the critical issues of the early 21st century.
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Debating Citizenship and Emancipation during the Long 19th Century |
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Seminars and Colloquia |
Holly CaseConstantin Iordachi |
Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Holly Case has called the period spanning the late-18th to the second half of the 20th century “The Age of Questions,” which included the Eastern question, Jewish question, social question, and countless others. In his recent book Liberalism, Constitutional Nationalism, and Minorities: The Making of Romanian Citizenship, c. 1750–1918 (2019), Constantin Iordachi shows how the succession of transnational “questions” that were at the heart of European and North-Atlantic politics during the long nineteenth century, and the interplay between them, impacted citizenship policies in Romania and beyond. He further describes the transfer of novel institutions of citizenship across temporal and political boundaries. In this discussion, Iordachi briefly outlined some of his broader conclusions regarding citizenship and statebuilding across the nineteenth century, after which he and Case engaged in a discussion about the role of “questions” in this dynamic and across this critical span of European and global history.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
Holly Case has called the period spanning the late-18th to the second half of the 20th century “The Age of Questions,” which included the Eastern question, Jewish question, social question, and countless others. In his recent book Liberalism, Constitutional Nationalism, and Minorities: The Making of Romanian Citizenship, c. 1750–1918 (2019), Constantin Iordachi shows how the succession of transnational “questions” that were at the heart of European and North-Atlantic politics during the long nineteenth century, and the interplay between them, impacted citizenship policies in Romania and beyond. He further describes the transfer of novel institutions of citizenship across temporal and political boundaries. In this discussion, Iordachi briefly outlined some of his broader conclusions regarding citizenship and statebuilding across the nineteenth century, after which he and Case engaged in a discussion about the role of “questions” in this dynamic and across this critical span of European and global history.
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Rebuild Trust in Politics |
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Panels and Discussions |
David F GoodhartIvan KrastevWalter Hämmerle |
Why People Turn Away from Politics and How to Rebuild Trust
Series: Panels and Discussions
If you are searching for the answers to such questions as why people make unexpected political choices or if the “illiberal democracies” are on the rise in Europe, you can find them in Ivan Krastev’s essay “After Europe”. This renowned political scientist from Bulgaria describes the current state of European society as a metaphorical U-turn in thoughts on globalization and geopolitics, refugee crisis and populism, whereas the latter threatens Europe’s established commitment to human rights and social solidarity.
At the same time, David Goodhart, British journalist, divides people into two groups in his book “The Road to Somewhere”. There are the “Somewheres”, who crave for stability, perceive any change as a loss and are social-conservative and often less-educated, on the one hand; and urban, social-liberal “Anywheres”, who prefer self-realisation over stability and tradition, on the other. Even though “Somewheres” comprise ca. 50 % of the population and “Anywheres” just around 25 % - it’s the “Anywheres” who constitute the majority of the lawmakers among us.
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Why People Turn Away from Politics and How to Rebuild Trust
Series: Panels and Discussions
If you are searching for the answers to such questions as why people make unexpected political choices or if the “illiberal democracies” are on the rise in Europe, you can find them in Ivan Krastev’s essay “After Europe”. This renowned political scientist from Bulgaria describes the current state of European society as a metaphorical U-turn in thoughts on globalization and geopolitics, refugee crisis and populism, whereas the latter threatens Europe’s established commitment to human rights and social solidarity.
At the same time, David Goodhart, British journalist, divides people into two groups in his book “The Road to Somewhere”. There are the “Somewheres”, who crave for stability, perceive any change as a loss and are social-conservative and often less-educated, on the one hand; and urban, social-liberal “Anywheres”, who prefer self-realisation over stability and tradition, on the other. Even though “Somewheres” comprise ca. 50 % of the population and “Anywheres” just around 25 % - it’s the “Anywheres” who constitute the majority of the lawmakers among us.
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