Past Events

	Title	Date	Type	Speakers
	Diasporic Terrorism	Wed, 08.04.2015, 18:00	Lecture	Zygmunt Bauman	Diasporic Terrorism Wed, 08.04.2015, 18:00 Speakers: Zygmunt Bauman Series: Lecture This lecture looks at the social consequences of the massive ongoing diasporisation of the world, a process by which the stranger becomes a next-door neighbor. Read more

	How Much Transparency Does Democracy Need?	Sun, 15.03.2015, 23:00	Panels and Discussions	Shalini RanderiaJúlia Király, Evgeny Morozov, Aruna Roy, Max Schrems	How Much Transparency Does Democracy Need? Sun, 15.03.2015, 23:00 Speakers: Shalini RanderiaJúlia Király, Evgeny Morozov, Aruna Roy, Max Schrems Series: Panels and Discussions Democracy is in crisis. Citizens are deeply disillusioned with political and business elites. Many believe that more transparency would restore trust in democratic institutions and corporations as only informed citizens are able to hold politicians and CEOs accountable. However, due to the endemic spread of surveillance and social media it is the citizen who has become transparent, whereas governments, corporations and banks continue to be opaque. How can we redress this asymmetry? Read more
How Much Transparency Does Democracy Need? Sun, 15.03.2015, 23:00 Speakers: Shalini RanderiaJúlia Király, Evgeny Morozov, Aruna Roy, Max Schrems Series: Panels and Discussions Democracy is in crisis. Citizens are deeply disillusioned with political and business elites. Many believe that more transparency would restore trust in democratic institutions and corporations as only informed citizens are able to hold politicians and CEOs accountable. However, due to the endemic spread of surveillance and social media it is the citizen who has become transparent, whereas governments, corporations and banks continue to be opaque. How can we redress this asymmetry? Read more
	The Return of Geopolitics in Europe	Sun, 11.01.2015, 23:00	Panels and Discussions	Fyodor Lukyanov Ivan KrastevCarl Bildt, Ana Palacio, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid	The Return of Geopolitics in Europe Sun, 11.01.2015, 23:00 Speakers: Fyodor Lukyanov Ivan KrastevCarl Bildt, Ana Palacio, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid Series: Panels and Discussions After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the subsequent reordering of Europe, it seemed that a new era of stable and peaceful development lay ahead. In recent months, however, Europeans have experienced increasing insecurity. Peace and security can no longer be taken for granted. Borders and national entities have been called into question. Sanctions against Russia are affecting economic relationships – also in Austria. Has the Cold War returned to Europe? What geopolitical changes might we expect in the near future? How should Europe respond to these challenges? Read more
The Return of Geopolitics in Europe Sun, 11.01.2015, 23:00 Speakers: Fyodor Lukyanov Ivan KrastevCarl Bildt, Ana Palacio, Alexandra Föderl-Schmid Series: Panels and Discussions After the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the subsequent reordering of Europe, it seemed that a new era of stable and peaceful development lay ahead. In recent months, however, Europeans have experienced increasing insecurity. Peace and security can no longer be taken for granted. Borders and national entities have been called into question. Sanctions against Russia are affecting economic relationships – also in Austria. Has the Cold War returned to Europe? What geopolitical changes might we expect in the near future? How should Europe respond to these challenges? Read more
	Schutz, Macht und Verantwortung	Thu, 04.12.2014, 18:00	Lecture	Jürgen Osterhammel	Schutz, Macht und Verantwortung Protektion im Zeitalter der Imperien und danach Thu, 04.12.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Jürgen Osterhammel Series: Lecture Sein Geschichtswerk „Die Verwandlung der Welt. Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts“ wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet und in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt. Spätestens seit seiner Festansprache zum 60. Read more
Schutz, Macht und Verantwortung Protektion im Zeitalter der Imperien und danach Thu, 04.12.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Jürgen Osterhammel Series: Lecture Sein Geschichtswerk „Die Verwandlung der Welt. Eine Geschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts“ wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet und in mehrere Sprachen übersetzt. Spätestens seit seiner Festansprache zum 60. Read more
	The Climate Question	Mon, 27.10.2014, 18:00	Lecture	Dipesh Chakrabarty	The Climate Question Lecture III: Climate and the Human Condition Mon, 27.10.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty Series: Lecture Does the climate crisis indicate a fundamental change in the human condition, as described and analyzed by Hannah Arendt in her book of that name? Read more

	The Climate Question III	Mon, 27.10.2014, 18:00	Lecture	Dipesh Chakrabarty	The Climate Question III Lecture 3: Climate and the Human Condition Mon, 27.10.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty Series: Lecture Does the climate crisis speak of a fundamental change in the human condition, as described and analyzed by Hannah Arendt in her book of that name? This lecture closed the series with some reflections on this question and by responding to the work of Bruno Latour and others on the issue of human agency in the so-called epoch of the Anthropocene. Read more
The Climate Question III Lecture 3: Climate and the Human Condition Mon, 27.10.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty Series: Lecture Does the climate crisis speak of a fundamental change in the human condition, as described and analyzed by Hannah Arendt in her book of that name? This lecture closed the series with some reflections on this question and by responding to the work of Bruno Latour and others on the issue of human agency in the so-called epoch of the Anthropocene. Read more
	The Climate Question II	Wed, 22.10.2014, 18:00	Lecture		The Climate Question II Lecture 2: Climate Change and Question of Scale in Human Affairs Wed, 22.10.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Series: Lecture The climate crisis leads us to think of our times as characterized by the coming together of three very different kinds of histories that are "normally" separated by issues of scale, causation, discontinuous archives, and methods of research: natural histories of the earth systems, the history of life on this planet including that of humanity as a dominant species, and the much more short-term and recent history of industrial civilization or capitalism. This lectures seeked to draw out some of the implications of this proposition for how we think about human history, going forward. Read more
The Climate Question II Lecture 2: Climate Change and Question of Scale in Human Affairs Wed, 22.10.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Series: Lecture The climate crisis leads us to think of our times as characterized by the coming together of three very different kinds of histories that are "normally" separated by issues of scale, causation, discontinuous archives, and methods of research: natural histories of the earth systems, the history of life on this planet including that of humanity as a dominant species, and the much more short-term and recent history of industrial civilization or capitalism. This lectures seeked to draw out some of the implications of this proposition for how we think about human history, going forward. Read more
	The Climate Question	Wed, 22.10.2014, 18:00	Lecture	Dipesh Chakrabarty	The Climate Question Lecture II: Climate Change and the Question of Scale in Human Affairs Wed, 22.10.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty Series: Lecture The climate crisis leads us to think of our times as characterized by the coming together of three very different kinds of histories that are usually separated by scale, causation and methods of research: the natural history of the Eearth, the history of life on this planet including that of huma Read more
The Climate Question Lecture II: Climate Change and the Question of Scale in Human Affairs Wed, 22.10.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty Series: Lecture The climate crisis leads us to think of our times as characterized by the coming together of three very different kinds of histories that are usually separated by scale, causation and methods of research: the natural history of the Eearth, the history of life on this planet including that of huma Read more
	The Climate Question	Mon, 20.10.2014, 18:00	Lecture	Dipesh Chakrabarty	The Climate Question Lecture I: Between Globalization and Global Warming: Towards a History of the Present Mon, 20.10.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty Series: Lecture One of the main questions that this lecture addressed was whether the phenomenon of global warming challenges some of the main narratives or themes of human history that have dominated discussions in the humanities since the end of the Second World War: decolonization, development, the legacies o Read more
The Climate Question Lecture I: Between Globalization and Global Warming: Towards a History of the Present Mon, 20.10.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Dipesh Chakrabarty Series: Lecture One of the main questions that this lecture addressed was whether the phenomenon of global warming challenges some of the main narratives or themes of human history that have dominated discussions in the humanities since the end of the Second World War: decolonization, development, the legacies o Read more
	The Climate Question I	Mon, 20.10.2014, 18:00	Lecture		The Climate Question I Lecture 1: Between Globalization and Global Warming: Towards A History of the Present Mon, 20.10.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Series: Lecture One of the main questions that this lecture aimed to address is whether the phenomenon of global warming challenges - and if so, in what ways - some of the main the narratives or themes of human history that have dominated discussions in the humanities over since the end of the Second World War: docolonization, development, the legacies of European empires, globalization, and the rise of postcolonial thinking. Read more
The Climate Question I Lecture 1: Between Globalization and Global Warming: Towards A History of the Present Mon, 20.10.2014, 18:00 Speakers: Series: Lecture One of the main questions that this lecture aimed to address is whether the phenomenon of global warming challenges - and if so, in what ways - some of the main the narratives or themes of human history that have dominated discussions in the humanities over since the end of the Second World War: docolonization, development, the legacies of European empires, globalization, and the rise of postcolonial thinking. Read more