24. Jan Patočka Gedächtnisvorlesung: Auf der Suche nach Rechtfertigung
Martin Walser wird am 23. November die diesjährige Jan Patočka Gedächtnisvorlesung halten. Im Mittelpunkt seiner Überlegungen wird das Problem der Rechtfertigung stehen, mit dem sich der Schriftsteller seit einiger Zeit auseinandersetzt. >>> More...
Gendering Post-Socialist Transition
On November 20Krassimira Daskalova, Caroline Hornstein-Tomic and Karl Kaser will present and discuss the first volume of the newly established ERSTE Foundation Series, which is published with LIT Verlag. Nine case studies follow the economic, political, social and cultural effects and traces of system changes in the lives of women and men after 1989 in eleven countries of Central and South Eastern Europe. >>> More...
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The Parliamentary election in Ukraine has, as expected, returned President Yanukovych’s Party of Regions to power. It has also had one less predicted result: the first election to the country’s parliament of MPs from the ultra nationalist far-right. Anton Shekhovtsov looks at the rise of ‘Svoboda’ (Freedom). >>> More....
From Tsar to Emperor
The reforms of Peter the Great are commonly associated with the advent of rationalism and secularism in Russia. It is revealing that, whereas the duties of the ruler before Peter were overwhelmingly religious (to keep and defend Orthodoxy, extirpate heresy and lead one`s people to Salvation), under Peter the term common good became the central concept of the ideology and the justification of the Tsar’s policy. Peter’s duty was to promote the common good of his subjects. In his talk Endre Sashalmi will consider how changes in the public image of the ruler under Peter were reflected in the art of the period. The focus will fall on Simon Ushakov’s icon The Planting of the Tree of the Muscovite State (1668). >>> More...
Der Holocaust: Was wissen wir heute über die Täter?
HolocaustforscherPeter Longerich wird in seinem Vortrag aufzeigen, wie sich das Bild des NS-Täters in der Forschung gewandelt hat, von einem homogenen Tätertyp mit einer eindeutig bestimmbaren Motivation hin zu einer differenzierteren Betrachtungsweise. >>> More...
Martin Walser wird am 23. November die diesjährige Jan Patočka Gedächtnisvorlesung halten. Im Mittelpunkt seiner Überlegungen wird das Problem der Rechtfertigung stehen, mit dem sich der Schriftsteller seit einiger Zeit auseinandersetzt. 
On November 20 
The Parliamentary election in Ukraine has, as expected, returned President Yanukovych’s Party of Regions to power. It has also had one less predicted result: the first election to the country’s parliament of MPs from the ultra nationalist far-right. 
The reforms of Peter the Great are commonly associated with the advent of rationalism and secularism in Russia. It is revealing that, whereas the duties of the ruler before Peter were overwhelmingly religious (to keep and defend Orthodoxy, extirpate heresy and lead one`s people to Salvation), under Peter the term common good became the central concept of the ideology and the justification of the Tsar’s policy. Peter’s duty was to promote the common good of his subjects. In his talk 
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