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Communism Never Happened
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Jan SowaLudger Hagedorn
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Art Criticism during Wartime: Why Not Everything is a Cultural Policy
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Anna KaluherKatherine Younger
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Slavic Bazaar: Performances and Instrumentalizations of the Slavic discourse 1791 - 2017
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Katherine YoungerLudger HagedornTomáš Glanc
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The ideology of Slavic unity and reciprocity has been a crucial pattern of European thought and culture since the beginning of the 19th century, and it is still relevant today.
In his presentation, Tomáš Glanc will discuss the development, the teleology, and the typologies of this heterogeneous discourse. The talk will outline performative practices of “Slaventum” rich in contradictions, geopolitical phantasms and geopoetic fictions. Glanc will use examples from different disciplines such as literature, art, linguistics, but also referring to political essays, institutional history, and the history of gymnastics.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The ideology of Slavic unity and reciprocity has been a crucial pattern of European thought and culture since the beginning of the 19th century, and it is still relevant today.
In his presentation, Tomáš Glanc will discuss the development, the teleology, and the typologies of this heterogeneous discourse. The talk will outline performative practices of “Slaventum” rich in contradictions, geopolitical phantasms and geopoetic fictions. Glanc will use examples from different disciplines such as literature, art, linguistics, but also referring to political essays, institutional history, and the history of gymnastics.
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What is Political Cruelty?
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Aishwary Kumar
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
“The important point for liberalism is not so much where the line is drawn,” Judith Shklar writes in a fascinating moment in her critique of cruelty, “as that it be drawn, and that it must under no circumstances be ignored or forgotten.” Where is this line? And who lives under its ambiguous constitutionality? Neither in her 1989 theses on the “liberalism of fear” nor in her 1982 demand that liberals start “putting cruelty first” does Shklar fully pursue the consequences of this morally unforgiving yet spatially uncertain line of liberal intolerance of cruelty. And while she does starkly pose the question “what is moral cruelty?” in terms of its debilitating effect on human freedom, the limit—border—that circumscribes liberalism’s constitutional response to extreme violence continues to waver. In this paper, Aishwary Kumar offers an archeology of this vacillating, political “line” that runs through liberal resistance against cruelty. By way of exploring its global implications, he follows Shklar on the cosmopolitical path she takes, along with BR Ambedkar and Hannah Arendt, into that “most ancient,” most exemplary form of organized violence and constitutional stasis known to legal and moral philosophy: the “Indo-European caste society,” which in her later writings Shklar sometimes replaces by the adjacent term “warrior society.” Her legalism is not causal. For it is in that trans-continental tradition that a relation is forged between caste and war, and the sovereignty of the line—maryada—attains its apotheosis. Might a semblance of political courage still be retrieved from that tradition of cruelty—a modern part of which becomes genuinely “anticolonial”—and rehabilitated into norms of democratic government today?
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
“The important point for liberalism is not so much where the line is drawn,” Judith Shklar writes in a fascinating moment in her critique of cruelty, “as that it be drawn, and that it must under no circumstances be ignored or forgotten.” Where is this line? And who lives under its ambiguous constitutionality? Neither in her 1989 theses on the “liberalism of fear” nor in her 1982 demand that liberals start “putting cruelty first” does Shklar fully pursue the consequences of this morally unforgiving yet spatially uncertain line of liberal intolerance of cruelty. And while she does starkly pose the question “what is moral cruelty?” in terms of its debilitating effect on human freedom, the limit—border—that circumscribes liberalism’s constitutional response to extreme violence continues to waver. In this paper, Aishwary Kumar offers an archeology of this vacillating, political “line” that runs through liberal resistance against cruelty. By way of exploring its global implications, he follows Shklar on the cosmopolitical path she takes, along with BR Ambedkar and Hannah Arendt, into that “most ancient,” most exemplary form of organized violence and constitutional stasis known to legal and moral philosophy: the “Indo-European caste society,” which in her later writings Shklar sometimes replaces by the adjacent term “warrior society.” Her legalism is not causal. For it is in that trans-continental tradition that a relation is forged between caste and war, and the sovereignty of the line—maryada—attains its apotheosis. Might a semblance of political courage still be retrieved from that tradition of cruelty—a modern part of which becomes genuinely “anticolonial”—and rehabilitated into norms of democratic government today?
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The ‘Authoritarian International’
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ludger HagedornMartin KrygierRicardo Pagliuso Regatieri
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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One World? Or How Many? Haruki Murakami as a Global Author
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Clemena AntonovaIrmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The aim of this talk was to look behind the scenes and to explore the mechanisms of the creation of Haruki Murakami’s global stature. To what extent are they based on his writing, his particular topics, style, and other issues of “content”? Other aspects are worth noting, such as translation policy, marketing, and the creation of a certain authorial image. While we can, for instance, speculate about the role of the international prizes that help to determine and systematically expand his profile as a global author, the author’s own agency is not easy to discern. The talk shed light on some of these aspects, in particular on the role of (American) English and of translation in general, leading to surprising, if not upsetting conclusions.
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
The aim of this talk was to look behind the scenes and to explore the mechanisms of the creation of Haruki Murakami’s global stature. To what extent are they based on his writing, his particular topics, style, and other issues of “content”? Other aspects are worth noting, such as translation policy, marketing, and the creation of a certain authorial image. While we can, for instance, speculate about the role of the international prizes that help to determine and systematically expand his profile as a global author, the author’s own agency is not easy to discern. The talk shed light on some of these aspects, in particular on the role of (American) English and of translation in general, leading to surprising, if not upsetting conclusions.
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Global monsters, local fears: How to preserve the crumbling social order
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Ivan VejvodaMilla Mineva
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Sex/Gender in the Brain: Critical Notes on fMRI-Studies
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Anelis Kaiser TrujilloClemena Antonova
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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The Sociological Truth of Fiction
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Jan VanaKapka KassabovaLudger Hagedorn
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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How to Save Political History – and Should We?
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Seminars and Colloquia
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Adéla GjuričováLudger Hagedorn
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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Series: Seminars and Colloquia
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