Events / Ivan Vejvoda

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	China, Europe, and Global Leadership	Wed, 30.04.2025	Panels and Discussions	Ivan Vejvoda Niccolo MilaneseXuetong Yan	REGISTER HERE	China, Europe, and Global Leadership Wed, 30.04.2025 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Niccolo MilaneseXuetong Yan Series: Panels and Discussions As technological, climatic, and social change have begun to accelerate at an unprecedented rate, the United States appears to have relinquished its aspirations to global leadership. China and Europe are faced with multiple dilemmas in determining how to respond to these changes. Yan Xuetong, one of China’s leading intellectuals, in conversation with Niccolò Milanese and Ivan Vejvoda, will address what this will mean for Europe and China. Read more
China, Europe, and Global Leadership Wed, 30.04.2025 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Niccolo MilaneseXuetong Yan Series: Panels and Discussions As technological, climatic, and social change have begun to accelerate at an unprecedented rate, the United States appears to have relinquished its aspirations to global leadership. China and Europe are faced with multiple dilemmas in determining how to respond to these changes. Yan Xuetong, one of China’s leading intellectuals, in conversation with Niccolò Milanese and Ivan Vejvoda, will address what this will mean for Europe and China. Read more
	Beyond Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the End of Moscow’s Rule in Eastern Central Europe, 1980-1991	Tue, 15.04.2025	Lecture	Franziska Davies Ivan Vejvoda		Beyond Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the End of Moscow’s Rule in Eastern Central Europe, 1980-1991 Tue, 15.04.2025 Speakers: Franziska Davies Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Franziska Davies offered an often overlooked perspective on the end of Moscow’s hegemony by focusing on the role of Ukrainian society in the 1980s and the development of Polish-Ukrainian relations in the lead-up to the fall of the Soviet Union. Read more
Beyond Empire: Ukraine, Poland, and the End of Moscow’s Rule in Eastern Central Europe, 1980-1991 Tue, 15.04.2025 Speakers: Franziska Davies Ivan Vejvoda Series: Lecture In this Monthly Lecture, Franziska Davies offered an often overlooked perspective on the end of Moscow’s hegemony by focusing on the role of Ukrainian society in the 1980s and the development of Polish-Ukrainian relations in the lead-up to the fall of the Soviet Union. Read more
	Global Upheavals, Local Struggles	Thu, 03.04.2025 - Thu, 03.04.2025	Conferences and Workshops	Ivan Vejvoda Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Sanja M. BojanicPetar Bojanić, Gazela Pudar Draško, Hedvig Morvai		Global Upheavals, Local Struggles Thu, 03.04.2025 - Thu, 03.04.2025 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Sanja M. BojanicPetar Bojanić, Gazela Pudar Draško, Hedvig Morvai Series: Conferences and Workshops As geopolitical instability, economic uncertainty, and environmental crises intensify, how is Europe—and particularly the Western Balkans—positioned within these global transformations? By examining current disruptions for democracy, governance, and socio-economic stability, this panel provided insights into the Western Balkans’ role in shaping Europe’s future at a time of profound transformation. Read more
Global Upheavals, Local Struggles Thu, 03.04.2025 - Thu, 03.04.2025 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Ludger Hagedorn Misha Glenny Sanja M. BojanicPetar Bojanić, Gazela Pudar Draško, Hedvig Morvai Series: Conferences and Workshops As geopolitical instability, economic uncertainty, and environmental crises intensify, how is Europe—and particularly the Western Balkans—positioned within these global transformations? By examining current disruptions for democracy, governance, and socio-economic stability, this panel provided insights into the Western Balkans’ role in shaping Europe’s future at a time of profound transformation. Read more
	The Standpoint of Moral Progress. A Defense in Kantian Spirit	Mon, 16.12.2024	Lecture	Ivan VejvodaAxel Honneth		The Standpoint of Moral Progress. A Defense in Kantian Spirit Mon, 16.12.2024 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaAxel Honneth Series: Lecture This year's Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture was held by philosopher Axel Honneth. The lecture aimed to show that both empirical and normative objections to the idea of moral progress in human history can be refuted if one has a proper understanding of the perspective from which to claim a past process of moral progress. Read more
The Standpoint of Moral Progress. A Defense in Kantian Spirit Mon, 16.12.2024 Speakers: Ivan VejvodaAxel Honneth Series: Lecture This year's Jan Patočka Memorial Lecture was held by philosopher Axel Honneth. The lecture aimed to show that both empirical and normative objections to the idea of moral progress in human history can be refuted if one has a proper understanding of the perspective from which to claim a past process of moral progress. Read more
	Navigating Contradictions: Europe in an Ambivalent World	Mon, 02.12.2024	Lecture	Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Nathalie Tocci		Navigating Contradictions: Europe in an Ambivalent World Mon, 02.12.2024 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Nathalie Tocci Series: Lecture Since the turn of the century, Europe and the world have undergone successive stages of closure. This does not mean that Europe now lives in a closed world, but rather in one in which openness and closure coexist. Against this backdrop, Europe must learn to navigate these contradictions by protecting its security, economy and democracy, while remaining engaged with the wider world. Read more
Navigating Contradictions: Europe in an Ambivalent World Mon, 02.12.2024 Speakers: Ivan Krastev Ivan Vejvoda Nathalie Tocci Series: Lecture Since the turn of the century, Europe and the world have undergone successive stages of closure. This does not mean that Europe now lives in a closed world, but rather in one in which openness and closure coexist. Against this backdrop, Europe must learn to navigate these contradictions by protecting its security, economy and democracy, while remaining engaged with the wider world. Read more
	Political Entrepreneurs vs. Democracy: Why Are People Abandoning Democracy for the Nation	Mon, 25.11.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Ivan Vejvoda Filip Milačić		Political Entrepreneurs vs. Democracy: Why Are People Abandoning Democracy for the Nation Mon, 25.11.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Filip Milačić Series: Seminars and Colloquia In many countries appeals to safeguard the nation have been followed by democratic backsliding. Nevertheless, the literature on democratic backsliding has not recognized ethno-nationalism as a separate explanatory variable of the phenomenon. Read more
Political Entrepreneurs vs. Democracy: Why Are People Abandoning Democracy for the Nation Mon, 25.11.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Filip Milačić Series: Seminars and Colloquia In many countries appeals to safeguard the nation have been followed by democratic backsliding. Nevertheless, the literature on democratic backsliding has not recognized ethno-nationalism as a separate explanatory variable of the phenomenon. Read more
	Comparing Cold War Political Trials: Prosecuting the “Enemy Within”	Mon, 11.11.2024	Seminars and Colloquia	Barbara Falk Ivan Vejvoda		Comparing Cold War Political Trials: Prosecuting the “Enemy Within” Mon, 11.11.2024 Speakers: Barbara Falk Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia During the early Cold War, domestic justice was politicized in the service of the larger international conflict. Political trials were a prominent feature utilized by both East and West to “construct” the Cold War and to target the “enemy within.” In this Fellows' Colloquium, Barbara J. Falk compared and analyzed four such trials, namely the 1949 Rajk trial in Hungary and the 1952 Slánský trial in Czechoslovakia, as well as the 1949 Dennis trial and the 1951 Rosenberg-Sobell trial in the US. Read more
Comparing Cold War Political Trials: Prosecuting the “Enemy Within” Mon, 11.11.2024 Speakers: Barbara Falk Ivan Vejvoda Series: Seminars and Colloquia During the early Cold War, domestic justice was politicized in the service of the larger international conflict. Political trials were a prominent feature utilized by both East and West to “construct” the Cold War and to target the “enemy within.” In this Fellows' Colloquium, Barbara J. Falk compared and analyzed four such trials, namely the 1949 Rajk trial in Hungary and the 1952 Slánský trial in Czechoslovakia, as well as the 1949 Dennis trial and the 1951 Rosenberg-Sobell trial in the US. Read more
	Part III: Framing Balkan Biographies or Mission Possible: Rogue Nation	Fri, 25.10.2024	Lecture	Ivan Vejvoda Maria Todorova		Part III: Framing Balkan Biographies or Mission Possible: Rogue Nation Fri, 25.10.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Maria Todorova Series: Lecture The titles of Maria Todorova's IWM Lectures in Human Sciences alluded to Mission Impossible, the Tom Cruise film series. While it is impossible to perform his physical stunts, the tricky mountainous terrain of the Balkans and their trickier history offer enough vertigo. But Gadamer is there, with his defense of humanities, with his thoughts on tradition, prejudice, experience, dialogue, negotiation, reciprocity, situatedness, and the fusion of horizons. Read more
Part III: Framing Balkan Biographies or Mission Possible: Rogue Nation Fri, 25.10.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Maria Todorova Series: Lecture The titles of Maria Todorova's IWM Lectures in Human Sciences alluded to Mission Impossible, the Tom Cruise film series. While it is impossible to perform his physical stunts, the tricky mountainous terrain of the Balkans and their trickier history offer enough vertigo. But Gadamer is there, with his defense of humanities, with his thoughts on tradition, prejudice, experience, dialogue, negotiation, reciprocity, situatedness, and the fusion of horizons. Read more
	Europe’s Futures Annual Symposium 2024	Thu, 30.05.2024 - Sat, 01.06.2024	Conferences and Workshops	Alberto Alemanno Grigorij Mesežnikov Hanna Shelest Ieva Česnulaitytė Ilir Deda Ivan Vejvoda Kadri Liik Katy Hayward Vladimir ArsenijevićWolfgang Petritsch		Europe’s Futures Annual Symposium 2024 Thu, 30.05.2024 - Sat, 01.06.2024 Speakers: Alberto Alemanno Grigorij Mesežnikov Hanna Shelest Ieva Česnulaitytė Ilir Deda Ivan Vejvoda Kadri Liik Katy Hayward Vladimir ArsenijevićWolfgang Petritsch Series: Conferences and Workshops At the Europe's Futures Annual Symposium 2024, the sixth cohort of Europe’s Futures Fellows presented the conclusions of their research in the academic year 2023/24. The findings were discussed with the Europe’s Futures Alumni Network and researchers from the University of Rijeka Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe. Read more
Europe’s Futures Annual Symposium 2024 Thu, 30.05.2024 - Sat, 01.06.2024 Speakers: Alberto Alemanno Grigorij Mesežnikov Hanna Shelest Ieva Česnulaitytė Ilir Deda Ivan Vejvoda Kadri Liik Katy Hayward Vladimir ArsenijevićWolfgang Petritsch Series: Conferences and Workshops At the Europe's Futures Annual Symposium 2024, the sixth cohort of Europe’s Futures Fellows presented the conclusions of their research in the academic year 2023/24. The findings were discussed with the Europe’s Futures Alumni Network and researchers from the University of Rijeka Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe. Read more
	Collisions. The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability	Tue, 21.05.2024	Lecture	Ivan Vejvoda Mykola Riabchuk Yuliya YurchenkoMichael Kimmage		Collisions. The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability Tue, 21.05.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Mykola Riabchuk Yuliya YurchenkoMichael Kimmage Series: Lecture Author Michael Kimmage presented his latest monograph. The book launch was followed by a panel discussion with IWM Visiting Fellows Yuliya Yurchenko and Mykola Ryabchuk. Read more
Collisions. The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability Tue, 21.05.2024 Speakers: Ivan Vejvoda Mykola Riabchuk Yuliya YurchenkoMichael Kimmage Series: Lecture Author Michael Kimmage presented his latest monograph. The book launch was followed by a panel discussion with IWM Visiting Fellows Yuliya Yurchenko and Mykola Ryabchuk. Read more