Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Why Syria Matters	Fri, 29.11.2013, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	János Mátyás KovácsNader Hashemi, Christian Ultsch	Why Syria Matters The Moral Case for Intervention Fri, 29.11.2013, 18:00 Speakers: János Mátyás KovácsNader Hashemi, Christian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions There is widespread opposition in the West against foreign intervention in Syria. By large margins, public opinion in the West opposes the projection of Western military power into the Syrian conflict. Read more
Why Syria Matters The Moral Case for Intervention Fri, 29.11.2013, 18:00 Speakers: János Mátyás KovácsNader Hashemi, Christian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions There is widespread opposition in the West against foreign intervention in Syria. By large margins, public opinion in the West opposes the projection of Western military power into the Syrian conflict. Read more
	We the People: On Populism and Democracy	Wed, 27.11.2013, 18:00	Lecture	Jan-Werner Müller	We the People: On Populism and Democracy Lecture III: Real Problems – and How to Respond to Them Wed, 27.11.2013, 18:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Series: Lecture Populism is not just some form of political pathology. It also points at real problems, both in how democracy is justified as an ideal and in how actually existing democracies conduct themselves. For instance: what legitimately constitutes the boundaries of the “people”? Read more
We the People: On Populism and Democracy Lecture III: Real Problems – and How to Respond to Them Wed, 27.11.2013, 18:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Series: Lecture Populism is not just some form of political pathology. It also points at real problems, both in how democracy is justified as an ideal and in how actually existing democracies conduct themselves. For instance: what legitimately constitutes the boundaries of the “people”? Read more
	We the People: On Populism and Democracy	Tue, 26.11.2013, 00:00	Lecture	Jan-Werner Müller	We the People: On Populism and Democracy Lecture II: Intrusions of the People: Ideals of Popular Sovereignty in History Tue, 26.11.2013, 00:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Series: Lecture This lecture will examine how Europeans in particular have imagined people-making: what constitutes a people, how a people can act in history, and what it takes to preserve regimes that claim to instantiate popular rule. A long story of how continental Europeans became disenchanted with ide Read more
We the People: On Populism and Democracy Lecture II: Intrusions of the People: Ideals of Popular Sovereignty in History Tue, 26.11.2013, 00:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Series: Lecture This lecture will examine how Europeans in particular have imagined people-making: what constitutes a people, how a people can act in history, and what it takes to preserve regimes that claim to instantiate popular rule. A long story of how continental Europeans became disenchanted with ide Read more
	We the People: On Populism and Democracy	Mon, 25.11.2013, 18:00	Lecture	Jan-Werner Müller	We the People: On Populism and Democracy Lecture I: What is Populism? Mon, 25.11.2013, 18:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Series: Lecture “Populism” has become one of the most wide-spread terms of political analysis, especially in Europe. At the same time, historians, political theorists, and social scientists deeply disagree about the meaning of the concept, with some claiming that there is no such a thing at all Read more
We the People: On Populism and Democracy Lecture I: What is Populism? Mon, 25.11.2013, 18:00 Speakers: Jan-Werner Müller Series: Lecture “Populism” has become one of the most wide-spread terms of political analysis, especially in Europe. At the same time, historians, political theorists, and social scientists deeply disagree about the meaning of the concept, with some claiming that there is no such a thing at all Read more
	Hungary at the Crossroads	Fri, 15.11.2013, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	János Mátyás KovácsGordon Bajnai, Christian Ultsch	Hungary at the Crossroads Fri, 15.11.2013, 18:00 Speakers: János Mátyás KovácsGordon Bajnai, Christian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions 25 years after the establishment of democracy and a market economy, elections will be held in Hungary in Spring 2014. Read more

	Crisis, Critique, Capitalism	Thu, 07.11.2013, 18:00	Lecture	Nancy Fraser	Crisis, Critique, Capitalism A Framework for the 21st Century Thu, 07.11.2013, 18:00 Speakers: Nancy Fraser Series: Lecture The current sense of crisis–in economy, ecology, politics, and society–is prompting many critical theorists to revisit the problem of capitalism. In her lecture, Nancy Fraser saluted this return to core issues of social theory after a period of neglect. Read more
Crisis, Critique, Capitalism A Framework for the 21st Century Thu, 07.11.2013, 18:00 Speakers: Nancy Fraser Series: Lecture The current sense of crisis–in economy, ecology, politics, and society–is prompting many critical theorists to revisit the problem of capitalism. In her lecture, Nancy Fraser saluted this return to core issues of social theory after a period of neglect. Read more
	Europe. What comes next?	Thu, 24.10.2013, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan KrastevGiuliano Amato, Christian Ultsch	Europe. What comes next? Thu, 24.10.2013, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevGiuliano Amato, Christian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions In the first decades of its life, the European Union (at the time “Community”) seemed to be heading towards an ever closer federal-like integration. Read more

	Popular Revolt, Populist Turn	Thu, 27.06.2013, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Krastev Soli ÖzelChristian Ultsch	Popular Revolt, Populist Turn Turkey’s Critical Turn After a Decade of AKP Rule Thu, 27.06.2013, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Soli ÖzelChristian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions Recent developments in Turkey had precipitously brought the country into an almost existential crossroads. Will the government heed a widespread, pluralistic, popular outcry and deepen Turkish democracy or be lured by the siren calls of populism and monopolistic power? Read more
Popular Revolt, Populist Turn Turkey’s Critical Turn After a Decade of AKP Rule Thu, 27.06.2013, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Soli ÖzelChristian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions Recent developments in Turkey had precipitously brought the country into an almost existential crossroads. Will the government heed a widespread, pluralistic, popular outcry and deepen Turkish democracy or be lured by the siren calls of populism and monopolistic power? Read more
	Is Europe Losing Its Vision?	Tue, 04.06.2013, 18:00	Panels and Discussions	Ivan KrastevChristian Ultsch	Is Europe Losing Its Vision? Egalitarian Politics at Stake Tue, 04.06.2013, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevChristian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions Welfare state and the principle of democratic egalitarianism have been at the core of the political identity of European societies in the last 50 years. Is the global economic crisis going to change all this? Read more
Is Europe Losing Its Vision? Egalitarian Politics at Stake Tue, 04.06.2013, 18:00 Speakers: Ivan KrastevChristian Ultsch Series: Panels and Discussions Welfare state and the principle of democratic egalitarianism have been at the core of the political identity of European societies in the last 50 years. Is the global economic crisis going to change all this? Read more
	Inequality and Solidarity	Sun, 07.04.2013, 23:00	Panels and Discussions	Michael J. SandelElsa Fornero, Ira Katznelson, Andreas Treichl, Alfred Gusenbauer	Inequality and Solidarity Sun, 07.04.2013, 23:00 Speakers: Michael J. SandelElsa Fornero, Ira Katznelson, Andreas Treichl, Alfred Gusenbauer Series: Panels and Discussions The expansion phase of financial capitalism that ended in 2008 led to an above-average increase of global economy. At the same time the level of inequality within societies and among states got bigger. Policies to fight back the crisis from 2008 onwards caused record-high public debts and intensified this trend. The middle-class, as an agent of social balance, comes under pressure. Budgetary room for social transfers is getting tighter. Is the break-up of social cohesion, thus the break-up of social market economy inevitable? Read more
Inequality and Solidarity Sun, 07.04.2013, 23:00 Speakers: Michael J. SandelElsa Fornero, Ira Katznelson, Andreas Treichl, Alfred Gusenbauer Series: Panels and Discussions The expansion phase of financial capitalism that ended in 2008 led to an above-average increase of global economy. At the same time the level of inequality within societies and among states got bigger. Policies to fight back the crisis from 2008 onwards caused record-high public debts and intensified this trend. The middle-class, as an agent of social balance, comes under pressure. Budgetary room for social transfers is getting tighter. Is the break-up of social cohesion, thus the break-up of social market economy inevitable? Read more