Author Archives: David Soucek
Episode Five: The Missing Pages of European History with Teresa Reiter
In the latest Vienna Coffee House Conversation, Ivan Vejvoda speaks to political activism expert, Head of Communications at Forum Alpbach and Europe’s Futures fellow Teresa Reiter about the way that history is taught, utilized and remembered in twenty-first century Europe.
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New event in our Seminar Series on Forced Migration
The latest event in the series, “We Are All Refugees”: Informal Settlements and Camps as Converging Spaces of Global Displacements, will take place on Wednesday March 17, 2021. The speaker at this event will be Professor Faranak Miraftab from the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign.
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Viktoras Bachmetjevas
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Vytautas Magnus University
Paul Celan Visiting Fellow
(March – May 2021)
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Albena Azmanova
Associate Professor, University of Kent, Brussels School of International Studies
Visiting Fellow
(March – April 2021)
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Justyna Tabaszewska
Assistant Professor, Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences
Józef Tischner Visiting Fellow
(March – July 2021)
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Episode 10
Democracy from Below: What Real Utopias Can We Build on?
Citizens have a crucial role to play in political life and can have tremendous power, as they come together in associations and social movements. To close this first season, Professor Mary Kaldor (London School of Economics) lends us her experience as both an academic and an activist in the peace and human rights movements to discuss what role civil society plays in keeping democracy alive and healthy, and what real utopias we can build on.
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