Vienna Humanities Festival

Macht und Ohnmacht
Festivals

The theme of the Vienna Humanities Festival 2018 was “Power and Powerlessness”. We addressed the current crisis of democracy, interrogated the rise of fundamentalist and radical forces, and searched for possible alternatives.  In the context of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Republic of Austria, there was also a focus on its history.

Agenda

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America
(im Rahmen der Wiener Vorlesungen) 

Timothy Snyder, Shalini Randeria

Signal or Noise? Power and Powerlessness in the Media
Thomas Chatterton Williams, Elisabeth von Thadden, Katarzyna Wężyk
 
Was kann – was darf die EU?
Franz Fischler

CEU: The Struggle for Academic Freedom in the 21st Century
Michael Ignatieff

Diplomats and Spies
Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu

Beschränkt die Macht des Geldes!
Andreas Treichl

Macht und Ohnmacht des Oppositionspolitikers
Matthias Strolz

Program change: Populism vs. Democracy in Central Eastern Europe
Piotr Buras

Turkey Today: Rights, Needs, Difference, Equality
Ayşe Buğra

Recht, Macht und Moral im Unrechtsstaat
Herlinde Pauer-Studer

The Power of Art to Resist Oppression
Marina Davydova

Philosemitism: The Power of Guilt?
Daniel Cohen

Die Weltgeschichte vor Augen
Martin Pollack

For a Left Populism
Chantal Mouffe

Militarism: Why Gender Matters
Neloufer De Mel, Saskia Stachowitsch

Is Female to Male as Powerless is to Powerful?
Katha Pollitt, Mieke Verloo

Macht, Gewalt und Recht: Gender im 21. Jahrhundert
Ulrike Lunacek, Elisabeth Holzleithner

#MeToo und die Folgen: eine Debatte
Barbara Boisits

Die Macht der Sprache
Ruth Wodak


 

New and Old Demons: Rethinking Power and Evil
Maxim Kantor

Living in Truth: Václav Havel’s Power of the Powerless
Milan Hanyš

The Power of Orban’s Civil Circles
Béla Greskovits

Power and Truth
Steven Lukes

The New Bacterial Warfare
Vinh-Kim Nguyen

Die kleine Unbildung
Karl-Heinz Dellwo

Riot – was geschah wirklich in Hamburg?
Gunnar Hindrichs

Trump’s Very American Foreign Policy
Thomas Meaney

Zu ebener Erde: Über kollektives Dokumentieren
Birgit Bergmann, Steffi Franz, Oliver Werani

1918–1928
Regina Fritz, Helmut Konrad

1928–1938
Gerhard Botz, Lucile Dreidemy

1938–1948
Bertrand Perz, Katharina Prager

1948–1958
Manfried Rauchensteiner, Margit Reiter

1958–1968
Peter Huemer, Ina Markova

1968–1978
Oliver Rathkolb, Elisabeth Röhrlich

1978–1988
Doron Rabinovici, Heidemarie Uhl

1988–1998
Michael Gehler, Elisa Heinrich

1998–2008
Wolfgang Kos, Barbara Tóth

2008–2018
Nina Horaczek, Dirk Rupnow