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Another Forty Years in a Desert |
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 Taking the perspective of a twenty years post-Soviet history, Kirill Rogov will discuss some of the key questions concerning hybrid regimes’ changes: What determines popular political views and expectations under such regimes? Why and when do these views and expectations change? How these changes may affect the political trends if elections are still not free and fair? >>> More... |
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Ivan Krastev on TED: Can democracy exist without trust? |
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 In June 2012 Ivan Krastev was invited to speak at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh on the topic “Can Democracy Exist without Trust?” A recording of the talk can be seen >>> here.
TED is a nonprofit endeavour devoted to "ideas worth spreading" and offering "free knowledge and inspiration from the world's most inspired thinkers".
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Open Self-Government and Participatory Democracy |
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 Across Europe today there is a growing distrust in politicians, and a political fatigue. What can win citizens back to participation and revive their trust in politics? The Mayor of Bratislava Milan Ftáčnik will discuss strategies for better citizen’s involvement for the benefit of the inhabitants of European capitals. >>> More...
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Freethinking, Secularism, and the Arab Spring |
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 An amateur video depicting Prophet Mohammad as a fraud, womanizer and paedophile was a major bone of contention unleashing massive protests and outbursts of violence in parts of the Arab World, leading to the deaths of a US diplomat and a number of civilians. The film was condemned by activists and politicians, Muslim and Christian alike, as a tasteless provocation, but this had little effect on protests where they occurred. In his lecture historian Aziz Al-Azmeh will address the present state of the relationship between religion and polity in the Arab World following the upheavals in the two years that have passed since the Arab Revolution. >>> More...
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"For the Ransom of the Soul" |
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 This year’s IWM Lectures in Human Sciences will be held in October by the eminent historian of late antiquity Peter Brown (Princeton University). Under the title “For the Ransom of the Soul” he will talk about wealth, death and the afterlife from late antiquity to the early middle ages. >>>More |
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